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Originally posted by Superman
Mike, the Bible can be accepted and it can be rejected. The question of whether it contains proof positive.....is open to interpretation. That is, even if it is proof positive, some will reject it anyway.
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I guess it just seems odd to me that people who have spent large portions of their lives studying and "accepting" the bible would then come to find it untenable. Not because they found some tidbit that they didn't agree with and the whole thing fell apart, but because they were no longer able to accept things on faith.
I think it goes much deeper than accepting or rejecting scriptures, though. Some people can read the bible and come away with nothing from the experience and others find it so compelling that it alters their lives. I don't think it is a question of conscious "rejection", though. Some people are just incapable of believing. Many people try to believe, but it just doesn't work. It's no more complicated than that. These people are no better or worse than those that believe.
One interesting commonality among all of these threads is that it is apparent that believers and non-believers view the world thru totally different glasses. What seems completely obvious to the believer makes no sense to the non-believer and vice versa. I have to imagine that not believing in a supreme being is such a foreign concept to many that they just cannot relate to a world without god. For others, the idea that there is some higher power that is responsible for everything around us makes no sense at all.
No one here is going to sway another's beliefs, but I find it fascinating to see how some people view the world. Myself included.
Mike