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Hello, I'm an Athiest personally, although I try to be as tactful as I can when talking to others, I know there are a lot of athiests who can be far too aggressive, even if my own views are described as such, it's simply a matter of knowing when and how to display them.
But anyway, on to your points, I will try and answer them as accurately as I can, although there is no Athiest doctrine as we aren't a religion, and I am sure there are plenty of others here who are far better read and sourced than I am. I must also stress that I am no scientist whatsoever.
#1 It has taken a long time for the Bible to be copied and spread all over the planet, as you said it was written over millennia and there are literally thousands of different versions, interpretations and translations, from the Old Testament to newer, more liberal (or more politically correct) ones. You say it flawlessly teaches the same exact themes, well that's fair enough, but does copying a book really have to be divine intervention? Mein Kampf by adolf hitler has been flawlessly copied and circulated around the world, but that doesn't make it holy. All the copies of the Bible were were transported by missionaries who traveled with expeditionaries in the Age of Sail, circa 1600-1900 CE, hence why they had been transported to isolated cultures. Emporer Constantine of the Roman Empire, also made Christianity the official state religion, and "invented" Christianity by combining the Jewish followers of Jesus and the religious doctrines of Paganism, hence why christians celebrate christmas (formerly Pagan Winter Solstice) and worship a dead man, whilst drinking represenations of his blood and body, all Pagan rituals. All of this is excellently well documented and backed up with hard, 100% evidence, making anybody refuting this possibly dellusional, which is why so many of my fellow non-believers have so littler tolerance.
#2 Yes, the Bible predicted some things. What about all the things the Bible predicted and got wrong? There are a lot more of them. Also remmeber the Bible is constantly being altered and edited in the modern day, so things are ommitted or edited to effect. And it is easy for a man to make a prediction on simple learning, for example, I can predict that there will be major international tension and possible conflict in 50 years time due to depleting reserves of crude oil, or that HIV/AIDs will be eradicated by 2200 C.E. And yet Im not considered holy?
But anyway, on to your points, I will try and answer them as accurately as I can, although there is no Athiest doctrine as we aren't a religion, and I am sure there are plenty of others here who are far better read and sourced than I am. I must also stress that I am no scientist whatsoever.
#1 It has taken a long time for the Bible to be copied and spread all over the planet, as you said it was written over millennia and there are literally thousands of different versions, interpretations and translations, from the Old Testament to newer, more liberal (or more politically correct) ones. You say it flawlessly teaches the same exact themes, well that's fair enough, but does copying a book really have to be divine intervention? Mein Kampf by adolf hitler has been flawlessly copied and circulated around the world, but that doesn't make it holy. All the copies of the Bible were were transported by missionaries who traveled with expeditionaries in the Age of Sail, circa 1600-1900 CE, hence why they had been transported to isolated cultures. Emporer Constantine of the Roman Empire, also made Christianity the official state religion, and "invented" Christianity by combining the Jewish followers of Jesus and the religious doctrines of Paganism, hence why christians celebrate christmas (formerly Pagan Winter Solstice) and worship a dead man, whilst drinking represenations of his blood and body, all Pagan rituals. All of this is excellently well documented and backed up with hard, 100% evidence, making anybody refuting this possibly dellusional, which is why so many of my fellow non-believers have so littler tolerance.
#2 Yes, the Bible predicted some things. What about all the things the Bible predicted and got wrong? There are a lot more of them. Also remmeber the Bible is constantly being altered and edited in the modern day, so things are ommitted or edited to effect. And it is easy for a man to make a prediction on simple learning, for example, I can predict that there will be major international tension and possible conflict in 50 years time due to depleting reserves of crude oil, or that HIV/AIDs will be eradicated by 2200 C.E. And yet Im not considered holy?
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