| sperrico87 said: I am Atheist. I was raised strict Roman Catholic, went to Catholic school until college. I do not believe anything in the bible. Let me explain. My Catholic friends have a strict moral code and hard-line opinions on issues of morality. It's all due to what they've read and what they've been told based on words from the Bible. The Bible. Talking snakes, people living to be 800 years old. People getting stoned for working on the Sabbath. Going to hell for mixing cotton and linen. A boat that contained two of every species on earth. Burning bushes. Splitting rivers. Etc, etc. Then you have Mormons, and they believe everything that is written in the Book of Mormon. A book that was translated by a convicted criminal that he made by translating what was written on Golden tablets that only he could see. It states that Jews were originally from North America, and that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri. My belief is that you would have to be crazy to take the Bible literally. Just as you would have to be just as crazy to take the Book of Mormon literally. Things written in the Bible aren't any less crazy then what Mormons believe from their book. Most of us are just used to the contents of the Bible because it's been around for so long. Resurrections and virgin births aren't any less crazy than getting your own planet when you go to heaven and living the principle of plural marriage. And my point is this: How can people pick and choose certain things to follow in the Bible and ignore others, and still call themselves Christians? How does that even make any sense? |
Just a couple of things. A lot of the old testiment is filled with metaphores and fables, to explain and teach people at the time.
I will just coment of a couple of the things you mentioned.
1 people living to be 800 years old.
We do not know for certain how time was kept in the early parts of the Bible. Many believe that a year to the people in the early part of the Bible could have been a moon cycle. So a year to them may have been about 30 days. So when it says Adam lived 930 years, by our curent callendar it would be about 77 years old.
2. Splitting rivers
This has actually been scientifically explained. At the point where Moses crosses the Red sea, this could be acomplished with a strong storm which would have pushed the water further out to sea, making for easy crossing. As the storm ends, the water would rush back up creating a huge wave flooding back the area that was crossed. See the following video.
