I believe in the bible, yes. I find it hard to believe people just decided to make a really thick book for no reason.

I know God exists, its obvious.

Yeah, there are holes in the bible but I think its because alot of scrolls have gone missing.

whats your viewpoint on epicurus or theodice riddle?

You cannot prevent evil, its part of free will.

Without evil, what is good? Nothing is, because there is no difference.
Evil is the counterpart of Good, so is darkness the counterpart of light.

Without evil, we would be like animals.

then hes not omnipotent

man commits evil, not God.

if god is omnipotent he can stop it, and if he refuses to hes malevolent

Listen up, evil is free will.

Since God DOES NOT FORCE free will, he lets the people commit evil, for a price ofcourse.

He's like: Fine, commit evil, but you will burn forever.

Where in the bible does it says God wants all the evil gone?
Now, thats not malevolent, but righteous.
Again, without evil, there is no good. Its called balance buddy.

My view on the bible is that is is a book of proverbs and that its the job of the individual to interpret them and figure out how to be a better person
God is just God if you kill in his name that doesn't make you a good person
As for the huge holes in the bible I just ignore them some times they amuse

In my opinion religion has been corrupted by stupid people who warp it to fit their own selfish or racist attitudes. But that's no reason to say that all religion is bad

I'll take my red thumbs like a man

My view on the Bible is the same like a view on an "Manual for operating an nuclear reactor"... It sounds odd, but it's really similiar since both have a few things in common.

If both are read without basic foreknowledge (Symbolism for the bible for example, and ,well, nuclear physics for the Manual... Ofcourse there's more, but you get the point) one will interpet them COMPLETELY, and I mean 100%/100% wrong!
A good example for that are the four riders of the apocalypse, who are "coincidentaly" named war,famine,plague... and death followed (Notice the Cause-effect in this naming style). It already sounds crazy enough if you take them literally. (Like, oooh, 4 riders on an killing spree to wipe out half of humanity).

My view on god... Well... It's usefull to believe in one... Mostly because I question God the most! My belief, that he could be really there , drives my couriosity to it's limits! Because God could be anywhere I question everything , hence, I found fun and beauty in life!

The huge holes in the Bible... In my opinion , it could be that they were put there on purpose. The author wanted the book to be flexible and longlively in terms of social studies and similiar areas.
I think the holes ,you talk of, are the exact reason why the book is flexible and longlively since one can fill those with modern toughts.

1. IMO the Old Testament is Primarily a set of parables as a opposed to a retelling of actual events, whereas the New Testament is more of a story and explanation of this one Holy Person (Jesus)'s life
2. He's out there
3. It was written by people, people make mistakes and change shit to benefit themselves.

Exactly how I see it. The Bible was written by man, not God. I have no doubt that some of the added or changed things to fit what they want. Example: I honestly don't think that the all powerful creator of the universe gives a shit about someones sexual preference.

Then why follow it at all? For all you know everything in there could be changed or lies created by man.

In my mind, it doesn't really matter what was changed over time. Can I prove that Jesus rose from the dead? No, no I can't. Can I prove really anything in the bible? No, probably not. Do I care? No, no I don't. Because whether Jesus really said anything that the bible said he did, I still agree with the message of kindness, self betterment, empathy and breaking of cultural norms for the sake of righteousness, no matter who it came from.

^^^ This, this, and more of this.

That's basically how I see it.

I know bible inside and out

I am Christian, well born one anyways, I am not judgmental in any way shape or form. And I don't give two fucks about the bible, god, or the holes in the book I don't give two fucks about.

doesnt that just make you a believer in a god like entity and not the christian god?

How can you be a Christian is you don't give "two fucks about the bible, god, or the holes in the bible"? Also you spelt (spelled) God wrong.

'well born one anyways.' I stil go to church and read the bible. I just don't really care about all this shit that is going on about it. The bible is just my religions opinion. Sorry if my previous comment didn't make sense man, I rarely make sense...

Well maybe you should try. What this world needs least is a Christian man not making any sense.

At least I don't preach this stuff, and hate everything that isn't in the bible... and you're right.

first one coming to mind for me is that the messiah is supposed to be in davids family tree, and they show that josef is a relative of david, but josef isnt jesus dad, thus jesus isnt of davids blood and not the messiah

LET'S GO DEEPER I SAY! To the roots! The Bible claims that God destroyed the world in a flood once and that Abraham and his sons survived... It could be that the famility tree of David has the same roots as, well, all of the Jews... So it would simply mean that the mesiah would've been of jewish decent...

From what I have read briefly it would seem that both Mary and David were descendents of Kind David. I'm presuming Joseph stems from David's son Solomon based on the book of Matthew. And I would think that Mary stems from David's son Nathan based on the book of Luke. What confuses me is that the bible words both genealogies back to Joseph. So I will look further into that tomorrow night and get back to you because right now I need to sleep.

aight