I mentioned before on another post that I am in college working on my BA degree and I am having such a "hard" time with believing in the bible since taking my science class. The information that I am learning is totally destroying my faith in the bible. I still believe in Jehovah and Jesus and would never chose the "Atheist" way but I am wondering if maybe the Bible is just a book of fairytales to teach us a lesson. The other day our science class went to the Museum of the Dinosaurs and I almost fell out of my seat when I look at the age of some of these Dinosaurs as over 300 million years. The bible makes it appear that the earth is only 6-10 thousand years old and that animals are somewhere around 6- 10 thousands years old. Is this my former JW teachings or Do most religions teach that earth and animals are only 10 thousand years old? If that is what most of them believe then my science teacher is right and the bible is full of errors.
Do you think that the Book of "Genesis" is a fairytale?
by booker-t 26 Replies latest jw friends
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jstalin
Booker-t,
What you're encountering is the reason why the Watchtower so strongly opposes higher education. Christian Fundamentalists (including JWs) take a literal view of the Bible, which includes the view that the Earth is young, ie, less than 10,000 years old. This flatly contradicts all available scientific evidence. So the question becomes - do we believe science, which is testable and proven to be accurate, or do we believe a story that's a few thousand years old?
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Narkissos
Haven't seen too many fairies in Genesis, but tales for sure.
Perhaps it is an opportunity for a fresh approach of the Bible: if it was never meant to be a book of science, you might actually enjoy it better without this presupposition.
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OpenFireGlass
I still believe in Jehovah and Jesus and would never chose the "Atheist" way but I am wondering if maybe the Bible is just a book of fairytales to teach us a lesson.
what other fairytales include the characters Jesus & Jehovah?...
In other words... where would you have learned about jesus & jehovah if it were not for this fairytale?
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greendawn
Booker do you believe everything science tells you is infallible? They make plenty of mistakes. The new earth creationists may be extreme but that doesn't make the official scientific view on the origins of life correct.
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Justitia Themis
Dear booker-t:
Only fundamentalist Christian religions believe that the earth is only a few thousand years old. Some will argue JWs are fundamentalist; however, they do not believe that the earth is that young. I found my college science courses had the opposite affect on me. I sad down with my books and compared and Genesis account of creation with the evolutionary account and its epochs. They match, even including the "oxygen holocaust." (and God created green vegetation)
Genesis is a pretty good explanation to someone who, like Moses, is totally lacking of any notion of science and the universe. I see the bigger debate as 'did God use evolution' to create? I don't see that Genesis rules this out.
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Spectrum
I'm watching a program on wolves hunting down, killing and eating caribou. They are engineered to be this way. What kind of god would engineer this? That is the question that at least needs to be asked if not answered.
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BritBoy
Personally, I think the ENTIRE freaking bible is a Fairy Tale.
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Justitia Themis
Personally, I think the ENTIRE freaking bible is a Fairy Tale. Then Moses must have been fantastically intelligent to get the creative epochs in the correct order.
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Mulan
Personally, I think the ENTIRE freaking bible is a Fairy Tale.
That about sums it up.
I read Thomas Paine's book, The Age of Reason, several years ago. The book is 250 years old!!! It completely made me lose all faith in the Bible. Where was that book all my life????