10 Reasons The Bible Isn't a Well-Written Book
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- 10 Reasons The Bible Isn't a Well-Written Book
Hemant Mehta (www.friendlyath..., / hemant , / friendlyatheist )
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If the Bible were actually inspired by God, it would look very different from the book so many Christians revere.
You would think anything written by or inspired by the most powerful being ever would be equally as amazing. But it's not.
The blogger Southern Skeptic did an excellent job of explaining why -- you can see a link below -- and he gave me permission to share and expand upon his ideas in this video.
So how do we know the Bible is not a well-written book?
1) It's not well-organized.
The Bible is a huge mess. It's in chronological order, but thematically, it's all over the place. That might be okay for a history book, but not when it's a guidebook for life.
And that's a huge problem when Christians use the Bible to justify their beliefs.
They have to flip through the book all over the place to find particular verses to defend their views.
You want verses about Love? Marriage? Homosexuality? Abortion? You won't find them in one place. There's not even a helpful index.
It forces Christians to quote verses out of context all the time.
2) There are no pictures!
I know: not all books need pictures, but sometimes, diagrams and charts are really useful. Even the Lord of the Rings books include a map.
Where's the diagram of a family tree instead of a long, boring list of begats?
What about a timeline to help readers keep track of the characters?
Just sayin'. It'd be helpful.
3) It's not very specific.
4) It's not easy to understand.
5) It's not consistent.
6) It doesn't make any clear predictions
7) It lacks knowledge that humans of the time couldn't have had
8) The characters make no sense
9) It's too repetitive.
10) It goes too far with the stories
God should've backed off. Instead, he jumped the shark in the first chapter.
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The Bible isn't the Good Book. It sure as hell isn't a great book. It's a lot of cut and paste mythology thrown together by men thousands of years ago.
All the action takes place in a tiny speck of the world.
If the Bible was a better written book, it'd be much more convincing, too. As it stands, there's a reason people are leaving their churches. They know better than to take the Bible seriously.
As the saying goes, the Bible is just fan fiction based on an ancient game of telephone.
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"you show me 100 Christians, I'll show you 100 different Christianities." wow, that a powerful statement.
that's correct for any faith and believe
kaciekk now Hamza's statement was a powerful statement
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Yep, Cherry Picking 101 at its finest.
David Hopkins how is he cherry picking if Christianity does have hundreds of denominations that can't agree on their Bibles, how to get their 'get out of hell free' card, and whose version of their god can beg more $ from their cult, I mean from their congregation, and they can't agree on what scientific information is ok to believe.
It's like people turn their critical thinking off when they become a believer, as they have to win gold medals in mental Olympics to make their "holy" book seem believable.
rough estimate of 4200 religions in the world yet people usually believe and have only studied the religion they were born into without question.
ok then,how bout being a atheist,its the same thing, and also, when your talking about other religions, looks them up and youll see that most of them are either about worshiping many gods,or worshiping a damn statue.lol. being a christian is totally different because we got proof that the bible was actually dated back in jesus time
@khalifa Albazzi well,first, this guy brings up about how theirs different types of Christians, and even though that right, if all Christians actually followed everything in the Bible, their would only be one type of christian. Now,if you want me to prove that the bible is true, well...let me ask you something, the bible was created thousands of years ago, yet the bible says stuff that has come to pass in our generation,for example, Israel became a country, it literally said they would be a country in the BIBLE. and also, kinda ironic that Israel is a super small country, and its surrounded by countries who want to blow them off the map, but weird how Israel never gets taken over,or gets blown up. wanna know why, its cuz the BIBLE says that Israel is Gods chosen people,so no matter what people do, no one is able to make Israel extinct(figure of speech)Now prove to me that God dont exist:)
İ have questioned my religion and changed my religion i became a Christian but soon after becoming Christian i also did question Christianity and i no longer believe
TaimergamerGG ‘GoD iS rEaL bEcAuSe ThE bIbLe SaYs IsRaEliTeS aRe ThE cHoSeN oNeS!’ Nice way to cite the bible fuckwit
Yeah they do but there’s nothing odd about it
The more i learn about all religions the more I believe none of them.
Give Islam a try and we will see if that's going to change or not
Ed ! 😅🤣😂😂🤣 I do not believe in hell. 😅🤣😂😂 just a made us place to scare people so you can control them.
@Ed ! hell is just a way to make people believe, like u exactly just tried. OH u dont believe and follow this book, ur gonna burn in hell
People who learned about islam never regret it
@@modiii9982 if they're a sadist they dont regret it...I do, its disgusting.
I agree, I mean am I really going to Hell because I don’t know Noah’s great great great great great great great grandfather?
no. no one ever said that but if you are born again you can earn eternal life in heaven 💗
@@taylorbrianna6573 Well an eternity in heaven sounds boring as hell(pun intended), because it's eternal and I will become bored and wish there wasn't an afterlife,that is what I think would happen if heaven existed and I went there after I die
Alina Stănescu well actually heaven is eternal paradise and there will be lots to do lol. we aren’t just gonna sit in some white room like. “where do we go now”
@xwinniez the "kingdom of God" is meant to be here on earth and you don't need to follow the Christian religion to inherit it. "The kingdom of God" will come when everyone wakes up from this deluded idea of religion and just takes action to fix things like racial inequality, poverty, climate change etc. We are actively ending the world by just sitting around and waiting for the "end of the world" to come and telling ppl to give their life to Jesus like that will change anything.
@@TheVirtualJenesis that can't happen because the human moral standard is attached to sin number 1 and number 2 humans don't like being told what to do. We are rebellious by nature.
In a part of the Bible, they say something about bats being birds...that sounds like a conclusion my five year old cousin would come up with
i bet i can tell you what it means,just tell me the scripture:)if your so sure about trying to make a joke out of the bible,then go ahead,show me
@Satanist And Proud well dang,says the person worshiping demons,LOL
@Satanist And Proud it don't,it's just really annoying how you people either just don't believe in God, or people like you who go overboard and worship satan.please explain why worshiping Satan is good for you?
TaimergamerGG Kinda strange that you say Satan is bad despite the fact that God killed about a million times more people than Satan did.
TaimergamerGG the story of noah and the ark. How did he build a boat that could hold so much animals within so little time and less than 10 people. Also how did he find 2 of each animal. This my friend is completely false and impossible.
Moeses (i spelt that wrong) how is it possible to 'path a red sea' that sounds alot like fiction to me. Its not humanly possible and he was a human
The Bible is full of bull shit resoning and fasle things. You believe in a god just to say after death will be something good. Its a false statement
you'd have to admit one thing the bible is spot on about. Jesus said many people would reject him.
michael hawkins That is true
All religions said it.
Jesus, who claims to be God, predicts that many people would reject him. Well, no shit Sherlock!
anddd many people reject atheists
jesus is god, read the book of john for clarification, im not gonna state a chaptor & verse just read the whole gospel of john to find out that jesus is god, jesus is god manifested in the flesh, he is not of this earth but he also is at the same time. he is 100% human & 100% god.
I'm an atheist but I still read the Bible because I think of it as a novel
I stopped cz it got boring
As Hemant said; it is too repetitive
End of every plot is the same boring thing which makes no sense
That's some dedication
Steve , what homosexual ? do you have verses about this ?
I m not an Atheist.. i just dont believe in any religions and their teachings.. but i believe in spirits like ghost.. Bible was the politics of mid east.. i do read about bible as a source of literature.. and it is all about war crusades.. i read it so i can question my mind because i dont believe Earth is something 6000 yrs old
I did the same for a while, but it got too mind numbing. Boring.
As a Christian I decided to read the old testament from Geneses all the way through, it took me several months,I took my time, almost no Christian has ever done that they just read their little sugar coated Sunday school lesson book or look for passages that support what ever pet belief they have about something. The old testament is absolutely brutal, it will shake your belief, God did a lot of brutal and nasty things that make you wonder about the truth on everything.
Really? You think Christians Don’t read the Old Testament , Well I don’t say everyone does read , but they do read ! I did too , I read about wars , I read about The Lord forgiving King Ahab and king Manasseh bcoz they humbled himself, we see Rahab and her house spared bcoz she trusted Lord , you see a moabite ruth was accepted despite her ancestry, King David was forgiven for adultery , you see Jonah and the entire town of nineveh forgiven , u see the prophets saying to the people to repent and turn towards God before He destroys them…the fact that All the way Jews worship idols built altars for pagan gods still God sent prophets to warn them ask them to turn back to Him , don’t you understand that He is merciful , constantly forgiving and Just when He don’t spare His own people when they sin that they were taken exile as a punishment from God . And Prophet Jeremiah says to the exiles to pray for the Land they are inhabited. Tell me did u actually read Old Testament?
@@idaskudder4924 Like I said, they only want to remember the "good" parts.
@@paulymac5513 the Old Testament has good parts? 😂
@Sievon Redalious great question
@Sievon Redalious because all that was stated shows just how ridiculous it all is
The thing I always found funny as a kid (and even now) is that the greatest villain in the bible was Lucifer (Satan) because he went against god. His crime: giving humans knowledge. If you simply alter the names in the story, it is an almost mirror image of the Greek mythology of Prometheus. Funny how he was a hero in that story.
Not saying that I believe in any of that, just a funny idea about what other people believe.
Andrew Kirkbride It's funny how much the bible is anti-intellectual, and how often it emphasizes being ignorant for god.
Also note that the sacrifice of Prometheus is infinitely more of a sacrifice than what jesus ever did. Prometheus actually faced real punishment.
Lucifer isn't real Satan is just Satan
Andrew Kirkbride Well Prometheus kind of "won"... his gift to mankind stayed with mankind (fire)
The knowledge from the forbidden fruit though was more or less successfully eradicated by making the people religious and have them not follow the knowledge of right and wrong but the book's declarations of right and wrong... so Eve and her Sponsor "Satan" (who isn't really identified such in Genesis and for a long time after) loose and only have the suffering in common with big P.
The bible doesn't mention gorillas, dinosaurs, or generally any animal or part of the world that wasn't discovered until after it was written either. You'd think God, Jesus, and co. would have written about all the discoveries that were to come, wouldn't they?
it did not mention microorganisms as the source of diseases.
The Bible doesn't mention me. Do I even exist?
+Ladondorf C.A. - Stop Motion Films No...you're a figment of your own imagination...
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Lol.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, the educated as false and the rulers as useful.
Man, you're a wise guy. I'm not an atheist, rather agnostic but totally against religions. It's such hipocrysy. But the saddest thing is that keen believers and crazy catholics just dont even want to see these simple arguments.
Even atheists have seen God in their visions and during NDE and were transformed by the experience..you however have no proof that there is no God..how can you declare with with 100 % certainty that He doesn't exist..relying only with your own limited understanding to rationalize such belief?
Even Einstein who is way more intelligent than you are, though He did not believe in the God of the Bible..still believed in his heart that there is an Intelligent Being who created the universe..because he undertood the intricacies and the complexieties in which the universe is made.Don't rely on your own limited human undertstanding on things. Question everything including your own belief..otherwise it is nothing short of bigotry--to have a mind that is closed to the truth because you declare with 100% certainty the validity of your own belief... the non existence of God even without verifiable proof to prove the validity of your stance. You have no proof..we who believe in God's existence have proof.
The universe is made with such unimaginable precision that Einstein is wise enough to admit that the universe is made by a Thinking Being..an Intelligent Creator..and by now I assure you that he already discovered who that Intelligent Being is.. that the One who made the universe is the God of his ancestors. Einstein is a Jew.
@@mikeygarcia8271 Where did I say I am absolutely, 100% certain? It's kind of obvious but forcing someone into believing something is just silly. Of course it's experiences but everyone should have their own beliefs.
@@SarcasmIsMySecondName If someone knows and discovers the truth..isn't it logical to share that truth with others? There is only one truth..because how can there be truth if everything is based on facts? you know what I mean? Ideas will contradict each other..and if everything is based on facts..what is truth then? Example..Your name is Kate--that is your real name..if somebody else will come and say that your real name is ella..emma or dani...you will say..no..that is not true..my real name is Kate. There is only one truth..and that makes evrything else based on lies. Know the truth and the truth will set you free..
@@mikeygarcia8271 how do you know whats the truth, u cant know
Also, shouldn't a book that's supposed to be a guide to life be updated as the times change?
it comes from the mouth of the most perfect being in the universe, so no
You sayin that cutting off my wifes hand if she helps me out in a fight isn't allowed anymore? Shiiiiitttt.
***** How is he perfect his own book has spelling and grammar mistakes ahah.
god doesn't have time for that lol
***** you mean like how when you get sick you are supposed to get a priest to perform exorcism, rather than seek actual modern medical help? THAT kind of guidance?
You do realize thousands of children die all over the world EVERY WEEK precisely because a lot of parents try to get priests to cure their children, when their children could have been easily cured by modern medicine?
GREAT WRITING, GOD!! Confusing thousands of your followers to do the wrong thing! GOOD JOB, GOD!
You should do a video of how many stories in the Bible were taken from other religions like Noah's ark being taken from Greek mythology
Greek mythology is actually interesting, unlike the bible...
Ace Johnson
Agreed. Especially how the gods there were bastards, and unashamedly so.
Yup. God would be a dick if he was real.
more like Sumerian mythology which is older then even the jewish version of god and before the greeks where even a fart on this world.
Jesus being inspired by Horus.
Well, I was a faithful guy. But after watching it, I started asking some of the questions to my parents resulting in 2 slapes in my face...😂
whats so confusing
poor thing :(
That’s terrible:( ,good luck and don’t give up
Wait till you get 18. And self reliable. You should agree according to your thoughts. Not by others forceful opinions.
"Moral is not what God says, but what it relies in our mind and heart".
they want u to be a blinf follower so that u can be ruled over in the name of religion!
Good Job....I like how clear, organized, and concise you are in most of your videos.
Those who doubt the existence of God and the afterlife must look at the claims of so many people about their journey in the spiritual realm. Some in visions and dreams, while others had such mind boggling experience during NDE [near death experience]. These people who have such claims come from different ethnicities, social and educational backgrounds, and religious beliefs [including atheists]
You may say it's just an hallucination...but
Do you know what truly spells the difference between those who just had hallucinations with those who had a real personal experience with God and the spiritual realm?
Those who had hallunications never came back with something tangible to prove the veracity of their claims, of their experience, while those who had a personal experience with God or in the spiritual realm came back with tangible proof in the form of the following:
1. A miraculous recovery from a fatal illness or from a high risk surgery that even doctors are so dumbfounded they consider these recoveries as nothing short of a miracle.
2. These people who have had real experience in the spiritual realm come with stories they would not have known had they not been told by the spiritual beings who spoke to them while in heaven.
Case in point:
1. DR. EBEN ALEXANDER, BRAIN SURGEON
He only came to know that he had a sister after his near death experience. He was an only child of his adopted parents. His adoption was not disclosed and was kept a secret so he never got to meet his one and only sister who died years ago.
How did he find out he had a sister after his NDE?
He said during his journey in heaven, he met this woman who had so much love for him. She became his guide during his journey in the spiritual realm.
When this brain surgeon came back to life and recovered, he became so curious about the identity of the woman and shared with his parents how he felt so connected, on a soul level, to this woman.
His parents then revealed to him that he was adopted and that he had a sister who died years ago..and so to cut the story short, he set out to get more information about his sister and was able to get hold of her picture. He was flabbergasted as the woman in the picture is exactly the same woman who guided him during his journey in the heavenly realm. He became a cganged man after his NDE. He now believes in God. [He used to be an atheist]
It did gives us the greatest villain of all time though, God. He would make Emperor Palpatine look like a human rights activist.
Well said!
nice starwars reference playa.. lol
God is not a villain. He is actually for us and all people. i have never met a villian with such love and compassion. what makes u say that God is a villian?
I dunno, that comparison is a little weak. Palpatine created a death star where god created earth and the sun etc. which is like the opposite of destroying planets.
Any creature that wipes out every living thing on Earth is pretty much the epitome of "evil".
I've read fanfiction that was better written than the Bible. What does that say about the Bible?
Syn Cloud I don't think anyone actually cares about your opinion
Syn Cloud
Lol, you are an idiot.
Syn Cloud
You cared enough to respond. Rather angrily I might add.
Daron Burrell
It means you have an arrogant view of your opinion.
John H
Or perhaps what he says is true.
I'm an atheist, so the bible means nothing to me. I stopped going to Sunday mass too
Patrick Sandifer awesome! Glad to hear you stopped going to the synagog of Satan, more power to you👍🏻!
hammer152 ever since I graduated high school and stopped going to mass, I don't have to listen to old priest's tell me I'm going to hell. Guys, no need to tell me what I already know
Patrick Sandifer right on, catholics are full of crap anyhow!
Never went lol
catholics are not the true Christianity anyway! I am a Christian and I have the privilege of being part of the real Christianity exactly as Jesus and his apostles left it!
Right on, Hemant. You hit the nail on the head with this one. PS: I just finished Thomas Paine's classic: "The Age of Reason" (which I am sure that many of you are familiar with). He does such a great job of pointing out where the bible is hoplessly flawed and irrational. Highly recommend it.
Exaxtly, irrational its just sad that at a moment something isnt logical, uncomprehendable or doesnt make sense its not true, its shows that we humans want to knos that we cant
Or it shows that the religion is based on a false premise and was created by flawed, power hungry humans with 1% of the knowledge we have today.
Every cruel sentence spoken in the Bible is considered a metaphor by Bible-reading Christians, but none of the positives. Hmmm...
context! they want context for bad verses. lol.
Since the positives are sin. The bible teaches no sin
how do you know it is "cruel"??
Good point!
When I mentioned to some people that the characters in the book lived to be 800yrs old and 430 years old, they just looked at me and was like I never read that, or that's not true.. And I sat there laughing to myself because that's right in the first few books of the Bible which basically shows that a lot of people don't even read the Bible for themselves.. Which is sad, but when I read that I just couldn't help but laugh. No disrespect to ppl who believe in it but it was actually comical to me..
+Daletia Davida: semitic myths had the first dozen or so kings living for thousands of years. So, there's two coincidences that indicate both came fromthe same distant source: same number of former leaders and long life spans.
Hahhaha is your death comical?...You're a DUMB ASS that thinks itself 'wise" Hahahahhah...
It could be worse. They could know it and think it is absolutely true because muh bible is 100% accurate. Even more worse, if you have voices in your head [aka the holy spirit] you would understand that blatant evil is good and obvious contradiction isn't. I wish I was making this up.
Daletia I read the bible and the bible is true this in this Video is evil
So wait…are you saying Noah wasn’t really 500 years old when he supposedly built this massive ark with only his three sons as it’s described in the Bible?
Church is a community focus like a support group. 50 million Christian's equals 50 million God's. Everyone has their own selfish, personal interpretation of "god".
Who says that, bruh, literally the word CHRISTian has the word CHRIST in it, their aint no 50 million Gods,but nice try:)
Also dude, if people actually read their Bible's, then there would clearly be only one.
Oh so Christianity is bad, but paganism isn't you pagan
The bible speaks nothing about other planets. Religion is a business.
Yes it does
+Alejandro Guillen I sure it also didn't mention you.
+Alejandro Guillen /Watch my channel playlist on NASA exposed , you will be surprised.
+Alejandro Guillen What do you expect it to say? It does speak about meteors crashing to Earth, and the Moon
+Alejandro Guillen: opening verses of Job allude to there being intelligent life on other planets.
Please do one on the Quran!:)
***** I love your name!
Wikiramblings It does help knowing the specifics instead of trying to decipher when it is okay to kill someone.
***** agreed
The Daily Vitamin
The Qur'an is mostly poetry about how wonderful and merciful Allah is. Arabic speakers say it is impressive. A lot of it is just threats of hellfire if you reject the teachings. Parts of it are social rules, like a set of bylaws for a medieval Islamic village. Everything is specified. There is very little science or history. It is much more consistent than the bible. The bible is bat-shit crazy. The Qur'an is actually quite reasonable except for the hell fire stuff. The rules for behaviour make a lot more sense than the bible. I read it cover to cover as I did the bible. The Qur'an has commentaries, which are called the Hadith. The goofier stuff comes from them.
Roedy Green what did you get out of read quran ?
I read a book about Unicorns written by 40 PEOPLE. So they MUST exist. I now worship the Unicorn. HAIL THE MIGHTY UNICORN.
-I am reading this with my unicorn onesie- I am an unicorn!!! Worship me!!! And I looooove my boook!!!
Thats religion
That's interesting. Too bad the book probably has multiple plot holes and anacranisms. Unlike the Bible, which has never been disproven.
You are missing a lot , my friend.More and more people these last few years are seeing visions of the Spirit realm, experiencing God in the process. It is written in Bible prophecy that in the last days young and old, male and female will dream dreams and will see visions of the Spirit realm. I have seen it for myself..while praying in my room..fully awake.We are living in the last days...Take advantage of it..ask God to show you a vision..come to Him in repentance and seek Him with all your heart and He will make Himself known to you.
@@darthcolorlesstheblind6717 lol
If hell exists, I think it would be nice to befriend Satan. He doesn't seem to evil in the Bible!
You have no idea
Tre
Hey look! A christian who can't handle a joke!
Course I can...it just wasn't funny!
He's my dad. Of course he's a nice guy.
Satanismydaddy666 Who is and are you joking??
god, i want to share this but i don't want to anger my religious friends.
share it
Share it, if you feel that way and they don't they should be able to see your viewpoint, you think they stop sharing religious posts for you?
it's not that important to me. i'm not looking to take away anyone's faith or start arguments
***** Share it and tell us what happened.
***** By not believing in "the faith", isn't that a faith in itself?
I remember when I was Christian and when I would come across one of your videos I would get very very intimidated and angry from not being able to refute your arguments. I am now an atheist. Thanks homie
you will regret that decision but ok
@@monmonthecat1652 Loll I did
@@the.good_guy.1 wait really
@@monmonthecat1652 yes I did, Orthodox Christian now
@@the.good_guy.1 oh ok GOD BLESS YOU🙏🙏 AND THIS MAN JUST WANT TO END CHRISTIANITY
This is the Atheist channel I needed to find.
Fantasy books with maps in the beginning are just the best.
Those who doubt the existence of God and the afterlife must look at the claims of so many people about their journey in the spiritual realm. Some in visions and dreams, while others had such mind boggling experience during NDE [near death experience]. These people who have such claims come from different ethnicities, social and educational backgrounds, and religious beliefs [including atheists]
You may say it's just an hallucination...but
Do you know what truly spells the difference between those who just had hallucinations with those who had a real personal experience with God and the spiritual realm?
Those who had hallunications never came back with something tangible to prove the veracity of their claims, of their experience, while those who had a personal experience with God or in the spiritual realm came back with tangible proof in the form of the following:
1. A miraculous recovery from a fatal illness or from a high risk surgery that even doctors are so dumbfounded they consider these recoveries as nothing short of a miracle.
2. These people who have had real experience in the spiritual realm come with stories they would not have known had they not been told by the spiritual beings who spoke to them while in heaven.
Case in point:
1. DR. EBEN ALEXANDER, BRAIN SURGEON
He only came to know that he had a sister after his near death experience. He was an only child of his adopted parents. His adoption was not disclosed and was kept a secret so he never got to meet his one and only sister who died years ago.
How did he find out he had a sister after his NDE?
He said during his journey in heaven, he met this woman who had so much love for him. She became his guide during his journey in the spiritual realm.
When this brain surgeon came back to life and recovered, he became so curious about the identity of the woman and shared with his parents how he felt so connected, on a soul level, to this woman.
His parents then revealed to him that he was adopted and that he had a sister who died years ago..and so to cut the story short, he set out to get more information about his sister and was able to get hold of her picture. He was flabbergasted as the woman in the picture is exactly the same woman who guided him during his journey in the heavenly realm. He became a changed man after his NDE. He now believes in God. [He used to be an atheist]
During the church sermon today that I was forced to go to, I couldn't help but think that the Bible was similar to a really shitty fanfiction
of reality.
+George Mosidze Hahaha. nice one.
Those who doubt the existence of God and the afterlife must look at the claims of so many people about their journey in the spiritual realm. Some in visions and dreams, while others had such mind boggling experience during NDE [near death experience]. These people who have such claims come from different ethnicities, social and educational backgrounds, and religious beliefs [including atheists]
You may say it's just an hallucination...but
Do you know what truly spells the difference between those who just had hallucinations with those who had a real personal experience with God and the spiritual realm?
Those who had hallunications never came back with something tangible to prove the veracity of their claims, of their experience, while those who had a personal experience with God or in the spiritual realm came back with tangible proof in the form of the following:
1. A miraculous recovery from a fatal illness or from a high risk surgery that even doctors are so dumbfounded they consider these recoveries as nothing short of a miracle.
2. These people who have had real experience in the spiritual realm come with stories they would not have known had they not been told by the spiritual beings who spoke to them while in heaven.
Case in point:
1. DR. EBEN ALEXANDER, BRAIN SURGEON
He only came to know that he had a sister after his near death experience. He was an only child of his adopted parents. His adoption was not disclosed and was kept a secret so he never got to meet his one and only sister who died years ago.
How did he find out he had a sister after his NDE?
He said during his journey in heaven, he met this woman who had so much love for him. She became his guide during his journey in the spiritual realm.
When this brain surgeon came back to life and recovered, he became so curious about the identity of the woman and shared with his parents how he felt so connected, on a soul level, to this woman.
His parents then revealed to him that he was adopted and that he had a sister who died years ago..and so to cut the story short, he set out to get more information about his sister and was able to get hold of her picture. He was flabbergasted as the woman in the picture is exactly the same woman who guided him during his journey in the heavenly realm. He became a changed man after his NDE. He now believes in God. [He used to be an atheist]
Just a heads up to everyone in this comment section, but I’m actually a reformed Christian now. I wrote my original comment when I was 14.
@@theblackswordsman5051 sad
"God jumped the shark in the first chapter" hahahaha
When posed with the question "How do you know God is real?" many Christians answer "I can feel Jesus. And I like how He makes me feel." A video on Christianity and how it relates to emotions would be cool. I feel the same sensations hearing music or seeing the grand canyon that a Christian experiences in their "relationship with Christ."
💯. And they don't get it.
When I was reading the Bible I saw that Adam and a lot others lived up to nine hundred
I was very confused because people today barely live to be one hundred
Exactly.
Some Christians say humans were closer to "perfection " do they lived longer and were smarter
God says later in Genesis that "the years of man shall be 100"
Genesis 6: 3 Then the Lord said, My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.
The oldest known person was methuselah a man that lived to be allegedly 969. But the oldest known person to have been confirmed as living is a woman named Jeanne Calment that lived to 122 years and 164 days.
I was raised in a haunted house and when you're faced with the spiritual realm none of the stuff this atheist says matters.
How Accurate !! No theory can beat experience.....
You have to be kidding,ghosts don't exist,also can you tell me how was living in that "haunted" house,I am just corious
Bro you have no evidence nobody has real 100% undisprovable evidence for their eXpErIeNcEs iN tHe sPiRiTuAl rEalM, I dont care if some doctor wrote a fucking book about it, I dont care if he saw his sister he didnt know before that, people lie, books bring in cash and religious books bait in stupid fanatics who make money for their authors and for those books about stupid spiritiual experiences you need to have a story to make it more believable its simple really.
They aren't complex because everyone will always default to evil no matter what. King David is actually a pretty good example of a man who wanted what God wanted but chose his desires of God's.
Do you watch Darkmatter2525?
That's his other channel
And also non-stamp collector
Paul john Aguilar Really?
Well no one actually follows Bible,it's just for lecturing others😂
Yoooo, you'll realise after life if it's only for lecturing others
This is a reasonable video. I don't know why almost a hundred people 'disliked' it.
Because they're butthurt Christians
My Autobiography A Fanfic I found it unreasonable to expect the bible to mention light bulbs and the United States. It already gets enough wrong and not enough right for the time period it was written.
monolyth421 I'm confused.
My Autobiography A Fanfic
He said the bible is based on the culture it was written in, but then criticized it for not mentioning modern technology like vaccines.
monolyth421 Because it's the supposed "word of god", were you paying attention?
Who the hell said the Bible was written by God Himself?.....
A boat load of idiots!
***** The bible was not written by God himself, I'm catholic and study both the bible, and origins of it, and I can tell you, it wasn't written by God Himself lol
He INSPIRED people to write it, and instructed people on what to write.
+Darth Vader God can create a planet but have a hard time when creating his manual to humans explaining who he is, where we came from and where we need to go..
much sense.. very wow
***** You really sound dumb man.
Henrique Potter He never MADE the damn bible. HE HIMSELF never made it.
The twilight series is better written than the Bible
And that's saying something! :)
The 50 Shades series is better written than the Bible and more based on the real world than it as well.
Edit:
The 50 Shades series was originally posted as Twilight fanfiction. Just for those of you who don't know.
True lmaoo
"The bible is fan fiction based on an ancient game of telephone"
Interestingly, the Christian 'Old Testament' is not arranged in the same order as the Jewish Tanakh. They shuffle everything around so that the books which contain alleged Jesus prophecies are at the very end as an opening to the New Testament.
I have a question about Adam and Eve...Why did they wait until they left the garden of Eden to have children? Were they like, children themselves?
They didn't wait, they were cast out...
Silly question, don't really see what you're trying to do here. Adam and Eve were firstly kicked out, there was no 'waiting'. Sex is also not the first thing on everyone's minds.
God does not need a copy machine, he needs an editor 😂😂😂
Wow. As a Baptist Christian my whole life, let me say this:
This is one of the most thought provoking videos I've ever read. I've always had thoughts like you have and would talk with my dad about it, and he agrees- we just don't bring it up around other Christians because of controversy.
Anways, thanks for this video.
Thought-provoking? It should have been top provoking for you when John came baptizing with water for the remission of sins and called people to repentance and Jesus said the same thing in Matthew and furthermore about the baptism of water we're literally all Baptists all who follow Jesus or as he is really called Yeshua the Redeemer sanctifier the worthy lamb. I think you should question yourself do you have a relationship with God or a denominational religious practice?
"videos I ever read" Sussy BakaTM We should listen to you because?
@@mustardseedministries754 Romans 8:9 brother. These "Christians" think going to a church means you know God.
I also found this video thought provoking, mostly just me wondering how the creator of this video could misunderstand the Bible so badly.
And yet christians turn to that book for arguments
Lol
1. It was written by ancient barbarians.
2. It was written by ancient barbarians.
3. It was written by ancient barbarians.
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10. It was written by ancient barbarians.
^^
Oh and don't forget it was written by ancient barbarians!
I'd like to invite you to have a dinner in our house with my family so you can preach them lol
The Bible is a combination of books and letters..
Not just 1 book.
Maria Qumayo
Anyone could have written the bible
Glamorous Taee proof
Some good critiques here but you seem to have misunderstood a lot about the Bible. Still, it was nice to hear your thoughts :)
Correction. Bible is not written in correct chronological order. Those who chose which books will be included in the bible decided which goes first which goes second etc. Today we assume they are in chronological order but we have examples of the opposite, e.g. Paul epistles we written before gospels.
7:02 Hemant, he did not merely jump a shark, he jumped a fucking megalodon
I have been saying this forever that even if there was a god the bible is still demonstrably wrong. So its like what's the point? Argue for deism all you want but theism is debunked.
I’m lucky my parents let me choose my beliefs
Same
same
Genesis Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 have no contradictions. I've looked at them but I'm not seeing it. Can you please SPECIFY??
God createx everything perfects ,then Hod regret that he created us 😂😂😂
What he doesn’t seem to understand is that the Bible is not a single book it’s a Collection of books.
God exists outside of the natural realm and created the "plausable". He is all powerful and created the laws of physics that you bind Him to. That's like telling an artist that their painting doesn't have blue in it, so he's not a complete artist because he didn't use blue.
That artist analogy makes no sense. People say that it’s impossible for god to come from nothing and that he can’t just “always have been there” everything has a beginning or end and saying humans just can’t comprehend it is a lie
Sorry for the lateness of this reply. I've been sick. If everything has a beginning, then where did the universe come from?
Where did the universe come from then? If you say the Big Bang, where did the cosmic egg come from?
Darth Moles there are lots of theories to that. Stephen hawking had some pretty good guesses based off the way the universe grows. The universe doesn’t have to be created by magic. Idk idrc what people believe, but I just think there are too many different religions for me to believe any of them. Like there’s Christianity but there are thousands of different denominations that have pretty different core beliefs. Which one is the right denomination? It’s an important difference. I used to be Christian but after I watch debate after debate it just seems too unlikely to me, but it is comforting to believe in a god, I just don’t believe that of god existed, he would send people to hell just because they are skeptical of his existence, afterall there is no evidence besides a book. All he would have to do is pop down for a sec and say hey
So then why couldn't it be God?
I can't believe my catolic girlfriend belives in all this nonsense, and she gets angry if I confront her with facts 😔
@Rose Angel Uh oh.. You just sinned 😭😭😭🥶
Truth is that every good bit in the bible is either a piece of far-eastern philosophy or hellenistic culture.
I am an atheist and I totally agree with all the points, but the sentence "It's sure as hell that this isn't a great book" is not a little contradictory to tell for an atheist? lol
My favorite contradiction in the bible is that god is love, love is not jealous, but somehow god is a jealous god.
If God was the only god then he shouldn't even be capable of being jealous. Who the hell is he going to be jealous of if there are no other gods?
Isaiah 53 is a clear depiction of the crucifiction. Also it was written about 500 years before Rome even invented it.
Beacause the book of Isaiah is in the Old Testiment. It is well documented to have been written in 600-400 B.C. Jesus' crucifiction resembles everything Isaiah wrote down. That is no coincidence. And before you try to disrupt this, Romans 1:18-21 states "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness, suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, namely His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world, in things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For they although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened."
@Minister Your reply proves the verse I just sent you. If you want to talk more about this I would be happy to. Next time, do a little more research.
It is very posible for a Virgin to give birth. How? Because If i recall correctly, the term "Virgin" in a langrage the bible was translated from, Greek if i recall correctly or Something, only meant a young madien, and had nothing to do with her sex life. It was mininterpited while traslating.. like many other things, and that's how the modern term of virgin came to be. Under that old term, it is posible for a virgin to give birth... it's jsut not the same vigin you're thinking of. And thats only one bible mistranslation, theres still many more.
I thought the virgin part was because she didn't actually have sex with god. It's not like he's Zeus, right? Hahahaha..........
Sorio Kein I'm not sure if you got my joke or if you're just being sarcastic. I meant because Zeus would have slept with Mary, rather than leaving her a virgin. I guess it wasn't very funny if I have to explain it. I don't suppose it matters either way, seeing as they don't exist.
Yes i konw that zeus slept with human women. I still stand by what i said though
Sorio Kein Actually , virgin is mistranslated from the word that actually means, "young woman." In the original texts, her "sexual experience" wasn't mentioned I think.
+Sorio Kein Huh. #TheMoreYouKnow.
I mean if we say the codex about Norse mythology isn't real, they're fake. What's the difference with the Bible?
all i wanna know is if the bible and Christianity was made 2000 years ago. how was dinosaurs created? they are like a million years old or something.
+Average Loner (much sarcasm) Ken Ham has the perfect answer for you. the world is only 6000 years old. we rode on dinosaurs since we lived them together. proof like the rings on trees to show the world is older than 6000 years is fake. God put the rings there to fool the stupid idiots who don't believe him.
Then follow Islam, we believe Adam was a prophet in Islam and the the first human, doesn’t that make any sense, because the first human needs to be a prophet so he can teach his kids and wife
It is my opinion that when the intelligent designer of this science baffling creation , created the earth by moving the planet from a different place to its current location positioned precisely next to the Sun to support our life. Outer space is 300 degrees below zero and everything would have been extinguished and then restarted with Adam and Eve and the other animals. If you have an interest in this Theory I will show you places in the Bible where it talks about moving the Earth from his place in orbit and three creations of the Earth
3:19 "God doesn't need a copy machine, he needs an editor"
@Rose Angel
Who said that? God?
@@ravenclaw_3160 the atheist voice
the bible is not in chronological order. job happened between genesis and exodus.
esther happend between ezra 6 and ezra 7.
I came onto this page on the side bar from my own and the title just hit me- it's true, the Bible is not "well written " from a literary stand point. I remember when I vowed to never own a bible and never thought of having a relationship with God, or what I have learned to be His divine organization. I have no real idea what changed my heart,but, it did change and I bought a Bible!! I loved it! I wanted to read it! I was amazed at the transformation and then......I started interacting with people and discussing the Bible and "faith" in God, then I came to the conclusion that many people are very uncomfortable discussing the flagrant contradictions and inconsistencies in the Bible even though they are undeniably present! God never called the 66 book Bible holy- it's a great inspirational book and if you are lead to read it and somehow want to learn from it- you most likely will. Stepping out of an religious organization and really developing our critical thinking skills is an important part of how we grow in to the mortally inexplicable desire to learn about the divine and unseen. I am grateful for this person and the challenge he poses for us to learn and grow. It's a personal journey,but, we can sometimes take it with companions that we may not agree with; we can love and share can't we? Build and fortify your faith - remember the account of Jesus being directly confronted/tempted by satan - that was pretty strong stuff and a great example of how we can endure and finish the race with faith, patience and intelligence.
1.I'M GONNA PROVE TO YOU I'M PSYCHIC!
2.I will die one day!
3.Now that you know that, you must praise Chickens for the rest of your life!
That was a copy of what the bible said pretty much
1.The people who wrote the bible.
2.Them saying that there will be wars
3.Them saying to praise God.
See my point?
Would you mind if I copied and Pasted this onto another comment?
Pony Man
Sure, that's fine :)
the bible also said 700 years before Jesus that a savior would be born in Bethlehem and be called nazereen it also said Egypt would be the lowest of the low and its a pretty sad country
Daniel Moore there was no such prophecy in the Old testament.
McGuyMan
Hi
In the begining God created the heavens and the earth
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For those criticizing his idea regarding including pictures, his point is valid. Especially since nearly 800 million people around the globe are illiterate. And that’s not even including children/teens.
The very concept of a "bible" invalidates the notion of an omnipotent, supreme being that has a message for his supposed creations. Such an entity would speak directly to ALL of them, not just a few, not 90,000 years after they'd been created, not in one tiny area of the world. This entity wouldn't rely on a media or format only a very few had access to and could understand, wouldnt rely on something that can so easily be misinterpreted and confused, something so contradictory that it invalidates itself as pure rubbish from the get go. If an entity did create a book, or dictated such a book to be written, it would be flawless. It would be clear, unimpeachable, perfect; you wouldn't be able to put it down. It would be The Standard for every book written after it. Instead what humans have, whether it be a bible or a scroll of the dead or hieroglyphics, is a poorly organized collection of contradictions and fantasy.
Those who doubt the existence of God and the afterlife must look at the claims of so many people about their journey in the spiritual realm. Some in visions and dreams, while others had such mind boggling experience during NDE [near death experience]. These people who have such claims come from different ethnicities, social and educational backgrounds, and religious beliefs [including atheists]
You may say it's just an hallucination...but
Do you know what truly spells the difference between those who just had hallucinations with those who had a real personal experience with God and the spiritual realm?
Those who had hallunications never came back with something tangible to prove the veracity of their claims, of their experience, while those who had a personal experience with God or in the spiritual realm came back with tangible proof in the form of the following:
1. A miraculous recovery from a fatal illness or from a high risk surgery that even doctors are so dumbfounded they consider these recoveries as nothing short of a miracle.
2. These people who have had real experience in the spiritual realm come with stories they would not have known had they not been told by the spiritual beings who spoke to them while in heaven.
Case in point:
1. DR. EBEN ALEXANDER, BRAIN SURGEON
He only came to know that he had a sister after his near death experience. He was an only child of his adopted parents. His adoption was not disclosed and was kept a secret so he never got to meet his one and only sister who died years ago.
How did he find out he had a sister after his NDE?
He said during his journey in heaven, he met this woman who had so much love for him. She became his guide during his journey in the spiritual realm.
When this brain surgeon came back to life and recovered, he became so curious about the identity of the woman and shared with his parents how he felt so connected, on a soul level, to this woman.
His parents then revealed to him that he was adopted and that he had a sister who died years ago..and so to cut the story short, he set out to get more information about his sister and was able to get hold of her picture. He was flabbergasted as the woman in the picture is exactly the same woman who guided him during his journey in the heavenly realm. He became a cganged man after his NDE. He now believes in God. [He used to be an atheist]
@4:57 didn’t the Catholics went after Galileo for saying that that the earth goes around the sun not the other way around… I think it was Galileo
it was him!
Russian constitution: *mentions God*
The Bible: *doesn’t mention Russia*
Do you realize that Russia was founded just last century and that the Bible's last book was written in the 1st century?
Also, the Bible clearly says that it's goal is not to talk about everything but just to give the essential information for people to direct their lives in a Godly way.
@Kevin Craftonga wrong. Russia wasn’t founded last century. Plus, God is supposed to be omniscient meaning He knew about Russia even before it was founded
I use to be like this, too. I never really bothered to read the Bible as an adult, despite the fact that I went to school for literature. I just felt like I already knew all the stories.
It is amazingly written. Shakespeare doesn't have jack on this thing. All the foreshadowing, the way themes are used to connect different parts of the whole, and the overall story arch, prose and poetry are just fantastic.
I think you really need to study it to appreciate it.
Who is the first religious person in the bible??
Totally agree and the more interwoven into every generation....we haven't changed.
To believe in nothing is insane....evolution is unproven and the more I read it's crap. Nothing evolved, just adapted. Evolution is evil.....human zoo...blacks aren't missing links..they are human. All created equal
I needed this I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the Bible and it don’t make sense
Whitney, I can certainly relate, I've been the person who needed help to see more clearly what the Bible is talking about. But I can assure you that this man's uneducated and uninformed criticisms of the Bible are not going to be the answer. Don't commiserate with a fool's wrong thoughts, and think them correct because they seem to affirm your own current situation. Seek truth, and remember that anything that comes from God is surely going to take some time and study to see that it's right.
@@dscott3421 the Bible is a fraudulent book
@@dscott3421 Using complex words doesnt make you intelligent it makes you obnoxious. You have written many sentences but not one of them is an argument.
@@eeurr1306 the most complex words in my comment are mostly quoted from the video, and nothing in my remarks is very intellectual, I think they come closer to common sense statements about any book with a lot of deep substance. Allow me to simplify for your benefit: any book with a lot of depth needs study to grasp its contents, that fact doesn't make it badly written. And I think any of us should be able to admit when we have a problem absorbing the material of a book, it could be that we simply aren't using good study methods, or we're expecting too much progress at an early point in study. That's not a fault, a lot of us are like this; the fualt would be juding the material by our own ability to take it in.
@@dscott3421 I dont habe trouble taking in the bible, I dont even read it. I would like to remember you that my comment was purely about your comments articulation and its informative value.
I wonder why Christians aren’t writing any new books for the Bible
Very thought-provoking. Thanks!
I still wonder if i will have clothes on if i go to heaven since non living things have no souls 😂
I was honestly expecting harder reasons to not trust the Bible, but all of these reasons could easily be answered. I'm honestly not impressed. Plus some of the reasons you mentioned could be said to any religious book for that matter.
I was just acting out something like this when I saw this video in my recommendations. (Did God recommend an Atheist video to me???)
God has shown himself and proven himself to exist. A guy meets him. (This is fictional, mind you.)
Man: I got some criticism, God. I mean, no offense, but you suck at writing
God: I didn't write the Bible. Men did.
The biggest reason the bible isn't a well-written book is that it is not a book; it is a collection of essays written by many different people, all bound together.
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Well said. But believers are difficult to convince.
Michael Schneider- Schneider "Well Said!" That's what the Devil will be saying to his Demons as they torture you and mock you in the crispy tender everblazing fires of the deep down-below.
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1 - You just admitted that it's in chronological order. That makes it organized. If you think it should be organized by topic, first of all, that's just your personal preference, and secondly, there are topical Bibles out there that are. Get one.
2 - Again, personal preference. By the way, you don't have access to Google? I'm pretty sure you could find said timelines, charts, maps, family tree(s) online.
3 - Have you ever read Leviticus? It was pretty much a checklist for the Israelites. For the new covenant, Jesus sums it up in two commands (see Luke 10:25-28). If you want a different checklist, make one. It's not that hard.
4 - Mark Twain said that it's not the parts of the Bible he doesn't understand that troubled him. It was those pesky parts that he did understand. Most of the denominational differences are a result of either petty differences in opinion, topics the Bible is silent on, or just plain incorrect theology. Unitarians have their own denomination because they disagree that Jesus is the Son of God. Obviously they didn't get that from the Bible.
5 - All Biblical contradictions have been addressed elsewhere. I suggest you do your own research for the ones that bother you the most. (Here's a good place to start: defendinginerrancy.com/bible-difficulties/).
6 - Ummm . . . have you actually read the OT prophets and matched up the prophecies they made that came true? They were not only very clear, but were fulfilled by Jesus. Those who think they know when the world will end and when Jesus will return obviously haven't read Matt. 24:36. This information was so secret that even Jesus in His human form didn't have access to it! The Bible doesn't make the claim that it contains clues that would lead to knowing this. You are making a false accusation by saying that it does.
7 - This isn't true. OT law discusses dietary habits, cleaning rituals, and other health advice that nobody would have known about before germ theory. It also does in fact discuss astronomy, biology, geology, and microbiology. By the way, even if this were true, so what? The books of the Bible weren't written to be science textbooks. There's not much science in a biography about Julius Caesar or a book about the Revolutionary War. That doesn't have anything to do with the validity of the material. Also by the way, the United States didn't become a country until 1776. The last book of the Bible (Revelation) was written around 96 AD. Do the math!
8 - This is begging the question. You think the Bible is fiction and should read like fiction. Complex characters aren't required to write non fiction even if the Bible didn't contain them (and it does!). You really don't think the characters in the Bible have flaws? Have you read it?!
9 - Very vague reason. Not sure what you're referring to other than genealogies for repetition. They're also not a chore to read if you understand why they're there and how record keeping was done back then. The Bible does in fact elaborate on several characters in the genealogies.
10 - You think there are too many miracles in the Bible. I have the feeling that if there weren't any, then you would criticize it for not having any at all!
The bottom line here is that this entire list is based on either personal preference, or a complete lack of study. It doesn't sound like you have read the Bible, let alone researched the supposed contradictions or the history of the people who wrote it.
So how does the bible prove that Jesus is the son of the god of the entirety of all of realities and why didn’t it mention anything that wasn’t already known at the time? I mean how did it leave out that there billions of galaxies each with billions of planets, a lot of which has life?
Do you seriously think that the bible is in any way good enough to qualify for the book from god? A book that doesn’t condone slavery?
Bismillahirahmanirahim
1) It is a collection of books from various viewpoints that back each other up. If you are bouncing around, it is because you are cross-referencing each one. I suppose it could have been done to your specificity, but I never had a problem with it. 2) That one was funny, ha ha 4) God never said you needed pastors for clarification of his word, man did. The Holy Spirit blesses you with an inner understanding and a hunger for His word 5) You said that there are contradictions in Genesis and of Jesus's life, but you haven't explained even one example. Go ahead, I am listening.
6) Man could not mentally handle the day if they truly knew when Revelation would occur. There are specific signs to prepare us though. I know that doesn't impress you. 7) You just proved the Bible's validity 8) Then you haven't been paying attention. Almost every person in the Bible is complex. I agree with you that some of the acts are strange. 9) I still don't see what you see. You still haven't proven the inconsistencies. You do realize that there were many authors who had written these books, right? I agree with you on the "Begat" portion. 10) You can't assume that people are leaving because of the Bible; people are leaving because of the exposed false religions. I can't argue the over the top stories, I can only tell you that I have met Jesus and he referenced that the guidelines for salvation to his children were in His book.
I literally thought this was a Christian making fun of an atheist critique of the Bible. “There are no pictures”? Really, that’s actually one of your critiques? This is an incredibly shallow take. It’s sad that so many of the commenters think otherwise.
Not that shallow. God can do all , picture weren't out of his power. All we have are words that people treat like facts with zero evidence. Now almost all of the world is living in fear of going to hell over a fuckin assumption with no proof of imagery. I'm sure a vision would be more proof than a photo though tbh. I get his point.
wow. 666 dislikes. Is satan watching this?
Its a sign. Some people wait for 665 dislikes to make up a miracle. This is some deep shit
LMAO
If Satan was watching wouldn't there be 666 likes?
This dude really said "because there is no pictures"
You do know the bible has historic context
The question is, Did you read the "Good Book" thoroughly? It is the most inspiring book ever written.
I dont like reading fictional books
Getting a christian theology
training ad on this video is the funniest thing I've ever seen😂
It does explain the water cycle though. How's that for "modern science"
Well it was explained in books much older than the bible so....
@@lightingthief4482 Job (the book I'm referencing) was written over 7,000 years ago. I personally can't think of any older manuscript that explains it in detail. If you have one, I'd be interested in seeing it though.
but modern science can explain the water cycle
I will do my best in this moment to reasonably and kindly illustrate my disagreements with this man's claims.
1. The Bible functions partially as an illustrative narrative. Wisdom comes through a holistic picture. The Bible also functions as a historical narrative in many ways (whether or not you believe various parts of it to be true). Does it really need to be organized like genre of literature which didn't even exist yet to be valuable (Also it's not entirely chronological, in case you hadn't noticed)? You do realize that if it was written by God to (as many say) barbaric tribesmen and women in the Middle East, perhaps it was best written the way it was to be understood by them, rather than discarded by them. The Bible is not strictly a philosophical treatise used to justify certain claims.
2. There are many editions of the Bible with pictures, diagrams, timelines, et c. This is simply a claim from ignorance. These are generally called "study Bibles" or something like that. And many which are not "study Bibles" actually also have maps.
3. It's not simply an instruction booklet, either. Like I mentioned in #1, illustrative narrative. That being said, however, if you are to read the Bible with appropriate literary acumen, then it might be more apparent that moral deviation is not merely a matter of hearing a list and not doing any of its no-nos. Though the Ten Commandments were some pretty clear prohibitions, they pointed to a single standard (summed up by Jesus in Luke 10, I think: 1-5 indicates that you should love God, and 6-10 illustrate that you should love neighbor, which is a way of loving God), from which any other thing would count as deviation. The whole Bible points to (basically) a single standard. Genesis 2 provides a pattern for sexuality, and Genesis 1-2, the work week. Any deviation is considered sinful or problematic, and great complexity is introduced by sin. And that's the first three books of the Bible. You literally just need to open the book to see that.
4. This is probably true, but the sins of those who use the Bible to suit their own purposes are NOT the Bible. Just because it was intentionally misunderstood by generations of sinful human beings doesn't mean that it's bad. In fact, the Bible points to this being a problem, as Paul points to false teachers in the 1 Timothy, and literally every other book of the Bible accuses humans of being evil. Care must be taken when reading the Word, and I believe there are seminaries and teachers and preachers who actually do some good work in interpretation. Perhaps the difficulty of interpreting Christianity properly was part of God's plan (I think it is).
5. Most of the OT "contradictions" are a failure to understand the genres of literature. The early Genesis narrative is not meant to be entirely historical or scientific. It is intended to be poetic and illustrative, like many of the creation stories of its time. Look at the poetic repetition and imagery. Who created the universe and gave it order? What is the pattern of living that we should follow? Why is there suffering? These are questions not meant to be answered scientifically. Scientific literature, as a genre that we recognize, didn't even exist then. I think it would be a little selfish to expect that God cater to our weird, dry, post-Enlightenment preferences rather than also the people to whom it was originally written. The NT "contradictions" aren't categorically opposed claims (logical contradictories), as far as I can tell, just differently approached narratives. But I may not be sure what Hemant here is referring to.
6. The prophetic genre (contrary to popular belief) deals with the present in light of the future, not so much the future in light of the present. It's an illustrative (again) and refining principle that causes us to trust in God, rather than ourselves. But that being said, predictions are made VERY CLEARLY in some of the OT prophets concerning Israel's fate, the Babylonian captivity, and the advent of new rulers. You don't need a whole lot of insider knowledge. You just need to read carefully. Frankly, for those who try to predict the end and Jesus's return, Matthew 24, I think, says that no one knows the day or the hour. And I personally think we've been and will be in the end times from Jesus's ascension to his return. I think those who retroactively try to adapt modern understanding to the Bible are wrong, and really, doing that for the "end times" wasn't really popular until the past two-hundred years. 1800 years of church history is opposed to that. So let me get this right - you don't think it's a history book (based on something you said in your first claim), but would believe it if it were a confirmable history of the future? Did I understand that contradiction properly?
7. Again, a "coincidence" intended to make reading it easier for the people of its time. As well as not being a history of the future or a science book. I think it's pretty clear in the Bible that ultimate salvation doesn't come from science or knowledge of the future. Why would it need those things? Who, in 500 A.D., would need to know about the United States. The Bible only has relevant information. The history of God and his people. How to live. How salvation comes. I guess #7 has little to do with it being badly written, but rather has to do with Enlightenment values. I guess that nobody here loves any scientific reads that have little emphasis on stuff outside their fields of focus. On the Origin of Species, anyone? Doesn't really address quantum mechanics...
8. Literally every character but God and Jesus displays complexity in the sense that Hemant says. Every character. There are so many deviations from the norm in those books. And if God is entirely good, even when he kills people, doesn't that just make "good" and "God" a little more complex than we thought? "It really makes you wonder who you should be rooting for." - Not complex? You said it yourself. Christians have been dealing with these complexities for centuries, and Christian thinkers have written books and books on the issues because the characters are complex, at least, epistemically.
9. This guy hasn't read any postmodern literature? A good writer tells a complex and beautiful story, seen in many hues. Often, at least. Wait. He said that about Faulkner, but criticized the Bible for doing something similar, while claiming (without evidence, mind you) that it does not. I'm literally confused about what Hemant is saying. But also, maybe we're really bad at learning from a single telling of the story. The genealogy sections are hugely culturally relevant, and many of the characters are mentioned in various stories. If this was written by God through human hands, don't forget that these humans valued their ancestry and that we understand them and their culture better for it. And if you can trace an entire lineage, suddenly stories like Esther make a lot more sense (conflict between bloodlines that have shared a history), or the prophecies of the OT, concerning the Messiah of David's line.
10. Eh. Post-Enlightenment assumptions. This would take a while to deal with. But a lot of people pre-Enlightenment believed that stuff. If your criterion for good literature is "fits within post-Enlightenment naturalistic, mechanistic, atheistic explanations for things," then I guess you have a point. But a lot of people today enjoy pre-Enlightenment literature or themes, too, and consider the stuff good literature and educational, even if it doesn't fit into that weird criterion. Who here enjoys stuff like The Lord of the Rings or considers Homer to be classic literature? Who here enjoys good science fiction? Anyway, this doesn't seem like someone really did his homework to understand literature. Maybe he did, though. I find this video to be strange.
P.S. - Jane Austen (and a gazillion others) must not be literarily significant, according to Hemant. The scope of her novels is even smaller than that "tiny" scope of the Bible. I know some atheists who would be pretty mad about that.
Are you a Christian? Im just curious. You don't have to say anything.
@@John-pu5kz Yes.
@@williamashley7147 Ok, cool just making sure, your VERY intelligent btw, that was very well written God bless.
I was thinking the same things. Thank you!
@@sophieszymaniak8814 Thanks, y'all.
So your point is, for 8 billion people to agree on which scientific explanation for what is reality, through the observer effect, if every observer sees a different reality?...... thus....."eyes you have, yet you see not...ears have you, yet you hear not".... thank you for confirming the word of Yahweh in the bible. ❤
Great stuff!
I'm an athiest that loves Christmas due that it brings family together.
Thanks Coca-Cola 😂🤣and maybe jeebus 🤔🙃
I like jeebus
Jesus was not born on Christmas, thank him for the fact you're still breathing.
@@JayPatel-ft8gj bruh tf yeah he was
@@hamburger9677 no, he wasn't. Prove otherwise.
@@JayPatel-ft8gj bruh you stupid asf