The Case for Atheism

[AnaMejiaP]

Let’s presume for the sake of argument that The Bible was to be true; then its claim of being inspired by a divine being. I think a divine being capable of talking to people, sending fire from heaven, having animals speak and having Jonah swallowed by a fish, and other crazy things wouldn’t be too far-fetched. Can you give me the verses that talk about Dragons and Cockatrice?

Exegesis just as hermeneutics have given us with other documents; like Septuagint to help us understand the Bible and its history correctly or closely. Yes, I agree some passages in the Bible are to be taken not literally.

The Bible gets some things correct, historically and archeologically, but also gets many wrong (I can list them if you want).
Yeah, go for it.

I will definitely look into Vedas.


Quote:The prophecy in the Bible were even true. Such The Book of Daniel prophesied the coming of Pedo-Persia, Greek, The Roman Empire, Alexander The Great and other military battles. There was a prophesy that Jerusalem was going to be rebuilt after the Babylonians destroyed it years earlier. Which was fulfilled in 445 BC a full century AFTER Daniel had prophesied it was going to happen (Daniel 9). There are other hundreds of prophesies that were fulfilled. How can that happen from supposed men writing The Bible without any divine help?

I know what the Jewish traditionalist believe in the prophetic of Daniel, though in fact not all. Daniel though is not the only book in the bible that holds prophetic accounts.

You should read some scholarly research on textual criticism of the Bible. You will see that it is not that different than some of the problems you claim for the other religious texts.

You actually don't know that the Bible has 1000's of copy errors, mistranslations, the originals do not exist, there were some texts that were left out, there are later additions (everything after Mark 16:8 for example), etc, etc.

Our Bible that we hold today is copies of the Original copies (which they do exist) please state your claim where they don’t? The copies that we hold are not perfect. Like you said they do have copy errors, misspelled words, and minor changes such as a better interpretation of the Greek word. Even though there are errors from years of copies, the Bible is still very close to its originals. Especially the amount of copies we have possession accounts more than any literature copies in history, making it so reliable.

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Take the holy blinders off and learn something.

Next thing, we'll have to tell her that there is no evidence for Exodus. D'oh!

That one might sting!

You act as if I don't know the history of my religion? Hmmm...I think I already stated that I do but funny comment.