Is there any way that I can get you to believe that the Holy Bible is real?

Question

This question is for those who need the truth,who are christians,and most of all those who aren't christians!! The bible is real. Im sorry for those who weren't taught this but this bible is real!! Its a book of truth!!! Its a book that teaches us what God wants us to know!! So please give me an honest answer!! And tell me why i can or can't get you to believe !!!!

Answer 1

Most people who call the Bible a fairytale have never read it. And for non-believers, it will seem like foolishness. I wish more people would stay away from Atheistic, Apostate websites, and read the Bible for themselves. But that would take effort and time. It's easier to hear what someone else has said, and criticize what they don't know.

Keep posting here, and maybe you might change someones life.

Answer 2

Oh, I believe it's real. I have a couple of translations up in my room right now. What you want is for me to believe that every word in there is the absolute truth, which will not happen. It's a compendium of stories that were translated through several different language groups before finally making it into English. The KJV, which is pretty widely used, was translated more for poetry than for literal translation (Funniest bumper sticker ever: "If it's not KJV, it's not the Bible!"). There are timeline inconsistencies. There are logical inconsistencies. The stories are obvious borrowings from other religions' stories: the Epic of Gilgamesh, the harvest god myths.

That's not to say that the Bible is valueless. People get a lot of comfort from it, and it has some great stories and great insights. There's a huge difference between literal, real-world truth, and spiritual truth. The Bible has lots of the latter and not so much of the former.

Answer 3

Excellent question. I am a believer and a Bible teacher, and I just want to offer some suggestions:

1) Clearly define what is real. There are many definitions today, and many people do not know that the spiritual realm is real, if not more real, than the natural realm. It can't be controlled, but it can be experienced, and many people, both Christians and non-Christians, have experienced it.

2) Clearly explain your Biblical evidence. This is the ONLY book that foretells past and future events, even things happening today. This is the mark of God's knowledge according to the Bible: He foretells future things, then brings them to pass. The Bible is the only book that gives names, dates, locations, and times in its prophetic statements. The most clear evidence of the Bible being of supernatural origin is its dealings with two things: the life of Jesus Christ (over 300 prophecies by 40 different men over 1,500 years) and its prophesies concerning the nation of Israel. In these two areas, the BIble gives indisputable evidence of prophetic accuracy.

3) Its compilation. All other religious books were written by one person; the BIble was written by over 40 different authors over a period of 1,600 years, all claiming to be divinely inspired by the same God. The degree of agreement under these circumstances of fantastic!

4) Lastly, it's scientific evidence. Despite what people way and don't yet understand about the Bible, the amount of scientific, cultural, social, astrological and mathematical evidence of this book being written outside of time and man's capability is off the chart. Read the book "Cosmic Code" written by Dr. Chuck Missler (former government cryptologist) or "Reasons to Believe" by Astrophysicist Hue Ross. Both deal clearly with the scientific evidence of the Bible (It's the reason the Hue Ross became a beliver after setting out to disprove the Bible and all religion scientifically.)

Then, of course, after all of this, we must accept that there are those who oppose and disagree with the Bible from an emotional/personal perspective, despite the logical evidence. These we may never convince that the Bible is the only "real" book of truth.

I hope this helps some!

Answer 4

Yes there is just proove it. I was punnished as a kid and made to write out passages in the bible for punnishment. after a few dozen times of re-writing I began to notice the descrepences and contradictions, this led to wanting to find out more about the history of the christian church. I have been doing this for 30 years now. and the more I look the less credible the bible becomes. The roman christian church was the foundation for modern christianity and claim simon peter as their first pope, but this church was not founded untill 500 Ad that makes this man over 500 years old, answer that. also in the new testement paul writes letters to rome from a prison cell why was he writing to rome as at the time of the diciples early chistians were being persicuted by the romans. In the court records of king Herod or pontius pilot ( these records still exist) there is no mention of a man called jesus fronting them for judgement the closest is a man called joshua who was upseting the jewish leaders of the time, but he was not crucified he was hung in a doorway. so if you want me to believe then show me the historic documentation that prooves the existance of jesus cause Ive been looking for over 30 years.

Answer 5

I Did not live during the times of Jesus so i can't say all the bible is true, What i can tell you is the power of God is real Two years ago Iowas in a soft cast for my knee with a torn in cartilage the VA was going to do surgery on it when the swelling went down i was in a wheel chair and a friend of mind took me to a church in TX and the elders laid hands on me and my knee was healed my doctor was amazed and took all kind of mri's and cat scan and could not explain it he was a non believer and Muslim but had to admit something healed me knee!!!!!!!

Answer 6

Leave people alone...why do you feel this need to get them to believe as you do?

Scholars would tell you that ,after going through so many translations from one language to another, after having been rewritten (yes, it actually did happen..certain popes had things removed from the Bible when it didn't suit them..and they had the clout to do it in those days) and after realizing that it was written,after all, by common, untutored men...why would you feel that every word in a bible is 'real'?

Just consider one of many,many things in the bible..it says that 'a witch shall not be suffered to live' and of course, I'm paraphrasing, but you know the passage if you know your bible.
How many people still believe that there ARE witches in the world?

If that's irrelevant to our world now..how many other things in the bible are also?

And consider how many millions of so-called witches were burned from the 16th to the 18th century...all because of that one line in the bible...

I can't believe in a book that has caused this much horror...and it's just ONE of many ,many terrible things that religious people have done..history is overflowing with details of persecutions in the name of religion, cruelty to individual and whole groups because of religion...

And all of the perpetrators were people who chose to see the bible as 'God's word'.
No one knows what God's word is..Surely you don't actually believe that God sat down and wrote the bible, do you?

If you are satisfied and happy to believe as you do..that's fine...for you. But leave others out of it..we are all meant to find our own ways...and, depending on our individual intelligence and education and background...we will.

Answer 7

The bible was written, rewritten and rewritten and then interpreted by various self inflated experts. As we all know if you pass anything down a line of people by the time it gets to the end of the line it is nothing like when it started. Yet Fundamentalist want to push the theory that the bible is enerrant (not a single word wrong). That is just too hard to swallow.

While the bible may be a great book it is not fact.

Answer 8

The bible is real, it just isn't true. It is riddled with inconsistencies. It is not unique, in that it borrowed significantly from other sources (such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead). It is definitely not the word of god, as god is imaginary.

I can't think of any life lesson I can learn from the bible that I didn't get by attending kindergarten. If I accepted the bible, I'd think it was ok to keep slaves, degrade women, and hate other people just because they had a different sexual preference than I do.

Nonsense is nonsense, no matter how you dress it up.

Answer 9

Yes. Don't talk about the Bible. Don't tell someone its true or try to prove it true to yourself or anyone else. Try to prove it wrong. You will be impressed. Some are tempted to say God's love can not be expressed in words. WRONG. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is depised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath born our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken. smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Read the Bible out loud. It will radiate off you even when you are quiet.

Answer 10

Real - yes
True - no. There are obvious contradictions and things that are inconsistent with the evidence we have as to how we came to be. A singe error should tell you that it isn't divine, and there are a bunch. The whole creation story just doesn't match the fossil record at all. There isn't a uniform layer of deposit indicating a world wide flood. There is no way that plants were here before the Sun. And on and on. Since it isn't divine, you are left with it being the word of unidentified zealots and that is a pretty poor source.