2006-11-18 22:30:59 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so is it healthy to doubt?
is doubting, not really, beleiving then?
because you cannot claim certainty on the message of God....
so you doubt, in order to really beleive in God?
2006-11-18 22:32:08 · update #1
I am Agnostic, So i question the bible and church regularly. I know the catholic church had a hand in dictating the bibles chapters/Gospels. I also know that God made us to have free will and to be able to question the things around us. I do not think it is wrong to question and look for answers. We are human and prone to mistakes. So one does think that the men that put together the bible would have been prone to mistakes. Look up and study the meaning of agnostic if your really curious and questioning the bible.
2006-11-18 22:37:18 · answer #1 · answered by mommyblues78 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes Dear one and it has been. The NEWER versions of the bible have certainly been changed. Stick with the King James version and get a Strong`s Concordance to help you look up the words and what they actually mean.. AND you could actually get a companion bible.. It is an excellent study bible.. However Remember that you are only held accountable for YOU.. God knows the words that he gave us and whoever tampers with it will be held accountable.. You are fine and will be. God is in control and he KNOWS.. This is totally changed from the original handwritten manuscripts. The King James version ha been shown over and over to be the closest translation out there.. As well as when it was translated, some of the words used had no counterpart in other languages. Such as the *40 days Jesus was tempted*.. There was NOT translation for that and they should have just said MANY days. NOT forty days.... Remember that the handwritten transcripts did not have verses and chapters and commas and periods. It was one long sentence.. They did not have these things and it was the Middle ages before they gave it chapters and verses.. So don`t just pick one or two verses to make a case from.. Ask WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY... You will find the answers.. Jesus says he foretold us ALL things.. Peace and blessings from Texas <><
2016-05-22 02:48:42 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History does not show that the Bible has been tampered with. The Bible has the most original documents of any of the literature from its long time period. Skeptics have suggested tamerping and have not proved any such tampering. So there is no reason to doubt anything in the Bible.
2006-11-18 23:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by P P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psalm 118 verse 8... it goes something like this "trust in the word of God and not of man". Because of the fact that we are not sure that the Bible is untampered we should find the word of God through the lives we are living and not from the Bible. The Bible is just something to get clues on what God would say, the true word of God is not in the Bible, it is hidden somewhere in a point in your life where you felt something. Something that you know that God is living and that God has given you a message. The true word of God is not read it is felt by his people who believes in him and/or has done great deeds and/or God has a plan for him/her.
2006-11-18 22:49:38 · answer #4 · answered by Screwdriver 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question and I agree with you! That is not to say that the Bible was quite an accomplishment FOR IT's TIME, that it does not have a lot of things we can learn from it, or that it is Not God's word (everything is!)
I'm just at a loss why we make so much of it. How can it be 100% correct? It's a translation and that in itself changes the meaning. Did God decide to talk to us 2000 years ago and then stop? Why does every single thing in it have to be correct or mean something? I keep hearing "you have to put it in Context". OK, who decides the context? It was written by MEN (not Women BTW!), contains a lot of stories of violence, and shows the prejudices of those times. I'm not saying it should not be studied, and that a lot of it doesn't apply today, but to say the answer to everything is in there...get over it, please!
2006-11-18 22:42:11 · answer #5 · answered by clueless_nerd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
questioning the authenticity of the bible version you have a the way to go in order for you to discover the ultimate truth as the true God intended it to be. Ask and you will be given knowledge.For instance most versions removed God's personal name"Jehovah"and replaced it with just titles such as "lord"in order to confuse naive pple about the identity of the true God and what he stands for.You are on the right track in discovering the truth.Don't give up since the truth shall set you free.
2006-11-18 22:48:02 · answer #6 · answered by sherie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew chapter 16 verses 21-23
2006-11-18 22:35:20 · answer #7 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some good books on the formation of the bible.... History does not "dictate" its tampering....Rather history shows the incredible durability and trustworthiness of the bible...
2006-11-18 22:33:51 · answer #8 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do doubt some things..... and even if it WAS untampered with everyone has a different meaning for everything said...
i believe in God.... i just doubt humans hand in it all... human being always have an underlying motive so how can we trust the word to be true and pure?.....
2006-11-18 22:44:44 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doubt is God's gift to mankind.
With it we can seek The Ultimate Truth.
2006-11-18 22:35:54 · answer #10 · answered by the_silent_philosopher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋