Bible Scoffers: Which part of the Bible don't you believe?

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.

ALL of it. Period. I have read it numerous times, many different translations, and none of it is the least bit believable.

- Talking animals(a donkey and a serpent. Really?)

- The human race being entirely inbred from TWO people(Adam and Eve) or one family(The Ark)

- Lack of proof for the Ark, Exodus from Egypt, Tower of Babel, Jericho's fall, and the existence of Christ by anything OTHER than the Bible.

- Contradictions of all kinds.

- The entire book of Job, in which God ALLOWS Satan to make his most faithful servant his whipping boy, just to prove a point and win a BET against Satan.

- The vengeful, hateful God of the OT, followed by the "loving" God of the NT.

- The book of Revelation. Should NEVER have been put in the Bible. It reads like someone's bad LSD trip and doesn't match the "good news" of the rest of the OT.

- The fact that the Gospels and much of the NT were written over a century after Christ's supposed death. If those people were actually THERE, and these events were so important, why not write about them WHEN THEY HAPPENED?

Also, think about the technology and understanding of the world 2000 years ago. Whatever "miracles" were performed, if they were performed at all, how do we know that they were actual miracles and NOT the people of the time misunderstanding something much more simple.

There was a time when people believed(given that you mention Greek/Roman myths) that lightning was from Zeus, and to be killed by being struck by lightning meant that you had displeased him. In those days, people struck by lightning weren't given proper burials according to Greek/Roman culture since they were thought to be cursed by their chief god.

Jump ahead to the 21st century. Guess what? We now know that lightning is electricity and comes from nature, not the gods, and that anyone struck by lightning wasn't cursed, but stupidly outside during a storm.

Same principle applies to your "miracles".

For the record, 2 billion people calling the Bible "truth" on a planet of 7 billion, isn't a "vast majority". 5 billion people DON'T believe in your Bible as "truth", so you're actually in a global minority. And that's provided all 2 billion professed Christians in the world accept the Bible as truth and fact instead of mere allegory, which we all know they don't.

It's not sin that guides me, it's common sense, which you clearly don't have a lick of.

Bible Scoffers: Which part of the Bible don't you believe? All the above except Genesis I think we were created in the image of aliens.

Do you not believe that the people existed, people like Abraham, Moses, Matthew, Luke, Paul, or Peter? I don't doubt they existed, but I do doubt if they're mentally sane though.

Are the kingdoms mentioned in the Bible purely fictitious in your opinion? They're fictional like good Sci Fi episode making its first debut.

Why not believe in something that is so believable? Just because its believed to be true by the masses without discerning that truth by uncovering what true purpose that religion serve to the powers that be doesn't make it believable to me there is just too many coincidence in human history involving divide and conqueror Christianity served that purpose well into the modern age.

Is it your sin that you want instead of a God who tells you to depart from sin? I value truth over lies the notion of sin of its self is absurd.

Do you control your own destiny? Really? Yes, I control my own destiny. I have power over my life because I am my own God with a capital G.

Most of the Old Testament is crap. The Egyptians didn't use slaves to build so the Exodus is crap. The New Testament is a mixed bag of exaggeration and outright lies. Some of the people and such probably were real, but we know things like the census Mary was supposed to be in Bethlehem for don't line up with reality.

It starts on page one and ends on the last page.

Very little of the Bible is accurate historically or scientifically and even Christian Bible scholars freely admit this.

Do research on your own book for once.

"Why not believe in something that is so believable?"

1- You call zombies, magical creation, and blood rituals believable?

2- Because it isn't true. The evidence speaks for itself.

I don't believe a thing in the Bible.