Why don't Christians read the bible?
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The vast majority of Christians blindly follow the leadership of the church they attend. Subjects taught in bible study and from the pulpit are carefully constructed so as to leave no unanswered questions. Some life long Christians will even deny the stories to which you refer.\n\nIt is astonishing some of the hoops people will jump through to explain away these stories in the bible. It is ridiculous.
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Because people question what they don't understand, they trash it to make themselves feel big, and with that they think it will prove their believes to be true. \nOthers are afraid of it, what if it is true! and they are not one of those who believe in it!  \n\nThey shouldn't judge the Bible with what some Christian do, as we can judge all other people and what their's do.  Religion is a personal thing, and the Bible is a living book.  Think about it.
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I am atheist.  We actually take time to read the Bible and other books of faith and study and interpret the multiple meanings.   It is quite interesting how one passage in the Bible and be interpreted in many ways and even contradict itself.  \n\nWe find that most preacher teach what they want their congregation to know. \n\nWe do lack faith, however we are genuinely impressed with the influences religion has had on people, cultures, art, music, war, etc.
788302
Because most of them don't read their Bibles.  They would rather have someone else interpret them for them.  Unfortunately they either don't know or don't care that that is what gives God a bad name!!
253471
Depends on the person...some people don't believe in the bible at all so why would they pay attention to it
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I don't know how others rationalize their errors, but as a Christian I can speak for myself. I have read and studied the Bible, but I also believe (right or wrong) that the Bible was written by humans\nand that the Bible has been translated so many times that it would be difficult to even know what was originally written, and it is also open to interpretation.\nSo MY life as a Christian is based on my belief in God, Jesus Christ as his son, live by the 10 commandments and try to do the best I can.
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They do actively seek to read their BIbles, i'm guessing most read it everyday and pray about it. Don't worry i think they know what they are doing ;) They don't follow blindly anyway, we know whats in the BIble , we know the characteristics of God, if a preacher teaches falsley i'd see it. Preacher don't preach about hate... you should go to church one time ;)\n\nPlease don't assume you know what Christians believe when you don't \n\nTHANKS :)
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The problem is that too many Christians claim to follow Christ but are scripturally illiterate--they haven't read the Bible they claim to believe. So of course the "Da Vinci Code" would threaten their belief system, because their belief system hasn't been solidified yet. It's kind of like freshly poured cement on a sidewalk--until it's firm, anyone can put any impression into it. Christians need to go back to the source of their belief--the Bible--and then movies like this will be seen for the fiction they really are.
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Regardless of what the more religious people might say, the Bible has been badly understood and misinterpreted since it was written.  Wars have killed many millions over the different ideas people have had and we, to this day, have many different churches believing in the same book yet not agreeing on it because interpretations have been passed down through generations and the children of these people have been force fed the supposed knowledge.  So we end up with a very one-sided debate with religion which we are supposed to respect, but unfortunately has lost much of it's respect.
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Because there are many people who don't follow the doctrines of your mythological book.\n\nJust like YOU don't follow the laws of Islam, or the Hebrew faith, or worship Zeus and Hercules.\n\nWhy are YOU so ignorant of other people's beliefs?\n\nThe bible is a book. It's a good book. But it is JUST a book.
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Because a LOT of the world population DOES NOT believe or care about a book written by men centuries afterJesus christ's life.\nGet real, the bible is JUST a book, no more, no less!
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good question the christian bible is one of the most contradicting books ever
814056
Many do not believe that,because they don't believe in God. Many of them also say they know the Bible better than the believers,and thus they will also be held accountable for all the knowledge they have gotten from God's Word and still remained unbelievers.
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no, Christians believe that there all knowing god suddenly changed his mind about how he wanted people to live and how to worship him. so they pay no attention to the first half of the bible unless it happens to back an argument they are having...
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It is not that the Jews are blind, it is that Christians see the Hebrew Scriptures through Jesus-colored glasses. Since they read the Christian's New Testament first, then the TaNaCH, they see the TaNaCH through the lens of Christianity. If read on its own, with no knowledge of, or belief in, Christianity, the Hebrew Scriptures would not be seen as being about Jesus.\n\nJews dont see the Christian interpretation in Isaiah 53, because it contradicts what the Hebrew Scriptures, the Bible says, clearly and consistently, in at least 3 places:\n\nIn Exodus 32:30-35, Moses tries to offer himself as an atonement for the sins of the people. To be written out of God's book, means to be written out of the Book of Life, which means Moses was asking to die for the sins of the People. God's response was "No, it does not work that way, each man dies for his own sin:"\n\nExodus 32:30-35\nAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses \nsaid unto the people, Ye have sinned a great \nsin: and now I will go up unto the Eternal; \nperhaps I shall make an atonement for your \nsin. And Moses returned unto the Eternal, and \nsaid, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, \nand have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if \nthou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, \nblot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which \nthou hast written. And the Eternal said unto \nMoses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him \nwill I blot out of my book...nevertheless in \nthe day when I visit I will visit their sin \nupon them.\n\nIn Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically says this:\n\nDeuteronomy 24:16\nThe fathers shall not be put to death for the \nchildren, neither shall the children be put to \ndeath for the father. Every man must die for \nhis own sin.\n\nThe whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about this idea, that no one can die for someone else's sin. Further, this chapter of Ezekiel teaches us that all we have to do for God's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and God will forgive us. Nowhere in this chapter does it say that we have to have a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins.\n\nEzekiel 18:1-4; 20-24; 26-27\n.....Behold, all souls are mine; as the \nsoul of the father, so also the soul of the \nson is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall \ndie....The soul that sinneth, it shall die. \nThe son shall not bear the iniquity of the \nfather, neither shall the father bear the \niniquity of the son: the righteousness of the \nrighteous shall be upon him, and the \nwickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. \nBut if the wicked will turn from all his sins \nthat he hath committed, and keep all my \nstatutes, and do that which is lawful and \nright, he shall surely live, he shall not die. \nAll his transgressions that he hath committed, \nthey shall not be mentioned unto him: in his \nrighteousness that he hath done he shall live. \nHave I any pleasure at all that the wicked \nshould die? saith the Eternal God: and not \nthat he should return from his ways, and live? \n\nSo, either Deuteronomy 24:16, "Every man must die for his own sin" does not mean that 'every man must die for his own sin,' and the Christian interpretation of Isaiah 53 is correct, or the Christian interpretation of Isaiah 53 is not correct, and Deuteronomy 24:16, 'Every man must die for his own sins' means exactly what it says.\n\nFurthermore, Jews read Isaiah up to (and including Isaiah 53) and Isaiah repeatedly refers specifically to the Jews as Gd's servant. Read Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 44:21; Isaiah 45:4; Isaiah 49:3; Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 48:20 and Isaiah 49:7 \n\nLets concentrate on Isaiah 43:10::\nIsaiah 43:10 \n"You are my witnesses, saith the Etrnl, and my \nservant whom I have chosen: that ye may know \nand believe me, and understand that I am he: \nbefore me there was no Gd formed, neither \nshall there be after me." \n\nThe above verse refers to the Jewish People in the plural, when Gd
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because most of those type, haven't ever picked up a Bible, much less read one. Insead, they rely on crack induced rhetoric, by people who say the name of God with every political policy and blame everything on the Great Evil Liberal. \nAnything that agrees with them is good, and anything that disagrees, is either evil science, brainwashing liberal education, a non-answer, a socialist conspiracy, or Godless lies.\n\nthey are a sick breed of humans that will ultimately be the people who put the anti-christ in power(if there is such a thing), their own Book says so!\n\nTheir whole belief system is based on zero-tolerance of anything that might change their views, probably nurtured by a drunken abusive parent!
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Because they cant read the original Hebrew for the Hebrew Scriptures, or the original Greek for the Christian's New Testament. Therefore they must rely on someone else's translation. \n\nRemember that modern translations are copyrighted, and the organizations that translated them make money when every book of their translation is sold. The KJV is so old, going back to 1611, that it has no copyright anymore, so it is free. That is why it accompanies many, if not all, computer Bible Programs.\n\nAlso keep in mind that the KJV was the only version available, and then the only version acceptable, to many denominations of Christianity for a very long time.\n\nPlease also remember that the person or organization who does a translation is biased, and their translation will reflect their own theology, regardless of whether or not a verse in the original actually says what they claim it says. No translation is totally right, and some are better, and some are worse, than others.