Christians and non if you know the answer?

Question

How come christians follow what the bible says when it was written 300 yrs after christ was suposedly on earth? Whats the theory on this? Just to be clear I'm NOT attacking christianity, I'm just curious, I have read the bible but a lot of it didn't make sense to me, can anyone explain?xx

Getting a lot of differant theorys, thanks guys, and assad...i'm insulted.....I happen to like harry potter! :p hehe xx

Lots of differant date from differant christians too...though I understand that christianity comes in many forms. The person who said about buddah being written about after 500 years, that may be true, but buhdism isn't based on belief,its based on peace and happiness (as I'm sure you know) so it doesnt matter if buddah existed or not x

Also, another q if thats ok, do you believe the other religions have their belief and stories completely wrong or are they all linked to christianity and have just interpreted it in a differant/incorrect way?

Also, can I please request taht no-one calls names or insults or calls eachother ignorant in their answers, just because someone has a differant belief doesn't make them ignorant. Not everyone was raised the same religion, and there are too many too thoroughly reserch every one x

Answer 1

Im sorry you have been misinformed. The Bible is a collection of 66 books. Written over a span of over 2000 years. Ever hear of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Proof that books in the Bible were written thousands of years ago. Dont let Lucifer and his fallen angels fool you with their deceptions and lies. Repent and be baptized. We are only here for a fleeting moment compared to eternity. Amen and Peace out...............

Answer 2

Trying to read the Bible without Christ in your heart is like reading other people's love letters. It just will not mean anything to you because there is no personal attachment to the author. Many who answer here on YA, or scholars on TV, think they have the Bible pegged because they have read it as some ancient historic text. It goes far beyond that. If that were all it merely is, then there would have been no need for scribes to meticulously copy scroll after scroll one letter at a time.

When you look in a mirror, do you see a bioligic machine, or a person? How is that person able to think, reason, create or even postulate what is beyond the physical? Is this all there is, or is there something more in the unseen world? DNA has proven that there is a sophisticated code that made you look the way you do. Someone had to have created this code. The Bible not only explains all this, but also that there is a destiny beyond when when we passed.

Yesterday, I went to a funeral of a good friend. I felt an extreme sense of loss, but I did not fear of death. For the Bible has proved itself to be written by God through the hands of man. I can prove this through prophecy. And it states in very clear terms what is in the here-after and how to prepare for it. But in the beginning, I had no such knowlege and started out by faith that it was true. Then something happened inside, and it all made sense. The love letters were now addressed to me personally, and that is something you just cannot describe in words. It takes a personal relationship with Jesus Christ to make it this way.

Answer 3

The words in the Bible were handed down generation to generation orally. Men repeated them daily and the Holy Spirit (God's spirit) made sure there was no errors. 100 yrs after Christ's death and resurrection, the written word came to be. So they were written and many men were involved to make sure the stories were correct. It's like learning a song by hearing the words and notes and repeatedly singing it during your whole life. You don't sing it differently over the years, you know the words and notes are correct and so do the other men that have learned it along with you. You know how to sing "happy birthday' and probably learning it by hearing it instead of reading it. The first bible that was written was protected (it's God's word) and every time another book was written, it took a long time and every letter and number was looked at very carefully before the next word was written down and many men read through it to make sure it was copied down in no error. When it was translated into other languages, scholars took years to translate them and it was again scrutinized by a group of men that were well versed in foreign languages.

Today Steven King can write a book in a few months and have someone else type it, he reads it to make sure it's correct and it's then published and millions are made and sold. It's easy to make sure each book is the same. But back then it took years to write a Bible out, on parchment and ink. The Bible is taken seriously and if you study the ancient Hebrew language and compare a Hebrew Torah to an English bible (NAB) you will see that the words are the same.

Only problem is that the King James and NIV bibles don't have the same words and that first ancient Hebrew Bible. Men translated their versions of the bible into words that made more sense to them and would be easier to understand to read. There are many translations that took some books out and added ones into to that would fit their lifestyles (sinful ways). One that reads a bible that wasn't from the original is reading man's word, not God's.

Answer 4

It always amazes me how ignorant everyone is on this.

Go to a book store. Look at the Bibles. For thousands of years people have been translating scripture into "modern language" and different languages.

The earliest copies of some books that we have date from periods in the late first century and the early second century, but, think about how hard it is to find a first edition published just a hundred years ago.

Someone figures out when a version of a document is written and suddenly it did not exist before that time. What a leap of assumption, the mother of all F***ups.

To minimize the variety of scriptures available Constantine put together a group of scholars to figure out which were the most reliable and put those together in a book that could be copied "exactly" so everyone would be on the same page. That is called "good management" and if you ask me God did "encourage it", for basic principles of management if no other reason.

We still have and circulate various versions of scripture and today we can compare them to each other. Something you could not do two thousand years ago.

This does not invalidate everything, 2nd Timothy 3:16 tells us all scripture is from God and is good for learning about God.

Only Christ is good for salvation and Christ gave us the Holy Spirit, if you accept it, to help you understand scripture.

This is such a common sense issue I have to wonder why it comes up so often.

PS: Ignorance is the lack of education. If you want to hate me, or other people for using accurate terminology then hate me. You think of it as an insult. To me it is just reality, truth. No one knows everything. Everyone is ignorant on different subjects. Get over it or stay ignorant because you don't like the terminology. Your choice, not mine.

Censorship by political correctness is still censorship.

Answer 5

I think your facts are wrong. The Old Testament was written over many hundreds of years by several different authors who were inspired by God. The New Testament was written within the first 40 years after Jesus died. Exact dates are not available but studies have proven they were widely circulated by 70 AD so they must have been written 20 to 40 years before that considering the length of time travel took during that era. This makes the books contemporary to the actual witnesses of Jesus' time on earth.

It's not so hard to believe when you examine all the facts. Check out "Evidence That Demand a Verdict" by Josh McDowell. It's a bit dry, being written by a lawyer, but it provides some amazing facts.

Answer 6

London, I read what Biblical scholars have to say about the NT. The letters of Paul to the Christian churches were written first around 50CE. The Gospel of Mark was written very close to 70CE. Matthew, Luke and John were composed sometime before 90CE. So none of the Gospels are first hand accounts. In fact there are absolutely no first hand accounts of Jesus at all. While the Gospels were considered only memoirs of Jesus by early Christians, the Church later on in the third or fourth century declared them the inerrant account of Jesus' life. The books of the NT were copied as many as 25,000 times by scribes before the invention of the printing press. And none of the original manuscripts are in existence. Should you want to read more about this, I suggest you read Biblical scholar, Bart Ehrman, whose book entitled Misquoting Jesus, will give you a an idea of how the books were put together. While religious adherents of Christianity claim that the book is without mistakes, Biblical scholars estimate that there are inbetween 100,000 to 300,000 errors in the NT. All were made during the translation and transcription. Have a great day!

Answer 7

Christ came to set an example for us to follow until He returns in the end of time. He also died on the cross as an atonement for sin to all who will believe in Him. Time has passed and certain things have changed along with the times, but the main ideal is and always will be to follow Christ and the example He set for us when He was living here. You can find different translations of the Bible which might help you understand it better than the old English versions. Also, it would help you to get in to a church where the Bible is taught and attend some studies there. As you learn about these things along with other believers, you will also have their knowledge to guide you. Hope I was of some help to you today.

Answer 8

I am going out on a limb here,Perhaps,Maybe,if I only had the Bible to go by I would not have such a strong belief.Jesus literally came to me in my hour of need and caused a miracle.Holy Angels pulled me from death.I have many friends, relatives and some strangers who have had the same thing happen.It is all too real,I saw many medical miracles.I may have still become Christian,if these things did not happen,as Jesus is a historical fact.I have no agenda to reason to lie.This is all true.

Answer 9

The Bible is composed of sixty-six books, all written well before this 300 years after Christ, it was around 300 years after Christ that the 66 books were compiled into one book, The Holy Bible.

Answer 10

The Old Testament was written before years before Christ, and the New Testament was written 35AD-90AD. A few years after Christ's resurrection and ascension into heaven. You may not undertand the bible, because the bible can only be understood by those who are Christians. Non-Christians will never be able to understand the bible.

Answer 11

You can't just read the bible and expect to understand it, for it is not a book like a love novel nor a engine repair manual.

You must believe first, to be able to understand the book. Now that sounds nuts to many, but we do this exact thing with many other items.

Example.....say you are sitting in a trig. class in college, as you sit there you flip through the book and all you see is just alien to you. You think there is no way I can understand all this. You can't understand it, for you do not believe in it, or better to say you have not studied it yet.

Same with the bible, to just read bits and pieces or just a passage here and there, that doesn't work. And you can't read it from first chapter to the last and expect to have it make sense. For its actually many books, within a book. Each "name" is a book, written by a separate man, and at times he refers to others times and sometimes he doesn't, sometimes he talks in plain english and others he talks in metaphors and language of signs and pictures.

Even the book itself says......those that do not believe in me will not understand the message of this book. I've read it and didn't believe....I believe now and again, I read it. And guess what...he was right.....for now I understand it, and do so more n more every day.