Why is it people become Atheists after reading the Bible?
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I read the most of the Bible. It's not the Book that made me an atheist but rather the hypocrisy of a lot of people who claim to be Christians.\n\nNot all, I agree, but too many.
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I've read the Bible, it was a useful tool in my decision to become atheist.
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Because the human mind cannot comprehend God.\n\nBecause one needs faith in order to be able to really learn from the Bible.\n\nBecause many people are deceived and fall for the alternatives of easy, cheap Grace.
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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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1. \n\nMost of the time athiest have had a bad situation occur in their lives and turned to God for help, he didn't answer in the way they wanted so they don't believe he exists.\n\nGot proof? News flash... atheists are not mad at a god they do not believe in. \n\n2.\n\nLook it's a waste of time trying to convert athiests and athiests to convert believers.\n\na.) Then take your own advice and keep your sermon to yourself :)\n\nb.) I, for one think that it's never a waste of time to try to understand others and be understood. \n\nc.) If it weren't for people sharing ideas, I would not have changed my worldview.
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Actually, if you read the Bible, when people died before Christ they went to a place called Shoal, which is where Jewish people still believe people go when they die, as they go mostly by the Old Testament.  Kind of neither a Heaven or Hell.  When Jesus died, he went and got the good people out of Shoal and took him with him to Heaven.  Also, when the Rapture occurs, it says those who are dead will rise first and then the rest will meet Christ in the air.  Then judgement of everyone takes place and the damned are cast into the lake of fire.  So basically, before the birth of Christ, God was watching.  And after, he still is.\n\nAs an aside, anyone who reads this might like to ask themselves how interesting it is that atheists seem to dislike Christianity because if demands a code of behavior and forbids some favorite sins.  Seems that way to me, hence the condescending tone to those attempting to live their lives rightly.
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Some people do not believe in God because of the numerous interpretations of the bible. Others simply want to live life without depending on some idol that has been seen in many forms and perceived in different ways.
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I took a good, hard look at the Bible and its claims, realized that it is contradictory, untrustworthy, and full of myth, fable, and impossible events, and discarded it as the writings of superstitious people who understood very little about the natural world. After that, it didn't take much reasoning power to draw the same conclusions about other belief systems. I don't believe in BibleGod, or any god, for the same reason that I don't believe in Santa Claus--they don't exist.
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maybe he's an atheist and did not believe in bible. Maybe that's the reason why he further speculated, and formed theories about the world.
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I'm glad you haven't been duped by religion to the point that you can still question the universe. \n\nThe Bible and all other religious books have been written by humanity with human interpretation. \n\nIt's a fact few people are willing to accept because they want to believe in a higher power so much to answer the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
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You left one of your list: "God said so" or "I've had personal experience with God."  Those people scare me.\n\nThe Bible is a good book.  The stories are engaging and are generally pleasant to read.  But that doesn't make it true.  I think that in part Christians believe in God for the same reason I'd like to believe that the Harry Potter books are true.  \n\nBut beyond that, the purpose of religion is to explain the unexplainable, to provide a source of morality, and to try to address the age-old question of the meaning of life.  If people believe they are serving God, they feel that their life has purpose.  If people believe in God, they can start to determine if they are good people because at least they know what it means to be a good person.  Whether or not they live up to their moral ideals, at least they know what to strive for.  If people believe in the Biblical myths, they know where they came from, why there here, and why things are they way they are.  Even if that knowledge is entirely wrong, they don't have to wonder about it.  Religion also provides continuity and some sort of stability from day to day, week to week, and generation to generation.\n\nNo one's going to be able to give you factual evidence for the existance of God because he doesn't exist.  But I'm not sure that even matters.  Believing in God isn't about being right it's about believing.  I'm not sure that the accuracy of the stories is really relevent to their power.\n\nBut that said, I'm still an atheist :)
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I don't "persist in NOT believing in a higher power".\n\nI came to that belief after many years of committment to, believing in, living and studying Christiainity.\n\nIt was knowledge, not ignorance, that led me to become an atheist.  And it wasn't easy.\n\nThe nature of the world, from cosmology to sub-atomic physics to the structure of the human body was one strand,  the history of the bible and the church another.\nThe world as I see it fits rather better with a framework of NO god than a framework including one.\n\n(Though many details can be made to fit either model.  It's there that the a lot of the confusion and conflict occurs, as each side can point to one "fact" but derive completely different implications from it.)
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This is because we are living in the Post-Modern Era.  This means that we are living in a era where the reader brings the interepretation to the text.  And since we have all had different life experiences we have a different interpretation of the Bible.  This being the case the way that the Bible reads in Greek and Hebrew is not important, the way that the Early Church fathers is not important.  It is completly dependant on the readers interpretation of the text.\n\nThis being the case there is a lack of the intellectual study of the Bible anymore.  Another characteristic of the Post-Modern mindset is almost rebelling against the intellectual history of the church.  Let me give you an example from Nitche.\n\nThe existentialists like Nietzsche brought a new nihilism and atheism which influenced culture. Post-colonialism after WW2 contributed to the idea that one cannot have an objectively superior lifestyle or belief. This idea was taken further by the anti-foundationalist philosophers: Heidegger, then Ludwig Wittgenstein, then Derrida, who re-examined the fundamentals of knowledge. They argue that rationality was neither as sure nor as clear as modernists or rationalists assert. Even logic could be biased -- "logocentrism" - the privileging of a system of logic. Psychologists have since gone further in asserting a cognitive bias, which points at a human bias of truth.\n\nThus since humans are the measure of all things rather than God we are the final authorities on Gods word, and our interpretation supercedes the TRUE BIBLICAL MEANING OF THE TEXT.
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They are decieved, thats why they become atheists
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i do it for two reasons:\n\nfirst: to be a christian, it takes a lot of time and study to understand the bible or quran, and grow faith in God. For me as an atheist it took a lot of study to understand the bible and quran, and come to the conclusion that there is no God. I concluded that for myself, based on study and education. So, of course i have an opinion about religion. To me, atheism is a form of religion.\n\nsecond: my girlfriend, whom i gonna marry next year, is a christian. Not a very biblical one, but she is raised christian, her whole family is christian. So, i ask questions here to try and understand even more about christianity and their aims and goals.\n\non almost all my questions i get one or two reactions like 'why are you in this section'. Those are the reactions that i always try to ignore, because it strikes me as a silly reaction.\n\ni do it to even educate myself more, and to understand my family-in-law even better. and i think i have that right.
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THE RESON WHY THE BIBLE BECOME THE CANONIZATION IS IT IS THE BOOK THAT IS THE MASS IN THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE INVISIBLE GOD AND US,COZ.STILL A LOT PEOPLE COULDN'T HEAR GOD'S SOUND NATURALLY,SO GOD NEED TO TALK WITH HIS PEOPLE THROUGH THE BIBLE , SO EACH TIME WE READ THE BIBLE ,ALTHOUGH MANY ROUND IN OUR LIFE,WE COULD HEAR A DIFFERENT ANSWERS INSIDE COZ. GOD TALK WITH US NOT THE SAME ,IT DEPEND TO THE CIRCUMSTANCE.
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I answer atheist questions because I have been called thisso many times, simply because I am not Christian.\n\nI don't know everything, but I know I place my thinking further than limiting it to a bible. Which by the way, is fictional. Which is also written in part by mentally ill people who were considered saints by men-not by God.\n\nMy mind is open and can be changed, my mind is not closed to all things other than the bible. I do believe in God, but am considered atheist since I am not christian. This is where they are wrong.