One of Jehovah's Witnesses needs your help

[robvalue]

Hello again

One quick question to ask yourself: if you had never seen the bible before, and picked it up off the shelf in the library, what would you make of it? Would you think it is a load of weird stories, or would you be blown away by it and think it has to be divinely inspired? If you haven't already read it front to back, you'll most likely be very surprised when you do.

What reason do you have to think it's anything other than stories? I imagine the main reason is being surrounded by people who tell you time and again that the book is special. To be objective, it's time to forget about what people have told you. Examine the book as if for the first time. Don't say "Can this be disproved", you wouldn't ask that of Lord of the Rings right? Ask "Is there any reason to believe any of this is true?" That is the sceptical question. The former question is what is called the argument from ignorance fallacy (covered on my website) which is a way of trying to hold on to unsupported beliefs through unfalsifiability.

I have great respect for you trying to take an objective look! So often I hear that phrase, and people spend about 5 minutes and then they're back to "Well I choose to believe it."

If you think about why you reject other religions such as Islam, you'll probably find we reject your religion for exactly the same reasons. Sure, it could maybe somehow be true (although not really, because it is so full of contradictions) but you can say that about Lord of the Rings.

Here's a great page about bible contradictions and such:

http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html