Why do Christians trust the Bible?

[Surgenator]

Anybody can say they did x experiments and found Y. Question is, why do you believe him/her without being able to replicate the same?

How about that it's repeatable by anyone else. It's independent of who did it. The result is the same.

[Christian]

Anybody can say they did x experiments and found Y. Question is, why do you believe him/her without being able to replicate the same?

How about that it's repeatable by anyone else. It's independent of who did it. The result is the same.

Question is, are you one of those "anyone else"? Even if a billion people do the same experiment and come up with the same result, and you don't, its still blind faith - blind faith in a billion people.

[Jenny A]

Even if a billion people do the same experiment and come up with the same result, and you don't, its still blind faith - blind faith in a billion people.

Nope, experience in the efficacy of experiments done by others.

[Exian]

Anybody can say they did x experiments and found Y. Question is, why do you believe him/her without being able to replicate the same?

Yeah, nobody would come this^^ close to explaining how its actually done just to turn around right at the finish line. You would have made a more convincing troll if you left out the part where you understood the importance of replicating the results.

[Surgenator]

You know they have to explain the experiment, their errors, etc... So it's not blind faith. I can criticise their reasoning and their data if I think something is fishy.

[genkaus]

Let me ask my Atheist friends a similar question. Why do you trust what scientists have to say? I am pretty sure that all of you here are not scientists, or not even mastered a discipline of science.

You don't have to master the discipline to understand it.

Now if an astronomer says that the earth is trillions of years old, you believe it? Why? Because you trust him, and not his discovery.

On the contrary, I trust his discovery, not him.

In the same way, we trust the Bible and the word of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You mean, in the opposite way.

When I ask you for the proof that the world is trillion years old, you say its in the book. When you ask us for proof, we also say its in the Book. Get the idea?

The proof is not in the book, its in the study recorded in the book.

[JesusHChrist]

I called this Christ cock sucker as a troll pages ago.

Now adore us!

[Minimalist]

In the same way, we trust the Bible and the word of our Lord Jesus Christ.

No. You do that because you're an ignorant fuck.

[Exian]

I called this Christ cock sucker as a troll pages ago.

Now adore us!

In the same way, we trust the Bible and the word of our Lord Jesus Christ.

No. You do that because you're an ignorant fuck.

The kiddie gloves are officially off.

[abaris]

Question is, are you one of those "anyone else"? Even if a billion people do the same experiment and come up with the same result, and you don't, its still blind faith - blind faith in a billion people.

As opposed to blind trust in a single book basically being a collection of campfire tales by desert dwellers. A book based on much older local myths such as the epic of Gilgamesh that already had the great flood story. A book based on a local deity that somehow became the only one. Yahweh originally was kind of a war god in local tradition, a divine warrior. And it shows in most every story of the old testament. Genocide, war mongering and killing off individuals were his daily pleasures. The rest is some mixture of bronze age laws for a paternalistic society.

Thank you very much. I rather go with the wonders of science than with that kind of tale.