The Bible is the claim, not the evidence

[WesOlsen]

^^^ So then out of curiosity what causes you to reject the testimony of the Bible. You would agree that the book exists. And no doubt you accept testimony as valid evidence. I say this assuming most of the evidence you have for your beliefs from testimony. I'm assuming you either believe in the moon landing or not and I'm guessing you haven't yourself been on the moon nor were you there taking the "fake pictures" to support your view one way or another. What is it about this testimony that causes you to reject it?

Good responses by the others to this, i'd like to add that we might consider other testimony from people who lived before our lives, such as Newton or Einstein, because they were able to argue from a reasoned standpoint using an avidence based approach. They also produced data and methodology that can be peer-reviewed, scrutinised and repeated/improved upon. What would make us not consider someone such as Einstein is if he made his conclusions before drawing out any hypothesis, and if he argued from authority and used the threat or retalliation to force his point upon us. The bible (and even more so the qur'an) is basically one big threat; it has to coerce people in to believing something and threaten them with hellfire. I'd quite like to interrogate god myself but sadly he only seems to talk to those who don't pander to his purile authority.