How can the Bible be an inspiration for faith and practice?

Question

i've got a discussion tommorow and i need a few opinions and ideas - thanks =)

Answer 1

It can't.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Look at the people within the Bible. Their faith is what led to them being known by, and an inspiration to, many hundreds of years after them.

Noah- kept his faith eventhough he was the only man on earth (at that time) doing so. God chose his family to be the ones to repopulate the planet.

Moses- this man was given away by his family, turned away from by his people, and hunted for by his new family. Yet, God chose him to save his chosen people.

Nehemiah- A man who became 'someone' in a distant land. He gave up his role (which was close to a king) to go help his people in his turn hometown of Jerusalem. He led the process of rebuilding the wall, and helping God's people get back on track. He became a high official there.

Job- a man of true faith, who lost all his servants, children, and animals, etc. He kept his faith despite the attacks of Satan (via the poor advice of his wife and suggestions of his "friends"). Once they were out of the way, he was blessed with everything he once had and then some. **Oh. did I mention he became a leper during his test.

Paul- Once the pharisee of pharisees. He was "the man" who became a fugitive to the jewish counsel. He ended up saving more lives that he had previously killed (when he was Saul).

Jesus- Was attacked, betrayed, beat up, lied on, hated, tortured, left alone, and looked over by many men. Yet, he took it upon himself to die for the sins of those men. Now he's sitting at the right hand of God, the father.

Need more?

Answer 3

Matthew 5:18 says the regulation has no longer been abolished (that would not make the Bible "infallible"); 24:35 "My words will by no potential bypass away" (would not say the Bible are "his words"). John 10:35 says "the scripture won't be in a position to be annulled". This is going on in this way, i anticipate, i'm no longer looking all of this up. the place does the Bible itself declare this is very own canon? Why isn't the Gospel of Paul or Judas Iscariot coated and the Gospel of Mark excluded? Nowhere does the Bible easily define what books are coated (Revelation's fact approximately no longer including/removing words refers to Revelation, to no longer the whole Bible, via the way). The statements you quote do no longer confer with the Bible in line with se, yet to factors of it. You seem to furnish this effect that Bible replaced into written in a manner of a crew of scholars passing around a workstation. considered one of them wrote in it, then exceeded it directly to the subsequent individual who wrote in it, and so on. This replaced into no longer the case. the guy books have been written via guy or woman authors self sustaining of the others (on the least the recent testomony replaced into), they have been then accumulated via the early Church and compiled into this e book. till an "creation to the Bible" is written via God and inserted in, i might say you're factor is particularly susceptible. So, in reaction to this education, i might might desire to disagree with you. this is not significant, the Qur'an additionally makes this declare. What makes the Bible's declare to any extent further authoritative than the Qur'an's?

Answer 4

In informs our faith and practice in a way similar to how actors or improvisers follow a scripts. An actor or improviser will place him/herself within a script and will learn it well. When the time comes to act/improvise, they will allow the script to inform their acting or interpretive motions. They will act out of this script and it will inform their actions and movements.

For Christians, the bible is the narrative script that informs their approach to life and all that is. It is the interpretive grid that they use to approach life. That does not mean that the Christian repeats the biblical story. Like an actor/improviser, the Christian acts out of the biblical script, continuing the inspired drama into our own time; offering a contemporary performance of that script.

Answer 5

I would think you'd start with character studies based on Hebrews 11 "Cloud of Wtinesses" and all that they did "by faith."

Answer 6

It is an inspiration only if you believe it is for yourself.

If you need help with your life, why not try this prayer.
If your there and listening, I sure could use your help.
So if you would, please help me.
Very simple.

Answer 7

--The examples of women and men of the Bible truly is outstanding:--Examples:

--Rahab reported on her faith when she hid the 2 spies of Israel , and most important expressed the confidence in the true God, over the false gods of her fellow Moabites--please note the dialogue of what she said:

(Joshua 2:8-13) "8 As for these, before they could lie down, she herself came up to them on the roof. 9 And she went on to say to the men: "I do know that Jehovah will certainly give YOU the land, and that the fright of YOU has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have become disheartened because of YOU. 10 For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the waters of the Red Sea from before YOU when YOU came out of Egypt, and what YOU did to the two kings of the Am´or·ites who were on the other side of the Jordan, namely, Si´hon and Og, whom YOU devoted to destruction. 11 When we got to hear it, then our hearts began to melt, and no spirit has arisen yet in anybody because of YOU, for Jehovah YOUR God is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. 12 And now, please, swear to me by Jehovah that, because I have exercised loving-kindness toward YOU, YOU also will certainly exercise loving-kindness toward the household of my father, and YOU must give me a trustworthy sign. 13 And YOU must preserve alive my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters and all who belong to them, and YOU must deliver our souls from death.""

--Gibeonites, who tried to fool Joshua in order not to be in the succession of nations destroyed because of the commission given to him and the Israelites. They had confidence in God's mercy but not in Joshua--which is interesting, in that they realized the depravity that they had practiced, and yet would be dealt with compassionately by God:

(Joshua 9:8-13) ". . .Then Joshua said to them: "Who are YOU, and where do YOU come from?" 9 At this they said to him: "It is from a very distant land that your servants have come in regard to the name of Jehovah your God, because we have heard of his fame and of all that he did in Egypt, 10 and of all that he did to the two kings of the Am´or·ites who were on the other side of the Jordan, namely, Si´hon the king of Hesh´bon and Og the king of Ba´shan, who was in Ash´ta·roth. 11 Hence our older men and all the inhabitants of our land said this to us, 'Take provisions in YOUR hands for the journey and go to meet them, and YOU must say to them: "We are YOUR servants. And now conclude a covenant with us."' 12 This bread of ours, it was hot when we took it as our provisions out of our houses on the day of our going out to come here to YOU, and now, look! it is dry and has become crumby. 13 And these are the wine skin-bottles that we filled new, and, look! they have burst, and these garments and sandals of ours, they have worn out because of the great length of the journey.""

--Note a commentary: --*** it-1 p. 931 Gibeon ***

Although Joshua and the other chieftains had been tricked into making a covenant with the Gibeonites, this was evidently in harmony with Jehovah's will. (Jos 11:19) Proof of this is seen in the fact that when five Amorite kings sought to destroy the Gibeonites, Jehovah blessed Israel's rescue operation; he even hurled down great hailstones upon the foe and miraculously extended the daylight for battle. (Jos 10:1-14) Also, both in seeking a covenant of peace with Israel and in appealing to Joshua for help when threatened, the Gibeonites manifested faith in Jehovah's ability to fulfill his word and to effect deliverance, something for which Rahab of Jericho was commended and that resulted in the preservation of her life and that of her household. Moreover, the Gibeonites had a wholesome fear of Israel's God.-Compare Jos 2:9-14; 9:9-11, 24; 10:6; Heb 11:31.

--Also the nameless little girl, with great faith & courage that recommended to Naamans wife(Syrian chief)--to go to the prophet who had powers of healing:

(2 Kings 5:1-4) "5 Now a certain Na´a·man, the chief of the army of the king of Syria, had become a great man before his lord and held in esteem, because it was by him that Jehovah had given salvation to Syria; and the man himself had proved to be a valiant, mighty man, though a leper. 2 And the Syrians, for their part, had gone out as marauder bands, and they got to take captive from the land of Israel a little girl, and she came to be before Na´a·man's wife. 3 In time she said to her mistress: "If only my lord were before the prophet that is in Sa·mar´i·a! In that case he would recover him from his leprosy." 4 Subsequently someone came and reported to his lord, saying: "It was like this and that that the girl spoke who is from the land of Israel.""

Hope this helps!