It actually means:
BASIC INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE LEAVING EARTH
2007-02-12 02:15:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I heard this the first time from a Minister who used this as an ice-breaker to get the audience thinking.
No one is listening until you make a mistake. Half the people who answered this are below average.
2007-02-12 07:43:28 · update #1
whoa
2007-02-12 02:22:32 · answer #1 · answered by sammy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God didn't write any books.
If God had something to say to me, the azalea bushes in my back yard would be burning before he ever picked up a typewriter to pass the Word along.
The only logical solution is that it was written by men.
Flawed men. Corruptible, mortal men who were vulnerable to greed and bigotry and hatred and hidden agendas, as are we all.
Men who cobbled together stories from various pre-existing mythologies and simply made the characters local. And even today, a board of men very similar to the first decides what goes in, what gets taken out, and what stays the same.
Those men have re-translated it, re-interpreted it, re-wrote it, re-doctrined it, re-organized it so many times that the various versions don't even say the same things any more.
Which instructions, then, should we pay heed to "before leaving earth" (As if we had anywhere else to go)?
The old testament?
New?
King James Version?
What about the Book of Mormon?
The Book of Kells?
The Egyptian Book of the Dead?
The Book of Boznah, also known as the Book of Nod?
The Magus?
The Lavey Satanic Bible?
The Quran?
The Vedas?
The Book of Shadows?
Which of these texts was written by God?
Why, none, of course.
Which were penned by the hand of Man?
All of the above.
If Jesus Himself were to personally write every word of the Bible, it would still be written by a man.
This is what gets me the most. I am accused of worshipping idols by people who worship a man.
2007-02-12 10:28:49 · answer #2 · answered by Khalin Ironcrow 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So... a couple thousand years ago, the people who named this while speaking another language somehow knew to use this term for us in English?
Maybe the term Bible came first, from the latin Biblios, meaning 'book', like the recorded history tells us?
Sticking a cutsy acronym in its place does not really improve it.
2007-02-12 10:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an interesting coincidence, but I think that's all it is! The etymology of the word bible states that word stems from the phrase biblia sacra "holy books," from Gk. ta biblia to hagia "the holy books," from biblion "paper, scroll," the ordinary word for "book," originally a dim. of byblos "Egyptian papyrus," possibly so called from the name of the Phoenician port from which Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece. (Online Etymology Dictionary).
At any rate, it's not really instructions before leaving Earth, is it?
2007-02-12 10:23:01 · answer #4 · answered by Marianne M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey-
Just wanted to let you know that you got that acronym wrong....
Here is the real deal!
Bigotry
Intolerance
Bias
Ludicrousness
Egotistical
Thought this might help you in your quest!
Your pal,
Monkey
2007-02-12 10:29:22 · answer #5 · answered by monkey tuesday 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you just make that up? :) (Silly Goose) I thought it came from the Greek word Biblia which means book. I do like that acronym though.
2007-02-12 10:21:25 · answer #6 · answered by pawt72 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's very clever, sweetie.
Have a lollipop!
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2007-02-12 10:19:32 · answer #7 · answered by abetterfate 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
*sigh*
Yup. Exactly what I wanted to see first thing on Monday...
Bible means "book".
2007-02-12 10:19:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
really... I thought it ment "Prison Rolling Papers"...
2007-02-12 10:21:51 · answer #9 · answered by B-Hole 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
wow you guys sure are obsessed with death arnt you?
2007-02-12 10:18:41 · answer #10 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋