21 Reasons Why I Don't Believe the Bible

Why don't I believe the Bible?

1) The two contradictory creation myths in Genesis contradict everything we know from science about biology and cosmology and the origins of our world and the diversity of life in it. We were not created by a god. We evolved over the course of several million years from a long line of hominid species. This fact is easy to verify. And biological evolution is an indisputable fact that has been confirmed many times over the course of many years. And science and what we know from it has completely disproven the Adam and Eve myth. The universe and our world did not come into being simultaneously and the earth is not 6000 years old nor is it flat. And the world is not the way it is because a talking snake convinced two obviously mythical people to eat magic fruit from a magic tree.

2) People do not live for hundreds of years. The ages given in the Jewish scriptures contradict everything we know from science about biology and human life spans.

3) There is no geological evidence that a global flood has ever occurred, and the Noah's Ark myth was borrowed from the much older Epic of Gilgamesh. There are many serious problems with the Ark myth that are easy to Google, not the least of which is the fact that there has never been a time when the human population was whittled down to just eight people on a boat. 

4) The Tower of Babel story is a myth that has many serious problems, not the least of which is the fact that modern linguists know that this is not how our many different languages originated.

5) Donkeys and snakes do not talk, the moon does not give its own light, snails do not melt, axe heads do not float, leprosy is not healed with birds, insects do not have four legs, and genetic engineering is not accomplished with striped rods. 

6) The general consensus of modern biblical scholarship is that Jesus Christ is best understood as just one of many itinerant Jewish apocalyptic prophets who roamed the countryside of ancient Palestine. He was crucified by the Romans for the crime of sedition and his body was most likely thrown into a common grave. The character of Joseph of Arimathea and the tomb are later story developments that are fictional.

7) The only evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is four hopelessly contradictory resurrection accounts from four anonymously written gospels which were written decades after the events they purport to relate. These are not eyewitness accounts and they are not historically reliable accounts. The Gospels are myth and religious propaganda. Not a single first century historian mentions Jesus Christ or anything that he allegedly did, which is very odd if the Gospels are true and historically accurate.

8) The alleged Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ is a myth with no demonstrable basis in reality. Isaiah 7 does not mention a virgin birth nor is it referring to an event hundreds of years in the future.

9) Isaiah 53 is referring to the nation of Israel, not Jesus Christ.

10) Jesus Christ did not accomplish anything that the Jewish Messiah was supposed to do.

11) There is zero archaeological evidence for the Exodus or for Egypt enslaving the Jews.

12) Dead people always stay dead, and there is zero evidence for the zombie apocalypse mentioned in the book of Matthew.

13) Hell and eternal conscious torment are both morally reprehensible concepts that are diametrically opposed to the concept of a loving God. They cannot be true at the same time.

14) There is exactly zero evidence that Heaven or Hell are actually real places.

15) There is exactly zero evidence that a God of any kind actually exists. God never thinks, says or does anything at all except in the minds of religious believers.

16) When looked at honestly, Bible prophecy is not very impressive. Prophecies about the end of the world have been recycled over and over again by generations of Christians who want to believe that they are the terminal generation.

17) Jesus Christ plainly said that he would be returning within the lifetimes of the people who were standing before him and before his disciples had made it through the cities of Israel. 

18) The Christian faith began as a first century apocalyptic cult, and the rapture doctrine comes from that failed cult. It was clearly expected to happen within the lifetimes of the people living back then, not 2000 years in the future. The non-return of Jesus was a serious problem by the end of the first century which is why the book of 2 Peter was written. The rapture event never has and never will happen.

19) The Bible is a product of the times in which it was written and it does not speak of the distant future or our current day at all.

20) Jesus Christ died 2000 years ago and he is still dead. The alleged resurrection is a religious myth that developed over time, and as I have already mentioned, the accounts are hopelessly contradictory.

21) The Bible is ancient mythological religious fiction.

This list is not exhaustive, and it's just what I could think of in the moment, but it should be sufficient to demonstrate why I am not a Bible believer. Peace!