Even if you are not a believer would you agree that whoever is behind the construction bible must have been extremely knowledgeable and probably the greatest mind of all time?
2007-04-25 12:52:34 · 14 answers · asked by urban_pilgrim 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. It's a mishmash of contradictions. If one person wrote that, they're barking mad.
2007-04-25 12:56:24 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Constantine in the Late Roman Empire. He was trying to unify many heretical Christian sects, so he gathered some priests in a council and VOTED on Jesus' divinity and what books would go into the bible.
That's right.
And no, I don't think the 40 authors of the bible were very smart, insightful, or open to other points of view. No democracy, religious freedom, liberation for women, or Science came from the bible itself. We've made leaps and bounds from the Renaissance onward, both morally and intellectually, bolstered by an increasingly secular view of the world.
That should tell you something about the context from which the bible was created. It is certainly not divine in origin.
2007-04-25 19:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible was written by several primative people who didn't know that the earth was round or that the sun was the center of the universe or that the moon wasn't a light. There is no really "knowledge" in the bible.
2007-04-25 19:58:46 · answer #3 · answered by October 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is crucial to remember that the church did not determine the canon. No early church council decided on the canon. It was God, and God alone, who determined which books belonged in the Bible. It was simply a matter of God convincing His followers of what He had already decided upon. The human process of collecting the books of the Bible was flawed, but God, in His sovereignty, despite our ignorance and stubbornness, brought the early church to the recognition of the books He had inspired.
2007-04-25 20:28:57 · answer #4 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible is one of the worst edited books ever put to paper. It not only contradicts itself all over the place, it can't agree on numbers, dates, names, places, rules, and all manner of other "facts". Even as a work of fiction, it's been so muddled by all the things left out, removed, put back in, substituted, rewritten, reinterpreted, mistranslated, not to mention UNtranslated, it's worse than the State Constitution of Alabama.
2007-04-25 20:02:08 · answer #5 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
But it wasn't one person. The books of the bible were written by several people. They were stories told by men, then put to paper by men who heard the stories, then chosen by men (and several stories rejected by men) to be included 100's of years later while forming the church (forming a church implies an agenda).
2007-04-25 19:55:30 · answer #6 · answered by DougDoug_ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is based on the man with he greatest mind in history and was written by very wise men.
2007-04-25 19:58:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mostly it's poor editing, lazy thought processes, circular reasoning, false arguments and bad logic.
A testament to human ignorance.
2007-04-25 20:08:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree , the greatest mind that will ever be. The whole Bible was Inspired by the greatest mind of all time .GOD HIMSELF!!
2007-04-25 20:01:16 · answer #9 · answered by rhonda h 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If that was written by the greatest mind of all time then god help us.
2007-04-25 19:57:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No it was mad by more then one person, remember the gospels are named after the person who wrote them?
Do you really need an atheist to remind you of this fact?
2007-04-25 20:09:00 · answer #11 · answered by . 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋