Really understanding the Bible, as the Apostle Paul said, requires the help of the Holy Spirit. However, He’s available to all who will receive Him in humble faith.
Truly reading, and understanding the bible, will turn you into an atheist. The bible is a fictional account, derived from a bronze age mentality, in an attempt to explain the unknown. It is easier to con the gullible by stating “god did it” than admitting that you did not know. Easier to con the gullible into giving their tithes with a promised reward in the “after-life” that no one can come back to complain about either.
Many, however there are those who will deny in the face of evidence presented. Do a simple research on pre-christian religions, including examples of “god born of a virgin,” ’world flood," and “creation myth.” As you do this, you will see multiple examples of the plagiarism that exists in the bible. There are multiple religions that have these stories, that pre-date christianity. I suggest you start with the library, and other educational sites that are reliable. This will allow you to research the information yourself, and see that it is not a biased website being presented.
D WYou remind me of a colleague, an atheist ex-physics professor. He is also incapable of understanding symbolic speech, but can use impossible concepts like the square root of minus one without any notice that a minus times a minus must give a plus.
Here’s some that are easy to understand:“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Ex. 22:18).“Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys” (1 Sam 15:3).“If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, and give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die” (Deuteronomy 22.13-14, 20-21).And here’s a really easy one (at least, as long as you don’t wonder why you never hear a sermon about it in an American fundagelical church): “In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples” (Luke 14:33).”As D W alluded to above (the quote is from Isaac Asimov), “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” You may have seen the demonstration recently, where people covered a bible with a cover stating it was a koran, then read it in public, and got a huge uproar of complaint about the contents. Once you can get people to see that the book is not “god’s word,” but just another book of myths produced by pre-scientific people who didn’t know about germs or atoms, or even that the moon does not shine, but rather only reflects the light of the sun, the content will indeed make atheists.
jgarrott about 9 years ago
Really understanding the Bible, as the Apostle Paul said, requires the help of the Holy Spirit. However, He’s available to all who will receive Him in humble faith.
DW Premium Member about 9 years ago
Truly reading, and understanding the bible, will turn you into an atheist. The bible is a fictional account, derived from a bronze age mentality, in an attempt to explain the unknown. It is easier to con the gullible by stating “god did it” than admitting that you did not know. Easier to con the gullible into giving their tithes with a promised reward in the “after-life” that no one can come back to complain about either.
Captain Colorado about 9 years ago
“For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.” -Proverbs 6:23
DW Premium Member about 9 years ago
Many, however there are those who will deny in the face of evidence presented. Do a simple research on pre-christian religions, including examples of “god born of a virgin,” ’world flood," and “creation myth.” As you do this, you will see multiple examples of the plagiarism that exists in the bible. There are multiple religions that have these stories, that pre-date christianity. I suggest you start with the library, and other educational sites that are reliable. This will allow you to research the information yourself, and see that it is not a biased website being presented.
hippogriff about 9 years ago
D WYou remind me of a colleague, an atheist ex-physics professor. He is also incapable of understanding symbolic speech, but can use impossible concepts like the square root of minus one without any notice that a minus times a minus must give a plus.
markjoseph125 about 9 years ago
Here’s some that are easy to understand:“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Ex. 22:18).“Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys” (1 Sam 15:3).“If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, and give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die” (Deuteronomy 22.13-14, 20-21).And here’s a really easy one (at least, as long as you don’t wonder why you never hear a sermon about it in an American fundagelical church): “In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples” (Luke 14:33).”As D W alluded to above (the quote is from Isaac Asimov), “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” You may have seen the demonstration recently, where people covered a bible with a cover stating it was a koran, then read it in public, and got a huge uproar of complaint about the contents. Once you can get people to see that the book is not “god’s word,” but just another book of myths produced by pre-scientific people who didn’t know about germs or atoms, or even that the moon does not shine, but rather only reflects the light of the sun, the content will indeed make atheists.