If the Bible is not true, why is it so universally regarded as the 'Good Book'?

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for non believers

jon..my justification for existing as you so put it, has nothing to do with a simple question that you didnt answer

Answer 1

lol-people obviously don't read the OT
seriously, when it was developing it's rep as 'the truth' and as 'the good book', most people were illiterate. Now that most people are (literate), they don't read all of it. Just the recommended bits.
BTW, there were several hundreds of years the majority world-wide believed the world was flat. Also, if you look at world-wide (not US) statistics, the majority of people are non-Christian. There are Buddhists, pagans, Wiccans, Hinduists, etc.
The Dali Lama has a quote on Christianity that JC was nice, too bad Christians aren't like him but I'm not sure he, or the world-wide majority consider the Bible as a 'Good Book'.

Answer 2

The bible being prevalent as 'the sturdy e book' is merely actual for Christians. for persons of alternative faiths it fairly is maximum surely no longer the sturdy e book. It would not might desire to be actual to be considered as sturdy. A white lie continues to be a lie, even though it may help somebody with the aid of modern-day. merely as Friday the thirteenth is merely considered as undesirable luck with the aid of Christians or it fairly is undesirable manners to no longer slurp beverages, the Bible being stated as sturdy e book is a cultural and non secular element. there are a number of components of the bible that have been dis-shown with the aid of medical study. at the same time with menstruation being a curse that could unfold. i'm no longer asserting the finished Bible is a fallacy, purely that particular parts or statements interior of is are. Jonah might desire to no longer have lived in a whale for any length of time because of the fact the tummy's digestive acids could have killed him. i could want to function that i'm a Christian and do have self assurance that the Bible is a sturdy element to apply to reserve your morals and ethics.

Answer 3

Argumentum ad populum. The popularity of something doesn't necessarily make it true. For example, virtually everybody on the planet at some point believed that the earth was flat.

For that matter, the Bible is not "universally" regarded as "The Good Book". There are over 4 billion people on the planet whose religion is not Christianity. And even out of the 2 billion who are noted as being Christians, a good deal of them are assumed to have been going along with their parents religion, and probably never took the time to read through the book in all of its gorey details.

Answer 4

the romanized and hellenized christian church many years ago transformed our history, philosophy, culture, and science into a divine dogma-based disciplines that trigerred fear, uncertainty of life's existential questions. The Bible is the only book circulating in those days that tackles these subjects because other scholarly published books were banned due to subversive content on the dominant belief until the reformation.

Answer 5

I do believe in the Bible, however not everyone regards it as the 'Good Book'. Christianity and Catholicism are predominantly in our Western world (the Americas, Europe, though Australia and New Zealand as well). Though Christianity is spreading to other nations as well (ie. Christian missionaries in Africa, China and other developing countries).

Judaism in Israel and in a smaller percentage in our Western world.

Other spiritual religions are found in our Aboriginal / native peoples, different religions in Africa, etc.

Islam is predominant in North African and middle eastern nations, as well as Malaysia and Indonesia.

Atheism, buddhism and confuciusm is dominant in East Asia.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

It isn't universally regarded as the "Good Book". That is only known by believers, the rest of us call it the Christian Bible.

Answer 7

if i said unicorns were given to all the pore kids that would be good but hun its not true the bible has lessons but honestly look inside urselfe and take it with a grain of salt
ps speaking of salt take lots wife do u believ she turned to salt just for looking back? the bible is written by ppl

Answer 8

I've got to tell you, I've never heard anyone who wasn't a christian refer to the bible as "the good book".

Even if it was 'the good book', that doesn't make it true; nor does its age, the number of copies sold, the number of people who believe in it, or any of the other things that people like to use as 'proof'.

Answer 9

Example:
John Kerry was called a "flip flopper" but George W. Bush has changed his reasoning behind the war countless times.

Names stick whether they're true or not.

Answer 10

I'm a heathen and I can tell you it's not universally regarded as "the good book" and probably not even as "a good book". It's just not that good and you can teach a kid faster with Grimm's Fairy Tales.