(April 30, 2015 at 12:07 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote: We can look at things from the bible starting at the beginning: There are two ludicrous, contradicting biblical creation accounts. About 6,000-10,000 years ago, the bible claims Adam and Eve were the first humans on this planet. That differs from scientific fact, that humans are at least 150,000 years old.. Need I go farther?
Also, just straightforward reasoning such as: Where are all the firsthand eyewitness written testimony of jesus's miracles he performed during his life? You would think if the only begotten son of god came to earth and performed miracles, someone would have written about it. Even if there were thousands of written statements, that shouldn't be good evidence to anyone anyway, but you would think at least that much would exist.
The bible disproves itself, that part is obvious. Would you go as far to say as the god of the bible can be disproved using the bible and/or logic? Feel free to quote more infallible passages.
It's pretty easy to prove that many events in the Bible did not happen they way the Bible claims. Also, we have a pretty good idea how a lot of it was put together and edited for several hundred years, so I'm not sure why it should be taken seriously as a "divine authority" at all.
That being said, it is technically possible the Abrahamic god exists invisibly, hiding for whatever reason. This god either lied in the Bible or allowed humans to write it without setting the record straight. I cannot prove that that god does not exist, in the same way I cannot prove that leprechauns don't exist. Still, I see no reason to assume either of them do exist, either. Not only have the apologists failed to bring any proof forward, so much of the stuff they believe is ridiculous. The likelihood of them being correct on all the nonfalsifiable bits is pretty remote.
