How come atheists fail to realize that god was talking to people who didn't have the knowledge we have today?

Question

How come atheists fail to realize that god was talking to people who didn't have the knowledge we have today?
Like how the bible says men are made out of mud etc. You people have to relize Jehovah was explaining scientific things to people who didnt have the knowledge we have. So, he explained it to them simply, so they would not get counfused.
EXAMPLE-God knows the very writings of me- Of course, this man is talking about our DNA. if god said that he knew his DNA, would not the man be confused? God simplified this for the man-so he could understand.

many atheists haven't yet understood the simple conclusion that the Bible is not a science book for nerds. It is a revelation of Himself to us and a testimony as to how we are to attain life. But, this requires a little common sense.

If the ones you speak to can't understand that much, then you are talking to a brickwall.

bEAR, the humans had little knowledge of science. did humans back then know that the every cell had DNA?

Lol wow, you guys have nothing to say, so you fall back on "Oh yeah, god isnt real"

Your right MC. a chirstian 2 thousand years ago would be able to hop on a computer and type out what i said.

Santa, like i said, explaining something like that would be to hard. they still wouldent be able to undertsand. would We be able to undertsand tech that was 1 million years in the future? I think not.

Sannit-There is updated info about the bible. Ever heard of JWs? their watchtowers talk about this stuff in a modern way

Answer 1

What the Bible also says is that fools would blasphemize God and His Word. So those who do not understand the teachings of the Bible or care to have such knowledge are in ignorance of the Scriptures. Atheists fail to realize because their minds are already warped to believe and think that the Bible is not true and God is not real. Only satan could have such influence on the weak minded. Know that God cannot help everyone who do not wish to help themselves.

Answer 2

How come Bible Believers can't understand that the people who wrote the Bible had only a very fuzzy idea about the Earth, the universe and science, so as a result tried their best to make sense out of everything with the limited knowledge they had?
How come you can not realize that with our vastly larger store of hard won knowledge we are still pretty foggy about reality, and like the Bible writers are trying to do the best we can to explain it all with the limited knowledge we have?

Only we can admit in the modern world that we do not have all the answers, and likely never will. That is something the bible writers could not do.

No God required, the fact that they did not get it right, not even near right in most of it, is pretty good evidence against any form of divine inspiration.

It was just a bunch of guys trying to figure it out, some smarter and some dumber than each other.

Most atheists recognize this. Most atheists recognize the Noahic Flood as a badly botched attempt to explain fish fossils on mountains in the desert. Most atheists understand and forgive those primitive thinkers because we realize that Plate Tectonics was only thought of in the late 19th century and it took until the middle of the 20th century to prove it.

The Bible writers simply did not know any better and gave the best they could.

What we don't understand is why Bible Believers want to return to the ignorance that existed 2,500 years ago.
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A christian from 2,000 years ago would not have been able to type out what you did. His world view would have rendered it impossible.
The Bibles views about politics, morality and consepts about science are all hopelessly obsolete. Ome of the problems most modern readers have is that they are missing the context for almost everything in the Bible.
A glaring fault if you want to understand the meanings. Unless you actually can place the time of the writings and have some clue about the politics of the time you miss out on both the drama and the propaganda. The racial insults, slurs and jokes go right past you.
(forget Moses, he never wrote anything and likely never existed)
The Torah did not exist before about 640 BC, when Ezra's royal scribes and priests began assembling it as a political work for his relatively small kingdom Judea. The story of Job is from this period. The next great work on it was the expansion of the writings after the Babylonian Exile. Odd but this seems to be when the Adam and Eve story got added.
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I know you are likely to not believe this, but I suggest you do continue to disbelieve what I say, and do some research on your own into the real history of the Bible, and how it came to exist.
It is a fascinating study.

Answer 3

Well actually, that's kinda what I've been trying to say all along. Only I interpret that statement a little differently. I agree with the part about how people, in the age of the bible, were not as educated and knowledgeable about their surroundings and themselves as we are today. So the way I see it, "god" was simply used to explain away the then unexplainable. The bible does not prove the existance of god, partially, b/c of this reason. Just b/c the people who wrote the bible said god did this and god preformed that miracle doesn't mean "god" actually did anything. They were probably describing natural events that were then, unimaginable and unexplainable.

Answer 4

God really should've been able to foresee the problems that we'd have reading His ancient science lessons. Maybe it's time for a Bible 2.0.

It's really easy, in this day and age, when we know lots of stuff that people back then didn't, to ascribe whatever values we want to their stories. Any religious book in the world can be interpreted to have scientific value, and so can any fairy tale. You just have to look at it the right way. The way that we can distinguish between books that actually have scientific value and books that don't is that the genuine ones teach you - for example, you can learn all about natural selection from reading Origin of Species, but even if you wanted to spin the Bible so that it hints at natural selection, you'd have to already know what natural selection is in order to know what (some people claim) it's talking about.

The Bible's as discountable of a scientific text as it is of a prophetic one - it's so terribly vague that you can glean pretty much anything you want from it, but only after the fact.

Answer 5

They may not have known about DNA specifically, but they certainly knew about atoms and matter. I don't see what the difference is, the Bible is wrong and stupid in so many other ways... And the Bible you have today is nothing like what they had then. Much has been added and changed, we don't know what the original words should have been. And FYI Jehovah is a mistranslation of Yahweh.

Answer 6

#1-- We don't "realize " that "god" was talking to people about ANYTHING because we don't believe that "God" exists.

#2--"many atheists haven't yet understood the simple conclusion that the Bible is not a science book for nerds". That's fine. If you want to use it as a "revelation of Himself to us and a testimony as to how we are to attain life." then go ahead. But keep it out of our science classrooms. As long as people keep trying to use that book to argue against scientific facts, and use it to hold up scientific advancement, then you're going to hear us argue against it.

Answer 7

Surely the point is that even if the people didn't have our knowledge, God did (and more)? And you answer your own point - people in Biblical times weren't stupider, they just didn't have our knowledge. If God was God, everything might have been clear, no confusion.

Unfortunately the Bible was written by foolish, bigoted men, and it's a tragedy that people still take a word of it seriously.

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Let me repeat - people weren't STUPIDER 2000 years ago - you obviously have no idea of the sophistication of people like Socrates or Aristotle - and if God was up to scratch he would have been able to make things clear to ANYONE. Jeez, God didn't even correct the reference to Pi as being equal to 3 - the Babylonians had got that one sorted out centuries earlier. Hence, the Bible is merely the work of men. Nothing more.

Answer 8

The bible also says that anything I ask, if I so ask it in Jesus' name, shall be granted unto me. It says that the impossible shall be possible through prayer. It says that Jesus would move a mountain if we so asked.

Is the bible explaining the fallibility of prayer in simpler terms?
Are these parent-to-child tendencies consistent throughout the bible?
Who's to say which parts of the bible are and are not meant to be taken literally?

Answer 9

did not even in the times of noah or mosses the people knew of GOD and saw first hand the works thereof! and still chose to not believe! who can witness a GOD in action and still deny the miracles of such things? the world my friend! and satan is of it!

Answer 10

God ensures that each generation has understanding of his words, except for the Book of Revelations, which is an eternal mystery for all generations even to the last.