If a bunch of guys got together and wrote a book and said it was the exact words of god, how would you feel?

Question

Because thats what happened 2000 years ago, a group of guys who had visions, said that they put gods exact words into the bible. Cmon, how realistic does that sound? These are the same people who burned witches, thought the world was flat, and said kings were direct desendants of god. not to mention crusaded around murdering millions while warshiping severed heads and spitting on crosses. I was was to meet anyone today that said they have clear audible conversations with god, i would think they were nuts. People were so ignorant and crazy back them, i cant hardly trust my restaurant server, let alone a bunch of guys who had vision and talked to god 2000 years ago. anyone feel the same way?

Answer 1

Have you ever stopped to think that perhaps talking to God is the normal thing, and we've fallen so far away in modern times that it sounds crazy? It isn't like people don't still murder, spit on crosses and perform inhuman acts nowadays; we're the same savage race we were then, just with better technology and greater population density. Do you really think we've evolved beyond the need or ability to talk to God? Judging from the cross-section here on Yahoo! Answers, that need is greater than ever. But, whereas those who communicated with God in olden times are remembered in print today with reverence, those who are communicating now are labelled crazy. Now, I'm not saying that everyone who says he or she talks to God doesn't have schizophrenia or another mental disorder, but I wouldn't doubt that some people really have talked to God as they understand Him to be.

Answer 2

Some parts perhaps but no man or group of men could cover all the bases like the word of God does. Ask any question and the bible has an answer for it. Any dilemma or situation...the Bible has an answer for it. Do you honestly think that a group of farmers could come up with something so complete without the help of God? I will agree though that over the years MEN have rewritten parts of the Bible to serve their own personal needs and as they say nothing created by the Hand of man is perfect. Believe in the basics. God is kind, loving and cares for us. He helps us but does not live our lives for us. God loves you.

Answer 3

What is it, you really dislike Christians because they know they're going to heaven and so you think 'they think they're special' or you enjoy living w/o the standards of a Creator? Don't make it sound as if the disciples had part in the deeds of those who took God's will into their own hands. Do you REALLY think Geo. Washington, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham, John Adams, and most of our Presidents are ignorant and crazy? Think for a minute the chance possibility you are wrong and the eternal consequences. You feel you're right you don't know you're right.

Answer 4

I probably wouldn't believe them. But the New Testament was written over 2000 years ago, and the old testament dates back to 2000 years before that. Evidence of ancient ruins, described in the scripture can still be seen today, and our history is largely based off of biblical writings.
No I wouldn't believe anything anyone told me, but I will do my research, so that I will know where I come from, and what my history is based off of.

Answer 5

Do your self a favor and ask God Him self to reveal...His self to you then we will talk....And it wasnt just a group of guys it was his desiples they chose to follow Jesus....You are a person that has to see to beleave....that isnt good...no God gave the words to put in the BIBLE through ..the ones that chose to follow Him...The ones that also had to see to beleve...So do you beleive in good and bad...Or evil or of God...If you would just take time to read his words....You would be educated...own what you have got to have to sirvive....Who are the witch burners today.....decendents of God no....Decentents of satan......any thing that is Bad is not of God...allthings that are good is of God...And to be decendents of Jesus you have to be Jews any other...you are children of God....And as far as the world being FLAT...The world didnt have the technalge that they do today Or they probly would still thank that....And all this evil you speak of is not of God it is of Evil...Just like the child killers of the world and all the murders..of the world they are not of God and why is it so easy for you to talk Bad about God and I never 1 time heard you condem Satan..Why is.....People of the world are confussed they dont no right from wrong...And people of today are still spitting own the cross ...wonder who they are...And know I dont haveaudible conversation...With GOD know one dose But Jesus.....God bless you....It is people like you that Jesus is waiting own hes a careing God and patient one ....

Answer 6

If you don't believe, then you don't believe. Why is it your concern what some other people believe? Who are you to judge or criticize them? Try to learn some tolerance.

Answer 7

I would feel they should have capitalized the word God.

Answer 8

OK! What u think about the "Qur'an" .....first think and then start reading further answer ,,,,,,,,,,,,
When you ask a person who does not believe in God Almighty, that if an object...a machine is brought in front of him, which no human being in the world have ever seen...an unidentified machine, which no one in the world has seen before, is brought in front of him. And if he is asked that...'Who is the first person, who will be able to tell the mechanism, of that machine? What is the answer, that Atheist will give. Some Atheists will say that... ' The first person, who will be able to tell you the mechanism of the unidentified machine, which no one in this world has seen...is the Creator, some may say Manufacturer, some may say Producer, some may say Maker -whatever they say, keep it in mind...it will be somewhat similar. The first person who will be able to tell you the mechanism of this machine, which no one in this world has seen, is the Creator or the Maker or Manufacturer or Producer... it will be somewhat similar. If you ask the question to an Atheist, who believes that science is ultimate, that...' How did our world came into existence? He will tell you that...' According to the Big Bang Theory, first the whole universe was primary nebula. Later on there was a secondary separation, which gave rise to galaxies, the planets, the sun, the moon, and the earth that we live in. In a nut shell, the theory is called as the Big bang theory. The same message is given in the Holy Qur'an in Surah Al-Ambiya, which says that ... (Arabic)...Do not the unbelievers see, that the heavens and the earth were joined together, and We clove them as under'. So when you ask the Atheist, that...' Who could have written this Big bang theory, which we have discovered yesterday - in the Holy Qur'an 1400 years ago?' He may say...' It is a guess'. Can be possible that someone guessed, or some intelligent man has wrote it. No problem. Today science tells us that...' The Universe... initially the celestial matter was in the form of gas.' The Qur'an says in Surah Fussilat, Ch. 41, Verse 11, that... 'Allah (SWT) had turned to the heavens, when it was smoke, and He said to it, and the earth... Come together, willingly or unwillingly, and they came together in willing obedience'. So Qur'an says...' First the celestial matter was in the form of Dukhan. The Arabic word Dukhan means, smoke... which science today tells us that smoke is the more appropriate word then so as who could have mentioned that initially the celestial matter was in the form of smoke. The Atheist will say... 'Okay, someone has guessed it'. No problem. Previously, we thought the world we live in, it was flat -and people were afraid to venture too far, lest they would fall over. You ask the Atheist, that...' What is the shape of the earth.' So he will tell you...' The shape of the earth is spherical.' If you ask him when did you come to know about this? He will tell you just 50 years back... 100 years back... means, yesterday in science. 50 years means, yesterday in science. Who was the first person? If he has good knowledge about science he will tell you that...'The first person who discovered, that the world spherical, was Sir Francis Dave, in 1597... when he sailed around the earth, and he proved that it was spherical.' The Qur'an says in Surah Luqman, Ch. 31, Verse 29, and in Surah Al-Zumur, Ch. 39, Verse 5, that...' Allah merges the nights into the day, and merges the days into the night'. Allah overlaps the days into the night, and overlaps the night into the day. This overlapping and merging, which is a gradual slow process, of day changing to night and night changing to day is only possible if the shape of the earth is spherical. It is not possible if it is flat, otherwise there would have been a sudden change. So Qur'an speaks about the spherical nature of the earth, 1,400 years ago. Qur'an further says in Surah Naziat, Ch. 79, Verse 30... (Arabic)... 'And thereafter We have made the earth, egg shaped'.
The Arabic word dahaha, also means expand -and it comes from the root word dohea, which means egg. It does not refer to a normal egg -It refers to the egg of an Ostrich and if analyse the shape of the earth... it is not round like a ball -it is flattened from the top, and bulging from the centre. Similar to the egg of an Ostrich, which is too flattened from the top, and bulging from the centre. It is geo spherical in shape. So if you ask the Atheist, that...' Who could have mentioned, that the earth is geo spherical... 1400 years ago -which we discovered just 300 or 400 years ago? The person will say that...' May be your Prophet... he was an intelligent man -he wrote it. Do not argue - Continue. Previously we thought that the light of the moon, was its own light. It is recently discovered that the light of the moon, is reflected light. Qur'an says in Surah Furqan, Ch. 25, Verse 61, that... 'Blessedth is He, who has made the constellation in the sky, and therein placed a lamp, a sun having a light of its own, and a moon having borrowed light. So the Qur'an says that... 'The light of the sun, is its own light - but the moonlight, the light of the moon, is not its own light'. The light of the moon is described as muneer, or noor, which means, borrowed light or reflection of light. The sunlight is described as siraj, or wahaj, or duja, which means the light of its own, meaning a torch, or a glowing lamp. Always moonlight is described as muneer, or noor. Imagine, we discovered it just yesterday in science, 50 years back...100 years back, and the Qur'an mentions this 1400 years ago. When I was in school I had learnt, that the sun was stationary... it did not rotate about its own axis -whereas the moon and the earth, they rotate about their own axis. But there is a verse in Holy Qur'an, in Surah Al-Ambiya, Ch. 21, Verse 33... (Arabic)...'It is Allah who has created the night and the day, the sun and the moon, each one travelling in the orbit, with its own motion'. So Qur'an says... 'The sun and the moon, besides revolving, they also rotate about their own axis'. While later on, we come to know recently after I passed school, that science has discovered that the sun rotates about its own axis -which was mentioned in the Holy Qur'an, 1,400 years ago. Who could have mentioned it? Now he will hesitate to say... 'It is a fluke, or it is just by chance.' The Qur'an speaks about the water cycle. The person to describe the coherent water cycle, was Sir Bernard Plassey, in 1580. Qur'an describes the details of water cycle in Surah Al-Zumur, Ch. 39, Verse 21; in Surah Rum, Ch. 30, Verse 24; in Surah Mominun, Ch. 23, Verse 18... Holy Qur'an, in Surah Hijr, Ch. 15, Verse 22. In several places, the Qur'an describes the water cycle in great detail. How does the water evaporate? How does it form in to the clouds? How does the clouds move into the interior, and how does it fall down as rains? And goes back into the ocean? The water cycle has been described in great detail, in the Holy Qur'an -which was just discovered yesterday. Previously we did know that there were two types of water... salty and sweet water. The Holy Qur'an tells us in Surah Furqan, Ch. 25, Verse 53, that... 'It is Allah, who has created two bodies of flowing water, one sweet and palpable... the other sweet and bitter. Between them is the barrier, which is forbidden to be trespassed.' The same message is repeated in Surah Rehman, Ch. 55, Verse 19 and 20, that ...(Arabic)... 'It is Allah who has led flow two bodies of flowing water, and between them is a barrier, which is forbidden to be trespassed'. Today science tells us that... 'The sweet and salt water, though they meet, they do not mix'. There is a slanting barrier between them, which the Qur'an describes 1,400 years ago. Then you ask the Atheist...' Who could have mentioned this? He will hesitate to say, that it is a fluke. The Qur'an speaks about Biology. It says in Surah Al-Ambiya, Ch. 21, Verse 30, that ...(Arabic).... 'We have created every living thing from water'. Will you not imagine... in the deserts of Arabia, where there is scarcity of water, the Qur'an says... 'Every living thing is made from water'. Who would have believed in this fairy tale? Where there was scarcity of water, the Qur'an says... 'every living thing is made from water'. Today we have come to know, that the basic unit of cell... the cytoplasm, it consists of 80% water. Every living creature contain 50 to 90% water. Qur'an says that... 'The plants were created in males and females, in sexes'...which we discovered today. Qur'an speaks about Zoology...about the lifestyles of the birds, lifestyle of the ants, of the spider, of the bees...which we discovered today. Qur'an speaks about medicine in the honey -there is a healing, which we discovered today. Qur'an speaks about Embryology, the various stages of embryological development of the human being, which we discovered today. Qur'an speaks about genetics. If you ask the Atheist, that...' Who could have mentioned all this?... he cannot say...' It is by chance'... because there is a theory, known as theory of Probability. The chances of it being a guess work, it becomes less... the moment you give more correct answers - Theory of Probability. So surely, the only answer that is remaining, is the first answer. He gave... Who can tell the mechanism of the universe?... is 'The Creator', is the Manufacturer, is the Producer, is the Maker. You can call him by any name, but there is a Creator, which we call as Allah (SWT), or Almighty God. How to prove that Qur'an is the revelation of Allah (SWT)? How to prove scientifically the existence of Allah (SWT). You can refer to my Video cassette 'Qur'an and Modern Science - Conflict or Conciliation?', where I have spoken in detail. Our beloved Muhammed(Peace be upon him) said -It is mentioned in Sahih Bukhari Vol. 1, Hadith No.2, that... 'Islam is based on five principals, five pillars. The first is the Tawheed: 'La ilaha Ill Allah, Muhammed ur Rasulullah' -that... There is no god but Allah, and Prophet Muhammed(Peace be upon him) is the messenger. The Holy Qur'an says in Surah Al-Baqarah, Ch. 2, Verse 177... 'It is not righteous that you turn your face to the east or west, but it is righteousness that you believe in Allah (Almighty God), you believe in the hereafter, you believe in the angels, you believe in the messengers, and you believe in the Books'

Answer 9

wow... that's pretty misinformed, regardless of your belief system.

Answer 10

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