The bible, it has been called many things, holy book, a sacred relic, the base of a religion, the most read book in the world, I call it something else, a fiction novel. Many ultra religious and maybe just some religious people might call this blasphemy and they may and are absolutely welcome to put this down and never read it, but for those who do read it, last I checked if you don't believe in the thing in the first place how can it be blasphemy? I choose to call the bible a fiction novel because that is exactly what it is, just like The Lord of the Rings is a popular novel the bible is a slightly older more popular novel. The classic characteristics of being a novel are, involved characters, a good story line, and of course, everything works out for the good guys in the end. All of these things are true of the bible, yes there are some bumps along the way but the bible does not end with Satan taking over the world so I would say the good guys won. According to the bible god and Jesus both love us, us being the people of the world, unconditionally, this 'fact' proves that the bible cannot be true. If this is true then how can they allow all the horrible things to go on in the world? Now I know what you're thinking, I am sure you are all saying to yourself smugly that it's called free will; yea well I got another analogy for you smug-free will believers out there. Say you are a parent, you have a child and at say, the age of 16 you tell them they can make all their own choices and you won't interfere with their free will, it all sounds great in your head but does it work? So say that your kid starts going out, having sex, drinking, and smoking all the time, can you honestly say as a parent who unconditionally loves their child that you will not interfere at all in their choices and continue to let them destroy their lives? I believe that any parent would step in and stop their child even if it meant that the child had to give up their free will. So if God loves us all like children why then does he not step in and stop us from slowly destroying our lives. That question, I believe, cannot be answered by what religion tells us. The only way that question can be answered logically is if we accept that the bible is a fiction novel meant to entertain and even scare you into believing. The next issue I wish to take on is all the people who say, 'Well many things have been found all over the world that seem to be strait out of the bible', and I say to them you defeat yourself with the word 'seem'. As I am sure everyone knows the words seem means to appear like, that right their ruins their argument. Say someone goes to England he digs up a sword and says this looks strikingly like a sword from Lord of the Rings, then continues on and says therefore The Lord of the Rings must be a true story. Well I think it is safe to say that we would all laugh at him and say, it's called historical research, the author used reality to shape his fictional world. So what's to say that the writer(s) of the bible did not do the exact same thing. If they had the ability to write and publish a book of this scale then they would have known what was going on in their world therefore they easily could have based it on actual events but made most of it up. My last and possibly best argument is this, if god is omniscient, then why does the bible only focus on a very small section of the world, if god loves all the people of the world why not put, all the people of the world in his book? I will leave you with those comments and allow you to now argue fiercely for your side of the argument, please no violence, although it wouldn't matter that much cause if god does care he will just save the person who you are using violence on so violence away prove me wrong.
I Dare You.