Okay, please understand a few things before you keep reading this. so first of all I'm not religious in any way, but I do have a lot of respect for religious people. and second of all, I don't write this to be a jerk, but because I have a huge essay about religion and third I have read alot of the bible, but there is very much there I don't understand because of all the stories told in the church NOT written in the bible. So I have a few questions I hope you guys can answer for me.
first question. They say Adam and Eve was the start of all humans, but as far as I know, they are not even mentioned in the bible. How come if they are the start of all human, as far as I can see, that should be a very important part of it all. And also, if they had children, how did they get children themselves ? Did they have children with their brothers and sisters ?
And question number two. The bible says that there is no such thing as the devil, and I know a lot of Christians who says that the devil isn't even mentioned in the bible. But I know he is, not by the name, but as "the beast" it's says here: Rev. 13:17-18
My third question goes like this. They say Jesus sacrificed himself so humans forever would not be judged for what they did and they all would go to heaven when they died, short, HE took all the blame. How come then, that I know people who almost died, and actually were dead a few seconds, have told stories about how it was in hell, and how it looked there and such like that. And how come that people and priests says "if you do this, or do that, you WILL go to hell, no matter what" And yet they deny that hell excist.
My fourth question is something like this. One of the 10 bids says "thou shall not kill" But the bible accept murders. Example: God ordered 70.000 innocent people killed, because David ordered a census of the people. After that God ordered 60 cities destroyed, so the Israelites could live there. All in all God ordered more than 2 million people killed for no particular sensible reason. And the bible also allows Rape, animal abuse, child abuse, selling your own daughter as a sex-slave, rape, slavery and stealing, even tho one of the other bids says "thou shall not steal" or something like that. Where does this make sense ?
And my fifth and final question for now is: Why do all the religious people I've ever talk to say they have read the whole bible, when they have only read the parts that say nothing about how this really is. And have never read, or have read, but pretend to never have read the parts that encourage these evil things.
As I said before I started this, this is just for an essay I have at school. But if I get enough information, it might be a book later as well. I'm very interessed in how people think, and how peoples mind works. It's really not to make any drama or anything here.
I hope someone please can answer my question : )
first question. They say Adam and Eve was the start of all humans, but as far as I know, they are not even mentioned in the bible. How come if they are the start of all human, as far as I can see, that should be a very important part of it all. And also, if they had children, how did they get children themselves ? Did they have children with their brothers and sisters ?
And question number two. The bible says that there is no such thing as the devil, and I know a lot of Christians who says that the devil isn't even mentioned in the bible. But I know he is, not by the name, but as "the beast" it's says here: Rev. 13:17-18
My third question goes like this. They say Jesus sacrificed himself so humans forever would not be judged for what they did and they all would go to heaven when they died, short, HE took all the blame. How come then, that I know people who almost died, and actually were dead a few seconds, have told stories about how it was in hell, and how it looked there and such like that. And how come that people and priests says "if you do this, or do that, you WILL go to hell, no matter what" And yet they deny that hell excist.
My fourth question is something like this. One of the 10 bids says "thou shall not kill" But the bible accept murders. Example: God ordered 70.000 innocent people killed, because David ordered a census of the people. After that God ordered 60 cities destroyed, so the Israelites could live there. All in all God ordered more than 2 million people killed for no particular sensible reason. And the bible also allows Rape, animal abuse, child abuse, selling your own daughter as a sex-slave, rape, slavery and stealing, even tho one of the other bids says "thou shall not steal" or something like that. Where does this make sense ?
And my fifth and final question for now is: Why do all the religious people I've ever talk to say they have read the whole bible, when they have only read the parts that say nothing about how this really is. And have never read, or have read, but pretend to never have read the parts that encourage these evil things.
As I said before I started this, this is just for an essay I have at school. But if I get enough information, it might be a book later as well. I'm very interessed in how people think, and how peoples mind works. It's really not to make any drama or anything here.
I hope someone please can answer my question : )
