Does anyone here truly believe the events of the bible?

Question

I'm not questioning anyones faith here .. thats up to you i just want to know how many people actually believe whats in the bible word for word.

Answer 1

I do completely. The bible is an incredible work of antiquity. Never ever has the bible been proven wrong. There are countless events/places from the bible that archaeologists have found including;
Ur-the city where Abraham lived for awhile
Nebucenezzar-king of Persia-now Iraq
Tomb of Ciaphus-high priest who brought Jesus to trial
Walls of Jericho found
King David's bathes

And SO much more.
There were eye witnesses for the events in the bible. Many who had everything to loose by claiming the Jesus was messiah.
There is non christian evidence that the man Jesus WAS here many wrote of him including Tacitus who was a Roman historian , Josephus who was a Jewish historian, Pliney the Younger who was the imperial legate of the Roman province of Bithynia. He wrote to the Emperor many times about the followers of Jesus and Christians . Many atheists know the man Jesus was here because of these writings.

Evidence of the massive flood: In the 1920s, Sir Charles Woolley, a British archaeologist, while working at Tell al-Muqayyar, in the area of Ur in Mesopotamia, made a startling discovery. He had been digging vertical shafts deep into the soil in the ancient city. As expected, he found layer after layer of evidence of human life - the remnants of graves, pottery, and rubble. But suddenly, it all stopped at a layer of pure clay that was approximately 10 feet thick. Such an abrupt and deep layer of clay, far above the ancient level of the nearby Euphrates river, was very unusual. It indicated a massive flood.

Woolley's workmen kept digging through the layer of sedimentary (i.e. water borne) clay, that had no evidence of human habitation, until it ended as abruptly as it started and they again found deposits of graves, pottery, rubble - but which were nothing at all like that found above the layer of water-deposited clay. The clay layer marked the boundary between two very different worlds, two very different civilizations, that Woolley declared were the before and after worlds of the flood. Woolley's findings made headline news in Britain and the United States at the time.

Possible evidence of Noah's ark on a mountain in Turkey;
The mountains of Ararat are located between the Black and Caspian Seas in southern Armenia. Although "Mount Ararat" has become popularly used for where Noah's ark came to rest, as The Bible account states, Ararat was actually a mountain range. Two peaks, about 7 miles / 11 kilometers apart, have been identified as the most likely location of the ark's resting place. The one is 14,300 feet and the other 10,300 feet above the adjacent Araxes plain. The higher of the two has a snow-covered peak year round (which would also leave any remnant of Noah's ark mostly hidden under a cover of snow and ice), and was known to the ancient Persians (who were neither Jews nor Christians) as "Noah's mountain."For generations, the people of the Armenian village of Bayzit, located at the foot of Mount Ararat, have told of how a mountain shepherd found a large wooden ship high up on the mountain.

In 1833, a Turkish summer expedition reported finding the wooden prow of a large ship sticking out of the south glacier (if the wood of Noah's Ark did survive all of that time, along with it having been coated in tar, or "pitch," by Noah himself, being frozen in the mountaintop ice would have preserved the wood - although a glacier has its own destructive forces as it actually moves, along with everything on, and in, it).

In an expedition in 1892, Dr. Nouri, the Archdeacon of Jerusalem and Babylon, claimed to have seen the wreckage of a large ship partially visible in the mountain ice. He said "The interior was full of snow, the outer wall was of a dark red color."

During the First World War, a Russian flying officer named Roskowitzki claimed to have seen the "wreckage of a fair sized ship" on the south side of Mount Ararat.

During the Second World War, more flyers, another Russian, and four Americans, all made separate observations similar to Roskowitzki.

In 1955, Fernand Navarra of France found 3 fragments of a wooden beam embedded in solid ice on Mount Ararat. Testing indicated that the wood was over 5,000 years old.
I have been studying the bible for over 23 years. Never have I ever found a contradition or discrepancy. I have a science degree and I am amazed how accurate the bible is. Look, seek and you will find the truth. Knock and the door will be opened. If you sincerely seek the truth.
Jeanmarie

Answer 2

If you do research in the Bible and non-religous books and historical events you will see a lot of the events in the Bible have been documented through tablature and other forms of record keeping. When Daniel was throwen into the firey furnace with his 2 friends in front of a large crowed, is written on tablets and when King Nebukenezaar was in the forest living as an animal abandoning his post as leader, those 3 yrs show little to nothing being done by the civilization. Check it out. Don't listen to others, but take some of the answers you get and research them see what you find.

Answer 3

Lev eleven:13 and those are they which ye shall have in abomination between the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, Lev eleven:14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Lev eleven:15 each and every raven after his kind; Lev eleven:16 And the owl, and the evening hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, Lev eleven:17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the large owl, Lev eleven:18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, Lev eleven:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. Lev eleven:20 All fowls that creep, going upon all 4, must be an abomination unto you. particular, the bat is yet another kind of chicken. this is likely going one among the birds that's unlawful with the help of skill of God to devour with the help of the time of the time of Moses.

Answer 4

its is the only history book i do believe for it is the Word of God and it is His Story all others are only told from one side of the story like the movies trying to make people believe it was the Indians scalping people this is a lie it was the white man the ones trying to steal the Indians land that did the scalping to turn in for a bounty now i know this is off the subject but the Bible is the only book of His Story i do believe completely
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Answer 5

Some of its events are documented in other historical sources. We know there was a flood. Jesus did exist and Babylon is gone, etc.

But, I don't like to be spoon fed my faith. I think a lot of the Bible is metaphor and stuff to learn by. It has also been edited over the centuries.

Answer 6

People that believe in the bible saw prophecy fulfilled when Israel became a state in 1948.People are seeing prophecy fulfilled in our time right now with the migration of the Jews back to Israel.

Too much coincidence?
You decide.

Answer 7

I believe the Bible is the literal and infallible Word of God.

Answer 8

I do not.

I would like to add, though, that the self-story of any people has the "truth" of that people's view of life.

I would say that the the OT stories reflect the Jews' historical experience of exile.

The bible isn't meant to be taken literally, as a factual account of actual events. It is meant, as all religious texts or oral traditons are, to be a way of giving meaning to human life.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

It wasnt meant to be taken word for word. Jesus spoke in parables. The old testament is done, over with, amended.