They are afterall just words in a book, I mean it is a book right?
Please be able to prove your answer, without refering to your faith or your book/bible.
2006-09-09 18:49:01 · 26 answers · asked by Aurred 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JewishGirl: I guess your right, there doesn't seem to be a way does there?
2006-09-09 18:54:20 · update #1
chaddukes: I think our lab results could prove I exist more than God does. After all, whens the last time God posted a questions on Answers?
2006-09-09 18:55:44 · update #2
Sandy: So by your rational the fact that the book mentions people unable to portray "blind faith" that it makes the whole story an undeniable fact? By your logic if I mention that there is a sea monster and if I make mention that there are people who live there whole lives without ever seeing the sea monster, it means that the sea monster must exist? Even though nobody can prove without a shadow of a doubt of its existence? Intereseting.
2006-09-09 18:59:13 · update #3
Think about God for a second, who in their right mind would want blind faith? Does God want me to pretend to believe him? To believe his message would be best be portrayed by man? The same man that has started war after war, sacrificing their fellow people for personal gain and profit? Maybe I'm lost but until he/she/it sits down and has a little chat with me, I think my argument is valid. We all die someday but pretending it's all going to get better when we do seems to of created a nice and easily manageable pass-the-buck act for many earthlings.
2006-09-09 19:06:30 · update #4
don s: I logically think to myself, "I'm paying the doctor, who the state has certified that he has gone to medical school and has diagnosed this before." And if I logically feel that the answer he's given me is not good enough I get a second opinion, where's the God's second opinion?
2006-09-09 19:09:44 · update #5
If I showed you a modern computer 200 years ago, you would have most likley beleived it to be A. A device of God, or B. A device of the devil.
2006-09-09 19:40:24 · update #6
how can somebody possibly tell you how the bible can prove you wrong without actually referring to the bible, i wonder?
2006-09-09 18:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is a tool you can use for spiritual guidance, growth, and it contains the message of eternal salvation. It is not meant to 'prove' anything.
You believe that God does not exist. It takes just as much faith to believe that God does not exist as it does to believe that He does exist. You cannot 'prove' either position.
Take a look at the Big Bang. Talk to an astrophysicist, over 90% will tell you that scientific evidence 'proves' that the Universe must have been created by an Intelligent Designer: God, who is described in the Bible as Jesus Christ.
2006-09-10 02:29:45 · answer #2 · answered by mrpink 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one can prove the existence of God. It is not self-evident, nor is it a material phenonmenon that one can study. One can deduce that something higher than man exists through logic (first cause, unmoved mover, etc), but that's as far as one can go. Either you believe in something greater than yourself or you don't. Either you think the universe is too orderly to be an accident or you don't.
For Thomas Aquinas' logical arguments or proofs on the existence of God, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinquae_viae
Another cite with various logical arguments for the existence of God: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God#Metaphysical_arguments_.28for.29
However, to believers, the Bible is not just words in a book but a moral teaching. The discrepancies are insignificant as compared to the overall teachings like the 10 Commandments.
2006-09-10 02:28:26 · answer #3 · answered by Roswellfan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The key to understanding the truth of the Bible is to be able to correlate Bible prophecy with history.
About one third of the entire Bible is prophecy.
All the prophecies in the Bible were written 300 to 1500 years in advance, and roughly eighty percent of those prophecies have already been fulfilled to the letter (most of them by Jesus Christ, personally).
Bible scholars and theologians have known this for well over a thousand years, and numerous resources exist, which document it.
No other "book" posesses this unique property.
Whether this is enough to prove the existence of God is up to you.
Do your own research. Check all the data. Come to your own conclusions.
Or don't.
2006-09-10 02:03:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can certainly prove you right but not wrong. I'm sure some Bible thumpers will quote Bible verses that mean nothing to one who knows they are nonsense. I took Bible History in college. Some contradictions in the Bible were mentioned, e.g. the earliest account of David's census says God inspired it, but the later accounts say the Devil did that. That is quite a glaring contradiction! A book from Billy Graham lists more, e.g. Judas is said to have died by hanging and then by falling. Come on, he didn't die twice! I find many without trying, e.g. when Dad said it'd be a sin for my sister to remarry after divorcing, I looked in a concordance and saw Jesus said it is, but Moses sais it isn't. Take your pick! There is no reason for God's laws to change radically in 1400 years. The believers futile mindless quoting of Bible verses cannot begin to outweigh the dozens of scientific inaccuracies and contradictions in the Bible.
2006-09-10 02:07:15 · answer #5 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
did you try staring at the book really really hard for about 42 hours straight? did you try taunting the book at all? have you poked the living bible with a stick to see if it will move? have you tried to have a relationship with the book, buy it flowers...dinner..etc..hmm, how about praying to God that the book will speak to you?
Hmmm, how about this one...the bible can prove you wrong the same way christians believe the bible proves them to be right. simply read it and then have faith that the bible is the absolute word of god and just believe that it has proven you wrong.
then try hard not to think about it anymore..
2006-09-10 02:01:45 · answer #6 · answered by stephenjames001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're the only one who can prove it for yourself. When you die, you will know that God exists. The only downside is that you don't get to go back, change things, and believe in God. It'll be the end of the line.
I sincerely hope it won't end that way with you. Sometimes faith is just as important as asking for proof.
2006-09-10 02:00:07 · answer #7 · answered by TY 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesn't need to prove you wrong. The Bible mentions unbelievers within its pages. In other words, the Bible accounts for you too, knowing full well that some people will not believe in God and will believe themselves to be, for whatever reason, above God.
Just because you don't believe doesn't make God disappear.
2006-09-10 01:53:13 · answer #8 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
first of all the bible is not a book...
it is in fact a compilation of 66 books (more--depending on you sect/denomination), written by numerous persons over a span of hundreds of years...
if you do not believe in God, the bible can not prove that you are wrong not to...
but once you believe in God, the bible will be able to show you why you are right in believing.... i hope that can make some sense into what you wanted to know...
2006-09-10 02:39:53 · answer #9 · answered by 4x4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humm...your asking a question in which the very book to which your claiming you require proof that it can show your thinking process to be incorrect, is the very one that you also ask us NOT to use?...humm...an oxymoron? However, in regard to proof that God exists...simply put: When one observes a house, one KNOWS that there was a builder, that is logical, as a house does not "build" itself, anyone that observes the intracasies of the known universe, our own solar system,or for that matter our own human body, knows that the "construction" was required & can be "seen"! (Even Albert Einstein, a KNOWN athesist, became a deist after he looked at all the FACTS!)
2006-09-10 02:12:36 · answer #10 · answered by maranatha132 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible can't prove you wrong if you don't believe it...
Neither can I prove to you God Is Real...Even tho I know it, I can't prove it.
You will have to have your own personal encounter with God I think...
And you are right...It is a book, the best selling book ever...inspired by the Holy Spirit to be written by humans to recount their experiences with God...Read it...You might get
some surprises...& you might have your encounter with God to write about. It CAN happen...whether you read it or not...or whether you want it to or not. But I can't prove that.
2006-09-10 02:06:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋