Christians This Question Is For You ?

Question

I have often heard from many believers that even Satan has a presence in the church, which is why even in church people can still have impure thoughts. If Satan can find his way in the church, how do Christians know that Satan didn't find his way into the Bible and twist the whole book? After all, men did vote on which books would make the Holy Bible.

Answer 1

you need to just have trust in god that it didn't happen that way

Answer 2

The original translation of the Bible is the Douay Rheims Version. You are right. Satan did find his way into the Bible.....just look around at all the DIFFERENT translations. Non of them agree with each other.

The Bible did not come about until many years after Christ died. During this time the Church relied on what was handed down mouth to mouth, generation to generation (tradition) and by what the Apostles had written. The Bible was assembled from writings of the apostles and from the Old Jewish Writings (Old Testament). These writings were carefully thought about and many were deleted (like the Dead Sea Scrolls) because they were found not to contain tradition and many were erroneous.....and still more so called Gospels were not written until some 300 or more years later....such as the Gnostic Gospels.

It is best to find a copy of the original Bible, the Douay Rheims Bible. It is available from Tan Publishing Company which has a website.

Answer 3

The Word of God (The Bible) is holy, and God inspired. Satan cannot meddle with God's word. He can meddle with man and the way that we understand the word. That is why there are so many denominations of the church. Some teach the word as it is written and some have had there understanding corrupted by Satan. Besides, if Satan twisted the Bible he did it in a very unflattering way. Why would he leave the message the same? In the Bible Satan is still portrayed as evil and contrary to God's Righteousness.

Answer 4

This is inspired from an expert friend of mine. I am going to do my best to paraphrase what they have said in their answers.

He did find his way into books. When the disciples wrote the gospels and other apostles wrote theirs, the same gnostics and pharisees wrote over 300 of their own. They wrote stories about Adam have a second wife and Jesus killing a friend at the age of 10. Also this is where the DiVinci code got their beliefs. Many fake stories were wrote a century after Christ and some were very popular. Some of these books ended up becoming the Koran in 600ad. Constantine even though he created a Roman state run religion to compete with Christianity, did a fair job in dismissing most of these books to create the bible.

Even the Jewish writings which we know as the old testament had stories similar and books wrote in other cultures. Some of the old testament's characters ended up as characters with very same stories in other cultures.

So yes it did happen to an extent. I think it is important to understand the bible is the inspired word of God. Yes you will find mistakes and mistranslations in it. It really was meant for God to help man understand it. If you try to understand it by yourself you could get confused or end up creating a whole new religion based on odd theories. We have plenty of those running around today.

Answer 5

well, im not a christian either, but only the first answer really makes sense, becuse all the others are assumptions in christian pseudo-logic, somehow the posters seem to know god and satan better than their bible does

satan would have erased his own demise.. haha yeah, sure, those passages of the bible (althought it all serves those purposes) are the ones that have gotten people accused of following satan, or of being under the influence of him, causeing great massacres and pain to innocent people, and absolutions to guilty people..

do you think you should judge by the words said about something, or by the actions caused by it?

in that case, wouldnt you say the bible was made by the devil? look at all the pain and fights and injustices it has originated

The other day I read a remark about hitler being atheist.. cant be farther for the truth, he was a bible schollar, along all his kabbhalistic fellows heading the nazi government, look at the crusades, look at the conflict caused because the jews went to steal a land they claimed biblical right over, look at the slavery it fomented!

the bible has been the source of many of the worst episodes of mainkind since it was written, what would you say then, if you judged it for what it has caused? was it written by god or by the devil? make your call

Answer 6

YOu need to think about who is more powerful, God or the created being, Satan? Since God is more powerful, can't He make sure the right books are included in the bible? If you read it through, you will find no contradictions even though it was written over several thousand years. What is said in one place will mirror what it says in any other place, yet most did not even know one another or read the others works.

Answer 7

The Bible is the inspired Word of God. Don't go on hearsay, go to the Word of God everytime.

Yes Christians can have impure thoughts, but it is up to each to focus on God's Word, and the more they do that, the less impure thoughts they will have.

God's Word is pure. Hebrews 4 v 12 says

For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Answer 8

A question still being debated.

It has to do with faith and a close study of the Word. Rejected books of the Bible contain contradictory statements, false information and muddled facts.

If you believe the Word is divinely inspired, then Satan may try to twist our understanding of it or our translations of the ancient tongues, but not the original word.

Answer 9

I'd just like to point out that the idea that the books of the Bible being decided on by a vote is a common misconception which did not in fact occur.

Answer 10

Because when deciding on which books to place together there was established rules:
1. Must agree with the teaching of the Disciples
2. Must be in agreement with what has been written in the Old Testament
3. Must be taught in all the Church's at that time.

These rules keep all decisions out of the feelings of man and into factual decisions.

Answer 11

The bible is God inspired. Churches are corrupted by men as much as by satan. Even a christian can be corrupted of satan. Churches are not infallible. If man can enter then satan can enter w/him.