Since the bible can be manipulated for any propose, it can can not be the word of God, True or false?

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As you read the answers to this question, you can read the manipulated answeres, not that its your fault, its simply your reaction

That was a nice metaphor, GODS word if you will, would not be able to be manipulated , IF there was a GOD

Answer 1

When the Christians canonized “select” ancient works 500 years after the death of Christ they turned their attention to enforcing their dogma on all of humanity. Thanks to the interpretation in Rome and the Vatican directed work of Guttenberg, those that followed the path that preceded Christianity by a recorded 10,000 years were wrong. And
their continued belief in something other than church’s manipulated “Holy Book” Had! Just had!...to be pawns, tools or otherwise in league with evil forces. It took the Christians 500 years to incorporate existing celebrations and attempt to make them their own, stealing symbols and all in their lust for power.
Through Papal decree and deliberate manipulation of ancient texts the Christians demonized any that would not submit to the point of force and induced hatred amongst their followers. To borrow from another a 1500 year old jihad requiring all others to convert to their beliefs.

Answer 2

The bible was written by MANY people (men) over a long period of time. The bible as we know it is a compliation of this and that, much of the writings have conveniently been left out if they disagreed with the current agenda of the church(es). And much of the bible has been tossed because it has been deemed unreliable. Now the 'holy people' will say that it was God writing THROUGH men ...... I ask, where does this revelation come from? How do I know that Steven King isn't writing God's word? And, unless you know ancient Greek and a few other ancient languages, you are reading other men's translations of scrolls, etc. And large pieces of those scrolls are missing due to rot and age. I suppose it is a "fill in the blanks" game at best. And, I am quite sure that each translation fits an agenda of the time. Sorry to be so cynical, but facts are facts. IT is a long book, easy to read, but very boring, and filled with metaphors that can be translated into just about whatever you want it to read. I suspect the new scrolls just unearthed and translated...Judas being part of Christ's plot...will be conveniently ignored. Oh well. What else is new.

Answer 3

Irrelevant. The Bible was never the word of God, but the word of the various gospels in transcribing the oral tradition of Christianity since Jesus and in relating various personally achieved revelations. The Bible was and remains the word of Man. Similarly, the Koran was related through Gabriel, not God, to Mohammad, and only as much as a human could understand. I'm not sure where Abraham got the idea to write the Torah, but it was also written by a human being.

Whether or not a divine being spoke to the prophets, human inadequacies would have tainted the final product - religion. All religions must be impure because humans are involved, while the divine itself is supposedly pure. Religions cannot, therefore, be the only method of reaching the divine, since the method of a personal, more pure connection with divinity always remains.

If there's divinity in the first place, of course...

Answer 4

For 1500 years the Catholic Church had a monopoly on interpreting the Bible. The widespread availability of printed Bibles during the Renaissance coupled with an increasing faith in the powers of human reason to contemplate God led many to reject the Church's orthodoxy and to interpret the Bible in their own way. Now, there are upwards of 30,000 different sects of Christianity, each with its own unique interpretation of Holy Scripture. Clearly, the Bible is a manipulable document.

That doesn't make it a worthless document. Take the U.S. Constitution, for instance. In the 1850s the Supreme Court read the Constitution and decided that it did not allow for blacks to have a day in court - they could not sue for redress of grivances. Forty years later, it was decided that the Constitution allowed for "separate but equal" facilities for the races. Personally, I feel the U.S. Constitution is among the finest documents ever written (by no means perfect however); but in the wrong hands, even the Constitution can be manipulated to suit evil purposes.

So it is with the Bible. Does that make the Bible any less fantastic a document? I think not. The Bible is an account of the historical and spiritual travails of a group of people who believe that they have a special relationship with God. I do not believe the Bible is the letter-for-letter, inerrant, dictated Word of God; there are too many conflicting and contradicting source-texts in existence for us to definitively say that we possess a fully accurate version of the Bible. And besides, there is ample evidence to indicate that earlier passages of the Bible were often "edited" by later authors to reflect the truth as they saw it at the time.

And yet there is much of the Divine in the Bible. The Bible contains remarkable evidence of God's love for his people and for his willingness to act in history on behalf of his people. It also reveals God's ability to accept mistakes - time and again the people of Israel rejected God, and time and again he welcomed them back.

Answer 5

FALSE! The words are only written one way. People tend to find several ways to take them out of context and in many cases - invent a context that's not even there.

Someone can take a recipe for Pecan Pie - and start changing it. It does not change the original work. Its purely the other parties think their ideas are better and still claim its Pecan Pie. By the time some get through changing it - there are no pecans left. Apples, oranges. potatoes, carrots, everything but.

The obuse of the Bible is very much like the recipe analogy.

Answer 6

True

The problem being is that they are merely words, words which can and HAVE been manipulated several times throughout history. But most of the message of the Bible really relies on interpretation.

Answer 7

I think of the Bible, and other great religious books of the world, as an accummulation of the collective wisdom of humans. So, in the sense of Bible being the spoken/written word of some human-form Being in the sky, I guess I would answer "True, it can not be the word of God." However, it CAN be one of the wisest books you read. However, don 't forget to read the writings from other religious traditions besides the Judeo-Christian one!

Answer 8

I believe the Bible to be at the very least BASED on the Word of God. However, yes, anyone who wishes can "interpret" much of Bible teachings to suit a position. This is the fault of the individual.

Answer 9

The Bible is the inspired word of God and is infallible when properly interpreted with the wisdom from the Holy Spirit, not by people with agendas.

Answer 10

What...are you kidding?? People use anything they can get hands on for their own selfish/greedy purposes. Even though some of us are good, no one's perfect. We have a basically selfish nature. That's the point of the Bible. We need Help.
I read once, "the best lies uses a lot of truth", and I agree. So using the Bible's own words are a great way to prove oneself. It does say, however, that if we ask God for wisdom He gives it anyone who asks. Let Him prove Himself....[James 1:5]
Thank you for listening to me.