If, as some Christians have told me, the Bible is meant to be the rulebook for how to live and worship God for all of the people on Earth, why did God not simply send Bibles down from heaven, perfectly translated into every language, with perfectly clear messages that no one could argue about? I mean, God would be capable right? So why did he do it half-a**?
2007-05-11 14:18:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This would really only be offensive to people who take the Bible literally and think other religions don't hold any water. In which case if I've offended you I can live with myself.
2007-05-11 14:19:26 · update #1
John 1:1 I'm 23
2007-05-11 14:37:07 · update #2
God mostly works through people. He could have had Bibles rain down from Heaven, but He didn't. Would people have believed it? They didn't believe it that He rose from death, so why then in Bibles from heaven?
2007-05-11 14:25:01 · answer #1 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you read Zoroastrianism, the root form of it, you will find that they are supposed to carry weapons in order to kill people who don't believe what they believe. The same is true with many Muslims they think that it is their duty to make the Muslim religion mandatiory across the face of the Earth.
What God did with the Bible is place that responsibility upon himself. And if you read Zechariah 12 and 14, Ezekiel 38 and 39, along with Revelation 20, you will find that God does all that himself. What we are supposed to do is prech what he said, especially the Gospel. No matter what time in history after Christ you read, there were people doing what they were supposed to be doing whith the word of God, and those that did not; both sides were Christian. I'll say that in the context of what I am about to say.
God went to this trouble of providing a part of himself to bring us to where he could accept us. That was what Jesus did. I see it as a very clear message, and many do not see it as a very clear message. Why would I see it that way when most people would not? Because God does not want everybody. In fact, God only chose a remnant over all time. That means there are only a four types of people on the Earth;
1) those that have no interest in knowing him,
2) those that want to know him,
3) those that do know him,
4) those that only think they know him but they really don't.
That's the reason why so many people complain about the Bible. It's because they listen to what they hear, and can make no sense of it. They have no desire to know God, and God does not give them the gift of understanding.
I could give you chapter and verse on that to prove it Biblically, but I really am thinking that you are not interested in knowing in the least.
2007-05-11 14:40:56 · answer #2 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God did as you suggested, what would happen? Just because people are told the truth, doesn't mean they will obey or even understand it.
Imagine if you tell your child not to lie and even explain the reasons why. Would the child obey? The child will begin to understand the problems with lying when they experience what happens when trust is lost in a relationship.
We are children of a Heavenly Father who loves us and wants us to learn and grow and to understand things the way he understands. For that purpose he created this earth with all its ambiguities so we'd experience what happens when people make both good and bad decisions and so we'd have to really think about what the true principles of happiness are.
The purpose of life is not generally understood by the world, but fortunately the Church of Jesus Christ has been restored, complete with prophets, apostles, and continuing revelation. This may seem unbelievable to you, but what if it were true?
I happen to know it is.
2007-05-11 14:36:08 · answer #3 · answered by Bryan Kingsford 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a rulebook for all the people on Earth. It's a book to those who believe in the one true and living God. Your new age, globalistic outlook doesn't concur with it. Although, the new modern versions that take out the blood of Jesus Christ, his divinity, and the fact that he was born of a virgin, among other things, easily fit into the unity concepts of the new world order. I said the modern versions of the bible fit INTO the concepts of the new age. In the new world order, those who call themselves Christian and hold to the concepts of the new age allow their new age beliefs to supersede their belief in what the bible says.
2007-05-11 14:35:31 · answer #4 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Agreed. And if there is a creator who created him/her/it?
Read The God Delusion, on the NYTimes Best Seller list until only recently, which, is really quite surprising, considering how beautifully it debunks religion... Since this book did indeed stay of the list for quite some time, I find surprising.... gives back hope that there really are people out there who can think logically.... Read it. Worth every dime.
2007-05-11 14:26:20 · answer #5 · answered by April 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answer to your first question is in the Bible.
The answer to second question is in the Bible.
The answer to your third question is also in the Bible.
The first three questions you'll have to READ the Bible in order to understand it, and to understand God.
As for the last question, I will answer it for you.
God doesn't do anything halfway, and everything He has commanded, was His will.
As for other "Religions", the Bible speaks of these as well. No Christian on this earth has the authority to condemn anyone, regardless of their faith.
2007-05-11 14:38:38 · answer #6 · answered by Heaven_Bound 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question and one most Christian Fundamentalists will hide from- common sense is not past of their brain functions. Obviously per the all powerful God he should have done that. Unless God wants the Chaos???
2007-05-11 14:27:11 · answer #7 · answered by Johnny w 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Excellent question! God never had anybody write anything. All religion and their so-called holy books, are fabrications of men. God's gift to us, of intelligence and reason, should be sufficient to detect all these scams and scammers.
2007-05-11 14:41:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you don't believe in other miracles, right? Think logically. I'm sure you wouldn't believe the Bible is the Word of God even if it DID come straight from Him.
2007-05-11 14:22:28 · answer #9 · answered by Atticus Finch 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are two possible explanations that I can think of which can answer your question.
1. God doesn't care enough about humans to give them his word himself.
2. There is no god, so all that was written is basically a sham committed by humans in order to subjugate others.
Can you guess which of these I believe?
2007-05-11 14:23:27 · answer #10 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋