Allison
08-06-2005, 01:01 AM
This is somewhat of an update...if you don't remember my last post, you can find it here: http://ravingatheist.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1202
Well, since I posted last, I have taken the advice given to me from several Raving Atheist members and started to read the bible, along with other literature. I've only read Genesis, but I must say, after what I read I can firmly call myself agnostic at this point. I'm sure another chapter or two, and it will be atheist. I'm reading an annotated bible, along with the skeptics annotated bible, so I can compare the two. There are so many contradictions, inconsistencies, and outright impossibilities just in Genesis...I can only imagine what rest is like. I shared the knowledge I gained with my brother, and I think I just might have converted him as well :)
I would love to say that the bible is exaggerated, or even fabricated...but I've been researching the other side as well, and I come across things like this:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/04/news/david.php
And I just can't explain it...I've researched the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other 'biblical' findings. How would you guys explain this stuff? Some of it directly correlates to the bible, and I can't think of any other explanation for it...if the bible is so false, then how does stuff like this surface? I would really like a pertinent, intelligent answer.
Thanks a lot, I've been browsing the forum regularly, and you guys are great. There's a lot of intelligent people here. :P
Well, since I posted last, I have taken the advice given to me from several Raving Atheist members and started to read the bible, along with other literature. I've only read Genesis, but I must say, after what I read I can firmly call myself agnostic at this point. I'm sure another chapter or two, and it will be atheist. I'm reading an annotated bible, along with the skeptics annotated bible, so I can compare the two. There are so many contradictions, inconsistencies, and outright impossibilities just in Genesis...I can only imagine what rest is like. I shared the knowledge I gained with my brother, and I think I just might have converted him as well :)
I would love to say that the bible is exaggerated, or even fabricated...but I've been researching the other side as well, and I come across things like this:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/04/news/david.php
And I just can't explain it...I've researched the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other 'biblical' findings. How would you guys explain this stuff? Some of it directly correlates to the bible, and I can't think of any other explanation for it...if the bible is so false, then how does stuff like this surface? I would really like a pertinent, intelligent answer.
Thanks a lot, I've been browsing the forum regularly, and you guys are great. There's a lot of intelligent people here. :P