If He did, then why is it so hard to decipher, and so easy to interpret in so many different ways that conflict with each other? The English poet Percy Blythe Shelley once wrote: "If God has spoken, then why is the world not convinced?" Think about it. If you believe the Bible was "written" by God, then you believe the only reason you exist on this Earth is to be a part of your God's big lab experiment: "If I place these creatures in this environment, will they still believe in Me? If they don't I'm going to be PISSED, man . . ." Why would an omnipotent, all-powerful Being need to conduct an experiment to test the very souls He Himself created? It makes no sense, and is it so much to ask that an organized religion be at least a tiny bit grounded in logic? I don't think so.
If you claim to know the one true God, then the burden of proof is on you, my friends, and none of you can prove a thing. The Bible is full of contradictions, inaccuracies, and editorial blunders. No Christian organization in the last 2000 years has ever been able to produce a single hard piece of evidence or any record from an objective witness to any miracle the Bible claims to have happened. Why would God put His name on a mess like that? He might as well have "written" the Koran or the Book of Mormon . . . oh wait, that's right, millions of people besides you and me think He did!
But Ken, you say, what's you're problem, dude? What's the harm in having a world full of Christians?
To that question I like to quote Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." I would suggest our current born-again Christian President is a perfect example of that.
PS: I do have one serious question that may wind up being my gift to you: If the Bible is really the word of God, why are chapters 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37 word-for-word exactly the same? I'm not just talking about one verse, or one paragraph, I'm talking about two entire chapters being exact copies of each other! If God put this chapter in there twice it must be the most important passage in the whole thing, right? If so, then why has no one made a big deal about this over the centuries? No Christian has ever been able to give me a clear answer to this.
