Reply #56: Thanks for the insightful rundown RainDog, but...

[AnArmyVeteran]

If the Bible was written with the spirit of God then why are there so many interpretations of it? You would think that an all knowing, perfect God could inspire the writing of something that is concrete, with no room for wildly different interpretations. There are a couple of thousand Christian churches (brands) and all of them interpret the Bible differently. If God was truly 'perfect' then every Christian would have the identical beliefs. And why do people have to be Biblical scholars spending their entire lives studying the Bible just to try to understand it. And even no two Biblical scholars agree. If the saying "Simplicity is genius" is true, then 'God' is a blooming idiot.

Maybe God had a lot of brain farts during the writing of the Bible and left out huge portions that could have explained all the hocus pocus contained within it. I have read the Bible countless times and with each reading it led to more doubt. Why were only men allowed to participate in the writing of the Bible? Why was the Bible written before the printing press was invented. Why did God send his 'son' to earth during such a primitive time when no media could record him? If I was 'God' I think that I would have waited just a couple more thousand years to send my 'son' to earth, after all, since 'God' always was and always will be 2,000 years is like a fraction of a second to him.

It is awfully convenient how all major religions were created (concocted) during primitive times.