You might believe the Bible represents God—until you read the verses in my post below. Does the Bible justify atheism?
 
Does the Bible, or does Nature, reveal the Creator?
 
Nature is comprised of incomprehensible, functionally complex machinery. The atoms in rocks, the atoms, biochemicals, genetic molecules, organelles, trillions of cells, and organs in our body are all complex functional machinery. Trapped in our physical dimensions, we may never fully comprehend nature or its origin. However, we can know that its functionally complex machinery requires intelligent causation. That conclusion is not based on belief or tradition. It's a basic self-evident truth that cannot be rationally overturned by evidence, logic, or science.

A still-frame tiny snippet of the millions of biochemical machines operating on autopilot at blinding speed moment by moment keeping us alive
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​On the other hand, many people believe the Bible not only reveals the Creator, but does so in a personal way. The Bible is believed to be like a voice from the Creator telling us what it thinks, demands, and what consequences we face if we obey or reject the rules.

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We aren't really lost, without direction, and on our own without a book. We've been given free will, love, a sense of justice, reason, intuition, a thirst for truth, inquisitiveness, and conscience. They're embedded in us. They're like the voice in a car's navigation system directing us to a destination. But they are silent voices within--and too easy to ignore until after the fact, when we suffer the pangs of conscience reminding us of our error.
 
Those gifts enable us to know as much as we can about the Creator, who we are, why we're here, the difference between right and wrong, and what happens at death. No religious beliefs, faith, holy books, or intermediaries necessary.
 
Man-made religions come along and tell us we are lost and in jeopardy without belief and faith in the gods they create. But religions have been catastrophic across history. More suffering and death have come from them, directly and indirectly, than any ideology ever invented.
 
As a guide for life, innate free will, love, sense of justice, reason, intuition, thirst for truth, inquisitiveness, and conscience are far safer than religious beliefs. But people ignore these internal gifts because they require self-responsibility. And self-responsibility requires thinking, a particularly difficult chore.
 
Instead, we're inclined to do the easy thing and surrender conscience and reason to belief and faith in what we are told--no matter how immoral or absurd.
 
Voltaire warned,
"Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
 
The Bible is believed to be, and claims itself to be, the word of a loving and just Creator.
 
Right out of the box, there's a problem. There is no original copy of it. There are just human-edited copies, of edited copies, of edited copies ...
 
 
BIBLE VERSES THAT REVEAL THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS A HUMAN INVENTION
Most revealing and damning is that the resultant modern edited Bibles (there are many versions) reflect the worst of human nature, not divine love or reason. The verses below are not obscure out-of-context oddities. They showcase some of the Bible's absurdity, injustice, cruelty, mass murder, superstition, tribal favoritism, slavery, misogyny, child execution, and more -- not divine intelligence and probity.
 
A few examples. A more extensive list is at the bottom.
 

• Genesis 3; Romans 5:12,14; 1 John 1:8-10
  The Bible Yahweh/Jesus god equates love with having himself in the form of Jesus sacrificially tortured to death. Guilt for this is collectivized by demanding that all people be responsible for the torture that was necessary to make amends for an original sin for which all humans but Adam and Eve had no part, but for which all of humanity is condemned to eternal torture in hell if they don't agree.
• Genesis 6–9: Drowns nearly all life on Earth, including children and animals.
• Exodus 21:7: Says a father can sell his daughter into slavery where she can be raped at will.
• Deuteronomy 21:18–21: Rebellious sons should be stoned to death.
• Numbers 31:17–18: Commands killing every male child and all women who’ve had intercourse. But keep virgin girls for yourselves to take home and rape.
• 2 Kings 2:23–24: Sends bears to kill 42 children for calling a prophet "baldhead."
• 1 Samuel 15:3: Commands the killing of men, women, children, and infants—leave nothing alive.

 
These are not allegories. They are commands and events presented as moral. Many are celebrated to this day.
 
When confronted with such verses, Bible believers will say, "You must understand context," or "That's the Old Testament and doesn't apply to Christians!"
 

CONTEXT SOLVES ANY PROBLEM
The Bible is claimed to be inspired by the Creator and clear in meaning to any person in the world. It should not require complex contextual defense, like an attorney finagling evidence, twisting testimony, and bending law to justify a thief caught in the act and with loot in his pockets.
 
 
THE OLD TESTAMENT (OT) DOESN'T APPLY ANYMORE 
Bible believers will also argue that the OT, Old Law, as it is also called, doesn't apply to Christians. But it clearly does:
 

1. The Jesus god is believed to be the same as the Old Testament, Old Law, Yahweh god.
2. Christianity is built on what the OT says about the fall, original sin, messianic prophecy, moral laws, a chosen people, and redemption. Genesis 3, Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, and Daniel 9.
3. Christians quote the OT when it suits their beliefs, e.g., Leviticus 18:22 on homosexuality.
4. The New Testament refers to the Old Testament over 850 times. Paul uses Abraham and Moses to argue theology; Revelation uses OT imagery and prophecy.
5. Christians advocate OT laws and practices: tithing, death penalty, opposition to abortion, Ten Commandments, etc.
6. Jesus, the foundation of Christianity, said, "Do not think I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets... Till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or tittle will pass from the law till all is fulfilled." (Matthew 5:17–19) To that, Bible defenders will say Jesus was the fulfillment of everything and thus the law should "pass away." However, this argument fails because heaven and Earth have not passed away. Additionally, the second coming, resurrection, Armageddon, etc. have not happened and are part of the "all" to be fulfilled before all the "jots and tittles" of the law pass away.

 
In short, if honesty matters, Christians can't discard the Old Testament when convenient, while simultaneously building doctrine upon it.
 
 
THE BIBLE SPAWNS ATHEISM
Such passages are reason enough for any thinking person not locked tight into Bible belief to reject the very notion of a Creator. Numerous Bible passages showing illogic, contradictions, and inconsistencies with reality are also damning.
 
Unfortunately, once baptized into atheism by what the Bible says, many atheists become religious in their zeal. By conflating man-made religions and their gods with a Creator, they refuse to recognize that the provable author of our existence has nothing to do with man-made religions.
In so doing, man-made god religion has been traded for man-made atheism religion. Both are based on belief and faith, not reason.
 
 
CHOOSE KNOWING, NOT BELIEF AND FAITH
The Bible, therefore, is not authored or inspired by the intelligent cause of the universe. It is the work of men—tribal, vengeful, cruel, authoritarian men—men attempting to wield power through fear and faith.
 
We are born with all the guidance we need: conscience, reason, empathy, curiosity, and love. We know, not believe, we have those gifts. They are so much better and safer than blind belief in man-made religions and their amoral gods, or blind belief in atheism and its resultant amoral nihilism.
The provable and true Creator, whatever it may be, is not a genocidal tribal deity. It’s not found in books full of blood and obedience. It is reflected in the wonders of nature and the light of reason and conscience within us.
 
We were not meant to believe and obey—we were meant to think and know.

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A MORE EXTENSIVE LIST OF VERSES PROVING THE BIBLE IS MAN-MADE
Genesis 3; Romans 5:12,14; 1 John 1:8-10
The Bible god equates love with having himself in the form of Jesus sacrificially tortured to death. Guilt for this is collectivized by demanding that all people be responsible for the torture that was necessary to make amends for an original sin for which all humans but Adam and Eve had no part, but for which all of humanity is condemned to eternal torture in hell if they don't agree.
Genesis 6-9
Killed all of humanity except 8 adults in a horrific flood as a lesson on morality. The estimated toll was as much as 4 billion people, including innocent infants and children, also countless animals.
Genesis 19; 20; 28; 29; Exodus 21
Condones the practice of incest, adultery, genocide, sexism, keeping concubines (300 for Solomon), keeping and beating slaves (with the only limitation being to not injure their eyes or teeth).
Genesis 38:7, 10
Slays sons.
Exodus 19:12
Orders executions by arrow or stone for getting too close to a mountain.
Exodus 21:7
A man can sell his daughters into slavery to please the master.
Exodus 21:17; Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Orders that young boys who disobey or curse their parents be stoned to death.
Exodus 22:18
Commands killing witches.
Exodus 22:20; Hosea 13:16; Joshua 10:1-42; 1 Samuel 15:3
Is partial to one race and keeps them in good graces if they commit murder, bash babies to the ground, and rip open pregnant women.
Exodus 30:33; 2 Chronicles 26:19-; 1 Chronicles 21; Torah
Kills people for making an ointment, burning incense, taking a census (75,000 slaughtered), for not cutting the ends of young boys' penises off or eating fat.
Exodus 31:14,15
Killed people for working or gathering sticks on the Sabbath, and for profaning it.
Exodus 32:27; Deuteronomy 13:6-
Tells men to kill their wives (even if pregnant), children, and friends if they disagree with them on religion, commands no mercy be given, and is wrathful if lives are spared.
Exodus 35:2
Anyone who works on the sabbath should be put to death.
Exodus 12; 14; Romans 9:17
Kills the firstborn humans, including innocent infants, children, and animals of the entire Egyptian nation, and then commanded that the slaughter be celebrated yearly as Passover.
Leviticus 11:7; 19:19
You will be cut off (killed, stoned to death) from the people if you touch the skin of a dead pig, sow two kinds of seed side by side, make garments of different materials, or let cattle breed with other than their kind.
Leviticus 26:15
Bring sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy sight and drain life.
Leviticus 26:29; 2 Kings 6:27,29; Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 4:9,11
Forces people to cannibalize their children.
Numbers 1:51
Will execute for getting near the Tabernacle.
Numbers 11:1
Sent a fire to consume those who complained about hardship.
Numbers 14:33
Forced innocent children to wander and die in a wilderness for forty years because of the sins of the parents.
Numbers 15:32-36
Killed people for working or gathering sticks on the Sabbath.
Numbers 16
Starved people, opened the earth to swallow them when they desired to eat, and then sent a plague to kill 14,700 more who complained about it.
Numbers 16:32
Opens the Earth to swallow people into a pit of fire.
Numbers 16:45,46
Consume them in an instant and send a plague.
Numbers 25:1-9
Anger burns, hangs them, kill all, kills 24,000 with a plague.
Numbers 31:17
Kill every little boy and every woman who has had intercourse.
Deuteronomy 2:34; 3:6; 13; Judges 21; Numbers 31
Commanded Jews to slaughter entire cities and to steal all their goods, kill and maim the animals, but keep alive the young virgin maidens to rape for their pleasure.
Deuteronomy 3:6
Completely destroy every city, man, woman, and child.
Deuteronomy 13; 2 Kings 10
Commands killing unbelievers.
Deuteronomy 20:10
Make war against those not willing to be enslaved.
Deuteronomy 20:16
Save nothing alive that breathes.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Orders that rebellious sons be stoned to death.
Deuteronomy 22:20-
Commands the killing of adulterers and non-virgins brought to marriage.
Deuteronomy 23:1-
Condemned victims for ten generations if they have mutilated sex organs or are of illegitimate birth.
Deuteronomy 32:23
Heap disasters, shoot arrows, starve, send pestilence, plague, wild beasts, and venom of vipers.
Deuteronomy 32:39
Kill and wound.
Joshua 8:25
12,000 men and women slaughtered.
Joshua 24:19
A jealous god who will not forgive.
Judges 3:20
A word resulted in a knife plunged into a person's belly.
Judges 4:17-21
Condoned Jael lying to a man and driving a tent peg into the man's temple while he slept.
2 Kings 2:23,24
Induced venomness snakes to bite people and sent bears out of the woods to tear apart forty-two children who called a man "baldhead."
2 Kings 6:28-
Sent a famine that forced people to eat their children, and beheaded seventy innocent sons and put their heads in a pile as a lesson.
2 Kings 10
Commands killing unbelievers.
2 Kings 15:16
Approved Israel king Menahem who slaughtered everyone in Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
2 Kings 17:25
Sent lions to kill them.
2 Kings 21:12
Bringing calamity and wiping people out as one wipes out a bowl and turns it upside down.
1 Samuel 6:19
Slays seventy for looking in a box.
1 Samuel 15:3
Smite, destroy, slay, spare nobody including infants and suckling children.
1 Samuel 18:27
Commands killing 200 and taking their foreskins.
1 and 2 Samuel
Praises a soldier who kills tens of thousands and then beheads, and cuts off foreskin trophies.
2 Samuel 5:8
Commands killing the lame and blind.
2 Samuel 6:8
Slays Nathan for trying to stop a box from tipping over.
1 Kings 21:21-23
Condones lying and deception and punishes with disaster for it.
1 Chronicles 21
Kills people for taking a census.
2 Chronicles 26:19-
Condemned to leprosy children, their children, and a king who burned incense.
Psalms 47:2
Is a terrible oppressive lord.
Psalms 78:49
Unleashed anger, wrath, indignation, hostility.
Psalms 137:8,9
Make it a happy occasion to seize infants and dash them against the rocks.
Following this Bible god command, Christian Spanish Conquistadors bashed babies' heads and fed them to dogs.

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Isaiah 31:2
Bring disaster, the one he helps will fall, both will perish together.
Isaiah 66:4
Bring their fears upon them.
Jeremiah 1:14
Disaster will be poured out on all who live.
Jeremiah 4:10,20
Lies and deceives.
Jeremiah 11:11
Will bring a disaster they cannot escape and their cries will be ignored.
Jeremiah 11:17
Has anger because of incense and therefore brings disaster.
Jeremiah 11:22
Punish them, young men will die by sword, sons and daughters starved.
Jeremiah 18:11
Prepares a disaster and devises a plan against people.
Jeremiah 19:9
Forces people to cannibalize their children.
Jeremiah 27:8,10,15
Punish with sword, famine, plague, banish, kill.
Jeremiah 32:42
Brought great calamity on the people.
Jeremiah 35:17
Bringing disaster.
Jeremiah 44:2
Brought disaster, laid cities to ruins and desolation because they burned incense.
Jeremiah 45:5
Demolish what was built, uproot what was planted, bring disaster on every living creature, kill as a war spoil.
Jeremiah 48:10
Cursed for keeping the sword back from blood.
Lamentations 3:38
Sends calamities.
Ezekiel 14:9
I have deceived.
Ezekiel 20:24
Sacrifice every firstborn in the fire to devastate them.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Terror of the Lord.
Hebrews 10:31
The Lord is a fearful thing.