Do you think the bible?

Question

Kk for starters Im not trying to offend anyone, and im not saying i believe this, just a suggestion. Do you think its *POSSIBLE* that the bible was made to keep people inline? Like, so they dont cause rucus and do bad behaviour, thinking they would go to hell? Just a thought and just want your thoughts aswell.

Well not writing the bible, i meant like preaching it.

Answer 1

Good thought but, no. Because the Bible doesn't teach Hell, that was made up by false religious teachers, who made it up to do just as you suspected, keep people in line.
In the Bible the word translated hell meant the common grave of mankind, meaning the burial place, as when planting, like in potatoes, you hell the ground.
The dead are conscious of nothing the bible says, not in a fiery place of torment. Ecclesiastes 9:4

Answer 2

That is a legitimate question.

Personally, I don't think so. It has only been in the last few decades that Protestant denominations have adopted the Bible as the "Rule Book," so to speak. For over 1700 years, Christians regarded the Bible as a resource, and interpreted it within the context of pre-existing doctrines. 1000 years ago the Bible could have said that everyone had to fly to the moon once a year - it wouldn't have mattered. People would have simply interpreted that commandment in whatever way seemed to best represent the ideas held in common throughout the group. There was no need to appeal to the authority of Scripture to support Church law, because the Church itself was considered the sole source of faith and doctrine. Ancient Christian creeds and confessions of faith don't even feel the need to mention the Bible. The canon of Scripture was not officially endorsed until the 7th century, and even then the list of books was incidental - they were only adopted because they were mentioned in a local council that was granted ecumenical status. The Orthodox Church still utilizes at least four different "official" canons of Scripture, leaving it up to individual Patriarchs to decide which books they accept or reject. Several New Testament books were disputed as late as the 6th century, and even the "official" list put out by the 6th ecumenical synod left out the Book of Revelation.

In the last few centuries, more and more Protestant denominations have elevated the role of Scripture to replace the missing concept of the Church Militant. In Protestant doctrine, there is no other source of unity or authority than the Bible - all other governmental sources have been removed, one by one. As a result, Evangelical (or "born again") denominations have reached the point where the Bible is regarded as a book of absolute rules that was hand-written by God and dropped into our laps in its complete form (that might be an over-simplification, but you get the idea).

Now non-Christians, thinking that the Evangelical role of Scripture must have existed since the beginning of the Christian religion, think that the early Church must have had some motivation to cut out controversial topics or add in propaganda. The truth is, before the invention of the printing press, the average Christian would not have access to the Bible in the first place. Faith and doctrine would have come from debate, discussion, sermons, homilies, prayers, hymns, holy days, etc.

Answer 3

I doubt that anyone sat down and wrote the Bible consciously for that purpose. Instead, people wrote a lot of things, and those that served a variety of purposes - including social control - are the ones that persisted, and were codified as the official text of the Bible. It's a matter of evolution. A religion whose teachings caused people to challenge the real powers-that-be would not persist in the long run. That's why the whole life-after-death thing is so popular in religious belief systems, I think. It justifies the injustice of the real world, and gives people motivation to follow rules that are obviously not in their best interests.

The way that religious texts serve parents in their efforts to control their children is another major piece of their evolutionary fitness. Obviously when a religion helps with the difficult and often thankless task of child-rearing that religion will be far more likely to persist than one that (say) required parents to perform devotions without giving any assistance with their parental duties.

Answer 4

I believe organized religion was created to control the masses.

There are three belief systems world wide as to what happens when we die.
1) We decompose, the void, the end, ain't no more. If this belief is true then we need only be concerned with our own personal pleasure here, do what we want to who we want and if the law don't catch us we are good to go.
2) When we die we are judged and go to heaven or hell.
3)spiritual, reincarnation, keep coming back here until all lessons are learned. Karma is: what goes around comes around.
you reap what you sow, cause and effect for every cause their is an effect maybe not in the same life period. Karma.

and I think organized religion is to control the masses now as much as ever.

Every single person should have their own relationship with god or not as they see fit.
It is ok to share your beliefs but when you try to force others to see things your way that is dominion not love.

Answer 5

I wish to to think that way my friend, but it is hard to imagine that 40 over writers who had never meet each other, and live in the spend of 1500yrs, can write something of the same theme.

When you go indeep into the prophecy, you will be even more shock! How can they be so acurate about things that is going to happened hundreds of years before? Even the writers themselves sometime don't believe it initially.

If you want to know more on this issue, you may write to me personally.

Err. . . on that note, I think, and I believe, that only possible answer is, there is a divine being that use the hands, eyes and ears of the writers of the bible, to tell the story.

And that divine being is God, telling the story that He loves mankind. including you, my dear.

Cheers

Answer 6

Anything is possible, because of the limited knowledge we humans have.

But time is on the side of the Bible being just what it says it is. Usually over time the type of thing you are suggesting would break down and change meaning.

The Bible says the same thing today as it did 2000 years ago

Answer 7

Do you really think someone could write a book to do that, that would last for 3,500 years, throughout all countries, all cultures, all political setups, all languages and still be the best seller of all time. Do you really think everyone throughout history are idiots except you guys.

Answer 8

No, the Bible is the word of God written by man, but inspired by God.

Answer 9

yes, it is used in that way today, but, i think it's mostly to scare people into believing(or scare them into not questioning and staying in christianity)

Answer 10

If that's true, what's the Quran for.