I am pretty much an atheist. I say pretty much because I have had some strange things happen to me that make me wonder if something is out there, which I guess would make me agnostic, but I just don’t believe the Bible. And I have read it. I went to church semi-regularly as a child and my wife is very religious-I’ll talk about that more shortly. I don’t believe the flood or Noah’s ark happened. I don’t believe Jonah was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell about it. I don’t believe Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt. And don’t get me started on how man used to live to over 500 years old. These are stories that were handed down over generations. I believe there was a flood, and many scientists concur their probably was a great flood around 5600 BCE. This is probably where the Noah stories started. I do believe Jesus existed and was a minister, but sorry, I don’t believe in the resurrection.
It’s been a few years since I searched the internet looking up this topic, and my, in just 4-5 years it’s amazing to me how many more creationist sites are out there now. I found one that is in such denial here, it is debating whether or not Noah took dinosaurs on the ark! It is a fact that dinosaurs were extinct for 60 million years before man even showed up! The continents were all together when the dinosaurs were on the earth, and after they went extinct and amphibians, marsupials and mammals began to take over the earth.
What I don’t understand is some of the religions that refuse to believe that the Bible could be wrong. It must be true, it was written with the help of God! No, it was written by men to help further along Christianity. Most of the New Testament was written, what decades after Jesus’ death? Now I know that everyone wants to believe that it was God writing the Bible and not Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John promoting their agenda, but that is not the case. And think about it, we can’t figure out who killed Kennedy and it’s only been what, 44 years? And that was filmed! And yet everyone going to church is going to go along with resurrection story. And I understand, that is why it is called faith. You must have faith to believe in all of that, but I am going to go on the evidence, at least the evidence that is available.
Lastly, the other amazing thing to me is people involved in religion. I have already mentioned the numerous creation websites that have been fruitful and multiplied over the past five years. There are a lot of good people involved with all religions, whether it is Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, it doesn’t matter. Yet it is amazing to me how many people that claim they are of religious faith (or at least believe in God) yet do not uphold to the very basic rules of God. It is also not uncommon to have acquaintences of mine who are religious try to preach to me are some of the most hypocritical people I have ever met.
If you are interested in more this site pretty much follows with what I believe.
I actually have a lot more to say on this topic but this is good for now. My next post will be on how I married a devout Jehovah’s Witness! No kidding.
October 16, 2007 at 10:24 am
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