There’s plenty of them in it. The tribes of the old testament didn’t have to believe, they knew that a vengeful entity would cause the ground to open up, swallowing them and their family, if they didn’t follow the rules exactly. They knew because they’d seen it happen. The apostles didn’t have to believe because they hung out with a guy who called himself the son of god and kept performing miracles to prove it.
Of course, the folk a couple of towns over, who didn’t experience any of this, but heard the stories, would have to decide whether to believe that the step-son of a carpenter, and his real dad, were deities, one deity with multiple aspects, or just a clever ruse that took in the people who saw the performances. They might wonder why their sicknesses weren’t being cured, and decide to believe in the hope of redemption, or not to believe the story of a kind and benificient god who ignored them.
So the bible is full of atheists? IDK man, that doesn’t really make sense to me.
There’s plenty of them in it. The tribes of the old testament didn’t have to believe, they knew that a vengeful entity would cause the ground to open up, swallowing them and their family, if they didn’t follow the rules exactly. They knew because they’d seen it happen. The apostles didn’t have to believe because they hung out with a guy who called himself the son of god and kept performing miracles to prove it.
Of course, the folk a couple of towns over, who didn’t experience any of this, but heard the stories, would have to decide whether to believe that the step-son of a carpenter, and his real dad, were deities, one deity with multiple aspects, or just a clever ruse that took in the people who saw the performances. They might wonder why their sicknesses weren’t being cured, and decide to believe in the hope of redemption, or not to believe the story of a kind and benificient god who ignored them.