If God were to read the book as it is printed today and view all the big debates, laws & issues in society today, what omissions do you think he would be most likely to address?
What would he add if he could add anything on? What would he take away (to make other interpretations go away)? & What would he say to the many forms of religion we have today?
& to those nonbelievers: what would the people who wrote the original thing do differently if they saw the world of today?
2007-03-05 06:48:36 · 25 answers · asked by Wise Kai 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Unlike one of the previous answerers, I believe this is a very interesting and thought provoking question. The answer is going to depend on how you feel about religion and God. As a Christian who was agnostic until about 15 years ago, my favourite Apostle was always Thomas (the doubting one). I feel he epitomizes what God wanted: for us to think for ourselves.
Therefore, I think God would not put too much time into editing the Bible although he may say to go back to the oldest texts we have and stop restating things like changing mankind to personkind and changing the wording of Christ's prayers like the the Lord's Prayer to make it easy to memorize.
As for the first part of your question, I think he would treat us just as a father would. I do think if he read our current Bible (I go by KJV) he would see that there are some conflicts within it, but realize that it was written by Man and translated several times. Just as you may not like your child's choice of partner, job, place to live, etc you raised them to be independent thinkers. On the other hand, you would always be there for them.
I also think He would not be happy with some religions of todays, particularly Islam. They were once a peaceful religion and Moors freely married Christians. Now they are anything but peaceful.
2007-03-05 07:18:12 · answer #1 · answered by For_Gondor! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no inerrant text of The Bible existant today... The Bible of The True Christian Faith is not intended for the non-believer. There is nothing there for them... only those open to the leading of God through The Holy Spirit will find what God has for them in The Bible.
The Bible dose not prove God.... God Proves The Bible
The big "what if".... what if I were God, what would I do... about TheBible I would cause all of todays so-called translations to reveret to the original Text as given to the original scribes...just the fact that all the books were suddenly changed would scare the be-jeebers out of a whole lot of folks...if they did not "see the light" after that... Th..Th..Th...Thhhattts all folks.
2007-03-05 06:57:33 · answer #2 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says do not add or take away one word. The serpent did it in the beginning. look what happened. the Bible answers all these questions already. All scripture is inspired by God. He is the same, yesterday, today and forever, he doesn't change his mind. the Bible already says not to have denominations. and no scripture is "private interpretation" It is all revelation of God in Simplicity. He didn't make it hard, we did. In Man's thinking look what happened to the tower of Babel. God separated all, we were a nation of one speech, he separated us.
I know what would make all the interpretations go away, revelation. and the fact that if everyone obeyed the Bible principles set by God, we wouldn't need so many ways to do it. But everyone pick and choses what fits their lives not what the Bible says to live.
But there has to be a TRUE and FALSE vine, WISE and FOOLISH Virgins. So It is all Scripture being fulfilled.
2007-03-05 06:57:20 · answer #3 · answered by Stamping Machine 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God already knew the future when He wrote the Bible and since He makes no mistakes why would He want to change anything. He knew what was going to happen and that's why the Bible is full of prophecy. To warn us and tell us how to handle it. The problem is that people want to blame God for everything when actually it is mankind that doesn't heed His Word and therefore, messes his life up. Satan, himself, doesn't even have all power over people unless they join him and allow him in their lives. If you will notice there are no problems in nature because it operates the way God designed it. People, however, are the only living things that God created that has made such a mess of things. The #1 reason why? People think they have all the answers and want to do things their way instead of Gods.
2007-03-05 06:57:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to religious belief:
He (yes, He, how else would he get the Virgin Mary pregnant? Unless you think, rightfully, that he does not exist and that Mary got pregnant through natural 'processes') already knew from day one every event that would ever occur. He would have known what the Bible would cause in the future from when it was written. He did not make an attempt to make it clear then or to remain modern no matter what year someone reads it in, why would he change it now?
2007-03-05 07:52:57 · answer #5 · answered by thomasgilboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe if God was to rewrite the bible the first thing he would do is burn the old one, and what he would write in the new one would change the world as we know it today, but of course we all know that none of this will ever happen because God really never has had anything to do with this physicall world, our lives and our deaths have proven that.
2007-03-05 07:09:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He would just go and write the whole thing again without all the double talking. He would probably write each story and then have a full explaination that could not be misinterpreted or twisted. He should start it with: "I am God and THIS is what I MEAN and NOTHING else, kapeesh?"
2007-03-05 09:32:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing has taken God by suprise, I suppose some think He is up in heaven walking around wringing His hands, saying "What am I going to do?".The living Word of God is eternal. Do not move the ancient boundries which your fathers have set.
2007-03-05 06:59:05 · answer #8 · answered by W J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wouldn't change a thing, equally as important as reading the Bible is having a one on one relationship with God, that allows him to teach a person his truths. He would say for all to worship him in spirit and in truth, like he always said.
2007-03-05 06:53:58 · answer #9 · answered by t2ensie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why would He change His Word? There's no need.
There are different translations from the original manuscripts. The only difference in them are the words used to describe the text from the original manuscript.
God does not change...nor does His Word. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
2007-03-05 06:52:18 · answer #10 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋