It's always amazing to me when someone says that the Bible cannot be written by God, obviously they haven't read the bible. Since when do the lost read Gods word? but they make outrageous claims that the bible is written my man.
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When do Christians actually read the Bible? Not bloody often enough. Otherwise they might actually know what their Bible says rather than just listen to what their preachers tell them. By the way, the book was written by men whom CLAIMED to have been 'inspired' by God. In other words, you are just taking these peoples' word for it, even though we don't even know who wrote some of the gosspels.
Which is more outrageous?
People with an agenda who make stuff up or perhaps some that suffer a mental illness who think they are talking to spirits...
Email me a picture of a pen writing by itself and your argument might hold some validity.
Every word every written on anything present on this planet is written by man.
The bible should have the following disclaimer:
To my darling Mary. All characters portraited within this book are fictional and any reference to persons alive or dead is purely coincidental.
Hey!
I STRUGGLED
I crawled on my hands and knees over sharp broken sentences and fragments of shredded grammars, through Genesis.
It was so boring and poorly written [Noah got on the ark like fucking 3 times, did God not revise His rough draft???] that I simply lost interest.
It is not the kind of book I can read. But I TRIED man!
*dramatic hand gesture*
Say exactly the same thing about any other book, and you'd sound silly.
Oh, wait, you already do.
Hey, it's now the 21st century, I'm waiting for the DVD.
When that appears we can talk....until then have a great big cup of shut the fuck up.
God could have written the whole bible in about a zillionth of a zillionth of a nanosecond, if he'd wanted to. But instead he employed a bunch of nomads to do it. Why the hell?
It's not even a very good read far too wordy, and full of violent shit. Probably because its alleged authors were barely literate. Any style in there is from the translators, and there's precious little of that.
I'd rather read Homer's myths, to be frank. Just as believable.
frank
Oh, I've read it,,, in several different versions. The hundreds of contradictions in it compel me to regard it as written by men. Not only do the various authors constantly differ in substantive content, but also on supposedly factual historical and biological details. Even a trash novel author does better than that.
Ok, it should be painful to be that stupid. Try reading the Bible for once. It contradicts itself, makes completely false claims, and is imperfect. If you'd ever bothered to read the Bible, you would know this. Until you can make an informed, intelligent statement, keep your mouth closed. You're making real Christians look bad.
It's always amazing to me when someone says that the Bible cannot be written by Man, obviously they haven't read the bible. Since when do the lost read Man's word? but they make outrageous claims that the bible is written by God.
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@ JohnTheAtheist: it is, in fact, out on DVD. I keep seeing the commercials for it (major gag-worthy glurge).
Personally, I'd rather read it than watch it. In fact, I have read quite a bit of it, although I don't think I have actually read it all. And yeah, like upallnite pointed out, reading the Bible and thinking about what it actually says is frequently a cause of de-conversion. If not the main cause of my departure from the flocks of the faithful, it sure contributed.
Genesis 1 and 2 tell two different creation accounts. Matthew 1:6-16 and Luke 3:23-31 tell about the Genealogy of Jesus, but the only common name between them is David. There are also differing numbers of names in there, which signifies that either people had multiple names and lived multiple times or one person was wrong in his or her writing. What about Matthew 27:46 and 50 compared to Luke 23:46 and John 19:30 on Jesus' last words?
How is it god's word if it contradicts itself constantly?
I haven't read the whole Bible but I've read large portions of it, and I was not impressed. I was not impressed by it at the age of 12, I was expecting something more profound from a book that a lot of adults believe was written by the creator of the universe, but even at 12, I didn't find it very profound. Well there's some semi-profound stuff in the New Testament, but nothing so stunningly profound that it has to be the words of a Supreme Being.
I don't know a single Christian who has actually read the entire bible and still calls themselves "Christian."
A friend put it this way: the bible was the best anti-Christian literature he could imagine.
This logic is so circular, it may well be the most spherical thing ever produced.
A fundie who's moved science forward?
OMFG, it IS the rapture!!!!
The fundie church I grew up in made me read it. “Read it thru in 92” was the theme. I wasn’t impressed. It was bloody, brutal and boring. And within four years I was an atheist. I’m not saying they were directly related but reading it didn’t make me a lifetime believer either now did it? Nothing I read there convinced me that the bible was written by an all knowing God’s inky finger and lowered from heaven on a rope. It actually sounded like it was written by first century humans with a limited understanding of morality, philosophy and science.
Thanks for playing. Try again.
Really? What about those of us who were once believers, and then realized how much bullshit the whole thing actually is? And you don't have to follow a religion to read it's texts. I went from xtianity to Buddhism, and yet I've read the entire Quran, the Gita and Upanishads, the Tao Te Ching and Zhuang Zhi, and various other religious texts from different religions, that I have no intention of following. So, it's obvious you haven't read the Tipitaka, because it's amazing that anyone would think that it came from other than the Fully-Realized One.
Says yet one more Rapturite who has never read the Bible.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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