who here has never read the bible before, and if you want to what stops you?
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The Word of God (King James Version of the Holy Bible), is Life.\n\nBut most people do not understand it. If you'd like to know more, then click here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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I'm pretty sure the average fundi in Yahoo! Answers learned to read in school just like everybody else.  I'm also pretty sure they are capable of reading...  at least at a high school level.  \n\nOver the weekend I came up with a theory on just this subject by asking a few questions and seeing the answers they give.  If you are interested in the questions I asked and the answers they gave, click on my name and look at my questions.  \n\nMy theory is that certain "keywords" prompts them to repeat statements they have heard in church...  no matter what the question actually was.  I don't think fundamentalists are stupid.  They just don't care what the question is as long as they get the opportunity to recite portions of their beliefs.\n\nWhat really stunned me, though, was the lack of knowledge regarding the Bible.  What they do know, they repeat until everybody is sick to death of hearing it, but the rest of the Bible is a complete mystery to them.\n\nJust an opinion.
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Get over it... \n\nWelcome to living in a democracy, where it matters what others think.\n\n(BTW, micber is right that I also want to learn more about the Bible - I DO admit it).
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you read the entire bible just to diss a certain group of people? you have too much free time on your hands, Go out there and date someone!
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Hi,\n\nWhy do you listen to an ancient book filled with distorted facts and stories? Why don't you try to live your life the way you want and not conform to the Bible?\n\nThanks =]
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Contrary to what a lot of Englightened people on here will have you think, the Bible isn't just for scholars or spinners. If it is true, the Bible is God's Word to man, then I think it is safe to take the book at face value assuming that most people were quite illiterate at the time of its first use. \n\nGod would not make his only word to man undicipherable to all, save the rich intellects of the world. This seems like the biggest, most obvious trap, out there! The rich have the key to salvation, but of course they do! The rich Europeans, to take it even further and make it better! Give me a flippin break. This is getting stupid.\n\nThis is one of the major "flaws" in the entire idea of the Bible being God's Word. Does God not know that most people on Earth are hardly literate, can't understand Hebrew or Aramic, and by inspiring a 3,000 plus page text, he has put the salvation of nearly everyone on earth in the hands of a very few who can actually READ who came from Europe and were bent on ruling the world at all cost??! Impossible for God to do such a thing to 90% of the rest of his own creation!\n\nSo, read the Bible just as it comes to you. Yes, God asked God why he forsakened himself. That is the surface interpretation, no spin. Unless your parents could afford to send you to private school, where they teach you how to spin, I mean interpret the Bible, or unless you were born into Christianity where there are churches all around you that teach these spin techniques, you would never know that when you read page 2,198 in the Bible, that it is ACTUALLY refering to page 1,328 which REALLY means what page 498 said in the third paragraph referring to page 20.\n\nThe logical or face understanding of the text, is that God called out to himself(strange indeed), in a manner that seemed  much like begging of himself to help himself. It's ridiculous.
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This is the LAST age.\n\nwoooooooo hoooooooooooooooooo\n\nIt only proves The bible RIGHT !!!!!!!!!\n\nyippppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee\n\n\nGET  R  DONE*
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If you don't believe in Life after Death then I would pick up the Bible. Especially if you are an atheist, how do you know what you don't believe if you haven't done your homework.
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The child of Mary and Jesus protected by the knights templer.   No, I have never read the Divinci code.  I finally bought a copy, but I can't bring myself to read it.
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Before I became a born again Christian, I was in your shoes. The bible made zero sense to me. I would read it, and could not remember what I read, nor see the importance of the "dusty old book" However, the only way you will be able to understand it is if you accept Christ into your heart. To do this you must be convinced that God exists, then you must have Him dealing with your heart (which I think He is given your concern about not understanding the bible) Then when this comes to light you will see your need of a Savior due to your lacking in the eyes of God.\n\nBleesed be unto you to harken unto this call.
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Probably because Christians like you have no clue.  You READ the Bible, you practice Christianity.
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The bible is designed for anyone to read it... but it can be hard to follow.. that's why we have churches. Just beware of the churches that bash every other church and "enforce" THEIR rules (most baptist churches)
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Get yourself a Bible that is easy for you to read. You will stall out with the old English of the King James Bible. Just read as much as you want every day. If you only have time to read one verse, then so be it.  Just do it every day. Start at the beginning and put a book mark in after each reading. Don't worry how long it will take. Just enjoy it.
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In one answer you say you "Take the Bible literally".\nThen you answer lots of questions with the nice phrase "You are an idiot".\nDoes the Bible tell you to do that?
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Actually, I'm trying very hard to read the koran (quran, qur'an, etc).  \n\nBut, it's really, really difficult to read unless you suspend belief in, and knowledge of, history, religion (Judaism and Christianity), morals, science, and common sense.
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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 study the Bible.  I'm majoring in religious studies, but I'm no scholar yet!  ;-)