Is this true?

Question

The inspiration of the Bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.

I ask a simple question. I'm not saying anything about my religious preference. But if you say "people can't accept the truth", isn't that a little ethnocentric. You're basically saying religion is right and everything else is wrong, correct? It takes a yes or no, I don't need justification, because it probably won't stand. It's probably biased anyways.

Answer 1

No. Some very intelligent people have been inspired by the Bible. And some ignorant people have found it totally without merit.

And vice versa.

Answer 2

No, I'd say it depends on the openness and frame of mind on the reader. A person can find inspiration in just about anything, so long as they attach some extra significance to it.

Oh, and just for the poster before me:

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein, 1954

Answer 3

How Do You Know the Bible Is From God?
This is a good question, and it should be asked and answered.
What Is Revelation? Inspiration? Illumination? Interpretation?
Revelation means that God has spoken and that God has communicated to man. Inspiration guarantees the revelation of God. Illumination has to do with the Spirit of God being the Teacher—He communicates. Interpretation has to do with the interpretation that you and I give to the Word of God.
Inspiration
This brings us to the second great subject, which is inspiration. I personally believe in what is known as the plenary verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, which means that the Bible is an authoritative statement and that every word of it is the Word of God to us and for us in this day in which we live. Inspiration guarantees the revelation of God. And that is exactly what this Book says. Two men—Paul writing his last epistle to Timothy and Peter writing his last epistle—had something pretty definite to say about the Bible: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim. 3:16–17, New Scofield Reference Bible). Notice that all Scripture is given by inspiration. The word inspiration means “God breathed.” God said through these men, as He said here through Paul, exactly what He wanted to say. He hasn’t anything else to add. Peter expresses it this way: “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Pet. 1:21). It is very important to see that these men were moved, as it were, carried along, by the Holy Spirit of God. It was Bishop Westcott who said, “The thoughts are wedded to words as necessarily as the soul is to the body.” And Dr. Keiper said, “You can as easily have music without notes, or mathematics without figures, as thoughts without words.” It is not the thoughts that are inspired; it’s the words that are inspired.
McGee, J. V. 1991. Vol. 01: Thru the Bible commentary: The Law (Genesis 1-15). Based on the Thru the Bible radio program. (electronic ed.). Thru the Bible commentary . Thomas Nelson: Nashville

Answer 4

Ignorance is bliss I guess. I've always heard this and I've had my doubts but it seems to be true. Here we have a moron who places himself above people like Billy Graham and a great many others and he figures he's got it all thought out and there is no God. All I can do is feel sorry for him and he will tell me in a moment not to do that and that he feels sorry for me for believing in God Almighty. He thinks his ancestors crawled out of some primeval slime and that this universe was created from nothing by accident. That's really thinking things through isn't it? He's so sure about his convection's that he thinks he must tell all others of his thinking and divert them from a waisted life thinking about something that in his little mind doesn't exist. Yes, I do feel sorry for him but just the same, I will pray for him.

Answer 5

Not true. THe inspiration of the Bible, or any book at athat, is dependent upon the person's willingness and ability to learn and accept truth. The key is to be able to discern truth from dogma.

Answer 6

I have also been inspired by the bible, but since I find myself bored with these questions, I'm going to bed

Answer 7

Of course. After all,it is just a book of fiction. Some,such as G.W. Bush, are inspired by reading "The Pet Goat" while others find inspiration in "The Bible".

Answer 8

The inspiration OF the Bible?
Otherwise, that may stand for any book, butit also depends on the imagination - some people know they are readin lies - or fiction - but want to get carried away in it for a while. Nothing wrong with that.

Answer 9

Einstein believed in God. He was a atheist before. He is no where considered ignorant.

Answer 10

You need a new question to stir us up. That one is stale already.