How do atheists explain the bible?

Question

It is the word of god and it explains everything with matches the scientific evidence we have about history and the universe. Unfortunately, many scientists interpret this evidence wrong which leads to contradiction with the bible, which obviously means it is wrong. But the bible is proof and evidence of god, it is gods word! How can they deny such an amazing piece of evidence?

Answer 1

Well I explain it as Fantasy Fiction...



“Bibel is sentimental speculation and replacement theology at its finest lacking any meaningful philosophy that was had by the Judaism that reputedly spawned it.



AND, it's filled with lotsa ignorant mistakes:



1. There is not one bit of physical evidence for a global flood - no geological evidence, no mass extinction a few thousand years ago, no evidence that all life was wiped out and gradually repopulated from a single location.

2. You don't get striped goats by having your goats mate in front of striped sticks.

3. Stars can’t hover over a spot on earth ’n accurately guide people to that place.

4. Earthquakes do not happen when an angry god shakes the earth.

5. The cure for leprosy is not rubbing birds’ blood all over a person.

6. You can't cure snakebite by gazing at a brass snake on a pole.

7. All species of life did not come into existence in a single week.

8. Rain does not happen when windows are opened in heaven.

9. It is not possible to stop the sun as it travels across the sky.

10. The earth is not a few thousand years old.

11. Rabbits do not chew their own cud.

12. There are no four-legged fouls.

13. People can't float to the sky.

14. Rabbits do not have hoofs.

15. Stars cannot fall to earth.

16. The Earth is not a circle.

*17. Pi does not equal 3.

18. The earth is not flat.

19. Donkeys can't talk.

20. Bats are not birds.

21. Snakes can't talk.



Etc



Oh, and that bloke spending three days inside a fish is a bit suss, don't you think?”



“Because all the works of science cannot equal the wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every animal species in the world lived within walking distance of Noah’s house.”

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Answer 2

"It is (the Bible) the word of god and it explains everything with matches the scientific evidence we have about history and the universe." Well, that is where your whole argument fails. The Bible is so full of errors, contradictions and omissions as to be a joke.



It is also the case that you cannot use the Bible to prove God then use God to prove the Bible, there is no external reference.



So, how do I explain the Bible? It is a fusion of myths taken from older civilizations. Each myth is spun to be used as a social control device. However, it was useful as such a few thousand years ago, how it is pure oppression, it does not really meet the needs of now.



Therefore as the fiction it is, not worthy of consideration.

Answer 3

"It is the word of god and it explains everything with matches the scientific evidence we have about history and the universe."

I would just love to hear your definition of what "scientific evidence" is

cos there is not 1 bit of the bible that gives any scientific ecidence about history or the universe



"Unfortunately, many scientists interpret this evidence wrong which leads to contradiction with the bible, which obviously means it is wrong"

This is stupid - You say a "scientific interpretation" leads to the bible contradicting itself and must therefore be wrong.

So the bible DONT contain scientific evidence then?



"But the bible is proof and evidence of god, it is gods word! How can they deny such an amazing piece of evidence?"

So you are back to the "bible is proof of god cos its gods word"?

This is REALLY stupid (and the shortest circular argument I have ever seen)

(And I am missing the bit that shows the "bible" is evidence)



So back to the question

"how do atheists explain the bible?"

whats to explain?

Answer 4

The Bible is fiction written by people. The Bible is just a book and it is totally unreliable. The Bible does NOT match scientific evidence we have about the history and the Universe. It contradicts it. There is no evidence that God exists. The Bible is totally unreliable. We must first confirm that God exists before we can say the Bible is God's word.

Answer 5

If the Bible was divinely inspired, then why would it have so many really obvious contradictions? Hundreds of them at least. Also it does not explain scientific evidence. Why is it that when science, archeology and history prove that the bible is wrong, the christians try to put a spin on what is written to coincide with the real evidence?

Answer 6

First of all if God is almighty then where is the logic that an Almighty God needs a book to record stuffs. Secondly since the beginning of time there is already a God if there is a God and so can a bible with only less then three inches thick enough to explain everything? Finally to prove the bible is the truth then it is necessary to prove God exist first.

Answer 7

The historical origins of the Bible are well known, although some Christians like to think that the KJV arrived without precursors and also that it's a perfect translation of ancient texts. The truth is that the making of the Bible was a huge, complex mess that took hundreds of years and hundreds of people to accomplish and we have no existing copy of the Bible older than 1650 years.

Answer 8

Nope. Sure doesn't. The bible is a compilation of stories told by diffrent people. In early Christianity the diffrent sects of Christians was even more noumerous then today. There are so many diffrent writtings. Some held by some, others not. Not till they compiled the bible. People did. We know this.many stories were left out. And I'm sure you're smarter then those stupid scientists. So, prove your point.

Answer 9

The bible is what is called "Faction” A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!



There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!



There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!



He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?



Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!



Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!



At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!



Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?



Christianity is an invention of the Italians and that is why it came from the Holy ROMAN Catholic church!



Please realize that those claims for the Old historians are worthless since they were not even born until long after everyone in the stories would have been so long dead!



Josephus AD 37 – AD 100

Tacitus AD 56 – AD 120

Suetonius - 69 – 130 AD

Pliny the Younger, 61 AD – 112 AD

Justin Martyr (Saint Justin) AD103–165 AD

Lucian - AD 120 -180 AD but he was hostile to Christianity and openly mocked it.

Pamphilius AD 240-309 AD

Eusebius AD 263 – 339 AD

Photius AD 877 – 886 AD



Thallus - But there are no actual record of him except a fragment of writing which mentions the sack of Troy [109 BC] Showing that he was clearly not alive in biblical times.



Some even try to use Seneca. 4 BCE – 65 CE but as a Stoic Philosopher he opposed religion yet made not a single mention of a Jesus or Christianity!



Even funnier is trying to claim Celsus AD ? – 177 AD Who said that Jesus was a Jew who’se mother was a poor Jewish girl whose husband, who was a carpenter, drove her away because of her adultery with a Roman soldier named Panthera. She gave birth to an illegitimate child named Jesus. In Egypt, Jesus became learned in sorcery and upon his return presented himself as a god.

Answer 10

You are joking, right? I do hope for your sake you are trolling but for the fun then.

Insects are not birds

Its not possible to see the whole world from a tower or a mountain

The earth is not fixed in a foundation

People can't live inside whales

the earth and green plants did not exist before the sun

etc-etc

Answer 11

At it's most basic it is a series of tales explaining how ancient man understood our progress from living in caves to living in the Bronze age. There is some good advice in there if you trouble to look it out, most of it needs discarded though. We know that stoning people to death is wrong, for instance, and that women and their new born babies are not unclean, but the old people understood those things to be correct and true.

Answer 12

So, "the Bible is god's word because it says it is."



The only thing funnier than that "logic" is the fact that you apparently think such splooge is a thoughtful argument. No wonder you keep yourself anonymous.

Answer 13

How can they deny such an amazing piece of evidence?



- Because we have functional brain cells.

Answer 14

It is not the word of a god it is the word of man.

The bible is a collection of myths and fairy tales plagiarised from greek, roman, pagan mythology as well as the epic of Gilgamesh.

Nothing but a pile of crap and should be treated with as derision as possible.

Answer 15

The Bible has over 400 contradictions in it.

Answer 16

How do Christians explain the Quran, the Upanishads, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and the Vedas?

Answer 17

In about the fourth century the church selected and edited specific canons which supported the existence of the church and presented to the ignorant masses "their" version of a god in a vain attempt to solidify the fractionated church. It did not work for the church is still fractionated and for years killed each other basing this killing in interpretations of this same book.

Answer 18

There is not ONE thing in the bible that can be checked and be validated scientifically.

So I explain it two fold: some idiots wrote it, and some idiots think it is true.

Answer 19

I explain it as someone or a group of people making bed time stories or even trying to put fear into people so that they live a good life full of good morals and kindness.

Answer 20

You are kidding right?



There is no possibility to confuse what's written in Genesis with what was meant and there is no possibility to fail to comprehend that what was said had absolutely no correlation with reality.

Answer 21

Atheists explaining the bible is like a blind man explaining the difference between colors.

Answer 22

I mean 'it says so right there in the bible that the bible is true so it has to be true'

Answer 23

Ask a collection of oral histories/traditions/myths that finally made it to paper and have been evolving ever since.

Answer 24

The writers of the Bible wrote about places they knew so, of course, archeologists will find sites mentioned in the Bible. Duh.



Events, however, cannot be and have not been verified.

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