This question is actually meant seriously.
We all know God through only the Bible or Quran. Books written by humans, who claimed it was the word of God.
God has done no other attempt ever to show Him to us, or to even give us a sign that He exists.
I'm truly wondering how you feel about this. If there was no Bible, would you have the exact same idea about what/who God is?
2006-07-23 05:03:52 · 22 answers · asked by Thinx 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In my believer days, I didn't read the Bible anyway up until right before I quit believing. It wouldn't have made much difference for me during that time, but without the ability to actually read it, I would probably still be a believer. I think this is why for nearly 2000 years, the Catholic church discouraged lay people from reading anything but the approved portions.
2006-07-23 05:29:15 · answer #1 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol, dear, there are many religions all over the world other than Christianity or Islam, which don’t have any religious books like the Bible, but have got an idea of the God any way. These religions and the Holy Books not necessarily offer the same idea about the God, for example, the God in the Semitic literature and the God in the Vedas are quite dissimilar. In different parts of the world people have eventually developed the idea of a super power. Some people have made idols and some people wrote books, but there exists an overall idea of the God almost everywhere, who will punish you if you do anything wrongful, and reward your good deeds even though nobody recognizes them in this mortal world. Even if there was no Bible, this idea of God would remain in our hearts to restrain us from doing wrong, and to give us courage to fight back when we are at loss. It doesn’t really matter whether a God really exists or not, we need a God and a Hell and a Heaven to motivate ourselves to live our lives.
… that’s it!
2006-07-23 05:39:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are mixing up God with religion.
Bible is the foundation of the Christian religion. The God in Bible is not described. Similarly, the Koran represents Muslim religion and again the Muslim God is not described.
In Bible, God created all in 6 days - and he created Adam and Eve. So what the Christian God did is described. If Bible were not written, some other religion would have taken the place of Christianity which again would have described the God as almighty with different actions of His described.
Yes, the God would be different as the descriptions of what the new God do would be different.
Muslim Allah is different; Hinduism has n number of Gods very well described in fine details and actions and powers. In fact, Hinduism has two-tier God system - the all-powerful trinity and not-so-powerful natural Gods (almost same as Greek Gods)
2006-07-23 05:25:07 · answer #3 · answered by nodoublespeak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Church, even without the Bible, can still teach about God. In fact, without the Church, there would've been no Bible because all those people who wrote the books were in the Church. So you see, you got it all reversed.
Its different with the Quran though because it was revealed only to Mohammed so that there was no Islam before the Quran.
2006-07-23 20:08:34 · answer #4 · answered by Romeo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are very, very few monotheistic religions outside of the three 'bookwriter' religions (which are variations on the same one, after all). I think that that's the biggest legacy that Moses gave us, and by no means is it inevitable to me that more than half the world would have become monotheistic if Moses hadn't been born (I'm not convinced that Abraham ever existed). I think that we'd all be within that band of religions encompassing Europe's great mythologies, animism, paganism and Hinduism - syncretic beliefs in certain protector Gods and the supernatural.
Or all of us might have given it up by now. It's tough to be sure.
2006-07-23 05:10:06 · answer #5 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the time I was a child, I knew there was something out there, somewhere that made us possible. Haven't you ever heard the question, "Where did I come from". Meaning there as a beginning.
Native Indians believed in a supreme being before they ever saw a bible. They worshiped. I think there is something inborn from birth that tells us, we didn't do it by ourselves.
Yes, I would believe, it might not be the same as I do this day, but I would believe in something much bigger than me.
Thanks for asking
2006-07-23 05:09:59 · answer #6 · answered by rpjhestand 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering that I don't put too much stock at all into any kind of scripture, I would. God can't be revealed through words. In fact, the word "God" probably isn't even correct. This "God," "Higher Power," etc can only be realized. I'm having some difficulty conveying my message via the english language, because God transcends all language. He just is, yet he is not.
2006-07-23 05:09:18 · answer #7 · answered by ryan5555 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First an answer to the middle part of your question. God has done other attempts to show him to us. He has given us signs of His existence.
That is why even if there was no Bible I would still believe the same.
2006-07-23 05:08:30 · answer #8 · answered by J T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody would have this God to believe in , they are ridiculous to say they would still believe in him, they would never have given him a thought, it would be some other fan mag however if not for the Bible and the God groupies would be infatuated by another remote fictional character.
2006-07-23 07:50:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
B-4 we have our own gods which we believe and worship like sharks,...until the missionaries came and teach us about the bible.We all now know about GOD which a we all believe in,
and i just think that if there is no Bible we will never know what/who GOD is, may be then there will be other ways GOD will show that he exists.
2006-07-23 05:22:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋