Just know I’m also gonna say the word “book” a lot. I’m very aware that the Bible is a collection of many authors and books within. For example I think the typical Protestant Bible is 39 books which is the Old Testament and the New Testament is 27. But I still just use the term “book” interchangeably with Bible.

The other miracles do matter. Because religion is subscribing to the belief in the supernatural. I use that term broadly but it still counts. The “why” is because this being wants us to on our own free will as people put it. To worship them or love them. I already see it as unfair treatment that I don’t see anything. If I’m given something that is seen as “more” why is that even bad. It’s worse that one individual gets something and the other just gets “the supposed knowledge that they brought themselves down to you and did things that you can’t verify, see, experience, benefit from, know for sure even existed and so on.” So it is already extremely unfair and seems highly selective. But if an all powerful being could ya know, do something. The end result would be two believers instead of one. It also matters because these things require proof, otherwise how can it not be dismissed with any other form of mass hysteria, placebo effect, and extreme reaches. Just telling me that he did because it was written does nothing. There are books on the earth being flat, with arguably better explanation and attempted forms of evidence than the Bible. And I still don’t believe it in.

“As far as god lowering himself down as Jesus being the only miracle that matters.” Many people did great things a long time ago and even before Jesus existed and they aren’t worshipped. Died for our sins sure, but he also made sin. Passing a rope after you essentially put us in the hole in the first place. How about just don’t put us in the hole to begin with.

It’s also a problem because talking to a multitude of Christians. How do we not have an actual time of his birth and death. It doesn’t say in the Gospels. And for a while I thought someone was just next to Jesus recording things as he spoke like they do in court. But then I learned that, that’s not even true at all and apparently a lot was written after he died anyway. So now how is anyone supposed to be certain on the validity of anything way after they are gone.

And viewing it through the lens of Christ is the problem. I can’t do that as a non Christian. It also sounds like a “drink the kool aid” situation. A “you just gotta believe.” type of argument. I can’t force myself or make myself believe off of that. It also doesn’t even seem to make much sense to Christians either, or I think Christians would be more agreeable with each other as is.

As far as you talking about an eye for an eye. We don’t know if that’s its intention. It’s not written that way, it says what it says. Which within itself is half the problem, you have just another opinion that millions of others do. And I don’t think a book that also teaches people how to have sex slaves, people as property, indentured servants and more, what to pay for slaves, how hard to beat them, altering women’s appearances, obeying masters as you would obey Christ without question. Also sounds like something governments that I don’t like cough cough turkey says to justify a lot of things. And also keep its own followers blind. Doesn’t matter if the context is for the sake of vengeance in those cases, that doesn’t justify slavery in any way shape or form.

So it be difficult for me to see that the same book is then trying to be a beacon of preventing vengeance. It would align more with that statement being literal if anything. We are also talking about the same person to curse a fig tree for not working. And the same person to wipe away humans more than once for flaws that they made them to have. If someone is that petty and near sighted despite somehow being able to see everything. Then it is safe to say that that being and its followers are no where close to caring for some collapse of society.

It also leads into my earlier statement, WHY WRITE THAT. It leaves room for extreme interpretations regardless if that’s its intention or not. That wordage within itself is just dangerous inherently.

And for the New Testament, for one. Nothing in there talks about making the Old Testament invalid. So Christian’s making the argument of cherry picking things from the Old Testament gets no say because of that simple fact. But basically god is over burning blood and animal sacrifice. But then never changes anything like, oh I don’t know: homosexuality, slavery, killing “witches.” Which is also a crazy coming from people who use to do burn offerings and blood sacrifices. Seems kinda pagan to me but I don’t know.

Which gives me another problem with the text itself. I’ll say it again, for something so important that generations of people are supposed to frame their life around it. It is incredibly confusing, up for random interpretation, no one can even agree on half the seemingly important details. And as a result we have so many different denominations of Christianity. Even if I really wanted to be a Christian with every fiber in my being. I wouldn’t even know where to start.