Is the bible just a made up fairy story? I think it is.?

Question

Well it does state you can pass a camel through the eye of a needle.
Plus it states if a wife does not produce a child then the husband can divorce her but what if it is him who is jaffa?

Plus how many vickers/priests are in prison
for kiddy fiddling?

Answer 1

It is a very badly written story, full of inconsistencies designed to control the weak, poor and vulnerable. There is no evidence of any of it being true and they've had thousand of years to prove it!

Answer 2

Well that's a controversial question.

I would say that the old testaments is just people trying to make sense of the world they live in.

The new testament started out being the story of somebody who may or may not have been the son of god, however the politics intervened and the new testament was re-written so many times in its first few hundred or so years I don't think it can be considered a reliable historical document. So no not a fairy stroy but not a piece of non-ficton either. Somewhere between the two.

Answer 3

I don't think it is. Of course it has been altered and I'm sure the writers have used quite some imagination and fantasy writing the stories down. But the basis of it is true.

You know how it goes. When you sit in a circle of people and you whisper a story to the first, who whispers it to the next, the story that comes back to you is way more exciting and may sound unrealistic. This is the same thing that happened to the bible stories until the were finally written down. But I believe it is based on reality.

Answer 4

If the Bible really is from God, we should expect it to be the most outstanding book ever written. Is it? Yes, and for many reasons. First, it is very old; you would not expect God's Word to all mankind to have been written a short time ago,would you? The writing of it began some3,500 years agoin the Hebrew Language. Then over 2.200 years ago, it began to be translated into other languages. Today almost everybody on earth can reado no other book comes close to the Bible in the number of copies are produced. Yet yet every year many millions of Bibles are printed. And over the centuries thousands of millions have been made! There is hardly a place on earth, regardless of how isolatedit may be, where you cannot find a Bible. Is this not what you would expect of a book that is really from God?
What makes this great distributionof the Bible even more outstanding is the fact that enemies have tried to destroy it. But should we not expect that a book from God would come under attack by agents of the Devil? This has happened. Bible burnings once were common, and those who were caught reading the Bible were often punished with death.
You would expect a book from God to discuss important matters that all of us should want to know."Where did life come from?" "Why are we here?" "What will the future bring?" are some of the questions it answers. And it plainly says that the information that it contins is from Jehovah God. One Bible writer said: "The Spirit of Jehovah is what spoke to me, and his word was upon my tongue,"(2Samuel23:2) Another wrote:"All scripture is inspired of God."(2Timothy3:16). Since the Bible so definately states that it is the Word of God, would it not be wise to examine it to see if it is?
'Yet how how could the Bible be from God when it was written by men?'you may ask. True, about40 men shared in writing the Bible. These men did the actual writing of the Bible with the exception of the Ten Commandments, which were written personally bu God on stone tablets by direct action of his holyspirit.(Exidus31:18) However, this does not make what they wrote any less the Word of God. The Bible explains:"Men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit."(2Peter1:21) Yes just as God used his powerful holy spirit to create the heavens,the earth and all living things, he also used it to direct the writing of the Bible. This means that the Bible has only one author, Jehovah God.

Answer 5

It is not a matter of thinking, it is a matter of belief.

God reveals, man observes. Thinking comes from observation.

You asked about the bible [the book in Greek] that is believed by some (currently not by you) to be the word of God as spoken by the prophets. The key here is do you belief the prophets. The bible spans about 2000 years from Abram (change to Abraham) to the early Christians.

First, let me say what the bible isn't. It is not (I repeat not) a conversion manual, but a tool for the believer (there that word again, believers). It is a religious book, not a science or history book.

Let me give you a couple examples: God is spirit (wind). God's name is "I am that I am". God existed before and created the heavens and the earth, that means, God created very thing we can observe, all matter and energy.

The bible does not prove the existence of God, it is assumed. So if you believe in the bible, you are assuming that God exists. Not everything is covered in the bible: pre-martial sex and abortion are not covered.

I could go on, but I think I have given enough examples that separate the bible from a fairy story. The bible is about belief, believing in the prophets.

I believe the real question here is not about fairy tails, but about what you believe. What you believe is yours. Given what you know (reveal knowledge not observed knowledge), do you believe?

Good luck.

Answer 6

I used to think so, but one day I had a spiritual experience where I met with Jesus, and that moment changed my whole life. I didn't ask for it, it just happened. There are parts of the Bible that are hard to understand or difficult to accept, especially if like me you have been brought up to believe that 'everything' is true as long as someone believes it is, but I had to realise that that is a lie. There can only be one truth, and I believe God didn't leave us with no guidance, and the bible is true.

Answer 7

If it is a fairy tale.
Someone out there would not have hit the home-run with our creator's pot of golds left behind glittering at the end of the rainbow on planet earth.
Look at the pyramid in Egypt glaring under the sun,moon and stars even on cloudy and rainy days too.
What is the pyramids trying to tell us as a landmark out there on planet earth?

Answer 8

I am not sure it is a fairy story as such, but it is written in different periods of time by different men in order to wield power and fear i.e. indoctrinate. I do believe there are some bits that have some truth, but not a lot.

Answer 9

The bible can be a handbook, giving you guidance in life; but if you don't understand it, it might as well be a fairy tale. Remember even fairy tales usually had a lesson to be learned.

Answer 10

None of the Bible’s Writers Believed That Jesus is God:
Christians and Muslims both believe in Jesus, love him, and honor him. They are, however, divided over the question of his divinity.

Fortunately, this difference can be resolved if we refer the question to both the Bible and the Quran, because, both the Bible and the Quran teach that Jesus is not God.

It is clear enough to everyone that the Quran denies the divinity of Jesus, so we do not need to spend much time explaining that.

On the other hand, many people misunderstand the Bible; they feel that the belief in Jesus as God is so widespread that it must have come from the Bible. This article shows quite conclusively that the Bible does not teach that.

The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is not God. In the Bible God is always someone else other than Jesus.

Some will say that something Jesus said or something he did while on the earth proves that he is God. We will show that the disciples never came to the conclusion that Jesus is God. And those are people who lived and walked with Jesus and thus knew first hand what he said and did. Furthermore, we are told in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible that the disciples were being guided by the Holy Spirit. If Jesus is God, surely they should know it. But they did not. They kept worshipping the one true God who was worshipped by Abraham, Moses, and Jesus (see Acts 3:13).

All of the writers of the Bible believed that God was not Jesus. The idea that Jesus is God did not become part of Christian belief until after the Bible was written, and took many centuries to become part of the faith of Christians.

Matthew, Mark, and Luke, authors of the first three Gospels, believed that Jesus was not God (see Mark 10:18 and Matthew 19:17). They believed that he was the son of God in the sense of a righteous person. Many others too, are similarly called sons of God (see Matthew 23:1-9).

Paul, believed to be the author of some thirteen or fourteen letters in the Bible, also believed that Jesus is not God. For Paul, God first created Jesus, then used Jesus as the agent by which to create the rest of creation (see Colossians 1:15 and 1 Corinthians 8:6). Similar ideas are found in the letter to the Hebrews, and also in the Gospel and Letters of John composed some seventy years after Jesus. In all of these writings, however, Jesus is still a creature of God and is therefore forever subservient to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).

Now, because Paul, John, and the author of Hebrews believed that Jesus was God’s first creature, some of what they wrote clearly show that Jesus was a pre-existent powerful being. This is often misunderstood to mean that he must have been God. But to say that Jesus was God is to go against what these very authors wrote. Although these authors had this later belief that Jesus is greater than all creatures, they also believed that he was still lesser than God. In fact, John quotes Jesus as saying: “...the Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28). And Paul declares that the head of every woman is her husband, the head of every man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God (see 1 Corinthians 11:3).

Therefore, to find something in these writings and claim that these teach that Jesus is God is to misuse and misquote what those authors are saying. What they wrote must be understood in the context of their belief that Jesus is a creature of God as they have already clearly said.

So we see then, that some of the later writers had a higher view of Jesus, but none of the writers of the Bible believed that Jesus is God. The Bible clearly teaches that there is only one true God, the one whom Jesus worshipped (see John 17: 3).

In the rest of this article we will explore the Bible in more depth, and deal with the passages which are most often misquoted as proofs of Jesus’ divinity. We will show, with God’s help, that these do not mean what they are so often used to prove.