Atheists & Agnostics

I'm not here to argue that the Bible is the word of God. It's not. It was written by fallible humans in a time before the advent of science. I'll take wisdom, wherever I can find it. We don't actually know if Jesus was a historical person or a composite of several characters. It's not my business to persuade you to anything. We Buddhists don't try to convert people to anything. I will say that the difference between the Old testament adherence to Judaic law, and the New Testament's emphasis on compassion, peace, forgiveness, and tolerance -- those new ideas didn't just spring up out of nowhere. There is plenty of evidence that the philosophy of compassion and loving kindness were influences from Mahayana Buddhism and Greco Buddhism that had reached the West from India and Afghanistan via the silk road, which was opened by Alexander the Great.

I don't know what happened to make you so hostile to the Bible. Finding wisdom is like panning for gold. Don't throw away a nice gold nugget because it sits in a pan of worthless sand.