How can anyone who is educated in scripture not believe in the bible?

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Jayda B

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Not trying to pick at anyone, but I was always curious.
Even if I didn't believe in the whole relationship-with-Jesus side of the bible, I still wouldn't be able to ignore that prophesies in the bible that have come true, and are still coming true. There is just no way that Jesus isn't who he says he is, and that these prophesies aren't true. I feel as if nonreligious people refuse to study out both sides and prefer to stay willfully ignorant. Correct me if I'm wrong, please. I also feel the same way about Evolution vs. creationism. It seems to me that these rational people who follow logic have done a whole lot of researching on their side of the argument, without trying to disprove it in any way by studying the other side. Its just that I'd like to see someone who's watched the tapes, and read the books, and come to their own decision in a balanced and rational way.
If you have done the research on both sides, I'd like to hear which side you've come out on and why.
 
Jesus did not fulfill the Jewish prophecies about the Messiah.

What is the Messiah supposed to accomplish? The Bible says that he will:

A. Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).
B. Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).
C. Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation" neither shall man learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4)
D. Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "God will being over all the world -- on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9)

Jesus fulfilled none of these messianic prophecies.
 
Reading and studying the bible is what convinced me that it's fiction.

There are no talking donkeys, never where.
Snakes don't eat dust.
Bats are not birds.
The earth is not the center of the universe and it's not flat.
People don't walk on water, part seas, come back from the dead, or multiply loaves and fish to feed hundreds, or populate the earth through incest.
All the animals on earth can't fit into a craft described in the bible.
Pi is not 3

I could go on...
 
I've done plenty of research in these areas, grew up a Christian and am now agnostic.

Not all of Jesus' prophesies have come true. They were remarkably well predicted I do admit, but some have taken two thousand years to come true (Israel becoming its own nation) and many others have not. However, if I predict a few matters based on what I think will happen, chances are many of them will come true in the next two thousand years, as that is an incredibly long period of time.
 
Well about the prophecies thing, quite a lot of people believe that Nostradamus is a prophet yet there are just as many things he got wrong. So I don't know where you're coming with that.

I've actually read parts of the old and new testament and while I find the moral tales valid, the historical literal parts love to defy the physical laws which govern our universe.

Also I've read and watched Creationist material and found them completely lacking in any concrete proof. They just want to take evidence and change around the meaning to fit a result rather than take evidence and form a result based on it.
 
Check out the Deist Paladin on YouTube. He is a man with a wealth of scriptural knowledge who has come down on the side of unbelief. You could also visit FFreeThinker, Thunderf00t and ProMth to learn much more about the case for evolution. It sounds to me as if you have a lot more thinking to do.
 
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