do you believe the bible because it is true - or?

Question

is it true because you believe it ? I would contest that - since you are not all knowing - it is the latter. Religion requires a high level of egotism. You elevate all the things you believe and imagine them to be some ultimate truth.

To claim that the bible is the word of god - requires that you believe it to be the word of god. The believer always put themselves before any belief they happen to have

Answer 1

The bible is a big bag of tat. Was the world made in 6 days? did a man grow from the ribs of his father? Water into wine, yeah.. but not in seconds! all religions have their faults, and christianity is no different to any other. Just be tolerant of each other. We're all different, but expect everyone to be the same as ourselves.

Answer 2

in fact the books decided on were picked by people, by assemblies, not by one person. Also they decided on books that they did not particularly like, but because the book had retained a status o fauthority over hundreds of years, it was allowed in, like Ecclesiastes.

I would not doubt that many Christians today have serious issues with Ecclesiastes and ignore it. Those are the Christians who only like to hear what itches their ear.

Obviously there is some level of trust to accept the Bible, but it is not that great of a leap. The sayings of Jesus were preserved in a seemingly honest manner. The disciples were not shy about letting everyone know that Jesus said he was Lord, not Caesar.

They also threw in the bits about Jesus' saying he will judge the whole earth one day. It seems like anyone, regardless of what their faith will quote from Jesus. The problem is if you believe he said the Sermon on the Mount, you alos should believe he said other more controversial things. Why would the Sermon on the Mount be more historically reliable than anything else.

If anything the more controversial stuff would be more historical because the Sermon on the Mount was not new teaching. Rabbis had been teaching similar things for years, even a version of the Lord's prayer!

Now it is recorded that Jesus took the Scripture (the OT) as God's word, and because I have a reasonable faith in Jesus I believe the OT is God's word as well as those books written by those who Jesus appeared to.

For a REASONABLE defense of who Jesus is, see C.S. Lewis, and Luke Timothy Johnson.

Basically Jesus must either be looney tunes or who he said he was, based on what he said.

Answer 3

To believe in God is to have the ultimate faith in something outside of yourself. I cannot prove to you in any uncertain terms whether the Bible or anything within it is true. What is in the Bible are accounts of different people and how they dealt with the world around them. How they persevered through triumph and tragedy through indignity and shame through pleasure and pain and how they dealt with it. It is meant as a guide to a better way of living. In order to believe in any faith you must put your trust into it. You must trust it through the bad times and good. and that requires Faith. You are right though first you must believe. YOU must believe. Putting your trust in God is a personal thing and it is something that only you can do. Whether the Bible is one hundred percent accurate, I don't think so mainly because it was written by man in many different languages and with each retelling certain things were probably lost or over glorified but to overlook the whole Book for some minor mistakes is foolish. Everyone can learn something from reading the bible. I am sorry if this comes off preachy but when i speak of God and his Book i know no other way. God bless you and keep you always.

Answer 4

I don't think it is egotism, it is complete and utter faith in something that makes you feel better about the world you live in and the person you are. I personally am an atheist, but I see nothing wrong with Christians and their beliefs. If they feel that this is the truth, then that is completely their choice. I do agree that they put themselves before their beliefs though as there always seems to be a competition about who is right and who is the most devout, and I don't think it is meant to be about that. Good question though, should get a lot of interesting answers

Answer 5

The key word here is Believe. Another key word is Faith.
People just believe things. We can not apply the logic of math to faith. If you could then their would be no room for faith.
Also to keep the masses faithful we teach them that if they do not believe they will go to HELL. We talk about this a lot so they will keep coming back to church and give us money. We found out that if you get people to be afraid all the time you can control them. Also a lot pf people want easy answers to complected questions, so we give them easy answers so they don't have to think to much. We Christains don't like to question God to much and accept every thing in the bible as fact even thought a lot was put in by man and not God. I have a connection with God. He speaks to me every day. He has sent me here to correct some of the teachings you are miss informed about. If you do not believe this prove me wrong. God does not like it when you turn againest one another. This is the truth. learn to help one another.
That is the Message of God.

Answer 6

The Men of the Great Assembly decided to create a complete Bible - Scriptures. They carefully sifted through numerous writings to decide which had the proper degree of holiness for inclusion. They incorporated the Five Books of Moses, of course, and ended up selecting 19 other volumes (written over the 1,000 years following Mount Sinai) to be attached to the Five Books. Many other books weren't included; there are references in Scripture to various "Books of Kings and their Wars," for example, which were deliberately left out (others, like Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs, almost didn't make it). Upon finishing their selection process, the rabbis sealed the Bible (about 350 BCE), declaring no further writings (such as Maccabees, which came later) could ever be added to the Written component of G-d's Word (as opposed to the Spoken Word, which would be written down in stages in future centuries).

Among those 19 additional books chosen for Scripture by the rabbis were some written by the rabbis themselves — basically, all the later books, including Esther, Ezra/Nehemiah, Daniel, and the Chronicles (I & II). Portions of Ezra/Nehemiah and of Daniel were even written, not in Hebrew, but in Aramaic (an earlier dialect of the same language as the Talmud).

So, ironically, Christians are brainwashed to reject the rabbis (the judges of Israel) and their works — while simultaneously accepting the Bible that was chosen and compiled by those same rabbis, and even including several books written by those rabbis!

The bottom line is that the only basis on which anyone can (properly) conclude the written Bible is, in fact, G-d's inspired Word is that the rabbis say so. By accepting the Bible of the rabbis, Christians are unwittingly embracing the core teachings of the rabbis as to what constitutes G-d's Word. Yet they simultaneously embrace the Roman selection of various Greek writings as a "New Testament" of bogus "scripture." The average Christian has no idea of the contradiction.

As the cloud of deception by Church leaders dissipates, we will see Christians flocking away from the Church by the hundreds of millions to embrace G-d's complete Word, Written and Oral, as one indivisible Truth — while rejecting the Roman-compiled "New Testament" as an uninspired fraud.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1659326/posts

Answer 7

An interesting concept you have there. It is known that you have to have faith to believe in the Bible. And what you believe in, you have to believe as being true or you would not believe it. I think this believing creates an ego which convinces the people to think that the Bible is true and that they have to be right. If they weren't right, their whole belief system would crumble and break and they would lose a sense of their identity, what makes them them. The ego does everything in its power to make sure this doesn't happen. This is why people will defend their religion and beliefs so rigourously, denying anything to the contrary, even though deep down, no one is really sure what will happen in the afterlife until it happens.

Answer 8

I believe The Bible because it has proved to be true by my experience. I was in a crisis and becoming a Christian got me out of it. The alternative would have been a lifetime on anti-psychotics. Things happen in my life which indicate either I am extremely lucky, or I have more than my fair share of positive coincidences, or Somebody Up There is making everything in my life go right, even when it looks like its going down the pan.

Answer 9

Honestly, The Bible is the most reliable source of History. Not only is a book of religion and belief, but of peoples lives and history, a story about people written by several different people about the same situation as witnessed by reliable sources of the time

Answer 10

This is tricky....

I understand the concept that the Bible conveys, "Honorable conduct would save Humanity". Now, this being the case, I read through it building on this belief. Oftentimes, I see things that are just plain impossible....... but there is a very good chance that those are just metaphors, so I don't get hung up on them. In conclusion, the Bible, as it turns out IS true. Honorable conduct DOES save lives. It IS rewarded. Those that practice it ARE more likely to achieve immortality. Wicked behavior IS punished. Those that practice it ARE more likely to die senslessly. It IS okay to fight back against Barbarians.... and it WOULD be a good idea to just wipe them out while you still can (they are little better than animals. People that try to imulate Barbarians often speak of our 'primal' (animal) nature and the laws of the jungle).

So, that being said, I believe the Bibe because it's true.

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Answer 11

The bible actually means 'Book of Stories' ... and it has been pr oven that some of the events in the bible could have actually happened, although there was no divine reason for it, just purely coincidences.

Science also goes against the bible in the sense of evolution ...

I would like to believe there is something else out there, do you believe in ghosts? do you believe in aliens? Wouldn't it be pretty naive to think we are the only life form at all. But whether all this boils down to the bible being true, or what we've been taught being fact is another story.