I thought the Bible was supposedly written by god.
Why did you think that? I don’t even know what that is supposed to mean, can you explain what it means? How does it work exactly?
If that’s just the Old Testament, there are plenty of contradictions there too.
Literally?
Notwithstanding your contention that God wrote it, it’s more historically accurate that the Bible was written by over 40 authors from different backgrounds and continents, over a period of more than 1,500 years. It is a book that includes history and prophecy, poetry and love songs, allegories and parables, none of which is conducive to any kind of literal translation. The information in the Old Testament was passed down verbally through many generations before it was finally written down in Hebrew and Aramaic, not exactly the most precise way to transmit information. Then, four hundred years after the Old Testament the New Testament began and it was written is Koine Greek. Until the invention of the printing press, each written copy had to be transcribed by hand, which we all know is a very inaccurate process. For the oldest books of the Bible this went on for over 3,000 years, every single copy was transcribed by hand for generations and generations, and it started with information that had been handed down through the generations verbally.
It would be utterly remarkable is there were no contradictions in a book of that nature.
For me, I have no problem believing that a character from ancient history existed named Jesus but that Christians have cloaked in a myth. Jesus was a Jew through and through and I am of the opinion that Jesus would have been absolutely applaud that a whole new religion had sprung up in his name.
While I agree that Jesus probably did exist, he must have been going around claiming to be the son of god if everyone believed so.
There is little historical evidence that Jesus thought ofhimself as divine, probably the only title he actually gave Himself was Son ofMan. The Jesus of the New Testament and Gnostic Gospels is not alwaysomnipotent, or omniscient, and He does not appear to think of himself asdivine. He didn't claim for himself anything that he did not claim for all ofhumanity. He rarely spoke of himself and His message was not about believing inhim.
In that case, I don’t think you can claim that and then not expect some people to believe you and start a religion.
There is no reason to think He intended to start a new religion, the religion that came to be called Christianity developed after his death, it involved the belief that he was resurrected of course. Today, it is impossible to know whether or not he actually rose from the grave in bodily form, for some it is a matter of faith, for me, I don’t think it matters, for me it is enough for me to know that his spirit jumped dramatically to life after his death and that because of this he gave millions and millions of people hope that they never had before.
What we do know is that the things He did and said caused His contemporaries to think of Him in completely new dimensions, there was something to this man's life that caused those who knew it best to reach the conclusion that it was divine in nature.
I am sure there are millions of Christians that feel the same. But the problem there is that Christians, instead of researching for themselves, have been totally reliant on pastors and priests to do the "clarifying" for them And is all they have managed to do was dig the hole of ambiguity ever deeper.
Yeah, sometimes I feel like that just because they have heard that there is an answer for the problems of God, they just assume that it’s an answer that makes sense, or works.
What do you mean by “problems of God”? If you assume that “it’s an answer”, then please tell me, what was the question?
