Why do Christians trust the Bible?

[DramaQueen]

Esotericism?

[Minimalist]

I wonder why Christians trust the Bible as a valid source of information for what happened.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

[Anomalocaris]

I wonder why Christians trust the Bible as a valid source of information for what happened.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

You have to admit the core of Christianity, with its made up doctrine of hell and assertion of original sin, unworthiness of salvation, and grace through abject servility, is nothing more than contempt for and malice toward mankind. Whenever mankind finds a way to be happen using his own resources, you can count on Christards to be contemptious and outraged.

In the case of christianity, the most profound stupidity is definitely there. But most profound stupidity could easily lead to less denigrating act of idiocy. Why this particular degree of denigration of men? Because a malice equal in magnitude to stupidity is also there.

[Minimalist]

You'll get no argument from me on that.

But people who believe it because it is written in the bible are just plain stupid.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Because the bible is 100% correct. It says so in the bible.

[Thumpalumpacus]

As a meme, Christianity has stumbled onto a pretty good survival tool: doubting its main tenets will doom you to eternal punishment. People who are credulous enough to buy a talking snake, a burning bush, and so on aren't gonna turn their doubt on when they're told that the Bible was Divinely Inspired and therefore beyond criticism.

Yeah, it's probably mostly these two things. I can see both of them in myself when I was still Christian.

I know it worked for me for a long time ... as a boy I was terrified of Hell, and the End Times.

[Tonus]

I wonder why Christians trust the Bible as a valid source of information for what happened.

For me it was presupposition. If you automatically accept that god exists and the Bible is his letter to mankind, then of course anything it contains is true and accurate. That's why Christians go to such lengths to explain or rationalize the parts that sound horrible or crazy or don't make sense. It has to make sense, it's the word of god.

[KUSA]

the demonstrable wrongness of parts of the Bible, the book itself looks sketchy as hell.

This part confuses me. Why would the idiots that put the Bable together allow such conflicting things to be put in it. I guess they had shitty editors back then. If I was gonna write a holy book I would have made sure it was consistent.

[Anomalocaris]

the demonstrable wrongness of parts of the Bible, the book itself looks sketchy as hell.

This part confuses me. Why would the idiots that put the Bable together allow such conflicting things to be put in it. I guess they had shitty editors back then. If I was gonna write a holy book I would have made sure it was consistent.

Because it was a committee of idiots.

[Chad32]

Cultural snowball effect. You grow up doing what adults say, on pain of punishment, and maybe you respect the opinions of people who have been aroudn the block a lot longer than you. in general this is a good idea, because kids can learn a lot of things from adults.

I didn't question my grandmother about these things because I assumed if there were such obvious flaws in the book, she would have picked up on it. You would be shunned at best, and killed at worst, for rocking the religious boat too much, so people just go along with it. It's especially easy in more moderate or liberal circles, because you're not going to hear about a gang beating a gay person to death in the street in my home town.