i belive it is a book of stories on the way we should live but i dont think EVERYthing is 100% true
2007-06-24 18:41:44 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Like any other writings of man.
Yes the Bible is 100% right and true.
2007-06-24 18:46:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 8⤋
No, for example, story of Adam and Eve is essentially a knockoff of an earlier story, Mesopotamian I believe, that predates Genesis by about a thousand years. Sorry Bible- thumpers, Genesis was plagerized, as were many other books in the Bible, entire sections of the gospels were copied from each other nearly word for word, but were supposedly independent accounts.
Way back when, there were no books, people passed down stories orally and just like the game you played in grade school, the more links in the chain, the more distortions there are. Just like we see today, people tend to exaggerate, since why would one want to tell a story about ordinary people? Even when you look at the ancient texts, there are more discrepancies in the known texts than there are words in the Bible.
The Bible, as we know it, was canonized by the church, keeping those writings that glorifed the church and discarding others.. If you think that the Bible is the Divine Word of God, inspired or otherwise, you must also believe that anything the church says is God's will. If that is the case, there really is no sense talking to you, as you are blind. It also means that you probably have not read it, or that you do not understand it, or possibly that you do not want to understand it.
Use your head. Otherwise you'll think God has commanded to you to shoot everyone who happened to have worked today. Exodus 35:2
The more interesting question is "Does God have the power to do evil?"
2007-06-25 02:40:06 · answer #2 · answered by socratator 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is not 100% true. But it is probably 100% right. From what I've learned, some of these stories are just parables that teach a story. For example, Jonah and the Whale, it's impossible for a man to live in a whale. Yeah, but the way the Bible teaches is 100% correct and we should follow what it says.
2007-06-25 03:27:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Amen
God does not write books.
the Bible is full of contradictions.
but
If you search through it dilligently, look for what is important and true, you will doubtless find God's fingerprints all over it.
You can study the Bible like a karate student at an anatomy lecture---looking for weaknesses (Thomas Harris) or you can treat it, and knowlege of God, as a "Pearl of Great Price' and devote your energy and concentration to finding the pearls, the Truth.
Chew the hay and spit out the sticks, and then keep chewing the hay. (quote, Sharon Henneman)
Often when the Bible is not literally true, (Like the Book of Job) there is still a very real, very true metaphor behind it. (bad things happen to good people, one's misfortune is not necessarily a result of one's sin, or the sin of their parents.)
2007-06-25 01:58:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No one agrees that it is 100% true, but why the people who are following it, do not realise that it is no more original. Now the time has come for them to look for the original testament (Quran) and belive in it and save themselves from the hell.
2007-06-25 02:10:35 · answer #5 · answered by feroz k 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If it was 100% right and true, the gospels wouldn't list the birth of Jesus as happening at two different times a decade apart.
Jesus could have been born in Judea during the time of King Herod. Or he could have been born in Judea during a Roman census. But not both.
King Herod died about 10 years before the first Roman census of Judea.
2007-06-25 01:51:51 · answer #6 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
It's true. Maybe not the way you would envision the truth, but the Bible is truth. 100% true. Even its "imperfections" are true.
I know, that sounds like a confusing statement.
2007-06-25 02:00:23 · answer #7 · answered by Max 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It contradicts itself in several places. One must either redefine the meanings of many words in Hebrew, Greek, or English, or accept that the Bible cannot be an infallible work.
Special pleading doesn't count.
2007-06-25 01:49:19 · answer #8 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Truth must be determined....it is all truth, but in differing ways. The Bible is filled with many different literary types of writing. Some is factual history while others are symbolic and allegorical. It takes a bit of study to read it properly.
2007-06-25 01:48:06 · answer #9 · answered by Augustine 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The Bible is the inspired Word of God, and therefore is 100% right and true.
2007-06-25 01:53:09 · answer #10 · answered by Dr. Karen 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Truth is subjective, and as such very personal.
"You're going to find most of the truths we cling to depend entirely upon your point of view" - OWK SW Ep6.
I have found truth within the bible, but most of it is not literal truth, rather metaphorical and of a much deeper nature than anyone taking it literally could derive from it. Such is the fundamental nature of spiritual texts, to hide powerful truths from those who aren't ready for them.
2007-06-25 01:50:17 · answer #11 · answered by Taliesin Pen Beirdd 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋