And will never admit the Bible is open to any other conclusions besides their own?
2007-01-19 18:01:40 · 15 answers · asked by Asilos Magdalena 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i like to go to the source.
2007-01-27 16:05:09 · answer #1 · answered by user name 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible, from start to finish, took over 1600 years to write. 66 books and 40 different authors. The Old and New Testaments all say or point to Jesus. The Living Word. Look for Him in every part of the Bible and you will find Him. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you before you read, and you will see your own interpretation. And it will be right.
2007-01-28 00:58:59 · answer #2 · answered by orion_1812@yahoo.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a double-edged sword in the form of a question.
To allow for other possible conclusions is fine, as long as those with other conclusions are willing to do the same. It's when you have TWO people that stand firm on their interpretations that you have disputes.
2007-01-20 02:06:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the bible was the word of god it would not be open to interpretation. The meaning would be clear, but it's not. That is why they have divisions within their religion.
2007-01-20 02:06:39 · answer #4 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are countless bibles in this world. About which bible you are talking about.
In Quran Allah send Curse on those who write the book of Allah with their own hands and earn (from copy rights).
Come towards Islam
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2007-01-20 02:06:13 · answer #5 · answered by savoir-vivre 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive been saying all along that the Bible is a book written by man...if people want to beleive in everything that is written by MAN, then I would be happy to upload my own personal journal entries and call it the "lost chapter" of the bible.
2007-01-20 02:05:57 · answer #6 · answered by Jujuchi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The reason I believe is because I have had answers to my prayers by reading the Word if God. As a true faith believing person and in connection with Christian fellowship, i.e., church, small group the Word lives in you.
God Bless you
2007-01-28 00:47:36 · answer #7 · answered by heartday 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people see the Bible in different ways and if you read it again you might get a different view of the Bible
God Bless You
2007-01-20 02:07:17 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The true meaning of the inspiration of the Bible is that God is the Author of all the seventy-three books of the Old and New Testament. The Vatican Council (Sess. hi.), after declaring that God's revelation to man is contained in the Bible and tradition, and that the canon or list of the Sacred Scriptures is complete in the authentic Latin Vulgate translation, plainly teaches the Catholic doctrine of inspiration. It says: "The Church holds these books as sacred and canonical, not because, composed by merely human industry, they were thereupon approved by her authority; nor alone because they contain revelation without error; but because, written under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they HAVE GOD FOR THEIR AUTHOR, and as such were delivered to the Church herself."
Mere approval of a book by the Church, absolute inerrancy in its content, or the fact that it contains revelation, do not make that book inspired. It must have God for its Author.
Pope Leo. XIII thus explains this divine authorship in his Encyclical on the Bible, Providentissimus Dens. He writes: "God by His supernatural power in such a way incited and moved them (the sacred writers) to write, in such a way assisted them in waiting, that they should rightly conceive in the mind, and should wish to write faithfully, and should express fitly with infallible truth, all those things and only those things which He Himself should order; otherwise He would not Himself be the Author of all Sacred Scripture."
The inspired writers are not mere passive instruments in their writings, but under the divine action are intelligent, active and free agents.
They need not know the fact of their inspiration, nor do they need in every instance a direct revelation from God. We know that the author of the Second Book of Machabees abridged the five books of Jason of Cyrene (2 Mac. ii. 27), and that St. Luke consulted documents and gathered his facts from "eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word" (i. 1, 2). Their literary style and wording may be their own (2 Mac. xv. 39, 40), so that we often find verbal differences among them (Matt. v. 3; Luke vi. 29; Matt. xxvi. 26; Luke xxii. 19; Mark xiv. 22; 1 Cor. xi. 23). God may inspire the very words they use, but this is not essential to the motion of inspiration. We may hold, for example, that Moses is the author of the Pentateuch, but we are not bound to believe, as the Biblical Commission tells us, that Moses wrote or dictated everything himself. Writing under divine inspiration himself, he may have "committed it to one or more to write, yet in such a way that they should faithfully express his meaning, write nothing or omit nothing against his will, and that the work . . . approved by Moses, the chief inspired author, should be published in his name."
2007-01-21 14:00:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they all want to be "right" about who God is! Who said the Bible has anything to do with who God really is?
2007-01-20 02:06:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any interpetaion of the Bible is only supposed to mean what the Author intended it to mean.
2007-01-20 02:06:47 · answer #11 · answered by Jason M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋