But all of that has changed now. I don't believe that the Bible or the Christian faith are actually true. I don't believe that Jesus Christ was God or that he was raised from the dead. I don't believe that Jesus Christ fulfilled any prophecies. And I don't believe that Jesus Christ was the Jewish Messiah.
I am convinced now that the Bible is just a collection of ancient religious mythology and ancient fiction. I believe that the Bible is ancient fiction that is a product of the times in which it was written. I don't believe that the Bible speaks of the distant future or our current day at all.
I changed my mind about a lot of things and walked away from my faith -- the very faith that gave me great joy and happiness and peace and hope for an amazing future. I would like to explain why I walked away.
I have been studying the Bible for most of my adult life and I am almost 59 years old. I was taught in church that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible Word of God. So right away we have a serious problem.
From the very first verse of Scripture in Genesis we have a serious problem because the two contradictory creation accounts are dead wrong. They contradict everything we know from science about biology and cosmology and the origins of our species.The universe was not created by a god, and the universe and our world did not come into being simultaneously. Our universe is 13.8 billion years old and our world is 4.55 billion years old.
THE FLAT EARTH
The Bible clearly teaches that the earth is flat and that it is covered by a solid dome firmament in which the stars are fixed. The biblical universe is small and three-tiered. There is the firmament, the flat Earth, and the underworld, and God lives just above the solid dome firmament, which is where the Bible locates Heaven.
Top Bible Verses about Flat Earth
Isaiah 40:22 ~ It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
Revelation 7:1 ~ After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.
Psalm 104:5 ~ He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
1 Chronicles 16:30 ~ Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Job 26:7 ~ He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
Matthew 4:8 ~ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Psalm 93:1 ~ The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Job 37:18 ~ Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?
Isaiah 11:12 ~ He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
I find it very ironic that Isaiah 40:22 is often used as a proof for the spherical earth when it in fact clearly teaches that the earth is flat!
GENOCIDE
There are numerous horrifying verses in the Bible where mass murder and genocide are clearly ordered or advocated by God.
The Bible contains hundreds of meaningful contradictions, many myths and fables (the creation myths, the global Flood, and the Tower of Babel, etc.), many hilarious absurdities, and many horrific atrocities. It also contains a great deal of non-historical history.
So... the Bible is the inerrant and infallible Word of God? Hardly. And I no longer believe it or revere it as such. It's just a collection of ancient religious mythology and fiction. Period. End of story.
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