Do you you believe the Bible was made up?

Question

Do you believe the Bible was made up so people wouldn't be scared to die. Or should i ask, were religions made up so people wouldn't be scared to die?

Answer 1

Yes, the Bible is clearly not the Word of an infallible God.

The Bible says that the world has corners (Isaiah 11:12) and that it sets on pillars (I Samuel 2:8). It says that God accepted a human sacrifice -- he may have prevented Isaac's, but he allowed a general to sacrifice his own daughter without even a murmur, the text giving tacit support to the idea that having given his word, the man had to kill his child. (Judges 11:30-39). It clearly maintains that genocide is often commanded by God (Joshua 10:40-42 and I Samuel 15: 2, 3 and 8) and that, after killing all the adults in a race, taking the female children as sex slaves is permissible (Numbers 31: 17-18).

The God revealed by the Bible is not only both a liar who doesn't know the natural laws of his own world, and a monster, as shown above -- but he has no real regard, even for his own people, whom he forces into cannibalism (Leviticus 26: 27-29) when he is mad at them; or his priests, whose faces he wipes with dung (Malachi 2:1-3).

It is not only gays and lesbians that are hated by bible-god -- though they are the focus of many of the fundamentalists (which I call the biblio-idolators, as they have made the Bible into an idol.) This monstrosity also suggests killing kids who eat or drink too much (Deuteronomy 21: 18-21), and says that if he is angry with parents he will kill their children (Leviticus 26:22) and he blames things upon children whose great-great-great grandfathers committed the things being blamed on the kids (Exodus 20: 5).

Putting it in a word, bible-god is a monstrosity, a horrific demiurge of evil. Something that even he admits ( Isaiah 45:7 ) [Furthermore, the word used in Hebrew for evil, the word ra' is widely conceded to mean a number of different things: It can mean "wickedness," "mischief," "bad," "trouble," "hurt," "sore," "affliction," "ill," "adversity," "harm," "grievous," and "sad." So no matter what particular interpretation is given of this word -- it has profoundly negative implications. The idea that god is sovereign over the affairs of man makes this even worse, because no matter what interpretation it has, it indicates that bible-god deliberately does harm.]; evil about which he sometimes changes his mind (Exodus 32:14). What a font of unchanging morality -- that almighty God can decide to kill an entire people, and then be talked out of it by a human servant... Furthermore, it is obvious, if God can change his mind, then even if the Bible were not full of errors and horrors, you could not trust that God had not changed his mind on any other issue in it.

So, yes, I suppose if one wants to take as truth a book that says that beetles have four legs instead of six (Leviticus 11: 21-23) and that rabbits chew their cud [which they do NOT] (Deuteronomy 14:7) and if you are willing to, having accepted it as truth, overlook the fact that bible-god routinely changed his mind (I can show you other instances if you wish) then yeah, its the word of God.

I on the other hand know what infallible means -- and an infallible God could not create a fallible book -- so the Bible is simply myth.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
Schenectady, NY
http://www.rebuff.org
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Answer 2

Of course it's fiction. It doesn't match reality very well. Genesis begins with two naive creation myths. Bisop Ussher found that Creation was in 4004 BC, while Science finds the Universe is 15,000,000,000 years old. The story of Noah's Flood is naive too. No world flood ever occurred and can never occur. The Ark couldn't hold examples of all animals and would fall apart in the sea. I could continue with this all day. The Bible says pi is 3. It's really 3.14159...so I cannot use the Bible in engineering or even buying a hat. I wear size 7.8, not 8.2, as the Bible figure gives.

Answer 3

Religions came about as an attempt to explain natural phenomena such as lightning, earthquakes, fertility, the mystery of crops growing out of the ground one year and drought the next, and especially life and death. Ancient people ascribed human qualities to the gods, since they were already familiar with humans showing anger, revenge, fickleness, pleasure. In this way science and religion were the same thing at one time. But while science welcomes new information to correct its past mistakes, religion is exactly the opposite: no divine truth can be wrong! The bible is a compilation of some very intricate, complex stories accumulated over many years and edited in Nicea in 325 AD. But they're still just stories.

Answer 4

The bible was not made up by men, we are not that smart. If you ever read the book of Psalm chapter 22. It describes how Jesus would be crucified about a thousand years before the fact. In the Book of Job, God describes how the dinosaurs lived. At the time of Job, people could not describe the lifestyle of dinosaurs. God also describes the universe and the stars. Men didn't have that kind of science to be able to describe this things.
In conclusion:
2 Thessalonians 3:16"Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all."

Answer 5

No, i don't think it quite is genuine. I do have faith that many Christian leaders have abused their theological management to regulate society to their own ends, and use the Bible in a manner that leverages that purpose. i don't in spite of the shown fact that have faith it quite is the reason the Bible grew to become into certainly made. To have faith so could be to posit that each and every thing of Christianity got here approximately as a conspiracy by using those attempting to regulate society. have been this genuine, adequate centuries have exceeded to have permit this way of secret schedule be revealed, which isn't so. A greater customary consensus is that some theological leaders are the abusers. yet another element to this... you may nevertheless acquire a Bible for unfastened and eat it on their own, and habit their own dating with God by using faith, adherence to disciplines and private judgements/alternatives. No middle guy in contact. maximum Christians land up growing to be a member of an prepared religious physique besides, for the community of fellowship.

Answer 6

The Bible is a history book and a future book the family tree of God is in this book from the Beginning to the end it is the inspired word of God let him who has understanding let him understand there is another book that is being written by God now this is a very very important
book more important than the the Holy Bible this book name is the Lambs Book of Life and if your name is not written in this book.
Sorry Charlie woe to you.

Answer 7

I believe the Bible is the inspired word of God. Read 2nd Timothy 3:16

Answer 8

No I don't believe the Bible, was made up or to scare people. I am not afraid of dying. Its a fact of life!

Answer 9

The Bible is the Inspired word of God. That being said most RELIGIONS are man made attempts to understand God (and his word. Many have missunderstood the Bible in these attempts. (many others do not even use the Bible they have there own Texts that they use)

Answer 10

I think so, because it's been translated into many different languages and they do not put in original language so many perspective and bias could be happened. Have you ever read about The Old Testament or The Old Testament that written by Barnabe (Barnabas)? or try to ask The Pope about the Bible (Injil) in original language, I believe they don't have it.