The Good Samaritian

[Drich]

The Bible isn't ''proof.''

That is not what I said. I said in the bible God offers proof. The bible records if you do A, B, C, God will give you D. Meaning God provides the proof of not only Himself but this proof also verifies the bible this formula is found in.

If you consider it to be proof, then what would you say to all those who are perhaps ''religious'' but, don't follow Christianity?

religion has nothing to do with God. Religion is mans attempt to worship or reach out to God. biblical Christianity is God reaching out to us. Religion, even Various versions of christianity is a barrier between man and God.

The reason I started denouncing my faith, is because I started looking at the Bible as a collective group of stories, and to be honest? Those stories were strewn together by a very corrupt early church that sought power and control over the present society of the timeframe.

if this is what you understand of the bible then you have a very limited understanding of it. For the bible in its complete form is freedom from mans religions and control. True biblically based Christianity separates the believer from and rules or works designed to earn or maintain faith. In fact the only way to excersize control through religion is to abandon the bible and push religious doctrine.

If you wish to believe in what you believe, it's not for me to pass critcism on you, but don't believe lies and stories that for all you know, are no more truer than Dr Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham. That's the caution I would offer to you. When you also look at Genesis, how can you reconcile that part of the Bible, against the theory of evolution?

my answer is in the op.
http://atheistforums.org/thread-14190.html

The closer one looks at the bible, the more ugly it all gets. Truth shouldn't be ugly, though, so that's how I know it's not truth.

this is a pretty person's or a sheltered persons philosophy. Truth is truth it's acceptability has nothing to do with how one views it.