I believe in God just not the bible. I think people get caught up in the idea that if you believe in god you must believe in the bible and Jesus.
2007-06-11 21:52:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you personally know satan?
2007-06-11 21:57:21 · update #1
is that what you read in the bible?
2007-06-11 21:58:51 · update #2
Satan believes in God and trembles at the thought!
2007-06-11 21:56:23 · answer #1 · answered by Who's got my back? 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Every culture in the world has spiritual beliefs - even those living in complete isolation. God gets the message across without the use of missionaries, and bibles & churches. They may call God by a different name, and see God in a different form, but ultimately, the belief in a higher being is still there. The bible is a series of manuscripts from questionable sources, interpreted over & over by enormous numbers of people, with bits taken out wherever churches decided they should be, in order to produce the book that so many people base their beliefs on today. If it was the only source of truth, it would have been accessable to all people of the world, living and dead, not limited only to those in the middle east and western worlds who were technologically advanced enough to reproduce it, and transport it from one place to another. If God is limited to a book and if God's message can't be received by anyone without a book that has been interfered with for centuries by people with their own ideas and agendas, then Christians had better rethink their faith - God is not as powerful as you think!
2007-06-12 09:46:28 · answer #2 · answered by MJF 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Bible is the oldest book being still read, and it has been translated several time but you have to remember the manuscripts were written in several different language, and man translated these to were the Bible is today. The Bible was not written by the hand of God or translated by God, man did, and as a man we are not perfect and will mess up......there is a lot of the Bible that's seems incomplete, and incorrect....and until we die and go face to face with the truth, none of us will ever know the complete truth.
2007-06-12 05:16:24 · answer #3 · answered by purpleaura1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Due to the fact that these
Christians use the Protestant Old Testament which is lacking 7 entire books 2 (Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus/Sirach, Baruch, I Maccabees, and II Maccabees), 3 chapters of Daniel and 6 chapters of Esther may be one of the reasons they ask catholics so many questions.
For the Sola Scriptura this is too bad .
In the 16th c., Luther removed those books from the canon that lent support to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed in this way were books that supported such things as:
prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45),
Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7),
intercession of dead saints (2 Maccabees 15:14),
and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15).
The lesson, though, is this: relying on the "Bible alone" is a bad idea; we are not to rely solely on Sacred Scripture to understand Christ's message. While Scripture is "given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16-17), it is not sufficient for reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness. It is the Church that is the "pillar and ground of Truth" (1 Timothy 3:15)! Jesus did not come to write a book; He came to redeem us, and He founded a Sacramental Church through His apostles to show us the way. It is to them, to the Church Fathers, to the Sacred Deposit of Faith, to the living Church that is guided by the Holy Spirit, and to Scripture that we must prayerfully look.
2007-06-14 22:41:04 · answer #4 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
me: Your question is most incoherent to say the least. Without the Bible, how could anyone even, have a reference point to know who all the main players are to start from. The Bible is a historic reference book out-lining the Devine plan of God, for His human creation. How else would we know that we were designed to have a relationship with our Creator ? Jesus and the Holy Bible are essential components in the salvation process.
2007-06-12 05:10:43 · answer #5 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe that Christianity would've died out a long time ago if there were no Bible because then, different stories would be told and everything would get screwed up. Maybe we should burn all of the Bibles.....It would run our power plants for a few months.
2007-06-12 04:59:23 · answer #6 · answered by Robert M 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No, I think people would believe in God more if they didn't have a warped view of the Bible (that goes for Christians and nonChristians alike). People seem to either read the Bible without thinking about it and believe it, or not read the Bible and have lots of ideas of what it says, without knowing the contexts or truth of what is in it. If people actually read the Bible and let it challenge them but also grappled with what was written, then I think people would have stronger faith in God.
2007-06-12 05:00:41 · answer #7 · answered by totally_idiotic 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
bible is the only source to know God and Jesus more. take away bible there will only be more confusion.
2007-06-12 05:42:32 · answer #8 · answered by Meakness 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People have this bizarre tendency to believe in some form of god or gods no matter what kind of god or gods is or are in fashion.
2007-06-12 05:07:28 · answer #9 · answered by EZSum 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If a sacred text of any religion was coherent I'd be more likely to believe in god, so, to a certain extent, yeah.
2007-06-12 04:58:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋