The Bible Is The Infallible Word Of God!? | The Atheist Experience: Throwback

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[JohnSmith-guii]

A very wise man once told me that "reading the bible for morality is exactly like digging through shit for sweet corn, sure there's a little in there but is it really worth it" 🤷🏾‍♂️

[KGP]

If "The" Bible is the infallible word of God, then God is solely responsible for creating both good and evil and scheming to hide that knowledge from humanity.

[Sidistic_Atheist]

I was a christian throughtout my childhood. Listening to child friendly teachings.
It took reading the Bible fully, with adult eyes and reasoning. To turn me into an Athiest.

[maggiebarrett]

“The infallible word of god” has resulted in thousands of christian denominations, each one convinced that THEIR ‘interpretation’ of this so called “infallible word” is the only truth, which has led to a history of relentless persecution and bloodshed among christians themselves.

[Godless_Doc]

I’m afraid to have the slavery talk with people that I know because I’m afraid of their answers.

[justincredible.]

Comes to claim "The Bible Is The Infallible Word Of God", hasn't read his book.

[dooger]

That’s a hard one. I’m afraid of people like him. He can literally harm me and say his book allowed him

[Lupinemancer]

I grew up with Norse Mythology, as I am a Norseman, and the Pros Edda clearly states that Odin and his brothers created the world from the body of a giant Jotunn. Therefore any religion that claims the world was created in a different way are all false, cuz my book is right and all others are fake. Sure that is how this works.

[Gwaithmir]

The caller is wrong. Crucifixion was invented by the Persians between 300-400 B.C.

[WolfgangBrozart]

The being ok with slavery stuff will never not be disturbing.

[amtlpaul]

As soon as aomeone pivots from trying to defend the Bible on slavery to "How doee an atheist know that slavery is wrong, anyway?", they have given up on trying to defend Biblical morals.

[IamValak-je]

if jebus was god why did he ask himself why he had forsaken himself ?

[dimitrioskalfakis]

it is amazing that to the caller's distorted psyche the reading of 'buying', 'servants', 'teeth', 'eye' etc. did not trigger revulsion but he sprang to defend his 'word of god' with pathetic laughable excuses and slowly, all by himself, not only admitted the very point but supported it as moral. destroyed by religion.

[k.s.k.]

The caller was incorrect in his statement of the first use of crucifixion as a method of capitol punishment. It originated in Assyria and/or Babylon in the 6th century BCE. So it was in use four and a half centuries before his date of 150 BCE. I find when people start off by misrepresenting the evidence, the rest of their argument usually goes badly.

[alkristopher]

If the book is called Matthew, it must have written by Matthew!

Also

If the book is called Frankenstein, it must have been written by Victor Frankenstein!

[nicholasbrus]

To follow religion, you are not allowed to think for yourself.

[chadbertrand]

Even if we attribute the gospels to their namesakes, it's not like we know anything about these authors outside the gospels themselves.

[queuecee]

Christians: We have objective morality because god, and atheists can't say anying is immoral.

Atheists: Slavery is immoral.

Christian caller: Slavery is not necessarily immoral.

🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[pelotonpro]

Conspicuous absence of extra Biblical attestation! You can tell that he hasn't read anything else. He did manage to convince me that he is convinced.

[gregoryeatroff]

There are records of the Persians crucifying people long before 150 BCE. Possibly in the 6th century BCE. Herodotos reports the Athenians crucifying a captured Persian general in the 5th century BCE. This guy is starting from a flawed premise.