Mr.Answer Guy

Christianity, in whatever flavor, always stomps the same message. That without accepting the Bible completely as fact and truth you are doomed. That you do not need to understand, you need only believe. Knowledge can be substituted with faith. Now, historically we know that none of the Bible stories are actually firsthand accounts (with the possible exception of Psalms), and were often legends put onto paper a century or two later, if not more. We also know that the Roman emperor Constantine had the books of the Bible set according to what he thought would be most effective, and any other books that would have gone into the new testament were systematically destroyed. He assembled Christianity as a tool to use to keep the populous controlled as the empire began to show signs of decay. Over the next 1,200 or so odd years through the dark ages the only people permitted to actually possess or read the Bible (if they happened to be literate) were the clergy. It proved to be a very good method of teaching simple ethics and morals to the ignorant. The King James version was the king in England trying to separate himself from the pope and the Catholic’s so he could get allow himself a divorce (I think that part is right about the divorce).
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The Bible has been translated from several different languages and revised some 15 times or so before becoming the King James Version. It was has been an effective tool for population control for some 2,000 years. Modern science explains the universe in a way that Bible stories could not because there was not such thing as science at that time in history. Now granted, science does not address effective concepts such as heaven or God or an afterlife because those are philosophical questions, not scientific ones. But is it too far a leap to consider, even consider, that biblical legends were humans primitive attempts to explain what they couldn’t understand by mixing philosophical and empirical observation? Isn’t it most likely that the stories in the Bible have been embellished over the millennial, for personal gain or just by default? Consider whisper down the lane. The story at the end come the chain of kids is never anything like the original one.
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Consider this and answer me honestly, what does the Bible tell you that you hold to so hard to the exclusion of everything else? Knowledge is power and faith is not knowledge. Leaders have known this throughout history. So what is it about the Bible that compels you to dictate your life and stake your eternal future on it?
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I have taken the time to write a real question with the hopes of getting real answers. Give me your best shot. I am genuinely interested in hearing your best explanation. Smart alec and hard dogmatic quips, you can save your breath. This is for serious minds. Also my disclaimer: This is not an attack on any religion or a promotion for or against the existence of God. I simply want to pose the question for better understanding.

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