If God doesnt exist then who wrote the bible ?

[DaRev]

Jay520 said:

DaRev said:
I honestly don't understand how intelligent people don't believe 'God wrote the Bible'. Like there's some dude or group of dudes out somewhere just thinking up crazy stuff trying to control people, but not ever revealing their identity or group or ever taking the credit, but letting other people like the Church get all the credit o_O

If I wrote the Bible you sure as hell bet I would want the credit and all the royalties! It just doesn't make any sense, to believe that some man or group wrote the bible.

Well considering the fact that there's plenty of different bibles from contradicting religions, it is obvious that most of those bibles are false, and were written by people, not the supposed God of their religion. That is proof of Bibles being written by man (unless you believe all bibles from all religions are somehow true). As for why anyone would "waste their time" writing a Bible....well, it's quite easy to see the value of large populations of people willingly placing absolute faith and obedience into a specific system of behaviors and attitudes.

There is only one Bible, i.e. the Christian one.

People, place their faith in the Bible because they hear it, i.e. the words therein, and it connects with their common sense and to a greater extent with the spiritual part of them, so they don't follow it blind because everyone else is doing it. In any event who do you suppose is benefiting from this "value" you're talking about?