Talking Snakes, Virgins Bear Children and Dead Men Walk

[System of Solace]

Hi there Christians,

1. How has this never occureed again?
Because it's not possible nor true?

2. How do you get into a mental condition to actually believe things like this?
At the age you are now and being old enough to understand this forum, you must have some sence of something not being quite right... right?

A lot of Christians today try to say everything in the Old Testament is null and void. I believe the Vatican even said at one point that Adam and Eve probably didn't exist. The New Testament still contains immoral and ridiculous passages, so it makes little difference, other than the abundance of violence in the OT. http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/nt_list.html
Shows around 160 passages in the NT.

I'm not quite sure why they say the OT means nothing now, but Jesus did say: 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

As for how they are raised into this delusion/religion, it is simply drilled into their head when they are young. It's hard to simply get rid of it. I see that you considered it to be another child's tale, similar to Santa, and that the nonsense would stop when you got older. But many children raised by Christian parents never see any opposing arguments, nor any other worldviews.