Why don't all you atheists write your own Bible? It would be very short, wouldn't it?
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it might resemble something like a science book.
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O.K. admiralbob! I'm glad your not in charge of everything. Everyone wants to prove how things work, but they can't answer the question as to who made it all happen.....Anyway I've got broadband but the download is taking a minute so based off of others speculation and the website that I observed, I would say SURE THING. God is intelligent so why wouldn't he use science he created it? But yeah! They should use it to teach if they have found that proof! It would really back up the bible too.
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If you notice, everyone seems to have a different idea to so Fundamental a question. Everyone seems to have a different view. People can have different interpretations of the same book and this is the case of the Bible. Also the Bible has been passed on from one generation to the other by scripts who rewrote the book and made altercations on the way. No Original bible as such exists, the one we have now is a continuosly revised edition of the first. And the bible was not written in the presence of christ which is clear however you look at the fact. All Religions lead to the same end, heaven. As long as we have faith in our hearts, we dont have to worry about anything else.
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Don't you have that backwards? I've met many people who believe every word in the bible even if you can prove that it is a miss translation, or against known facts. The bible can be used to "prove" anything you like if you take it out of context and add your own spin.
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Atheism doesn't need a reference book...I mean, you technically believe in, well, nothing. So therefore, there is no need for a book detailing atheistic beliefs.\n\nThough scientific journals are pretty nice, sometimes.
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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.
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Oh my goodness!!! I'm sitting here lmao at some of these responses you've gotten CJ!! rayna, that's right, I totally agree with you. God didn't write the book, man did! So that should totally explain CJ's question right??? Well maybe God didn't write it because he's not in existence to write it?? And also, you said yourself that man wrote it, showing the atheist's theory that religion is a made up bunch of crap.\nOkay, and OnlyMe. OMG! You're going on and on blah blah blah about how perfect the bible is because it never once contradicts itself...wasn't that CJ's entire question about how it DOES contradict itself!!!?? Learn to read child! And I agree with CJ that is DOES have A LOT of contradicitons in it.\nOkay duc602, you say CJ is a troubled person? Actually I think he's the free one to do as he wishes. You're the one who's gullible and brainwashed...don't blame others and criticize them because they're not brainwashed into "seeing the light".\n\nAnd finally, to answer your question CJ. He's (God's) perfect only in the eyes of the oh brainwashed ones. He doesn't exist. Man made up religion to control the masses long ago. Hence why there are so many contradictions. What person do you know that knows how to keep his story straight ALL THE TIME? That's right: zip, nada, zilch.\n\nP.S. Quit abusing CJ just because you don't like his question. If you don't like what he has to say, then don't answer it. If you don't like what I have to say, then tough s h *t.
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Being mentioned in the Bible is not a requirement for Heaven. If it were, everyone born since the bible was written would be damned.
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You were probably not looking for an answer from me, but your exact question is why I do not believe in a god of the bible, or any great being who would choose to create this world. Sure the world is amazing but... children suffering, nothing all loving would allow it.
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Finally a decent out of the box agnostic thinker.  I personally am atheist, because the creation of a creator is just as probable as us being created in the first place.  But the creation of the two are that much more improbable.  \n\nHowever, on your theory, why do you propose that we are mistakes rather than a side effect...
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God didn't lie to the bible writers - THEY MADE IT UP\n\nThe bible writers are the liars\n\nHere's another thought - if we found a science book from the 1st century, do you think it would be of any revelance now?
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The bible really doesn't touch upon that, interesting question.\n\nWhile i'm personally an atheist, i've spent most of my life as a christian, and the thing to remember is that you shouldn't take it literally, you should take it figuratively. While i don't agree with it as a source of knowledge, if interpreted as a behavioural code, it's mostly alright.
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Because the Bible was created by people. It is not straight from the lips of God. Therefore it has as many versions as there were people interested in writing about it.
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I believe God wants us to know specifically who he is and how to get to him.  Therefore, he provides us Scriptures. I just can't believe we can make up a god of our own imagining and have it be the right one. Only one can be right, otherwise he would be contradicting himself.
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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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Your question also begs a more basic question:  regardless of version, timing, or translation, human beings wrote the contents of, and chose and assembled, the texts that were called The Bible.  (Same with the Talmud, and the Koran.)  So it's reasonable to ask, why do so many believe it to be God's word?  I mean, it could be.  But why do people today so strongly believe it to be so, with such certainty?  When all they have is other people's word for it?  It is indeed remarkable, and hard to understand.
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There is no god.  Holy books were written by mortal men.  They wrote those books to suit their own needs and wishes.  Don't get me wrong, many people have acheived great things through religion, but certainly not due to any higher power.