Look: even if one part of the Bible is true, it has absolutely no bearing on whether any of the rest of it is true.
Do an experiement for me: Go find a book. Any book that you know to be completely true from cover to cover. Got it? Now write in the margins of that book, "The sun is purple."
Did the sun turn purple when you did this? Of course it didn't! There is no law of 'Truth Osmosis'. No matter how much truth is written on one page, it will not seep into another page and make it true. It just doesn't work that way.
If you want to prove something true, you're going to have to prove EVERY part of it true. Each independant claim. Even if you can prove that God called down a plague of frogs, it doesn't prove the God turned the river Nile to blood. The good news is that the same applies to proving something false as well.
You may choose to believe it anyway for OTHER reasons having nothing to do with logic or reason. There's nothing wrong with that. Some people would even tell you that it's better to have faith in something than to have it proven to you. Me, I say do whatever makes you happy and doesn't infringe on other people's ability to be happy too much. Good luck with that!
2006-08-01 18:31:05
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answered by Doctor Why 7
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Oh my my, I can't believe is that what you think happened to the bible? The bible is a book create and recreated over the course of centuries and if you are familiar abou it, there is the old testament and the new testament. The old one is the story before christ and the new is the one written after christ, and rewritten into a bible by the romen empire under the emperor constantine, that rewritten the story of all the scroolls that where found about jesus, about 300 years after jesus was dead, and so he wrote the story, actually a bunch of bishops that are the same people that created the catholic church and the inquisitions against women, christians and all the others that did'n convert into chatolicism. Same is going on today. Anyway, ignorance is bliss, ignorance is bliss! Good luck!
2006-08-02 00:40:47
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answered by salenaart 1
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No one handed Jesus an original bible and said, "go spread this around." The bible was written by several men, and the stories of Jesus' life were not put down onto paper/scroll until many decades or a few centuries after the fact. It is all 2nd- and 3rd-hand accounts. Furthermore, the bible was heavily edited in the following centuries, both intentionally and unintentionally (copying errors, translation differences). It has as much reliability as any mythos passed on by oral accounts.
To doggybag300: Please check out the 3rd link below. The bible is even less prophetic than those horoscopes you can buy in the supermarket checkout lines.
2006-08-02 00:56:27
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answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7
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The first thing that comes to mind is 'the mark of the beast'.
That is where everyone will have to have a certain mark on their hand or forehead in order to be able to buy or sell.
That is where the New World Order is taking us. When I first read that years ago, I had no Idea how that was going to be done. Now I do know. The technology is here. Bible prophecy is jumping off the pages now.
If the bible was inspired by humans and God had nothing to do with the writing of it,how could humans have possibly come up with the 'mark of the beast' thing?
2006-08-02 00:52:10
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answered by doggybag300 6
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Not feasible for the the bible would then be fiction,the product of one man's imagination. How could this ONE man imagine and the create REAL History. The nations,the countries,the civilizations and even wars can all be found in history and why the bible is not fiction. There is so much contained within the bible,a genealogy of tribes,nations that not even in a man's entire lifetime could his imaginings produce ALL of it,even if all he did was fictionalize and write couldn't be done and no ancient man had time to just daydream and how would he make the bible-some of the manuscripts that make up the bible weren't all found in one place but in lands far apart-how could he do this. And a mere child could then verbally convince people that its from God and true. Sorry-not too much thought given to this theory.
2006-08-02 00:46:51
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answered by Anonymous
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The Bible was written by humans. Some of the words and sentences in the book are attributed to God. Some people believe that, although the book was written by humans, all of the words within it are divinely inspired, by one God, even though each of the so called 'books' within the Bible were written by different authors.
It is a misconception, whether one is religious or not, to think that the Bible mysteriously appeared. It is a collection of various writings that was assembled. In that sense, it is an anthology.
2006-08-02 00:33:49
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answered by Mr_Know_It_All 2
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