That is what some believers believe, see the responses to:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvrpYNjtzpT3kXDE6Lqj7Unsy6IX?qid=20060922161359AA2IxOQ
Is it written in code?
Doesn't it mean what it says?
How come Christians can understand it?
Why doesn't god want non-believers to believe?
2006-09-22 12:38:00 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You have to have a need to believe that people generations ago lived in a magical fairy world to get it...in their form of 'getting it'.
Was thinking about this last night...there are some parts that are clearly people's early understanding of things that happened in the world, and the rest all just history and stories they made up like all cultures did as a way of trying to understand a world they largely could not understand. But people today turn it into some magical thing that it wasn't, and those people then would probably feel like smacking people today with that book...
2006-09-22 12:50:16 · answer #1 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone can understand the Bible who takes the time to read it. It is not written in code. The Bible does mean what it says, neither more nor less.
If the Bible could not be understood by non-believers, how would anyone become a believer? Read the Bible. See if you understand it. Think about what it says. Decide what you believe. Live by what you believe.
2006-09-22 12:48:03 · answer #2 · answered by jennymurf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Scriptures tell us that "the natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 2:14). Most Americans would find it difficult to understand the Chinese language. However, a child who is born into a Chinese family can understand every word. That's why you must be born again with God's Spirit living within you (John 3:3). The moment you become part of God's family, the Bible will begin to make sense.
2006-09-22 12:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by Jason M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everbody is born Lost (with a messed-up Spirit) on the Earth since Adam blew-it.
We are born Spiritually Blind, everybody.
When you read the Bible as a Lost Person, you can understand enough to get Saved (Spirit Recreated). After you are Saved, you are able to understand deeper Spiritual Truths, but like a child, deeper Spiritual Truths take time to understand. The more you understand, the more you grow (hopefully) till you become Grounded in the Word of GOD (Mature, Adult Christian) some People stay Baby Christians all of their Adult Life.
2006-09-22 14:31:34 · answer #4 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is so christian, if you don't agree with them it is because you don't understand, according to them you have to believe first and then god will let you to understand the bible, It should be all the way around: You read the bible then you embrace it and become a believer or you put it in the garbage can, but you have to read it first not after wards
2006-09-22 12:49:38 · answer #5 · answered by class4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you looking for an argument? The Bible says if any lack understanding let him ask of God who give freely, but non Believers cannot ask someone they don`t believe in, can they? anyone can understand the Bible, If they want to, but it takes studying, because the writers aare telling the stories in their own words, and that was so many years ago, and then you have those that translated it, thats why we search the scriptures to be sure of what they are talking about. when John is writing revelations, he is in another time, not in our time, so he is trying to make US understand what it is he sees in his vision, because none of the things, he is seeing, has he ever seen before, they didn`t have airplanes then, or guns like we have today, they had horses, so look in chapter 6 of revelations, he is talking about the colored horses, see he is trying to tell us whats going on in our times, the time that Christ will return.
2006-09-22 12:50:24 · answer #6 · answered by theladylooking 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the argument that God is in Control of everything, including evil-doers. That a person can't have faith in God without God giving them that faith.
A rather lame argument really. That tells me that God controls the fact that I do not believe in him (the biblical God), but he is going to send me to hell because I do not believe in him.
Now, if it is true that non-believers are incapable of understanding the Bible, then my Christians friends are definitely going to hell, because they have come to me asking about certain things in the Bible.
2006-09-22 12:45:57 · answer #7 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, just the opposite - i.e. religious believers find it very difficult to understand the true nature of the bible, as a product of the human imagination. Non-believers have no trouble understanding this at all.
2006-09-22 12:45:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read the link...All I can say that God loves you. The Bible is God's life manual for you. Everything recorded in the Bible is not how God wants us to live. He did not love people then because of sin, but despite of sin..the same today.
His gift of eternal life is offered to everyone and it is free...but it is not cheap. Jesus died for it. As we have a lot of choices here on earth, there is only two choices what comes to eternity:hell and heaven. You get to choose. Use your free will wisely.
2006-09-22 12:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to believe it to know what it's saying. It's simply a matter that those who do believe it want to think that the only reason people don't agree with them is because they don't understand.
2006-09-22 12:39:45 · answer #10 · answered by emily_brown18 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋