The world was thought to be flat before it was proved to be round. Sea and Freshwater life can be drawn in to the clouds and dropped elsewhere and is a matter of fact. The Sun was thought to be a GOD before we knew what is was. Are miracles just misunderstandings through ignorance which are then recounted in the BIBLE using primitive analogy and example?
Does the BIBLE just describe scenes as best the authors can with the knowledge and intelligence available to them at that time?
2006-11-12 20:57:35 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No SHEEP like answers like this please!
"the bible is the word of GOD written by the prophets and apostles of christ "
2006-11-12 21:03:25 · update #1
However i certainly do respect the authors but just feel most of the BIBLE is conjecture.
2006-11-12 21:37:26 · update #2
Some parts are pretty exact descriptions, that are augmented by Archaeological finds.
Some are modified stories based on some facts and "improved" by the story tellers.
Some are pure fiction, with no real base whatsoever.
2006-11-12 21:02:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible, God, Faith, Belief.
For those who question, there are no answers. For those who believe there are no questions.
The word "Bible" refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity.
Judaism's Bible is often referred to as the Torah, or Hebrew Bible, which includes the sacred texts common to both the Christian and Jewish canons. The Christian Bible is also called the Holy Bible, Scriptures, or Word of God. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canons contain books not found in the Tanakh, but which were found in the Greek Septuagint.
More than 14,000 manuscripts and fragments of the Hebrew Tanakh exist, as do numerous copies of the Septuagint, and 5,300 manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, more than any other work of antiquity.
2006-11-13 07:08:33 · answer #2 · answered by Rainman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's more complex than that - the bible is an anthology of bronze-age myths and legends, culled and adapted from a variety of sources, and heavily edited and miss-translated many times. Then when you throw in the mix of messianic Zionism and neo-platonic mysticism that is the New Testament, the result is a very, very strange thing indeed. Fascinating in it's way, but what is tragic is the fact that, despite so much of it being demonstrably non-sensical and not even self-consistent, so many people try to follow it as a moral guide. It is hard to think of any other book responsible for some much harm and misery.
2006-11-13 05:03:16 · answer #3 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible story, a majority of it is true, but over the ages it has been re-written, and the people who re-wrote, monarchs and people in Religous positions of power would decide what the masses should be able to know and not. There is much that has been taken out of the Bible and much rephrasing.
How many versions of the Bible are there?
P.S.. The New Testament was written by people long after Jesus's death, handed down from elder to elder.
2006-11-13 05:02:34 · answer #4 · answered by *JC* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is!! It is the best known work of fiction our world has ever known!! It is an anthology of stories put together long ago by people who had nothing else better to do.
What's scarier, that book "Dianetics" could become the new bible in a few hundred more years if the Scientologists have their way, if it follows the path that the bible took.
2006-11-13 06:06:03 · answer #5 · answered by drewsilla01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stems from ancient stories and legend. When it was done some three thousands years ago, the authors choose ancient stories which seemed possible at that period. They suppose that the earth was only 6 thousands years old. Bur at that time, this number seemed very great and the zero was not invented to express very great numbers. In its time, the bible seemed sacred. Now, we think quite differently but in fact we have not really made progress for such questions. Where does the Universe come from.
2006-11-13 05:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by maussy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you have actually answered your own question and in a very intelligent manner. I believe as you do that the bible is the interpretation of individuals at the time and later trying to explain events that they did not understand and also trying to fulfil a need for people in general to remove fear of the unknown and also to give power to certain individuals over the masses.
2006-11-13 05:15:12 · answer #7 · answered by Rod T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many writings in the bible are obvious ridiculous. There is no doubt though that it contains some wisdom.
The book is a two-edged sword that can be used to make hate & love, war & peace, good & evil, etc.
Anyhow the bible is used, it's the user that will be held responsible not the book.
2006-11-13 05:07:18 · answer #8 · answered by Prof. Virgo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's another version of the Illias or Odyssey by Homer.
Interpret as you go along.The old Germans had the believe, that the sky may be come crashing on them, hence the horned helms.Like somebody just recently asked...the video killed the radio star. Be informed or stay behind.
2006-11-13 05:09:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Torah, Koran and other holy books are largely misunderstood. Before the age of reason, establishment of the sciences and humanities just about everything we understand today about the world and its people was misunderstood and open to question.
2006-11-13 05:18:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋