Which of the following do you believe to be true about the Bible?

Question

A. It is the direct and literal word of God, and God miraculously dropped it out of the sky, already written, published, bound, and in English.
B. It is the literal word of God, but it was written down by people who were divinely inspired by God and so every word in it is absolute truth and should not be questioned.
C. It is the word of God, but it was written down by people; and since people are falliable, it is full of inaccuracies and inconsistencies. We should try to study the Bible and similar writings to determine which parts are accurate and which are not.
D. It is a collection of many different writings, including myths, allegories, the history of the Jewish people, writings about Jesus by people who knew him, and the works of the prophets who may or may not have been divinely inspired by God.
E. Most of it is false because there is no God, but it is a very useful resource for learning about the history of the Jews.
F. It's all false. It's completely made up!

To G-Man: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE to you too!

Wow, there are some really great answers here. I'm going to have a hard time picking the best one. I'm glad to see that no one is foolish enough to believe A or narrow-minded enough to believe F. (Though I probably believed A when I was eight years old and too young to know any better.)

Answer 1

G. None of the above, but it is:

It is a collection of many different writings, the history of the Jewish people, the many covenants between God and his people, writings about Jesus by people who knew him, and the works of the prophets who were divinely inspired by God. It was then formatted into one book around 300 AD with the help and keeping of the Holy Spirit and is not wrong when teaching us about the timeless concepts of Faith and Morals.

Peace!

Answer 2

D is the most likely to be the most accurate of the list you've left. And I'll tell you why. There is no question the bible was written by men. It says as much many times over. Man is flawed, man is usually out for his own purposes. At the time that the collection of books that actually made it into the bible were written everyone was writing about what they saw or experienced. It took a pagan emperor to put the bible together and unite rome under one organized religion. They took a vote on what was going to be canon and what was not. That says there's a very good chance that most of it was not inspired by any kind of higher power.

Answer 3

None of the above.

It is the word of God. It is a love letter. Not literal, but romantic. Poetry and prose. Read Song of Songs. It's lovely.

And yes, much history. Very much can be confirmed from non-biblical sources. No one without some sort of agenda of hate can say it is 100% false since so much of the history in it can be confirmed by archeological and historical sources.

It is divinely inspired. Originally.

But many translations and interpretations later, several VERSIONS having corrupted the true meaning.

For instance - Jerusalem Bible vs NEW Jerusalem Bible. The Jerusalem Bible is a word for word translation. Using the oldest known complete texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. The NEW Jerusalem Bible sought to "correct" ambiguity and use "politically correct" terminology. Thus completely changing some books and texts. Pure trash.

Which means, one must have and study several versions of the bible in order to fully grasp the meaning behind any paragraph.

Memorizing a line or two chapter and verse leads to corruption of the overall meaning of a paragraph and/or book.

Since it IS a love letter, it is not meant to be used as a weapon of hate.

Answer 4

Greetings,
"B".......
Originally. Sure after it was given to the original writer's there may have been some small differences made when these words were copied down by those that wished to have more copies of the book. That however does not mean that we should dismiss it and say that it is not God's word. The slight variances to the original text does not minimize or change the overall context of it and should be taken as undeniably the true word of God.......
It would be rather shallow of us to believe that God as an omnipotent being would not be able to do so simple a task as to keep His word intact over the milleniums. Only those that are not true believers would fall prey to that concept presented by the enemy-Satan.......

Answer 5

A. through C. 2 Peter 1:20-21; 1 Peter 1:23-25
D. Proverbs 30:5-6
E. Isaiah 55:10-11
F. Psalm 119
Respectfully, Alan Ballou www.thehealingbook.com

Answer 6

B

If as a Christian you don't believe it, you should just as well stop being a Christian. You cannot take some parts of the Bible and leave others. It is either all true or all false. If there were some false in the Bible, the Bible is not inspired by God. If it isn't from God, there is not point in following what it says.

Answer 7

A contigent D...

It is a collection of many different writings, including myths, allegories, the history of the Jewish people,
YES.
writings about Jesus by people who knew him,
No. These writings are by people alleged to have known him.
and the works of the prophets who may or may not have been divinely inspired by God.
Yes.

Answer 8

E

It can clearly be seen, to anyone without a closed mind, that the Bible was written by many authors in a time where many of the things we would cringe at today were acceptable. Violence, rape, slavery, all these things are either condoned or shrugged off in the Bible.

It is rather amusing to see people trying to seek hidden messages to fit in with contemporary times from a book written so long ago.

Answer 9

E. Except for the fact about there not being a God. There is, but so much of the bible was inspired by previous existing religious tales that I can't believe in the Christian version of God.

Answer 10

B. But only in the original languages of the writers (ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek), and only the original manuscripts.

We can still trust original language copies to be 98% - 99% accurate, though. The 1% to 2% errors are not significant to the overall purpose and message of the Bible.

.