Why do you not believe that the Bible is divinely inspired?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh yay! Another haterz thread. Thanks for reminding me why I stopped coming to this forum!

Christian haters can't resist !

The OP's question is "Why do you not believe the the Bible is divinely inspired?". People have been stating their reasons and now you want to say it's hate, because you don't like their reasons? Now where's the hate coming from?

[Anonymous]

I don't believe in gods, therefore I don't believe any book is "divinely inspired".

No hatred there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: God allegedly said to Joshua that the city of Jericho was his, he could have it, so Joshua stormed the walls and killed every man, woman, child, and their asses and farm animals.
So what was the sin of these victims? They worshiped other gods apparently.

DOn't worry -- it's just a made-up story. When Archeologists found Jericho, there were no signs of there being any walls around it, so there was nothing to "come tumbling down" in the supposed battle that Joshua fought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The wisdom and anecdotes offered therein are truly above and beyond

So is Star Wars.

and Dianetics

[Anonymous]

b/c there are many pagan stories that mirror the death and resurrection of Jesus

myths

There is no divine inspiration in myths - only a good imagination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The wisdom and anecdotes offered therein are truly above and beyond

So is Star Wars.

So is Star Trek TOS!

yes I am a geek

[Anonymous]

1)read the De-Text Book for all the vivid sex scenes in the bible that the preachers pass over;
2) go to St. Paul's letters to read all about what he thought of slavery.
3) the book is rife with brutal rapes and scenes of "divine" retribution or retaliation (depending on your POV)

No it's not divinely inspired. It's just what B. Maher says it is: a big book for fairy tales.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The wisdom and anecdotes offered therein are truly above and beyond[/quote]

So is Star Wars.[/quote]

and Dianetics[/quote]

the Book of Mormom

the Egyptian Book of the Dead

the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

take your pick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was sort of the subject of the sermon today at my church...Can the Bible be Trusted? The sermon is obviously too long to post here, and honestly can't remember all of it. But basically, it was stating that the writings that comprised the Bible, or at least the NT, was historically accurate from a purely historically point of view, and as CS Lewis stated (not verbatim), Jesus was either a raving lunatic to claim he was the Son of God, or he really was the Son of God.

Yes. An entire religion is actually based on the utterances schizophrenic yeshiva boy. If he were around today he'd be…well…starting some crackpot church.

[Anonymous]

Show us where the bible OT or NT passes the Bechdel test and I'll eat my yarmulke.

[Anonymous]

Maher is g*d.

[Anonymous]

Paul was J's manager and religion is the NFL/NBA/MLB/FIFA/UEFA.

[Anonymous]

Done by committee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was sort of the subject of the sermon today at my church...Can the Bible be Trusted? The sermon is obviously too long to post here, and honestly can't remember all of it. But basically, it was stating that the writings that comprised the Bible, or at least the NT, was historically accurate from a purely historically point of view, and as CS Lewis stated (not verbatim), Jesus was either a raving lunatic to claim he was the Son of God, or he really was the Son of God.

Yes. An entire religion is actually based on the utterances schizophrenic yeshiva boy. If he were around today he'd be…well…starting some crackpot church.

So we should base our beliefs on what cs lewis says?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because at Nicene in the 4th century men not God, decided what to leave in and what to leave out

Yup! Also, I just don't see why God would only speak to one small group of people and to hell with the rest. If he created them doesn't he have some sort of responsibility to them?