Good bye Bible!

[Spiderman]

I realize there's so many lies in the Bible and so much that leads people astray. It's time to say goodbye to the Bible.

I believe in God, and have experienced many Graces and transforming experience through prayer and meditation. I've experienced too many blessings and interesting coincidences and unexplainable phenomenon to not believe in God.

However, I've got to forget about the Bible. It drives me nuts! It is a book full of contradictory statements that lead people astray. It is filled with empty promises and symbolism that stirs up confusion, judgements, condemnation, and false expectations.

It's time to embrace my spirituality and what works for me, rather than try to gain something from an ancient text that ticks me off and has been proven false and stupid.

It's time to recognize the Bible for what it is... A book written by Men who were prone to error.

It's insane to think that the God who made the beautiful planets, stars, and whole universe would give us a book like that, so full of ridiculous versus that don't make sense, genocide mandated by God, killing people for working on the wrong day of the week, destroying what others hold as sacred... That is not the God I know.

If you have the faith of a mustard seed you can tell this mountain to move and it will be done for you. What a stupid thing to say! I doubt Jesus ever said that. I don't think he was that stupid.

If God had a book, no doubt I would be the first one who would want to read it, but I don't think the world has such a book, and it certainly is not the Bible!

 

[Kelly of the Phoenix]

It's insane to think that the God who made the beautiful planets, stars, and whole universe would give us a book like that, so full of ridiculous versus that don't make sense, genocide mandated by God, killing people for working on the wrong day of the week, destroying what others hold as sacred... That is not the God I know.

Only Reality Itself is the true "Word of God".

 

[Father Heathen]

Reason and compassion serve as a much better moral compass, anyway.

 

[sayak83]

I realize there's so many lies in the Bible and so much that leads people astray. It's time to say goodbye to the Bible.

I believe in God, and have experienced many Graces and transforming experience through prayer and meditation. I've experienced too many blessings and interesting coincidences and unexplainable phenomenon to not believe in God.

However, I've got to forget about the Bible. It drives me nuts! It is a book full of contradictory statements that lead people astray. It is filled with empty promises and symbolism that stirs up confusion, judgements, condemnation, and false expectations.

It's time to embrace my spirituality and what works for me, rather than try to gain something from an ancient text that ticks me off and has been proven false and stupid.

It's time to recognize the Bible for what it is... A book written by Men who were prone to error.

It's insane to think that the God who made the beautiful planets, stars, and whole universe would give us a book like that, so full of ridiculous versus that don't make sense, genocide mandated by God, killing people for working on the wrong day of the week, destroying what others hold as sacred... That is not the God I know.

If you have the faith of a mustard seed you can tell this mountain to move and it will be done for you. What a stupid thing to say! I doubt Jesus ever said that. I don't think he was that stupid.

If God had a book, no doubt I would be the first one who would want to read it, but I don't think the world has such a book, and it certainly is not the Bible!

Why not try something different from the Abrahamic religions? Try Greek philosophy or humanism or Buddhism or Daoism? Clearly Bible and Qu'ran isn't working for you.

 

[Spiderman]

Why not try something different from the Abrahamic religions? Try Greek philosophy or humanism or Buddhism or Daoism? Clearly Bible and Qu'ran isn't working for you.

I'm sticking with shamanism, and reaching Altered States Of Consciousness so I can interact with the spirit world. I'm also working on thinking positively and maintaining an inner joy and peace that cant be shaken by external factors

 

[metis]

I believe the Bible, much like probably most if not all religious texts, is an honest attempt to understand God and what God wants us to do. As the Jewish sage Maimonides once wrote, most things we believe about God are probably not true. And I don't think we should eliminate the possibility that it could be "Gods" or even "none of the above".

So, maybe it's best to read the texts, contemplate on what they're saying, and then decide what is useful.

 

[DavidFirth]

The Bible contains truth. However, with most people truth is the very last thing they want to hear.

 

[Thief]

I realize there's so many lies in the Bible and so much that leads people astray. It's time to say goodbye to the Bible.

I believe in God, and have experienced many Graces and transforming experience through prayer and meditation. I've experienced too many blessings and interesting coincidences and unexplainable phenomenon to not believe in God.

However, I've got to forget about the Bible. It drives me nuts! It is a book full of contradictory statements that lead people astray. It is filled with empty promises and symbolism that stirs up confusion, judgements, condemnation, and false expectations.

It's time to embrace my spirituality and what works for me, rather than try to gain something from an ancient text that ticks me off and has been proven false and stupid.

It's time to recognize the Bible for what it is... A book written by Men who were prone to error.

It's insane to think that the God who made the beautiful planets, stars, and whole universe would give us a book like that, so full of ridiculous versus that don't make sense, genocide mandated by God, killing people for working on the wrong day of the week, destroying what others hold as sacred... That is not the God I know.

If you have the faith of a mustard seed you can tell this mountain to move and it will be done for you. What a stupid thing to say! I doubt Jesus ever said that. I don't think he was that stupid.

If God had a book, no doubt I would be the first one who would want to read it, but I don't think the world has such a book, and it certainly is not the Bible!

ok...so you don't like it
I understand

so cherry pick what you do like and let go the rest

most people do that anyway

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

ok...so you don't like it
I understand

so cherry pick what you do like and let go the rest

most people do that anyway

Of course. Why would someone accept what they think is factually dubious or morally wrong without a good reason?

There's nothing wrong with only accepting the defensible parts of the Bible and not accepting the rest.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

It's time to recognize the Bible for what it is... A book written by Men who were prone to error.

Just keep in mind the flip side of this: if it's a book written by men, its frequent errors don't mean it can't contain occasional insight.

 

[Jainarayan]

The Bible contains truth.

You forgot to add "From my pov... "

 

[Jainarayan]

most things we believe about God are probably not true.

Which is probably why one of the descriptions of God used by the Eastern Orthodox Church is "ineffable". Similarly, one school of philosophy in Hinduism concerned with the relationship of the soul to God is called acintyabhedābheda (with various spellings such as achintya-bheda-abheda), which means (lit.) "inconceivable difference and non-difference". The relationship is inconceivable to the human mind.

 

[Jainarayan]

so cherry pick what you do like and let go the rest

I'll bet that's what happened when it was compiled and formalized into canon.

 

[DavidFirth]

You forgot to add "From my pov... "

No, it does contain definite truth. Evidence exists that at least some of the Biblical historical record happened.

 

[Jainarayan]

No, it does contain definite truth. Evidence exists that at least some of the Biblical historical record happened.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

 

[DavidFirth]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The Bible wasn't right accidentally like a stopped clock. Bad comparison.

 

[Jainarayan]

The Bible wasn't right accidentally like a stopped clock. Bad comparison.

Good comparison. My point is that everything has some truth. Every culture has noticed and written about the same things. Some have borrowed from others, some have discovered things on their own. The Vedas and other Hindu scriptures from 5,000 years ago have scientific information that is only now being claimed by modern science as its own. The Bible never calculated the true age of the Earth as the Vedas did, to within a few millennia. Or the true distance from the Earth to the sun and other astronomical calculations. Or what theoretical physicists and other scientists are only now discovering to be the true nature of the universe. Or what the Bhagavad Gita contains from 5,000 years ago that Jesus repeated.

 

[DavidFirth]

Good comparison. My point is that everything has some truth. Every culture has noticed and written about the same things. Some have borrowed from others, some have discovered things on their own. The Vedas and other Hindu scriptures from 5,000 years ago have scientific information that is only now being claimed by modern science as its own. The Bible never calculated the true age of the Earth as the Vedas did, to within a few millennia. Or the true distance from the Earth to the sun and other astronomical calculations. Or what theoretical physicists and other scientists are only now discovering to be the true nature of the universe. Or what the Bhagavad Gita contains from 5,000 years ago that Jesus repeated.

First of all, that's not what I'm talking about. You can't know whether anything has calculated the age of the Earth correctly because you don't know how old the Earth is, you are only assuming it is as old as you think it is.

Second, the Bible mentions places that were destroyed by the Israelites during the Exodus. Some of these places have been found, dated to the time of reference and found to confirm the text as verified. This could not have happened by chance. There exists other evidence also, I just chose to point this particular one out to you.

Third, your stopped clock is nothing like what you compared it to, the Bible. Stopped clocks are only right accidentally twice each day, the Bible isn't right accidentally, it has verification that it wasn't just accidentally correct.

 

[Jainarayan]

First of all, that's not what I'm talking about. You can't know whether anything has calculated the age of the Earth correctly because you don't know how old the Earth is, you are only assuming it is as old as you think it is.

Yeah... uh, no... Radiometric dating - Wikipedia

Second, the Bible mentions places that were destroyed by the Israelites during the Exodus. Some of these places have been found, dated to the time of reference and found to confirm the text as verified. This could not have happened by chance. There exists other evidence also, I just chose to point this particular one out to you.

And others for which there is no evidence.

Third, your stopped clock is nothing like what you compared it to, the Bible. Stopped clocks are only right accidentally twice each day, the Bible isn't right accidentally, it has verification that it wasn't just accidentally correct.

And others for which there is no evidence.

My point is that pushing the accuracy and correctness of the Bible is based only on faith and can be countered a multitude of ways. The Bible can be only accidentally correct because archaeology is archaeology, and history is history. People have been observing and recording things for millennia; the people of the Biblical Era and locations were no different. The Bible can make no special claims.

 

[Spiderman]

Too many verses in the Bible can be tested and come up false... I especially have an aversion to all of the false hope and Promises...

I would absolutely like to do God's will. That's kind of hard when God Is So unfaithful to his word. But then again I'm becoming increasingly convinced and that it isn't his word anyways