How can people believe the bible when it sounds more like a childrens book of fiction?

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1. ultimate_sonic_fan says:

   October 31, 2009 at 7:54 am

   Hi, thanks for asking…

   God becoming man and dying for people who don’t deserve it because He likes them? Doesn’t sound all that ridiculous to me.

   There’s a ton of scholarship on the Bible… and I mean real scholarship that makes real sense. If you’re interested, email me and I’ll send you a link.

   Or, really, here’s a link. Email me if you want more.

   May God bless you.
2. Globetrotter says:

   October 31, 2009 at 11:23 pm

   Just curious… How much of the Bible have you really read? How much background research have you read about the Bible? Once I know that, I could better answer your question.

   Edit: Bible tales which involve overexaggerated events always have a teaching purpose. It comes from oral storytelling and passing it down by word of mouth. What tales from the Bible do you remember the most? It seems like you can easily recall ones with exaggerated events. These tales were around eons before they were ever written – passed down through generations. If Moses is parting the Red Sea, it’s about God empowering him to help out an enslaved people. You have to look at the reasons and the lessons behind the tale. In those days, storytelling wasn’t about accurate journalism.

   The Bible is also filled with poetry, history and letters. It has an incredibly fascinating background if you study it further. Try reading Psalms and Proverbs, James, and 1Corinthians. Then see what you reckon.
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3. rhynokrash says:

   November 1, 2009 at 2:45 am

   fantastic question. well, i know that as a Christian I believe some crazy things. I’m ok with that. in a time when some folks believe we’ve been dropped on this planet by martians, believing a fella was swallowed by a whale or a huge flood knocked out all life on the planet doesn’t seem that crazy in comparison. I guess the bottom line for me is do I believe Jesus was who He said He was. If I do believe that then the rest will fall in line behind it. Not overnight mind you, but over time as I learn more about God. And as a previous answerer wrote, there indeed is a lot of scholarship in the Bible. You simply need to spend time in it.
4. redunicorn says:

   November 3, 2009 at 12:09 pm

   I believe the Bible is literature but not fact.
5. eeyeore says:

   November 4, 2009 at 3:18 pm

   let’s say BIBLE = brief information before living earth.
   Nobody ever live long enough to witness the creation from beginning.
   I come from Indonesia. Our church ministry once went to remote places, where there are still shaman and witch, who use black magic to disturb the ministries works. The witch can glide in the air, another can crawl on the wall. It’s a fight in faith. Another told tale how a boy with unbalanced feet, grew the bent feet at that moment and make both feet balanced.
   Maybe you should join ministries works to witness that nowadays, the unbelievable things are still occur.
   I find the website submitted by bend helpful.
6. Annabella says:

   November 6, 2009 at 5:32 am

   You don’t have to believe what is in the Bible to realize that it does not sound like a children’s book of fiction. Anyway, there are people who believe but who do not take everything literally.
   Now, you say that it is like children’s literature and “terribly written”. Maybe you have not read a very excellent translation.
   What do you reckon of this, for instance (King James version):

   The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
   Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
   for thy like is better than wine.
   Because of the savor of thy excellent ointments
   thy name is as ointment poured forth,
   therefore do the virgins like thee.
   Draw me, we will run after thee:
   the King hath brought me into his chambers:
   we will be glad and rejoice in thee,
   we will remember thy like more than wine:
   the upright like thee.
   I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
   as the tents of Kedar,
   as the curtains of Solomon.
   Look not upon me, because I am black,
   because the sun hath looked upon me:
   my mother’s children were mad with me;
   they made me the keeper of the vineyards;
   but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
   Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest,
   where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon:
   for why should I be as one that turneth aside
   by the flocks of thy companions?
   If thou know not, O thou fairest among women,
   go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock,
   and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
7. jamesmom2 says:

   November 7, 2009 at 2:58 pm

   it is human nature to want something to believe in, and the Bible is a solid thing
8. j_emmans says:

   November 8, 2009 at 12:27 pm

   how it seems is not vital, what it means is vital.
   example : Do not kill. – this may sound childish but it does mean a lot and is a excellent basis for a society to live by.
9. Wally Y says:

   November 8, 2009 at 3:51 pm

   The distress with most Bible believers is that they don’t want to reckon. They want to believe in something, but when it comes to the Bible they are taught to believe that the words are the words of God. What they don’t reckon about is that even in the Bible it says that Man is fallible(able to make mistakes) and the Bible was written by Men. For some reason I cannot fathom, that reasoning never occurs to them. Also, there is the section where Moses is conversing with God while he is making the Ten Commandments and God says ‘thou shalt have no other Gods before me’. To me, that means there are still lesser gods that one can believe in for small things.

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