There's no way you could tell me that those words in the book is fake, some of the things that happened in the book happen thousands of years ago, and we see the results today, right?
2007-02-26 08:40:12 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are correct. most people won't take time to make a knowledgable attempt, to pick up the Book and read what is it the pages. We have to investigate!!! Most people will get their religion from the media, or Uncle Bob. It is appointed unto kings to search out a matter!!
2007-02-26 08:48:55 · answer #1 · answered by michael m 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
for it to be literally true is a misnomer, because whenever you have an allegory, you have a proportion of something creatively made up, so that proportion is not true.
As for what is true, that is limited only by the degree of faith one has in a particular language (add multiple languages and you get less and less faith). Not that that discredits the bible in any way, but you have to ask, is the bible as clear as it can possibly be without anything flawed or exaggerated?
And because A LOT of people think the bible is contradictory, it could be said that it is not exactly clear (plus whenever you bring in the "fact" that God wrote it, one would surely ask, why, if God wrote it, is it not entirely clear?)
A car manual may not be entirely "clear" but you can have faith that the engineers were at least "trying" to make it clear. So did the authors of the bible try really hard to make it the word of God? Yes, of course, but they, being human, still made some errors.
And not to mention there are other books on philosophy, theology, religion, and spirituality that get it a lot closer to the truth.
2007-02-26 08:50:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book itself is real -- what's IN it has nothing to do with reality.
It's trivial to show literally thousands of contradictions in the bible -- one place it says one thing happened, another where it says something else happened for the same event. These contradictions can't both be right, so at least one of the two in each contradiction is false.
It's also trivial to show literallly hundreds out outright false statements in the bible -- there was no flood, no "ark," no adam & eve, and so on and so on. Then there are the gospels, all written "quoting" jesus -- but not a single one of the gospel writers ever knew jesus personally, and they were all written 50 to 100 years after jesus died -- how can you possibly trust quotes from people who never heard the words spoken?
Superstition and myth, plain and simple.
Open your eyes and mind and that will be abundantly clear.
2007-02-26 08:53:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by "real." It is real in the sense that the book exists-- that's hard to deny. Most people believe that it is real in the sense that it tells a people's perception of its history. But not everyone believes that it is the literal Word of God.
The argument some Christians use in favor of this is unconvincing: The Bible is the Word of God because the Bible says it is. You have to believe in the Bible already for that logic to be convincing.
Unfortunately, the Bible has been abused for personal agendas over the years, and this often predisposes non-believers to question the motives of believers who promote it.
2007-02-26 08:49:12 · answer #4 · answered by dj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know it's real. I can touch the book. So, I am certainly not one who believes that the book is not real.
Are the tales authentic? I would argue not. I won't tell you that the words in the book are fake, but I will tell you that the likelihood of them being true is very, very slim.
To address the last sentence, it's very easy for people to write about the past. Everything written about Jesus was written after his supposed death. That is not a credible accounting of someone's life. When you want to read about the life of Abraham Lincoln, you consult sources that either were written during his lifetime or are supported strongly by sources that were written during his lifetime. Imagine reading an article published in 1920 that said that Lincoln murdered his sister. There is no documentation in the 19th century to support this fact, so why would you just accept a 1920 publication that goes against all contemporary evidence?
Many of the events that supposedly happened in the Bible are not supported by other cultures. The great flood certainly cannot be supported by other cultures. Or at least, not the Noah account. Some cultures do have their own flood stories, but they don't support the notion that Noah built an ark.
If your only source of history is the Bible, then you can believe that everything in the book is true. But if you look at the world at large during history, then you'll see that the Bible is not a credible source of history at all. It's fairly easy to say that the words in the book are very likely not true.
2007-02-26 08:43:13 · answer #5 · answered by Rev Kev 5 · 8⤊ 2⤋
A lot of people do not believe in the Bible because they do not understand that it was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Also the Bible was written as mankind's guide for living and of coarse many prefer to live the way they want, yesterday and today.2 Timothy 3:16
The Bible is our standard for testing everything else that claims to be true. It is our safeguard against false teaching and our source of guidance for how we should live. It is our only source of knowledge about how we can be saved.
2007-02-26 09:01:34 · answer #6 · answered by Connie M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people are ignorant. The Holy Bible is the way the truth and the life, and is every bit the Word of God. Yes, men wrote it, but they recorded what God told them to write. When His disciples asked Him what some signs would be before His return, He told them these things. He said "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences, and there will be fearful signs and great sights from Heaven." See, all of these things are happening now, and just as God promised, He will come again.
2007-02-26 08:58:46 · answer #7 · answered by ilovejoshgroban! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By your logic, the Greek gods should all exist because the Illiad describes things that actually happened thousands of years ago. You can also make a claim for divine inspiration (one of the first lines is "Speak o muse", or something along those lines- an entreaty for divine inspiration).
However, much like the Illiad, when you read the Bible you have to carefully weed out what's fact, what's fiction, what's myth, what's "Truth", and what's a woefully outdated way of life.
2007-02-26 08:47:40 · answer #8 · answered by E D 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Like the book says.....there will be many that are foolish on purpose, blind on purpose and they will scoff his word.
Just another proof of the fact its true. For how could men that long ago know what men today would do? Specially when all these atheists think they are men of no intelligence in the first place. So how did they know what man kind would do?
Of course they will lay out some lame excuse I am sure, they always do....I use to when I was an atheist.
Even all the contradictions they attempt to show can easily be explained away by anyone with just a few years of bible knowledge. For again, the book says that those that do not believe in him will not see the message nor understand it.
2007-02-26 08:47:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
It is real. And we do see the results but some people don't want to see...they don't want to study Hermeneutics (How to study the Bible) because it takes to much work to try and see what was ment. It's so much easier to pick and choose and take things out of context than to work at it. It's like reading someone else's mail....you have to know that person to understand what is being talked about.
2007-02-26 08:48:24 · answer #10 · answered by Jan P 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋