I ask this because until I actually read it for myself I had many of the same misconceptions that bother you guys.
2007-01-27 04:59:11 · 19 answers · asked by pinkieslim1 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I try to keep my comments as informed as I can, and for this reason, I've read the New Testament in Koine Greek, and the entire Bible in the Vulgate and in several English versions, including the King James, Douay-Rheims and more modern versions.
2007-01-27 05:19:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i agree, i see many questions that are taken out of context perhaps because they want to take a verse or two to prove a point or start a discussion that leads to nonsense or no answers at all just to try to find an argument in the bible. the thing is that those who do read will still never understand many things because the bible says that the natural man (without the spirit of god) can never understand the spiritual things in the bible. They need to accept Jesus Christ first.
2007-01-27 05:10:28 · answer #2 · answered by disciple 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had to read it ten times and then began to clear my mind of all the things I had been taught for twenty-seven years that was not in the bible.
O.T. of 1110 years, and the people, done 443 before Christ, N.T. 50 to 100 years after Christ, and here it is 1963 [ or all these years after Christ to KJV Bible published 1611 and 303 years to 1914 after Christ, it is an excepted translation by law of man and God ]; but where was it all those years?
After the reader has examined it thouroughly and compared it to religious teachngs, it did not come from existings religions, the do not even know what it is all about.
The time from Adam to Noah to Abraham to Moses, WHERE ARE THE TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH THAT GET THE SAME TIME?
IF YOU CAN NOT TRUST THIS BOOK AND GOD TO GUIDE YOU WITH IT, THEN WHO?
2007-01-27 05:12:53 · answer #3 · answered by jeni 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in case you open your techniques too lots your techniques will fall out. in case you seem for some thing you will locate it whether it does not exist. additionally a counter-question have you ever looked at any areas of the bible earlier it replaced into translated into English by way of fact lots of the translations have been made obscure as a thank you to no longer seem ignorant interior the sunshine of latest technologies? it extremely is significant that we be taught the two factors of the bible with an open techniques, and not basically the areas that factor in the direction of a divinity.
2016-12-16 14:52:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd love to see people take that challenge, but I doubt that too many are going to do it. It's easier to yank things out of context and use them as "proof" for whatever they want to believe about the Bible and Christians, rather than read and make an informed decision based on the whole text.
2007-01-27 05:05:39 · answer #5 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad to hear that you read the whole bible
and accepted the misconceptions so you could
then decide to be a atheist, good for you!
2007-01-27 05:09:20 · answer #6 · answered by Ruff 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good idea. Also, spiritual things are spiritually discerned. Unless you truly worship the Creator YHVH and accept the grace of the Messiah YAHOSHUA, even if you have read the book, you are still on the outside looking in. Without His empowering spirit, we have no life in us.
2007-01-27 05:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Read it cover to cover several times but so what? Most atheists here have read more holy books than you, the bible is one of many.
And not much changes stylistically beyond page one btw.
2007-01-27 05:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I don't have to read the entire ingredients label on a box of mac and cheese to know it is unhealthy. Assumptions are not necessarily misconceptions, and one does not have to read the entire bible to understand the purpose and the information is provides.
2007-01-27 05:03:32 · answer #9 · answered by manic.fruit 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋
No thatnks. The veil of believability falls away in the first few pages. Why bother going any further?
2007-01-27 05:03:05 · answer #10 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋