Why does the bible seem like a fairytale?

Question

You all know you can't believe everything you read. I don't deny Jesus existed but the bible was "new" at one point in time. And nothing of the sorts happens in todays world. My point is this: if someone today claimed to have spoken to God and had new prophecies to share, would you just believe what they say? Would you need some sort of evidence?

I love how the Christian Answerers want to "save" me by telling me to "just believe". I guess the Bible has covered all the bases, "anything added is a lie, don't take anything away, believe... or else!"
I guess we have no choice.

Answer 1

Granted, it has a "once upon a time" type start (In the beginning God...) and there's a happy ever after ending for the goodies (whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life), and inbetween some fairly spectacular events take place - totally out of this world stuff, in places.

Unlike fairytales, however, the complete story took thousands of years to compile, with myriad authors, all of whom had died long before the second half was written. And something of the sort happens in today's world (you're just not aware of it, friend). The Bible, though, warns against accepting any new additions (or any deletions) to the story after the book of Revelation completed the cannon of scripture (Rev 22:18-19). The evidence needed to believe the Bible is all there, for those with eyes to see.

Answer 2

It depends on how you look at it, I guess.

I suppose the Bible is a "fairy tale" to a certain extent. Both are here to teach morals and so forth, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, and I don't think that takes anything away from the Bible.

I wouldn't believe it it somebody today "claimed to have spoken to God and had new prophecies to share." My own religious beliefs indicate another prophet is not possible for about another 900 years. I would be inclined to think such a person is either misguided, mentally ill or a con artist.

I have to disagree with the person who says "it's all crap." Even if there was no God, religious scripture and mythology have a done a great deal to enrich humanity; art, music, philosophy, etc.

Answer 3

Many people are unaware of the practical value of the Bible. It is so much more than a 'storybook' It is full of principles that can make life so much better for us. The problem is that most people don't read the Bible.

Jesus performed all of the miracles that he did in order to prove to the Jews that he was the Messiah. Today we have a record of those accounts in the Bible.

As far as some average joe coming out and saying they have new prophecies...anyone who believes the Bible and reads it, would know that God has a certain way of doing things, and that is not how it works. There are already prophecies in the Bible for which we are awaiting fulfillment.

For a further explanation of why you can trust Bible prophecy, you might enjoy reading the following article:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1999/7/15/article_02.htm
Or if you are just wondering why you should trust the Bible in general:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/t13/why_trust.htm

Answer 4

The idea that all revealed truth is to be found in "66 books" is not only not in Scripture, it is contradicted by Scripture (1 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:15, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 1 Timothy 3:15, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Peter 3:16). It is a concept unheard of in the Old Testament, where the authority of those who sat on the Chair of Moses (Matthew 23:2-3) existed. In addition to this, for 400 years, there was no defined canon of "Sacred Scripture" aside from the Old Testament; there was no "New Testament"; there was only Tradition and non-canonical books and letters.




Protestants claim the Bible is the only rule of faith, meaning that it contains all of the material one needs for theology and that this material is sufficiently clear that one does not need apostolic tradition or the Church’s magisterium (teaching authority) to help one understand it. In the Protestant view, the whole of Christian truth is found within the Bible’s pages. Anything extraneous to the Bible is simply non-authoritative, unnecessary, or wrong—and may well hinder one in coming to God.

Catholics, on the other hand, recognize that the Bible does not endorse this view and that, in fact, it is repudiated in Scripture. The true "rule of faith"—as expressed in the Bible itself—is Scripture plus apostolic tradition, as manifested in the living teaching authority of the Catholic Church, to which were entrusted the oral teachings of Jesus and the apostles, along with the authority to interpret Scripture correctly.

Answer 5

The scriptures are the final, authoritative word of God to man.
I believe prophecy ended when the church was finally confirmed with the writing of the book of revelation. 'New' prophecy is pure deception, it is found in nearly ALL cult groups. As a former Pentecostal, I can tell you this very thing delivered me from the insanity of believing in new prophecy- we were no different from the Mormons or from believers in the teachings of Ellen G. White- none of the prophecies were given in any way that held them accountable to scripture. Nearly all the prophecies fail, and the ones that seem to truly come to pass, read like daily horoscopes. Bunch of emotional foolery.

Oh, and btw- the Bible is WAAAY more complex than a fairy tale. You can't read it and understand it in 5 minutes like Sleeping Beauty or something... It must be looked at in its original language, historical context and practice... there ARE churches who do this, faithfully and still believe.

Answer 6

Marlon,
It did seem like a fairytale story at one time as well.
I'm a rational, logical degreed engineer. It took a powerful event in my life to make me even look at the Bible with any seriousness.
But there are extremely intelligent and astute people who have scrutinized the Bible in an almost scientific manner to find that it is what it says it is.
You can visit their websites:
www.tektonics.org
www.christian-thinktank.com
or for a more philosophically intelligent discourse consult some William Lane Craig material or visit www.rzim.org.

Answer 7

lets look at one part of the holy books, they all have the story of noah and the ark. the gigamesh is the oldest bedtime on record it dates back to 4500 b.c.. it was found in syria in 1991 it was written on wood and easy to carbon date, hundreds of clay copies exist any search engine will confirm this. the early christians put this fairytale in the bible. then the muslims came along and made noah a prophet. why want just one christian, muslim or jew , look up the true story of noah and the ark? keep in mind that all creatures and man where created at the same time. the number of animals that have ever existed would be in the hundreds of millions. stacked how many miles high on this tiny boat?

Answer 8

Follow your heart. Some people do like to tell stories just so someone is listening. But, miracles happen everyday, just some we take for grant it. Like babies.... There is a lot of detail that goes into make a baby and amazingly how they turn out to be so much like their mother or father right down to the finest detail. The bible is deep and sometimes so vicious I read to stop reading the book of Judges.

Answer 9

look any kind of religion got it's mythological aspects and the moral aspects.
the "fairytale's" are ways to give you morals.
you are a modern man and science have "corrupted" you, you cant believe in fairies any more. and you are forgeting that the bible was written in a different time.
now we know you can have morals with out god, thanks to the 19th century, and the French revolution.but you got to have respect to religious people, who can just believe.
you just believe in science, you dont ask for proofs, you believe what the scientists tell you to, like they believe what the Priest or the Rabbi or what ever tells them.
you dont know any thing, you believe, like they do.
so have some respect to other people believes like you want to be respected for your believes.
Do Onto Others As You would Have Them Do Onto You.

Answer 10

It was written by extremely superstitious Bronze Age men. Also, it is largely meant to be allegory and metaphor, despite the modern distortion that it was meant to be taken completely literally (which it wasn't) distorts a lot of what it was originally meant to imply. The phenomenon of taking the Bible completely literally did not occur until about 150 years ago, and causes problems for those that take it that way because it contradicts itself if you do indeed read it this way.