Author: Charles Fiossi
The Old Testament is mostly a collection of tales about Bronze Age tribalism, genocides, Slavery, Hate, Vengeance, and condemnation. A large population of about 3.8 billion people claims to get their morals from the Bible. But many of its morals are reprehensible by any human standards. Did you know the Bible not only permits slavery but it says in Exodus 21:20-21 that
20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two since the slave is their property.
And also, the Bible teaches us on how we should treat our stubborn son. Especially in Deuteronomy 21:18-21 18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
It also says in Deuteronomy 22:28-29 that if a man rapes a girl he only has paid a small fine and then marries her. I will encourage you to go check it out yourself. I went to Sunday school and they conveniently left out those parts. Why should that be so if it is the word of God?
The New Testament also clearly shows that it was written by imperfect humans. The four gospels contradict each other in many significant ways. How could God not know how many generations separated David and Joseph? The gospels report two completely different genealogies. (Luke ch 3:23-28 and Matthew ch 1). There many other irreconcilable inconsistencies that believers simply choose to ignore or never discover because they don’t even read the book they claim to believe very carefully.
Some of the inconsistencies are direct results of the different authors' attempts to rewrite history to be compatible with the properties in the Old Testament. Such as the location of Jesus' birth. Jesus was known to be from Nazareth in Galilee, so the writers of the gospel of Luke fabricated a taxation decree that requires everyone to travel to the city of their birth to provide a false pretense for the birth of the savior occurring in Bethlehem, the city of David as having been prophesied in the Old Testament. No such Taxation or Census was recorded in history at that time. The New Testament even added the phrase “So that it might be fulfilled”.
In conclusion, the study of the Bible clearly shows that it was written by imperfect humans who made assumptions about how they think a “God” created the universe and what laws we as humans are expected to obey. Why will God rely on a text that is so open to misinterpretations and filled with inconsistencies, absurdities, immoralities, cruelties to get his message to us if he can literally speak to the hearing of his creation?
I don’t claim to know for sure that no God exists. I simply say that the “God” claims have not met a sufficient burden of proof to convince me that they do exist.
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