I'm not saying that I don't believe in the Bible... I think that most of the Bible is symbolic, but just curious: like who *really) believes that the entire human race sprang from 2 people?
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People unable or too lazy to think for themselves believe the nonsense that is written in the Bible.  They would have you believe that there have never been dinosaurs because Noah didn't take any into the Ark.\nAs to Adam and Eve, did they pass on the tale of their origins so that it could be written down thousands of years later when man finally learned to write?  Pardon my chuckle.
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Yes. But not the contorted, twisted, taken out of context versions that were edited to fit someones personal desires. Somethings in the bible dont quite sound right, but when you understand it and read the whole story of whats going on it all makes sense. Its like zooming out from just a few threads to see the big beautiful quilt. Its all interlinked and beautifully orchestrated. Its hard to see the whole thing when you focus just on a couple threads here and there.\n\nFaith is essential for belief.\n\nI find it neccessary to rebuke this blisschameleon,"Evolution proves adam and eve wrong." Evolution is not proven. Also why are we not still evolving. The bible says God made each one according to its kind. \n\n"And our knowledge of other solar stystems proves that there isn't just one sun in the entire universe." God has one Son, Jesus Christ. He made light and darkness. Please direct me to the scripture where you claim it says "God made one sun, and one solar system."\n\n"Humans traveling to space proves the tower of Babalon wrong." The destruction of Babylon was not over how far from the Earth the Babylonians were making themselves. It was about their attitude. Their wanting to build the tower to make themselves equal to God. Certainly this would not make it so, but it had nothing to do with a tower.\n\n"Jesus' story having similarities to osirus and Hercules.God condoning slavery,racism,sexism,violence... revenge in some scriptures and disaproving them in other scriptures." God is the author of all things. My dear chameleon, you have failed to grasp the concept. God does not condone these things. He allows us to make decisions which results in our sin. You have failed to understand what is going on in the Bible. You are so far from the truth. Sexism????!!! Come on, did you even read the Bible? Women are to be submissive to their husbands, yes. But there is even greater responsibility from the husbands to the wives. And I am not sure you understand the sort of submission God is conveying here.
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Well, there are just so many different interpretations of the Bible.  Some people believe that Adam and Eve actually existed.  Some people believe that Adam and Eve was just a symbolic story -- that the universe really did begin with the Big Bang or however further back scientists can go.  Some believe that the entire Bible, even with all the contradictions, is literally true.  Some believe that the entire Bible should be interpretted contextually.  The main reason that there are so many Christian faiths is that the first of them, Catholicism, came up with many traditions to go along with Christ's teachings, like the idea that Christ himself is present in the Eucharist at mass, or that only men should be priests.  These things were just developed over time -- never mentioned in the Bible, so like I said, there are many interpretations.
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I believe that the bible is the true word of God.  In the first book of the bible, it tells how God created man. I know people will argue that the world could not have been created in 6 days and the Lord rested on the 7th.  To God, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day.  I don't believe in Darwin's theory, I believe in God's creation.
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I didn't realize that we had multiple races outside of "HUMAN". Besides, not all those who disagree with organized religion are atheists. I'm a Non-Denominational Happy Pagan Person.
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I agree with you on the bible.People do not seem to relize that God did not write the bible that man did.Their are so many things about it that just confuse the hell out of me. I think he wanted to see if we would choose him on our own based on all the different ideas of him floating around this world. We are just rats in a maze.Wouldnt it really be something if we were some science experiment for a more intelligent being
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The Bible is not the silver bullet, of course. I do believe in God and in Jesus's ressurection, however, there are parts of the Bible that sound like pure nonsense to me while other parts contain great, true wisdoms everyone should live by.
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Joshua.  People like you crack me up.  Really!  You argue about biblical-specific entries and events as if they were factual and undeniable.  "written 4000 years ago"  On what?  Notebook paper?  Do you have some copies of those 4000 year old writings?  Do you have some secret text that nobody else has ever seen?  Are you on heroin or acid?  What's your trip?  None of the authors of the NT witnessed the alleged resurrection.  No matter how you stretch it, there are no actual accounts of it.  Most of the NT was created and written in 320AD under the direction of Constantine the Great, and its puirpose was NOT for historic accuracy.  Its purpose was to create a doctrine at the Council of Nicea that all factions of religious doctrine could agree upon and pull everyone together.  Why does it appear that there only a few people that post here regularly who actually know this?  Is your only source of "history" the Bible itself?  Are you crazy enough to use the Bible to prove the Bible?  Talk about illogic!\n\nThe original poster is correct -- if the notion of god portrayed in the bible is accurate, then there is no need for "free will" -- God already knows how things turn out.  He already knows who chooses free will and who doesn't choose free will, how they act, and who the sinners are and who goes to hell.  He already knows the choices people made in the past and what they'll make in the future.  He already knows how things will turn.  Already been there.  Outside of the time line?  Fine, state it however you wish.  It's still the same.  He's all knowing.  He knows how the "souls" will turn out. There's no need for a test on earth.\n\nThe question is not flawed at all.  Your assumption that the Bible is incontrovertible is flawed, and your statements of biblical myths as assertion are ridiculous.  It is one of hundreds of unprovable myths on this whole planet, full of fatal flaws, like the one this question raises.
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I'm agnostic, but here's the deal: of course the Bible is metaphor. Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, parting of Red Sea, Sodom & Gomorrah, Virgin Birth, Lazarus rasied from the Dead, etc. But we have to remember that those stories were all told by a group of semi-nomadic, largely illiterate people living 2000 years ago. They were simply using metaphor and allegor and symbolism to convey as best they could their understanding of God. So yes, they ARE a bunch of stories, if you want to over-simplify like that, but the big question is: what compelled them to go to such lengths to create such myths? And why would Jesus' disciples risk death--and incur death--if they thought he was a fake? After his death they could have simply disbanded, yet they continued on. To me--the reasons for the stories are more important than the literal accuracy. To read the Bible like a history book is to totallt miss the point!
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The Bible is just ancient MEN's view of the world.  The moral codes within it represent the ancient moral codes of a Greek subculture considered a bunch of nutjobs in their day.\n\nWhy should you, or anyone else, bind themselves to such an arbitrary set of nonsense?
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Rule #1, sister:  Christians are irrational.\n\nI'm sure since early humans first invented the ideas of gods, there have been some people claiming to be descended from them. The pharoahs of egypt all believed they were divine for one thing. \n\nIt is just pure twisted luck that dictates that there are still many many people believing in the divinity of that one Jesus when all the other contenders are for the most part forgotten or simply dismissed. Could have been anyone really... but it just happened to be him. \nO'course, if you try to convince the christians of that.... Well.... Its like trying to convince a goldfish to get a bit of fresh air.
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Many Christians, Jews and Muslims believe that God authored the bible. They believe in the inerrantacy of the bible because it is claimed to be inspired by God himself. If the bible is inerrant, without error, then they reason that  the bible must be literally true. The problem for them then is to interpret the bible so any inconsistancies can be explained within the entire bible when read as a whole continuous work. The bible was written by 40 or more individuals over perhaps 1500 years. Reading it as a whole continuous work inspired by God, does not leave room for the evolution of religious thought not to mention the evolution of the Universe and Mankind. This is "Group Think' on a global scale. I am not saying that the bible is not inspired by God, but it should be read in literary form not literal form. In the area of ethics and morals I believe the bible is more literal in nature. God communicates directly with his creation through Science, there is no middle man. Scripture has man in the middle, communicating ideas with his own limited understanding of the world. When fundamentalists are confronted with the science of evolution, they just do not believe it. Some will try to find ways to expain the Universe so it is in agreement with the bible. Examples would be that radioisotope dating is wrong or the Universe was created to look billions of years old when it is less than 10,000 years old. It does seem ridiculous to reasonable people.
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The Bible came first,the others followed. I believe that it is very possible that the ideas came from the worlds oldest book. Most peoples from the world share similar stories of a world wide flood and the gathering of one of every kind of animal. A very interesting question!
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I think your being a bit too general. You know everything is not that black and white. There is some truth to your statement but it does ot apply to all.There are too many scientific and archaeological statements in the bible that have been proven to be true.There are too many facts to dismiss.
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FYI I'm a Christian...if you read any history at all, religion has been around since humans became in existence.  Every culture discovered by archeologist's has had some form of a God.  From the ancient Aztecs, ancient Egyptians, and the Mesopotamians. The Majority of humans on this earth (87%) believe in one God or another...their "religion".  It is only the Atheist who do not believe in any power greater than themselves.  Pretty weird.
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I'm of the christian faith. I live in the bible belt of the United States, though I've rarely been inside a church.... I put effort into my religion every day, every second of every day, and have done so since I was 4 or 5, am not even sure of my age when I began to seek God....since that time I've read and studied my bible( nearly every home in the bible belt has several bibles at the least); however, since gaining internet access 4 years ago, I've extended my research to studying the origins of christianity (which originates in Judaism; big DUH but the statement make s my line of thought flow more smoothly:)... and have found the books of the Bible ( especially the new testament) to be the best documented piece of ancient literature yet found and Judaism to be non polluted/diluted by other ancient religions...the Bible was penned by 40 different authors from many different social backgrounds and over 1500 years worth of writing; and all of those writings don't conflict in any way.. the bible can be argued with ( though all arguments so far can be traced to mistranslation of original language or ignorance of cultural context) but not proven false.... in a nutshell,there is no physical/scientific evidence to disprove either Judaism or its culmination,Christianity... Shalom v'shalom
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A: God is all, not just one sex.\n\nB: Lillith was created in God's image, Eve was created from Adam's rib.\n\nC: Those that created the Bible didn't want you asking questions like that.\n\nD: If this is just one universe in a higherarchy of multiverses, then: God could have got the prototype for woman from another universe with a female God.\n\nE: What part of man was created in God's inmage? The tangable, easily worn out body? Or, the eternal spirit?\n\nAnd if none of these thought do it for ya, please keep searching. The journey is as inportant as the destination.