Pardon the pun. What makes people so sure that the ideas in the Bible were God's ideas.? When people wrote the Bible and thought up all of the ideas, weren't they essentially disrespecting God? They basically decided upon a set of ideas and then said they were God's. How did they know what he was thinking? If God supposedly came to them and told them what to say, then why doesn't he come to us? What made the other people so special? These are questions I ponder.
2006-11-27 12:08:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He does come to us. He does talk to us. You are missing it. For you sake, I hope one day you will wonder why. Asking questions is a good start. The one you have ask is going in the wrong direction. You must ask yourself: 'but , what if the Bible is true'? Now try to answer that.
You are just as special to God as Abraham was. The Bible says that Abraham "believed God", and that alone made him righteous. Abraham was no saint. That means that God has time for you. Do you, for him?
2006-11-27 12:18:31 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Marc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is where faith comes in, The bible is often misunderstood, and has been for ages. It is not to be read like a regular book, I am in the never ending process of learning it myself. But it all started with the belief of God and trusting that what the bible says is true. This was an excellent question by the way, if you have more questions just do a little studying on your own, it's all about YOUR faith.
2006-11-27 12:22:13 · answer #2 · answered by rozzell j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is not the exact words of God. It is man who wrote as inspired by the Holy Spirit. The purpose of this inspiration was to bring all to an understanding of God and what was essential for salvation. Because the Bible was written by men, there are, at times, cultural ideas that are known to be in error as we understand it today. The Holy Spirit only intervened in the case of doctrinal errors as in Revelation 19:10 when John fell down to worship the angel. By comparing text with text, line upon line, precept upon precept, there can be found an underlying harmony in what the Bible teaches about God and His nature that enables the honest hearted reader to obtain an understanding of the plan of redemption through Jesus Christ.
2006-11-27 12:15:41 · answer #3 · answered by 19jay63 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have read the entire Bible and realized that while there are many good life lessons, you must also remember the culture of the time periods these were written. The main message in the whole thing to me was if you are loyal and love God, He will not let you down. Faith is a living thing that changes everyday. Many books are published each year that teach life lessons within a context of Christian faith such as the "Chicken Soup" books that teach many of the same valuable lessons of life. Read those too and pray often.
2006-11-27 12:28:30 · answer #4 · answered by StormyC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like a question from someone who has never read the Bible.
The Bible claims to be the inspired word of God. We Bible believers believe that God used human beings, with different backgrounds, writing styles and languages, to pen his word.
The unity in the 66 books of the Bible, the archaeological record, and fulfilled prophecy prove that what the Bible says about itself is true.
In a sense, God still does "come to us," through His Spirit as we read His Word. Try it.
2006-11-27 12:31:55 · answer #5 · answered by David S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the olden days when the Bible was first written down, life was a struggle (I know some people would say it still is, but by comparison, today's life is easy street). Out of six or eight kids in a family, only one or two would survive to adulthood. As an adult, you'd be lucky to live till 30. Life was short and brutish, and people needed something to look forward to - and the only thing they could look forward to was paradise, or heaven, or whatever you want to call it.
So when people started preaching religion, they desperately wanted to believe it. To question details would be to question whether heaven really existed, and they didn't want to do that. They needed to believe it existed, to make their life worth living.
Nowadays, most of us live longer and in better conditions, and life is worth living for itself. So now, Christian academics DO question the Bible all the time. I'd say the majority of clerics in Protestant churches (e.g. Anglican, Uniting, Presbyterian etc) don't take the Bible literally these days. They still believe absolutely in the fundamentals, but they allow for the fact that the Bible was written down by mere mortals, who misinterpreted, exaggerated or got confused over detail.
However, the fundamentalist churches staunchly maintain that the Bible IS gospel. But really, these churches appeal to people who are a bit like the people of old - they may eat better and live longer, but they still have a miserable life for some reason, so they desperately need to believe in something. Those kinds of people are attracted to the charismatic churches, and to be part of that flock, they have to swallow their message whole. To question is to be cast out.
2006-11-27 12:31:46 · answer #6 · answered by Kylie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Infancy 'Gospel' of Thomas" change into exceeded over because it change into written a lot later than the three synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke) and John and because it stemmed from a budding custom referred to as gnosticism that change into later deemed heretical through the council of Nicea. It change into deemed a poor source of information on the historic Jesus because it change into obviously written through someone who knew little about Hebrew way of existence except for what he (we do not recognize who wrote it) looks to have gleaned from his interpreting of the Gospel of Luke, which the piece change into loosely depending off of. there's no way it got here from Apostolic custom like another Gospels.
2016-10-07 21:30:32 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is written in amos ch3 vs 7 ,, Surely the lord God will do nothing,But he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets,And its also written ,In revelation ch 10 vs 7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,the mystery of god should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets,, If you want to be able to understand the bible, from Gods point of veiw you have to go into messagelinks.org thats where I get my understanding , it is the word of the lord that comes to his Prophets, not all these man made ideas, that is coming from the world,,
2006-11-27 12:57:55 · answer #8 · answered by Emanuel B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He does. There are several books published each year with a message.
Now a days people are so busy they don't have time for God, for prayer or meditation like the old days.
2006-11-27 12:11:36 · answer #9 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'People in general want to feel that all this actually means something. For the past 2000 years the Bible has held sway in the west as a means for giving meaning.
That's all.
2006-11-27 12:13:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋