Bible Scoffers: Which part of the Bible don't you believe?
Do you not believe that the people existed, people like Abraham, Moses, Matthew, Luke, Paul, or Peter?
Are the kingdoms mentioned in the Bible purely ficticious in your opinion?
Are the miracles that Jesus reportedly did just unbelievable to you? Miracles reported by many witnesses in that day and written of in a way that was not considered by the people to be mere lies or fairy tales. And, I might add, these writings are still revered today by the vast majority as truth, unlike the Greek or Roman mythos.
Is it the creation story? Believing in a God with the ability to create something from nothing? The big bang at least comes from ... what?
What about the Jewish holiday (holy day) of Passover which commemorates their deliverance out of slavery in Egypt by miraculous events? Holidays (holy days) are there to help us remember some significant event.
Why not believe in something that is so believable?
Is it your sin that you want instead of a God who tells you to depart from sin?
Do you control your own destiny? Really?
2012-04-11T18:31:30Z
None of these answers make any sense to me and just reinforce the fact that you all want your sins and no help from God. Pity.
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The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!
There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!
There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?
Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!
At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!
The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god! He took the Jewish religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!
Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?
I know Christianity is a faith but given all the evidence against the biblical stories it is surely only the gullible that can believe?!
There are some parts of the bible that are based in history. However, that does not mean all of the bible is historically accurate. As for the miracles, did you know there are people today who are performing "miracles"? Yep. And they have thousands of followers who will gladly testify that these guys can cure cancer or mend broken bones or fix all kinds of injuries with just a touch. Do you believe that all of these guys are real? I bet not. I personally do not believe a single one of them is real. They have fooled their followers with various tricks and the followers themselves have embellished stories to make them seem bigger than they were. The stories of miracles in the bible are the same story.
As for the creation story of the bible, it does not jive with the evidence we find on the planet today. And I do not know what happened before the big bang but that does not mean there has to be a god or gods. It just means I do not know. It does not mean there might be a god. It just means I do not know. Not knowing something does not equate to evidence of supernatural. It just means I do not know. That is called rational thinking by the way.
And you are calling on holidays as proof of gods? So does that mean that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are gods because we celebrate the 4th of July? Sure, you can break down the word holiday into holy day and that may be the origin of the word however it does not mean that holidays prove the existence of gods. It just means that humans like to remember special dates and events.
As for the unbelievable parts of the bible, you can start with the inconsistencies. For instance Genesis 1 contradicts Genesis 2. Oops. Most christians have never read the bible so they do not realize stuff like that. There are plenty of science errors too. Jesus calls mustard a mighty tree when in reality the mustard plant is kind of a bushy little thing. Noah's Ark and the great flood (which a lot of creationists use to explain fossils) does not jive with modern geology. If there was a great flood then the evidence would be world wide and easy to find, yet it is not. There are other stories in the bible that just do not add up if you think about them. The bible is a very flawed document. There is a reason why many atheists claim that the bible is what got them started on being atheist.
None of those people have been found historically.
Again, no evidence of the existence of many of the kingdoms mentioned, of course some of the kingdoms were known back then.
All of those miracles come from the bible. There are no independed writings or research from back in the day to show the miracles happened.
The creation story is bullsh*t. The Earth is just one of many billions of planets, it is not special in any way to be separate from "the heavens". The Earth could not have been formed before the sun, stars form before planets. The Earth is 4.7 billion years old, humans are only a few million years old. No mention of dinosaurs.
Which "miraculous event" would that be? The violent murder of every little Egyptian boy? It would've been more miraculous if god had flew Moses and the Jews out of Egypt.
I don't even know what the hell you mean by that.
Again, you make no sense.
There is no such thing as destiny. Your life isn't written.
I don't understand why anybody would believe anything from the Bible. It's just an ancient book of propaganda, myths, and stories that was written by primitive men who believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and it was flat and covered by a large solid dome called the firmament. It has many contradictions -- internally, historically, and morally. The Bible condones slavery, genocide, and human sacrifice (i.e. the torture death of Jesus).
The main characters -- Yahweh, Adam, Eve, Noah, Moses, Abraham, and Jesus -- are mythical, with no reliable evidence to support their actual existence.
There also isn't any reliable evidence that the Jews were ever slaves in Egypt. Even the Israeli archeologists recognize this, and they have the most to gain from a divine real estate agent.
All reliable evidence points to Jesus Christ being just a myth. There is no reliable evidence that Jesus even existed, and significant evidence that he didn't. The evidence is in the Bible, the other religions of the time, and the lack of writings about Jesus by historians of the time.
The story of Jesus can be shown to be just a myth created to fulfill prophesy, cobbled together out of stories from the Old Testament and previous gods and myths -- created in the 40's and 50's by Paul of Tarsus (who exhibited symptoms of epilepsy and had delusions of Christ talking to him), the other apostles, the unknown authors of the gospels in the 70's or later, and many other people. The reliable evidence for this is overwhelming.
A scientific theory is a unifying concept that explains a large body of data. It is a hypothesis that has withstood the test of time and the challenge of opposing views. The Big Bang Theory is supported by extensive empirical data. There is no reliable data supporting the some-god-did-it hypothesis, and especially not the Yahweh-did-it hypothesis.
Based on the archaeological evidence, there is no truth to the Exodus story or the stories of Joshua conquering the "promised land". In fact, we can write off most of what the Bible records prior to the Kingdom of David as myth.
Based on geology, biology and other sciences, we know that the creation, flood and tower of Babel stories are completely false.
Given the evidence for Jesus, it would not be surprising if a Jesus had existed, but it is extraordinarily unlikely that much of the Gospels are true. It's more likely that the Gospels are based on a composite of messianic figures of the times.
On the other hand, the Bible seems fairly accurate about locations, "kingdoms" and a few notable historic people.