why did he leave it up to men who make mistakes to be his personal stenographers? a typo here, a grammatical error there, and you've got confusing book to live by.
2007-04-08 15:08:30 · 27 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i mean even in this age of computers with microsoft word and spell check, i still make mistakes writing things down. can you imaging writing something on the magnitude of the bible and not making any errors?
2007-04-08 15:13:03 · update #1
thanks guys... i'm getting a good laugh out of these answers!!!
2007-04-08 15:16:40 · update #2
i don't believe in deities, so no, i don't study from them. i believe any book with the claim that it is the word of god is nothing more than the word of man.
2007-04-08 15:19:07 · update #3
sevvy... you're implying that god wants at least a portion of us not to believe in him then. one might even call it his plan for them. is it fair that they don't follow his word and are damned?
2007-04-08 15:22:19 · update #4
yeah!he wrote the 10 commandments after all,why not the bible?
2007-04-08 15:12:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two people above me got the right answer
Oh, just so you know. .the Bible isn't actually a hard and contradictory book to live by if you lived back around the time(s) when it was written. The problem is the history behind the Bible and our interpretation. It was written a long time ago which makes it hard for us to understand what the writer is saying in a specific passage. Which is another problem - people use specific passages, when instead you should be looking at the whole context of a book or chapter instead of one to five verses. Trying to identify what the Bible is saying using only a few verses could lead to some wrong and very messy conclusions. That's why before trying to study parts of the Bible you should read the whole context first and study the history behind it to make sure your conclusions make sense.
I like this question. .made me think. .and I'm probably going to study into a better answer.
2007-04-08 22:20:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God inspired the Bible. He didn't physically write it; he didn't given dictation either. The Holy Spirit influenced the writers to express what God wanted said by the authors' using their own imagination, images, thoughts and choices. So there are different books, written by different authors at different time to a wide variety of audiences. The bottom line: All the books in the Bible are inspired by God, the Holy Spirit influeced the writers to say what God wanted said.
Separate question: Are there mistakes in the Bible? Yes! The purpose of the Bible is to express spiritual truth, not scientific truth or geological truth or any other kind of truth.
Hope this helps.
2007-04-08 22:18:29 · answer #3 · answered by Curious 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What I've come to understand is the Bible is a guide to live by for millions of people. It gives them hope and why they exist. Differnet cultures have differnt "Bibles".
Most of what is said in them make sense, the world will end sooner or later, our sun will die as all things do. Nothing will last forever.
Hopfully we'll evolve and learn how to get off this planet and repopulate others, Creating new serenios for more Bibles.
2007-04-08 22:24:04 · answer #4 · answered by Amy Beware 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did write the Bible, through the heads and hands of his 'personal stenographers'. His mark is on every page and in every word. He was with the men who decided which Books were most important to include, and he has been with every translator and printer throughout history so that each copy is perfect.
2007-04-08 22:11:54 · answer #5 · answered by M 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God has His prophets to do His work here upon this Earth. Yes there may be some errors, but it is mostly correct .
I suppose you study from books written by some Deity that makes you feel more superior to the rest of us?
your beliefs come from things you have studied written by men as well
2007-04-08 22:16:49 · answer #6 · answered by J DUB 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If God had written the bible himself there would be no challenges, no muslims, no hindus, no other religions, we'd all be christian because we were certain that he worte it, robot believers perhaps. By letting it go through the mistaken filled hands of man there is a requirement of faith to believe God, and we would all have to make a conscious decision to commit to him. He is giving YOU the choice, not making it for you.
2007-04-08 22:18:41 · answer #7 · answered by sevvy7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The things God wants to say are too advanced for us to comprehend. So he told the basics to the Bible's authors and let them put his ideas into thoughts we could understand. Technically, he DID write the Bible. There were just some human editors who made it understandable.
2007-04-08 22:15:43 · answer #8 · answered by John F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God inspired the writings of the Scripture. But I think you are confused about the transmission and translation of the Bible after it was first written.
2007-04-08 22:13:47 · answer #9 · answered by Seraph 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible we know was his first draft. He's sending the revised and improved version down with Jesus when he comes back.
2007-04-08 22:25:03 · answer #10 · answered by bandycat5 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋