Do you beleive in Everything you read or are told?
Peace and Love
2007-01-09 05:54:12 · 6 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why don't you believe IN Jesus. Just because you've been told or have read that??
God Bless!!
P.S. I'm sorry if you think, I'm being rude. I'm not in any way.
2007-01-09 05:59:21 · answer #1 · answered by inlovew/jesus 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in Jesus because I have read the Bible and the Bible is true. I know that because there is so much proof. Also the Bible commands Christians to question religious beliefs. Deut 13:1-5, 1 John 4:1, Gal 1:8, 2 Cor 11:13, etc.
There is plenty of evidence. There are many more sources than just the Bible that we can rely on (although the Bible is more than sufficient on it's own).
1. Geography
2. Texts
3. Toponymy
4. Archaeology
Geography- If you study the geography of Israel you would see how it affected the settlement patterns, routes of travel commerce, econmy, politics and thus the history of that time. The geography of the Biblical Israel confirms what we read in the Bible.
Texts- There are extra-biblical texts (texts outside the Bible) that also confirm what is written in scripture. Egyptian sources are primarily from the 2nd millenium BCE. There are 4 types.
1) Expedition journal and topographical lists- example is Thutmose III.
2) Literary papyri-example, Journey of Sinuhe
3) Execration texts- 2 sets (ursing)
4) Coorespondance archives- El Amarna letters
Other Extra Biblical texts include Mesopotamian sources, from Syria the Ebla texts, from Transjordan the Mesha Stele, from Israel the Tel Dan inscription.
Also look at authors like the famous historian Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny the younger, Julius Africanus, and the Talmud.
Toponymy- the study of place names. If you study the cities and other names in the Bible you will see that they have the Principles of Location which prove they really did exist. Those are:
1) Near a water source.
2) Defensible.
3) Continuity of the name through the centuries.
4) It fits with the geography described in the text.
5) Check data from archaelogical surveys.
No one would settle in a place that did not have these Principles of Location.
Archaeology- If we dig in Israel and find ancient sites that are consistent with where the Bible said we would find them, that shows the Bible's history and geography are accurate. One prominate archaeologist carefully examined Luke's references to 32 countries, 54 cities, and 9 islands, finding not a single mistake. These are only some sites that have been excavated: The Pool of Bethesda in John 5:1-15, the Pool of Siloam from John 9:7, Jacob's well from John 4:12, even Pontius Pilate's identity has been confirmed by archaeology! John McRay PH. D. was asked if he had ever encountered an archaeological finding that blatantly contravene a New Testament reference he responded, "Archaeology has nto produced anything that is unequivocally a contradiction to the Bible. On the contrary, there have been many opinions of skeptical scholars that have become codified into 'fact' over the years but that archaeology has shown to be wrong."
2007-01-09 13:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by cnm 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it's more than just words. It's feeling God's presence around you and in your life. It's feeling the Holy Spirit move through your body and speak through you. It's faith. It's miracles that happen everyday. No i certainly dont believe everything i read or am told. But you should know that Religion is much more than that.
2007-01-09 13:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There IS a god shaped hole in the human psyche, it will be filled with superstition unless you actually take the time to understand that it is there. Belief in gods and spirits was evolutionarily advantageous, we don't need it now but evolution doesn't work on such short timescales.
2007-01-09 13:57:51 · answer #4 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know Jesus is with me it was reading the quran convineced me Jesus is the truth and only way shortly after that I had a rebirth experiance so I know Jesus is with me.
2007-01-09 13:58:19 · answer #5 · answered by Mim 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No...I do not believe in everything I hear....like evolution.
On the contrary, you have identified the heart of faith -- it is a choice.
What proves it true to me, is how my heart, my life, my love, my faith -- who I am -- has changed after I took that "leap of faith."
2007-01-09 14:01:00 · answer #6 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋