2006-07-12 17:01:24 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-07-12 17:02:30 · answer #1 · answered by Sammy Hagar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think anyone actually thinks God wrote the Bible. Some say it was inspired of God.
Anyone that has the ability to observe patterns of human behavior knows that people have their idiosyncratic needs and desires that filter reality and distort it.
We also know that the current Bible is a compilation of scriptures written by a diverse group. And we know that there are other scriptures that were voted into heresy.
We also know that the Christian leaders regularly persecute scientists who discover information that does not support Christian doctrine. Christians even kill some people who have different opinions.
The probability that the Bible is entirely the word of God is is very remote.
More probable is the idea that God talked with many people and the beliefs shared by all religions are really God's word. The rest is just denominational fluff. The stuff that people will kill for in the name of God.
2006-07-12 17:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by valcus43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is literally impossible.
Try this. Have your mom tell you a story about some incident when she was younger while you record it with a tape recorder or your computer. Then try write down every last word, in the exact order that she spoke it, verbatim. You'll find that it is simply humanly impossible to do so.
Not only is it impossible for humans to recieve and repeat information flawlessly like that, you have to understand that some of the bible is more than 2,000 years old. It's like the telephone game you may have played with your friends; one person says something to another, and to another, and to another, and by the time it gets to the last person, the story has changed completely.
Likewise, in ancient times, much of the bible was word-of-mouth stories, because many people couldn't read or write. They relied on story tellers until years passed by and people wrote them down. Over that time, they may have become convoluted.
Unfortunately, our own inability to be perfect literally ensures that the bible is not the true word of God, but it is close enough (or so, we have faith in the idea that it SHOULD be close enough) to the original that we can take it for granted.
At any rate, take it with a grain of sand; someone may have tried to sabotage it along the way, and how would we ever know?
2006-07-12 17:08:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was written many hundreds of years ago and was originally translated with several errors (even now it is hard to translate anything 100 correctly) as time passed it has been rewritten many times - the best know example being the "King James VERSION" you will notice it is even called "VERSION" so you know it is NOT taken from the original Text... which may or may not have been the true words of God as selected by some men and put into print.
2006-07-12 17:07:11 · answer #4 · answered by CF_ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the best source for knowing how God works, acts, and thinks. Many of the words and acts in it are actually what other people did, but those places where God says something, be very careful that you do not forget those words.
2006-07-12 17:05:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think while the Bible has a lot to say about God and God's relationship with human beings, it was written not by God but by sincere and inspired humans struggling to understand Him. (And I think a lot of extra stuff got kind of attached to it... there seems to be a lot of history, stories, legends, anecdotes, rules of behavior, wise sayings, etc that essentially tell us more about the culture and mores of the Hebrew people than about God.)
So essentially, I guess what I'm saying is that I think that the Bible - or at least some of it - is OF God, but not BY God.
Just my opinion.
2006-07-12 17:09:49 · answer #6 · answered by B D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament is the Word of the Creator God (i.e. Jehovah), the New Testament is the Word of Christ and the TRUE GOD (i.e. the completion of the Spiritual World).
Learn the TRUTH at:
http://www.gnosis.org/gnintro.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen06.html
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Places/Dornach/19230715p01.html
Gnosticism is THE TRUTH!!!!!!
2006-07-12 17:08:48 · answer #7 · answered by WWJD: What Would Joker Do? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don’t. The bible was written many years after Jesus’ death and the first manuscripts have never been found. So what we know today as the Bible is just a manipulated book written by people to gain control of other people.
2006-07-12 17:05:02 · answer #8 · answered by llmk08 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is an inspired book that reveals the nature of GOD through the writings of inspired men.
2006-07-12 17:04:04 · answer #9 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. I believe the bible represents "God" in it's truest sense in that because "Man" scribed what is to be known as the Bible. That flaw in itself represents imperfection. "The Alpha and the Omega" There are parts that are true and parts that are not. Which is which is any ones guess.
2006-07-12 17:09:42 · answer #10 · answered by Dargonesti99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it started out that way, but between editors and translators, it now only represents the Word of God.
Besides, when was the last time God came down to edit His galleries?
2006-07-12 17:03:47 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋