Why do you believe the Bible? I notice you use it a lot as a reference.
It's not a textbook. It's inconsistent, self contradictory, and historically inaccurate.
It's not testable or predictable.
I find the Bible to be true, reliable, authentic...
Contrary to your opinion, I find it is consistent, harmonious, historically inaccurate, testable.
I don't understand what you mean by it is not predictable.
The Bible is not a science, medical, school... textbook, but that doesn't make it any less important. In fact, it has practical guidelines, valuable information that helps millions live a meaningful, successful, and happy life.
I can tell you, not I alone, but
millions of people testify to the fact that they are alive and well today, because of the Bible.
If that is not evidence that the Bible is testable with regard to it's power to have a positive effect on people's life, I don't know what is.
You seem to want to get rid of the Bible. Is that the case? Why do you hate it so much? What do you have to say about the positive effects observed by people who are not Christian?
Do you not welcome the use of a book that teaches person's how to live peaceably with their neighbor... who don't take up a weapon to kill someone else... who don't curse and swear at their neighbor... who don't have an affair with their neighbors wife, or flirt with her... who don't steal from the company, or the supermarket, or be dishonest in their business dealings... who don't find someone's wad of cash, and dance all the way home, singing, "Finders keepers, losers weepers... who don't dump their garbage on the streets, but keep their surroundings tidy... who help their neighbors physically, spiritually, and emotionally... who try to raise their children to be mannerly, and respectful - in the mental regulating of Jehovah... who basically love their neighbor as themselves.... because the Bible says it is a requirement to please God?
Today when natural disasters or other calamities strike, time and again our Christian brothers are the first on the scene to render needed assistance materially and spiritually to fellow Christians as well as to others in need.
Jehovah's Witnesses help Austell flood victims
Thailand Embassy Expresses “Sincere Appreciation and Admiration” to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Peru for Helping Detained Thai Citizens
Representatives from the Thailand Embassy in Peru visited the branch office of Jehovah’s Witnesses located in Lima, the capital city, on June 26, 2018. Their purpose was to thank our brothers for the assistance given to Thai citizens in a Peruvian prison.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Peru have been visiting prisons in their Bible education work since 2007. But beginning in 2013, the brothers have been visiting a prison that includes Thai inmates. Impressed by the displays of personal interest, the Thai consul contacted the branch office to arrange a visit.
Helping Prisoners
JUNE 26, 2017
Officials in Russia Honor Jehovah’s Witnesses, Including Jailed Danish Citizen, for Outstanding Community Service
Jehovah’s Witnesses Honored for Helping Detainees
Nine of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Australia have been awarded certificates of appreciation for providing “outstanding service” to detainees at one of Australia’s largest immigration detention centers. The Witnesses received the awards from the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre near Derby, Western Australia.
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Each week, the Witnesses visit the detainees to hear their experiences and to share the Bible’s message of comfort and hope. “The effects from their visits to the clients are easily seen immediately,” said Christopher Riddoch, the center’s religious and cultural liaison officer. He said that the mood of the detainees improves and that they are happier after the visits, which he credits to the men “knowing there are people out there genuinely interested in their well-being.”
Mr. Riddoch also said that the certificate given to the Witnesses is a small gesture of thanks for, as he put it, “improving the lives of the men under our care.” He added that the Witnesses “are a credit to their families, their congregation, and their faith.”
I don't mean to blow a trumpet here, but you are asking for evidence,
However, it seems to me some people have created a worldview where they have closed their minds tight, so as to live in that world free from the one thing they hate most - and not realizing how damaging their worldview is to them.
Not only that, I think the whole opposition to the Bible undermines positive effects on society, and is more a contribution to a corrupt society.
I understand that religion - including "Christianity" which is probably the majority has played a role in the breakdown in society, but I blame this on their failure to live by what they claim to believe - which I don't believe they do. They neither live by the Bible, nor teach it, as far as I see.
When you have a religious body that claim to follow Christ, yet the "priest" they call them, and their flock can smoke, drink heavily, and fornicate, even have homosexual marriages, and even marry you off to a horse, what part of that is Christianity?
To me, that's not the Christianity of the Bible. In fact, I believe in what Jesus said - there is only one road that leads to life - one faith.
One true way of worship. All the others are counterfeit.
The examples above are just but a 0.02% of the positive praise given by educators, security, and law enforcement officers, and other staff, and high officials, as well as citizen, who have praised the conduct, and work of those carrying out the most successful Bible education work on earth.
There is in my view, much evidence that the Bible is reliable, and actually more truthful than anything on this earth - including what men will tell you is true, and can't even show you it is true.
From what I have observed,
the Bible is not outdated, but is ahead of its time.
I created
a thread on here with much evidence for it's truthfulness.
Feel free to go through it, knock it, challenge it... I'd be happy for the challenge.
Here in a nutshell are a few lines of evidence.
If the Bible is true, and it is the word of God, I think we would expect...
1. it would be like no other book.
2. it would be available to all mankind, wherever they live.
3. it would be in harmony with true / good science, or scientific discovery.
4. if it contains prophecy, those prophecies would be reliable - being fulfilled 100% every time.
5. it would survive any and all attempts to stop it's translation, and distribution, or any attempts to destroy it.
6. it would contain practical wisdom, or value that would be time tested.