To nonbelievers: Have you ever read the BIBLE? (See below)?

Question

When I mean read, I not referring to one chapter here or a few verses there. I am talking about the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. All 66 books, both Old and New Testaments. Every single word.

It is shocking to find that many of the people who reject the Bible and its claims have NEVER EVEN READ IT!

Before a person can genuinely comment on the Bible, they first must read all of the Bible and understand it.

To get a hold of the Bible, it does requires a faith response....

It is more than possible to intellectually prove and back up each claim with scientific and historical evidence that the Bible is the written Word of God and is 100% true, but that means very little without a genuine faith response. It must be ultimately accepted by a willing faith, not just a verbal acceptance but with a loving heart. It can only profit one's life when the individual totally accepts its teaching by faith. Then and only then, can the Bible get a hold of you.

Before I comment, I would first point out. I HAVE READ THE ENTIRE BIBLE MYSELF, cover to cover, word for word, and I have also read many different translations and versions of it as well. Do I favor one more than another? No, many Bible, regardless of the language translations are the same Word of God as another.

To others, you know who you are, I have also read many other religious writings in my time, (The Qur'an, the whole Torah is the Old testament, The teaching of the Buddha, The book of the dead, Hindu beliefs, and much more.) I have spent years following the THEORY of evolution and I know much about the world of science. I have traveled the world and studied art, philosophy, history music and culture. I am well verse in several languages as well.

Before one is to make assumptions about a person, a wise person must first get to know more about him.

Proof of the Bible.....

SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY: Not a single scientific fact or discovery has ever disproved a Biblical statement or scientific event within the Bible.

HISTORICAL ACCURACY: Many skeptics have labeled the Bible a collection of myths, poems and fictional stories. However, even secular historical research has proven the Bible to be 100% accurate in its events.

ARCHEOLOGICAL ACCURACY: In spite of repeated attempts by critics, archeology has consistently verified the reliability of the Bible.

MANUSCRIPT ACCURACY: The Bible has more manuscript evidence supporting its reliability and accuracy of translation than any ten pieces of ancient literature combined.

PROPHETIC ACCURACY: The Bible is filled with a flawless record of fulfilled prophecies in exact, perfect detail.

CONTINUITY ACCURACY: The Bible was written by 40 different people from all walks of life and cultures, spanning a 1600 year period. No contradictions exist in any form.

Even more proof of the Bible....

INDESTRUCTIBILITY FACTOR: The Bible has weathered the trial of constant attacks from its conception and continues to triumph in great popularity.

POPULARITY FACTOR: Since its first printing, over nine billion copies have been printed and the Bible is still a best seller.

TRANSFORMING SUPPORT: Billions of lives have been miraculously transformed by its teaching, making it the most impacting item in the history of man.

WIDESPREAD SUPPORT: Many great historical leaders have based their lives and reputation on the accuracy of the Bible.

SACRIFICIAL SUPPORT: No other book in history has the support of countless millions who have literally laid down their lives to defend its cause.

CHRIST'S SUPPORT: The Bible was personally endorsed as the infallible "Word of God" by Jesus himself.

RESURRECTION SUPPORT: His resurrection confirms that Jesus is who he claimed to be, and his statements regarding the Bible's inspiration are reliable.

Yes! The Bible WAS written by men. Most people seem to believe that mankind is imperfect and that it is impossible for a human being to be involved in such a perfect act. People will often say, "Well, the Bible was written by men." and I reply, "Yes, so was the manual for your car. Does the fact that a human being wrote that manual disqualify it from being accurate and correct?" The real answer is obvious. Since it is more than possible for a person or a group of people to write a manual that is void of errors, then why cannot a person or a group a people write a Bible is infallible? In most case as a society, we often put our entire lives in the hands of men based on their written words. Just think, every time when you start your car and drive, you are dependent upon the brakes, steering and other components for safety that a person had to first write down how it works on paper. This proves that although a person can make mistakes, they do not necessarily make mistakes in every case.

The Bible passes the test. I have spent time witnessing to atheists, agnostics, cultists and people involved in other world religions. Since there are many different sacred writings and millions of people have placed their entire eternal destiny on each of these books, how do we know which one of them is the truth? In order to be fair and balanced, the Bible must be put through the same exact test each and every other writing has been put through. I say to all, "Let's remove ourselves from our own set of beliefs and agendas and analyze the Bible and every other sacred writing. Let's put them all through the same 'divine acid test' and objectively look at the results, not with emotions but with facts." And at the end of each test, only the Bible passes ALL of the criteria set forth, every single one, proving that the Bible is the perfect, unchanging, infallible, inspired, written Word of God.

In many cases, the rejection is based on nothing more than willful and blind ignorance. I have been told several times that the Bible is full of contradictions. I asked those same people, "Could you show me at least one contradiction?" About 99.9% of the time, that person rejecting the Bible and its claims has been stumped. Why can't they find even one contradiction? This goes to prove that a person's rejection of the Bible and its infallibility is not based on scientific, historical or archeological fact, but only to ease their own conscience and justify their sinful lifestyle.

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”- Albert Einstein

Even Einstein knew you can't have one without the other. He knew that science can only answer so much. But what happens when people are confronted with something that science cannot explain or ever answer? Example: a person with a deathly illness. This person is going to die. All medical science proves it. Nothing can be done to save the person. Then suddenly, this person is miraculously cured. All the science know to man cannot explain it. That is where faith comes in. Science cannot answer everything in the world and Einstein knew that.

It is sad that many Christians received such a wonderful gift, but many still have not unwrapped it and opened it yet. There is still time for them and hope too.

There is lots of SCIENTIFIC, HISTORICAL, ARCHEOLOGICAL evidence proving many event that are within the Bible actually happened even the way it was written. Even if I were to present them all here and now. Not everyone would believe or accept them. Even the Bible itself speaks about this. Those who know the truth about God, stand by the truth about God. "What is truth?" Pilate once asked Jesus.

"You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." - John 18:37

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." - John 3:16-21

Many people do not understand the mission of a Christian, including many Christians, which is....

"Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." - Matthew 28:18-20

"Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ." - Galatians 1:10

What I do, I do for the glory and grace of God.

Answer 1

No... they usually haven't read the Bible. The more I read athiests questions on yahoo answers.. the more I realize that they either:
A: Have never even read the Bible
B: Only read parts of the Bible
C: Make up their own idea and thoughts about what the Bible says
D: Purposely misinterpret the Bible to try and "confuse" Christians or
E: Get their beliefs on some internet site... they either look up Christian bashing sites and cut and paste... or they recite what they read on the net from someone else... without fully researching it...

It's sad.. but true...
The worst part is they think that they are so intelligent when they do it. I feel sorry for them. We should pray for them...

This guy used to be a hard core Athiest... He set out to prove Christianity wrong with scientific facts. Instead... he proved it right... WWW.leestrobel.com

They will see but not SEE they will hear but not HEAR.

Answer 2

I have read the bible cover to cover twice and it has not changed my non-belief in christianity. I read it once on my own and once as a part of my comparative religions curriculum in college.

The bible was written by men - imperfect human beings. It is nothing more than their own take on a situation.... every writer no matter the historical period writes with personal bias intact. I don't believe the bible is 100% truth but then I don't believe it's 100% fallacy either.. it contains both. However, because so many people over the years have 'adjusted' versions of the book it is hard to separate the truths from the tall tales.

Answer 3

Yes I have read the entire thing, from cover to cover, several times - and that is why it is so easy for me to dismiss it all as fantasy and make believe.

Lets examine what you wrote: "It is more than possible to intellectually prove and back up each claim with scientific and historical evidence that the Bible is the written Word of God and is 100% true, but that means very little without a genuine faith response." There is something glaringly missing - an intellectual proof backed up with scientific and historical evidence. You have none. Your entire beleif system is based upon faith - which is the blind allegiance to unknown/unproven concepts and stories. That is neither scientific, nor is it intellectual.

Sorry if that is blunt, but it is the truth.

Answer 4

Yeah, really.
I doubt that even 90% of the Christians have read the WHOLE bible, every single word.

Nonbelievers read a couple of pages, and don't continue on because they can generalize and expect what's going to be next.
Let's say there's another book. I could read the first 10 pages and stop reading just for the fact that I know how it's going to turn out.

So you're saying that in order to comment or say an opinion about the Bible, a person must have read the ENTIRE Bible Word by word? I don't think so.

I'm just trying to explain this nonsense, because I know many Christians and even themselves think it's stupid to have to read the entire Bible in order to comment or reject it. The choice is his/hers.

Even myself as I Christian, I don't think that it should be obligatory to read the Entire Bible.

I doubt even 5% of the world has done that, no offense.

Answer 5

I completed reading all 66 book of the bible over 28 times before I turned 18 years of age. The more I read it, the less I believed of it.

My faith is not in a god that would tell one group of people to "utterly destroy" another group of people, "men, women, children and beasts of the field," so that they can have their land and resources.

My faith is not in a god that would make a bet with "the devil" and allow the complete destruction of a man's life, just to prove a point.

My faith is not in a god that would destroy all of his creation, including every animal and plant, just because people aren't "good."

My faith is not in a god that would choose any group of people as his chosen people and allow all others to be considered "evil."

My faith will never be in a book that depicts GOD as that sort of being.

The bible is simply the ancient stories the hebrews told each other to make each other feel good about the horrible things they were doing.

The new testament is barely any better. Jesus had a lot of great things attributed to him by early followers, however, most of his followers don't even know most of what he said and would rather listen to what the fake apostle paul said than what Jesus said... even though Paul never met jesus... nor witnessed his ministry... or ever heard him speak

I just don't buy it. I don't believe it. I don't really want to hear about it. I certainly don't want people telling me I have to live by it... and most definately don't want people thinking they should make our secular legal system resemble any of it.

Anything else?

Answer 6

I have read it through three times. RSV, ESV, and KJV.
It is reecommended never to start with KJV but a more contemporary version because the language is far off from today. In KJV, suffer means allow, charity means love, god (lowercase) can mean set apart by God.

Reading the bible requires faith, for someone with faith, reads it with hope of being revealed answers to hidden truths within, to increase their faith, to increase their personal knowledge and wisdom. Everytime you read it it can teach you a little more, you didn't see the first time; if you read it properly, which is to do it hoping to seek revelations, answers, truths, and epiphanies. Until I read Ezekiel 36, I never realized that the prophecy of baptism was in Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 36
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

I was never taught this chapter or heard it referenced in church. This is why personally reading it can be so great.

3 John 1
3It gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth. 4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

Answer 7

Sure. Several times. Also the Tao te Ching, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, theological books and dozens of theological essays.

"A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism” ~ Donald Morgan

Your premise is way, way off base. It has been my experience that atheists, as a rule, are much more knowledgeable about the bible and the REAL history of religion than 90% of christians are... including christian preachers. Your question is indicative of wishful thinking and delusion, rather than reality.

Answer 8

Why do you care so much about what others believe? Are you not comfortable enough with your own religion that you need to go around berating others? Hahahhah I wonder if that would be something that "God" would want you to do. Is that in the 66 books of the Bible that you supposedly read? I wonder. Besides, the true ignorant people are the ones who believe...correct?

Answer 9

Very many atheist have read the bible over and over. Some Atheists can quote the bible more than christians. Faith is a gift from God.

Answer 10

JBW is a loud mouth ***** pay no attention to her.

I have read that boring book not all but parts of it. Thing is i know what comes after the bible was written is far worse, the crusades, the IRA, protestant reformation, the witchtrials, the holocaust all of these actions of true christians™ that refuse to take credit.