I don't see this is going anywhere good.The Bible is the truth even you like it or not, but if you really want to understand the Bible, eventually you will. Please stop closing your eyes to the truth. I once had doubts, maybe the same as yours, because I really didn't know the word of God, and nobody explained it to me. Since you guys want some answers, I'll give you some reasonable answers, if you think about it for a while and are humble enough to open your mind and heart a little, you will understand.
I have a friend ( with whom I will always be thankful) who took the time to talk to me about these things, and even though at the start I still felt doubtful inside , with the time I started to feel The truth . Sorry to say you can't believe if you don't feel anything, faith is blind. Once I thought the same as you, and what people use to say these days: The point of life is to be a good person( although moral is SO relative), help others , and reach my dreams. Doesn't sound bad right? But now I realize, that life is pointless. Think and reason about this: How did MORAL, for starters, came to exist? I inform you that our vision of what is good and bad in this world is taken anywhere else but The Bible and Christianity propagation. Our world is so influenced by christian values that you didn't even notice where they come from. Think about a world without God and without the Bible, and you will see people killing people in the streets, stealing, raping innocent women and children, lying, etc without repentance. AND I MEAN A WORLD THAT HAS NEVER HAD GOD.
God is the source of Good, he gave the world The Law, he is the onee that said, don't kill each other, don't lie, don't steal to your brother, be loyal to your spouse,love each other etc. YES, HE WAS THE FIRST ONE TO SAY THAT and no I dont have a "valid" paper to prove it sorry, but please don't confuse my God, our God, with all the other so called gods and religions around the world. Those are false prophets that use religion for personal benefit.
Think about all the countries where karma is the belief, not charity. There you do something in your past life to deserve that you are suffering now. So people see homeless, handicapped, paralytics, and other disfortunate ones suffering and they WON'T help. Why? because their belief taught them not to intervine with the natural cycle of life. Let the punished ones suffer from their bad behavior on past life. On the other side, A Good Christian see this as obviously wrong, he/she says, I have to help!
Because people are a creation from God and He called us to love and help one another, despite of the race,color,economic situation,etc. And this is another thing to consideration : We value Life and Human Dignity. It's written in the Bible, we are all a creation from God. And we are different than animals, we are not educated and evolved animals, we have a soul and reason. God gave them to us. If we were animals we would be applying the Darwinian Law, the survival of the fittest. I want to be rich, but there is some people hindering my goals.I go and kill him, because I can; after all, Im stronger . But no, I have very good reasons to not do it.
You may say, yeah that's somethng that has always been around the world. Wrong. In countries like this, it is, and that's because Christianity has spread all around the world and values from the Bible were taken and used in laws and social rules. Go to an isolated place where Christianity and the Media is not there. They are right now dinning human beings. This "moral" has not come to them, since the book with the source of moral is not known there. We consider human life as something with dignity and big value, so here we are, dinning chicken instead of humans. If you don't believe me, answer, why aren't you eating a human right now? its just flesh, they are not going to tell you anything, they are dead! So what's wrong with eating humans? Well....It's "morally" wrong right?
And another onee. The Government. Why do we have a government and a law? Because of the influence of christianity; christianity is based on the law. The Bible is full of laws. Law brings justice to the ones that are easily abused by the ones with more power and money. We believe in law, that's why you and me hate to see when injustice is happening in the world in countries like Lybia, Egypt, Afghanistan,etc. They are just applying the Darwinian way of living: the survival of the fittest. They can abuse of their power BECAUSE THEY CAN. But to us, God tell us not to do it, and we obey, and we have a government with those principles. I'm not saying our government is christian, or that the world is christian, because it's certainly not, but christianity has had a lot of influence in it.
So, whatever you think, Christianity is the best that could happen to this world. That there are some people killing each other because "god told them" believe me, that's not true, and that's NOT our God. God is not a religion, and He can't be changed for personal benefit. He is justice, and people don't like justice since we are wrong a lot of time, so they twist the meaning of justice so it can fit to their ways.
Hope you open your eyes one day, I understand your reasons of not believing, but stop closing your heart, since God is waiting for you. And He can't certainly wait forever.
