Books are writen on why religion is false?

What do these people have to offer? Appart from hot air!


Do you have something better to offer?Books are writen on why religion is false?
Well, some of these people offer a rational consideration of various religions and explain why they think they are wrong. They are offering their opinion which you can accept or reject.


Many of them do this because they think that people who believe in religion are being deceived, albeit by sincere people who are genuinely mistaken, or sometimes even lied to.


They are trying to help you to have a better understanding of life, the universe and everything. Please note though: not all claim to have all the answers.





Anna.





';I've heard it said that if you scratch the surface of an atheist, you often find anger and resentment over some past experience, more than cogent reasons for their non belief. Some of the books of this type I've read are exercises in catharsis or ';payback';--they are busy shocking the vicar, their parents, or someone else in their head.';





This may be true of some writers, I don't know. But I think that many people called atheist do not actively hold reasons not to believe, but rather they lack a reason to believe.





You wouldn't expect me to have a cogent reason NOT to believe in pixies, goblins, trolls or the man in the moon, would you?Books are writen on why religion is false?
Something better than religion? How about 'not religion'? It's like 'not poison' is better than poison.
Reason.
They have nothing.
they think they are being cool and controversial.
A man needs to earn a shilling. If people buy it write it.
Erm...why do you think religion is true?





oh yes thats right! Because it is written in a book!








Can you see the hypocrisy within your statement? Probably not because religion tries to ignore blatant hypocrisy
They have to offer the truth unlike the hot air that religionists seem to spout all the time.





Really I think they'd have better things to do with their time than to try and push their god agenda wherever they went.
Looks like your full of hot air too.
I've heard it said that if you scratch the surface of an atheist, you often find anger and resentment over some past experience, more than cogent reasons for their nonbelief. Some of the books of this type I've read are exercises in catharsis or ';payback';--they are busy shocking the vicar, their parents, or someone else in their head.


I definitely have something better to offer: Peace, Joy, Compassion, Love, Forgiveness (of self and others), Healing (of traumas, fears etc as well as some physical illness in my own experience), Kindness, Faithfulness, Self-control, Freedom from one's past, fears, and phobias....I could go on and on.


Of course *I* can't give you these things myself, and I don't claim to, but they are available free for the asking from Jesus Christ.
they were written by religions scholars.they have to keep


faith of followers and religions.
All religion is false only faith in our Lord Jesus who died on the cross for all mankind, is the true and only way. To have Jesus as a personal saviour and friend is a wonderful thing. Unless you have this then it is diificult to understand what it is like. I can only say ask Jesus into your life personally.
yes, facts rather than fantasy.
Only two contradictions of the New Testament have been mentioned, but others will be referenced when the Trinity, Divinity of Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship of Jesus, Original Sin and Atonement are reviewed.


How could the ';inspired words'; of God get the genealogy of Jesus incorrect (See Matthew 1:6-16 where it states 26 forefathers up to Prophet David, and Luke 3:23-31 says 41 in number). Or for that matter, give a genealogy to Jesus who had NO father? See II Kings 19:1-37, now read Isaiah 37:1-38. Why is it that the words of these verse are identical? Yet they have been attributed to two different authors, one unknown and the other is Isaiah, who are centuries apart; and yet, the Christians have claimed these books to be inspired by God.


I looked up the word Easter in the Nelson Bible dictionary and learned that the word ';Easter'; (as mentioned in Acts 12:4) is a mistranslation of ';pascha,'; the ordinary Greek word for ';Passover.'; As, you know Passover is a Jewish celebration not a Christian holiday. I think human hands, all to human, had played havoc with the Bible.


From the brief points mentioned above, and the fact that Biblical scholars themselves have recognized the human nature and human composition of the Bible (Curt Kuhl, The Old Testament: Its Origin and Composition, PP 47, 51, 52), there should exist in the Christian鈥檚 mind some acceptance to the fact that maybe every word of the Bible is not God鈥檚 word.


As a side note to this subject, let me mention that some Christians believe that the Bible was dictated to Prophet Muhammad (SAW) by a Christian monk, and that is why some of the biblical accounts are in the Quran. After some research, I found that this could not have happened because there were no Arabic Bible in existence in the 6th century of the Christian era when Muhammad (SAW) lived and preached. Therefore, no Arab, not even Prophet Muhammad (SAW) who was absolutely unlettered and unlearned, would have had the opportunity to examine the written text of the Bible in his own language.





What is According to:


Christians, as I once did, boast about the Gospels according to Matthew, according to Mark, according to Luke and according to John. However, if we think about it, there is not a single Gospel according to Jesus himself. According to the preface of the KJV (King James Version) new open Bible study edition, the word ';Gospel'; was added (see below) to the original titles, ';According to John, according to Matthew, according to Luke and according to Mark.';





If you read Luke 1:2-3, you will learn, as I did, that Luke (who was not one of the 12 disciples and never met Jesus) said that he himself was not an eyewitness, and the knowledge he gathered was from eyewitnesses, and not as words inspired by God. Incidentally, why does every ';Gospel'; begin with the introduction According to. Why ';according to?'; the reason for this is because not a single one of the gospels carries its original author鈥檚 autograph! Even the internal evidence of Matthew 9:9 proves that Matthew was not the author of the first Gospel which bears his name:


';And as Jesus passed forth thence, He (Jesus) saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and He (Jesus) saith unto Him (Matthew), follow me (Jesus). And he (Matthew) arose, and followed Him (Jesus).';





Without any stretch of the imagination, one can see that the He鈥檚 and the Him鈥檚 of the above narration do not refer to Jesus or Matthew as its author, but a third person writing what he saw or heard - a hearsay account and not words inspired by God.





Who wrote the gospels?


It is worth noting, and well known throughout the religious world, that the choice of the present four ';gospels'; of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were imposed in the Council of Nicea 325 CE for political purposes under the auspices of the pagan Emperor Constantine, and not by Jesus. Constantine鈥檚 mind had not been enlightened either by study or by inspiration. He was a pagan, a tyrant and criminal who murdered his son, his wife and thousands of innocent individuals because of his lust for political power. Constantine ratified other decisions in the Nicene Creed such as the decision to call Christ ';the Son of God, only begotten of the father.';





Literally, hundreds of gospels and religious writings were hidden from the people. Some of those writings were written by Jesus鈥?disciples, and many of them were eyewitness accounts of Jesus鈥?actions. The Nicea Council decided to destroy all gospels written in Hebrew, which resulted in the burning of nearly three hundred accounts. If these writings were not more authentic than the four present gospels, they were of equal authenticity. Some of them are still available such as the Gospel of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas which agree with the Quran. The Gospel of Barnabas, until now, is the only eyewitness account of the life and mission of Jesus. Even today, the whole of the Protestant word, Jehovah鈥檚 Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists and other sects and denominations condemn the Roman Catholic version of the Bible because it contains seven ';extra'; books. The Protestant have bravely expunged seven whole books from their word of God. A few of the outcasts are the Books of Judith, Tobnias, Baruch and Esther.


The permission to call ';According to'; writings the Gospel was not given by Jesus nor by any other divine guidance. These writings; Matthew, Luke, Mark and John, were never originally to be the Gospel. Therefore, Mark 1:1 can not be a true statement that his writing is the gospel of Jesus.





Which Gospel is Gospel of Jesus?


Concerning Jesus鈥?teachings of the Gospel (Injeel), the Gospel writers frequently mentioned Jesus preaching the Gospel: Matthew 9:35, Mark 8:35, and Luke 20:1. The word ';gospel'; is recurrently used in the Bible. However, in the New Testament Greek edition the word Evangeline is used in place of the word gospel, which is translated to mean good news. My question was: what Gospel did Jesus preach? Of the 27 books of the New Testament, only a small fraction can be accepted as the words of Jesus, and only of the 27 books are known to be attributed as the Gospel of Jesus. The remaining 23 were supposedly written by Paul. Muslims do believe that Jesus was given God鈥檚 ';Good News.'; However, they do not recognized the present four Gospels as the utterances of Jesus.





Mark and Luke are not found in the biblical list of 12 disciples.


The earliest Gospel is that of Mark鈥檚 which was written about 60-75 AD. Mark was the son of Barnabas鈥檚 sister. Matthew was a tax collector, a minor official who did not travel around with Jesus. Luke鈥檚 Gospel was written much later, and in fact, drawn from the same sources as Mark鈥檚 and Matthew鈥檚. Luke was Paul鈥檚 physician, and like Paul, never met Jesus. By the way, did you know that the names Marks and Luke were not included in the 12 appointed disciples of Jesus as mentioned in Matthew 10:2-4?





Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; the first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.





What are Original scriptures


It should be mentioned that Muslims must believe in all Divine scriptures in their original form, their Prophets and making no distinction between them: The Suhuf (Abraham); Torah (Moses); Psalms (David); Gospel - or the Injeel (Jesus); and the Quran (Muhammad). It is clearly stated in the Quran 3:3 that Allah sent down the Torah and the Gospel. However, none of these scriptures remains in its original form now, except the Quran, which was sent for all mankind everywhere and for all times.