talking donkeys? whales eating a man? bears killing 40 bald headed boys? A couple runnin round a garden naked listening to a snake? A judge cutting a baby in half to give to 2 women?
2007-02-11 17:56:18 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes absolutely every word is true and more real to me than most everybody in Yahoo questions and answers. But when you ask a question get your facts straight. First the Serpent came to Eve with exactly the same story as you, Is God's word true or is he just testing you and really wants you to be like the gods which is just like him? Talking donkeys, yes if some fool is marching to their own death God can use an @ss to correct him. Whales could eat a man easy enough, him staying alive and an evil city repenting was the miracle not the Big fish. Now the bald person was Elijah not the kids, and the kids were killed because the parents were to busy with cares of the world to raise their children to fear GOD and his prophets, many people today run around naked and say they are dressed no secret there, nudist colonies have you heard of them? And that was a man not a snake, the seed of that serpent was the Anti-Christ and the seed of the woman was Jesus Christ, no mystery there. The Judge was not a judge but a king, his name was Solomon and he did never cut a child in half but used the threat of cutting the child to determine the real mother, and it did work and this was a sign of his wisdom nothing else.
2007-02-11 19:19:11 · answer #1 · answered by sirromo4u 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
OK, first, not everything in Genesis has to be taken literally. No naked people with talking snakes. The story represents humankinds disobedience to God. I do think Adam and Eve represent the single man and woman from which all people alive today are desended from acording to the "Out of Africa" theory. They probably lived a couple of million years ago.
Second, you obviously never read the story of Solomon...otherwise you would know he didn't cut the child in two! The whole point of the story was he never had to! And he didn't! He knew the baby's real mother would give the baby up rather than see it killed! He didn't cut the child in two.
"1Ki 3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
1Ki 3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.
1Ki 3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
1Ki 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice. "
See? Nobody got cut in two.
As for a man being swalloed by a whale or shark ( the Bible doesn’t actually specify what sort of marine animal swallowed Jonah in the original Hebrew, but merely a sea creature)...there have been documented cases that it has happened. Marshall Jenkins, was swallowed by a Sperm Whale in the South Seas. The Boston Post Boy, October 14, 1771, reported that an Edgartown (U.S.A.) whaling vessel struck a whale, and that after the whale had bitten one of the boats in two, it took Jenkins in its mouth and went under the water with him. After returning to the surface, the whale vomited him on to the wreckage of the broken boat, "much bruised but not seriously injured."3 so I don't see why it couldn't have happened.
http://www.bible-infonet.org/ff/articles/apologetics/108_11_15.htm
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t004.html
Bears didn't kill 40 bald headed boys. re-read the text (or I guess I should say, read the text).,
This story is a rather interesting one. It does not say eat btw it says, mauled or killed. And the word "children" in that translation is also found in the books to actually be "young men". Now lets assume 40 young mean aged 18-25 were behind you carrying rocks and sticks. To me that sounds like a gang. The bears were Elijah's protection in sense. It also is not clear whether the children were even killed, perhaps just knocked around a bit.
Talking donkeys just goes to show you God can use any old a.ss he choses to speak through. There's a reason they call them miracles.
2007-02-12 02:34:42 · answer #2 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I believe everything in the Bible is true. Jesus taught in Parables in order to teach Christian concepts. A lot of people learn concepts better in this way. This was true back in Bible times and also today. I've learned to accept that what is in the Bible is truth and if it isn't in the Bible it is a lie. The Bible is a beautiful Book full of poetry and history and the only way to really understand it is to study it and learn the analogies that are used to teach us what the Lord wants us to know. Some scripture is meant to be taken literally and others are allegorical and we need to learn that difference.
And I agree fully that with some of the other posts that the story about the judge is not literal. You need to not just read the Bible, but study it in context. If you had read that in context you would have understood it the way it was meant to be understood. Whales do eat men today. And to the poster that said that it wasn't a whale, but a submarine, that's false.
2007-02-12 02:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by angelcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, yes and no. Part of it is true, and alot of it has been changed by people. These days you cannot even get the original version of the Bible. Mind you, I was a Christian first, and now i have converted to Islam, and im speaking neutrally abt the facts. There are alot of people saying that the Church has not included alot of Gospels in the Bible, I can't say that this information is authentic, but it could be possible...
2007-02-12 02:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by faiza_t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can verify much of the Bible on my own with outside sources, and it leads me to believe that the rest was at least written in good faith and is likely an accurate account of history from the writer's perspective.
That doesn't mean that the Bible will adhere to our exacting standards, but it does mean that it might very well be the best historical source we have for some of these stories.
(The last one you mentioned didn't actually happen. Solomon spared the baby.)
Don't sweat it. Science wants us to believe that lightening struck a rock and up sprang life!
2007-02-12 02:03:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You may be more well read than I am for example when did King Solomon cuy a baby into two? It was a test to see who thew real mothere was, etc DEo you hop to provoke an argument>
2007-02-12 02:08:47 · answer #6 · answered by devora k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I believe in the whole counsel of God from Geneisis to Revelation. King Solomon did not cut the baby but he suggested doing so to identify the real mother who did not want the baby killed. God can use anything to do anything beyond what we think or imagine or He is not God.
2007-02-12 02:04:44 · answer #7 · answered by seekfind 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
But whales have swallowed men.
Bears have and do kill people
The judge (Solomon) didn't cut the baby in half, he suggested that as a solution to determine who the true mother was.
2007-02-12 01:58:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nothing in the Bible is true. It paints only one woman in a good light(I'm not even female and I see the problem there)and she was pregnant with Christ at the age of twelve. Burning bushes talking to you, c'mon man, hey don't let Santa find out you've been bad.
2007-02-12 02:18:39 · answer #9 · answered by Orion Quest 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes,but you need understanding i.e. Jonah and the whale was clearly a submarine.Do you not see all the proof of technology
from the ancients.
2007-02-12 02:03:18 · answer #10 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋