Why do you believe the bible so much? How when you have no real proof?
342243
I dont believe or read the bible. You have to look back in history and the history of man. CONTROL is the key, how do you control people and rule. The easiest way is through religion. Most people believe in something I am not one of them but anyways. The church back in medieval times and what not the church was the power. They killed others through religion and taxed them in the name of "GOD"\n\nYou can see where I'm going with this....
362940
I have been reading about that as of late and find it interesting.  plausible. The bible has seen a lot gone through a lot in that i mean translations.  It also stands that some books were purposely left out.  With that in mind I don't feel it proves with out a shadow of a doubt that its true.  However it does leave enough room for the thought and probability.
808966
I believed in god very much.  Bible camp counsellor.  On the bible quiz team.  Memorized books of the bible.  I went to a Baptist Bible College to study the bible in depth.  Imagine my surprise when the "small little holes" in the bible became huge GAPING holes when studied in the original languages.  It was the last thing I expected to happen at bible college.\n\nAfter a few years of trying to hold onto my faith, it vanished all together.  I tried shutting myself in a closet and praying every night.  To stop "thinking" and just will myself to believe.  Nothing worked.\n\nBasically, the first thing to go was "the bible isn't correct."  After that it was the morality of god (eternal punishment for a finite sin?  All of humanity being punished for a chick munching on fruit?)\n\nEventually, getting a degree from a "secular" university in history helped me think my way out of religion.  \n\nHope that is what you were lookin for.
362108
This is why I am agnostic.  There were just too many unanswered questions for me.  And there was a lot of hypocracy, especially in my congregation.  What's the point of *saying* you believe something when you actually don't?
1087416
Sometimes to see you have to believe first and at other times you have to see to believe.  I think just like everything else, both have their place in life.  I also think that's it's up to each individual when these principals are applicable.  Why do many believe who don't have proof, but depend on heresay?  Well, I believe (as I see it in people over and over again, including myself) that each of us are born with the spirit to know and understand God/Jesus and divine purpose.  When this proclivity is not correctly harvested and harnessed, we go with what "sounds" right or makes "sense".  I read somewhere, "if you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything."  This is probably what you're referring to.  I don't know......
130917
Nobody can really know how to tell if God exists. It's all a matter of faith. That's what most religions are based on: faith in (a) supreme being(s). The Bible isn't much PROOF, but it does help to strengthen the bonds between God and His people. \n\nAnd no, the Bible is not straight from God. He may have spoken to his people, but he spoke through prophets (special messengers). Many (real) historical figures and prophets have written down their experiences with God in the Bible. Remember, the Bible was written hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years after these evens were said to have occured. Many of the stories in the Bible began as that--stories told from person to person through the oral tradition. \n\nAs far as proof goes, many of the historical facts (such as the dates of battles and kings of nearby kingdoms) have been found true. Names of Assyrian kings have been preserved. Do you remember reading about King Xerxes or the great Phoenician State of Tyre? These things have been proven to have existed at some point, only reinforcing the fact that there IS truth in the Bible. Whether or not you want to believe everything in it literally is up to you.
613971
Nothing from the bible has been proven except obvious things (the sun rose that morning lol). There's much better explanations for nature and the workings of the universe than the bible has ever given. EVIDENCE and FACTS point towards things VERY different than those written in the bible. It's vastly outdated and filled with lies and things we should long have forgotten.
469075
No one has proof. That's why it's called faith.\n\nThe real question is why do you need to beleive?
415985
Why should someone believe?  There's no proof.\n\nI find it interesting that so many people equate God with an accountability in their lives.  Are you so terrified that without someone holding a big stick and a carrot over your head you'll do something awful.  Take some responsibility for yourself, do the right thing because it's right, not because you are afraid of the consequences or desire a reward.  How juvenile.
396569
I hear you, and understand perfectly what you are saying. Some of the people who tells you to just read your bible do that because they are scripted, and may not even understand your question or answer. However, I can assure that I am where you are, and if i told you to go read your bible it would be to look at something we may have overlooked. The problem that I find so often with churches is its inability to accept difference: in opinion, thoughts, views, acts, even when there is good grounds for it. I think the reason for this is because so many people miscontrues what is really written and believe if you doubt you will not be bless. \n\nBut let's take not: many people always refers to Thomas as doubting Thomas right. However, when Jesus came through the walls and claimed to have died and rose again. Thomas was the only one, who questioned it (He was thinking for himself, what he was seeing didnt may sense, he wasn't convinced). So he said let me see your hands, let me see those wounds....Now here is my point JESUS showed him his hands, which means to me, that in order to know the answer to any queston you must first doubt and then asks those questions. Wake up people!\n\nI respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. \nWilson Mizner (1876 - 1933) \n\n\nIf you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. \nRene Descartes (1596 - 1650) \n\n(I didnt bible quotes for a reason...think outside the box)\n\nAll the best
295730
faith , even though there is alot of collateral evidence for things in the bible
334730
you believe the Bible, right?........This is the rest of it.
56110
Because they study the Bible as literature, and not the Word of God. This is where belief comes in. You have to believe it, and apply it.
985775
The bible is something that someone made up.\n\nHell doesnt exist.\nHeaven doesnt exist.\nThere is no God.\n\nThese are my beliefs.. I'm sure you'll receive lots of different responses to that.
1018526
I believe in God just not the bible, how dare anyone claim to know what God thinks, I have more respect for God, there are hundreds of archaeological finds proving that the bible that exists was put into place by church hierarchy that had ulterior motives for including and not including what THEY wanted in the bible, only someone who had ALL the original texts and could read them in the original language that they were written in would have a good understanding of what the ancient religious leaders had in mind, and who's to say they were God inspired, insane asylums are full of people who hear God
96713
Because the Bible tells me it true.\n\nK
241017
I don't know a lot about Bible, especially the Catholic one, but I agree believe it feels better to believe that heaven exists than not to believe. It doesn't have to be true, the important thing is that it makes you feel better. You believe God exists (or some people believe), you believe love exists, friendship, compassion, hate, anger, all these things are here only psychologically, you don't see them, you can't prove their existence, still you probably believe in them. It's nice to believe in good things.