If so, then how do I know that what is written is true?
2006-11-27 12:23:19 · 17 answers · asked by Mr Hex Vision 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oldguy63: Well you just have to look at the many verisons out there, kings james springs into mind.
2006-11-27 12:28:42 · update #1
You have to take it on faith.
(I'm an atheist, too :))
2006-11-27 12:25:13 · answer #1 · answered by vuarra 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is widely accepted that parts of the bible were written at periods long after the death of Jesus. There is no way of knowing if what is written is true, but there still would not be if it were provable that it was written at a time when Jesus was alive. The same goes for virtually every religious scripture in virtually all religions. It would be foolhardy to believe that what is written in the Bible is literal truth, the same as it is to believe that the Koran is literal truth.
It is thought that the final writings in the bible were written as a way of keeping the knowledge as those that were there at the time slowly dwindled in number as time went on and they began to die.
It is impossible, regardless of when the stories became scripture, to prove that any truth exists within them. That is why it is called faith. If it were provable, then the basis of religion would be open to criticism in the public forum without a reliance on unprovable beliefs.
2006-11-27 12:48:50 · answer #2 · answered by tony w 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is hard to put dates on the Old Testament. Depending on when you would date creation, Noah, Abraham, ect. then it is possible that it would at least be that long between the events taking place and them being written down. Tradition has it that Moses wrote Genesis through Dueteronomy. But the New Testament you would have to date much closer to the events. The earliest manuscript of a book of the New Testament is a copy of John dated to 90 AD, roughly 60 years after the events happend.
2006-11-27 12:28:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible was written by the catholic church in the 4th century. They threw out most of the manuscripts they were supposed to use to write it and changed most of the rest to better control the masses. You can be assured that most of the bible is not "true" but it has some nice children's stories. You would have a hard time finding any Christians to admit that because then they would also have to admit that their religions are based on lies. Then they would be in even more trouble than they already find themselves in. Shameful.
2006-11-27 12:47:58 · answer #4 · answered by Tom B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before written language was developed, flood stories, and stories of great catastrophies, would have come down by word of mouth, then written down, in the story telling tradition, of whatever culture. Moses is said to have written the first five books of the Bible, long after the events had happened.
2006-11-27 12:44:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a claim, it's the truth.
Most of the gospels describe places incorrectly. As if the author only heard about the area and hadn't actually visited there.
Would YOU trust a travel brochure written by someone who relied on second or third hand information a hundred years after the fact?
Neither would I.
2006-11-27 12:30:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible was written more than a million years ago I have prove of it. the book came from another world but it has a diffrent look now and content is not the same as it was before. But the .... of the book is the truth - just a few phrases from another world
2006-11-27 12:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
previous testomony became complete round 400 BC, in spite of the indisputable fact that it became not all written then: each and every of the books were written particularly close to to the activities it files. It became then handed down until eventually they were given the sequence they new call the Jewish Tanakh, aka the Christian previous testomony. the hot testomony has similarities. each and every of the former testomony books were written with the help of eyewitnesses who said Jesus in individual, or a up to date who for my section knew this variety of eyewitnesses. each and every of the hot testomony became written earlier ad one hundred.
2016-11-27 02:47:22 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a lie that Satan spread. The bible prophecy was written in advance. When those events happened in Daniel he had been dead many years earlier.
2006-11-27 12:25:21 · answer #9 · answered by Steven 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That is true with the gnostic Gospels, however the ones that were cannonised were written between 0Ad and 100Ad, within the Lifetime of the writers.
God Bless you in your searching.
2006-11-27 12:26:52 · answer #10 · answered by Abbasangel 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You wouldn't believe it if it were written the day Jesus was born. You wouldn't believe it if it was written when Christ died. You wouldn't believe it if it were written by historians of the day. So why try and make a ridiculous point.
2006-11-27 12:28:25 · answer #11 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋