Yes, I used to be Christian. It didn’t make sense to me. I had questions as a child. I started really reading the Bible as a teenager and was so repulsed by God. Was this really my God? Was this a God I could really worship if it were God? I wanted to believe because […]
Written on Monday, August 11th, 2008 by lowellpatrick :: 0 comments to this post
Yes, I used to be Christian. It didn’t make sense to me. I had questions as a child. I started really reading the Bible as a teenager and was so repulsed by God. Was this really my God? Was this a God I could really worship if it were God? I wanted to believe because my family and many friends did. So I started studying the Bible. The more I studied the more I came to the conclusion it was created by humans to teach ideas but wasn’t actually a literal tale that necessarily represented God if it existed. The authors of the Bible widely employed what is known as midrash in writing the stories. This was taking existing stories and myths and inserting your own heros and deities and maybe adding a twist to get your particular idea across. This is particularly striking when you look at the story of Jesus. It bears striking resemblence to many preexisting pagan deities from virgin births, to ressurection, performance of miracles, etc…
So what I find wrong is it doesn’t jibe with any sense of reality. I don’t think God would give us a day to day reality so different from that depicted in the Bible and no evidence of itself and yet expect us to blindly believe or it will burn us in hell. I don’t believe that a deity of perfect knowledge would be so wrathful and cruel and arbitrary as it is represented in the Old Testament. I don’t we would have failed prophecy, or that had to be “reinterpreted” in order to get it to not have failed if it were the handed down word of God that God expected to make sense to most people. I don’t believe Christianity is representative of reality but I don’t think Islam or Judaism is either.
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