are we to believe what the bible says?

Question

are we to believe that god is this huge man that when he comes down from heaven everyone in the world will see him at once..

it even states in the book of revelations that on all for coners of the earth stood angels

corners of the earth

Answer 1

Have you even read the bible?

Cause thats not what it says at all lol.

Answer 2

Rottman,
you asked a good question, "Is the Bible to be believed?" Let me ask you a question, "do you know why the Bible continues to be one of the all time BEST SELLING Books?" There are several answers to this question, but one of them is that the Bible is considered to be a very good and very accurate history book.

The Bible contains several books such as the OT books of Daniel and Jeremiah that give very detailed and accurate portrayals of major events in history such as the rise and fall of nations. Since the Bible can be trusted in this aspect, it stands to reason that the other aspects of the Bible can be trusted also.

In your question, you stated that when Christ returns to the earth that He will be some huge entity that will cover the entire sky. Well, that's partly correct... The 2nd coming of Christ will be so big, so bright, so noisy, so tempestuous, and so glorious that no one will miss it! No one will stay up late and watch it on CNN or MSNBC. You wont be able to read about it in the newspapers. Christ's 2nd coming spells the END of life on earth as we know it.

Please visit my favorite bible learning sites called Amazing Facts or the Three Angles Broadcasting Network. The websites are as follows:
www.amazingfacts.org Bible Answers Live
www.3abn.org See archived Bible studies and programs

Gracious Lord God in Heaven, bless my brother Rottman and help him find the answers to these questions he is searching for. Give him the peace that passes all understanding in Christ Jesus (Phil 4:6-8) Amen!

Answer 3

The Jehovah's Witnesses in their "AWAKE!" Magazine dated 8 September, 1957, carried this startling headline — "50000 ERRORS IN THE BIBLE?" http://www.jamaat.net/bible/AwakeArticle(1957).html
http://www.ahmed-deedat.co.za/bible/13.html
www.al-sunnah.com/bible.htm - 43k.

Corruption in Bible
http://www.quransearch.com/sake.htm...

The lie of 1 John 5:7 and Timothy 3:16:
http://www.quransearch.com/timothy3_16.htm

Christians admitted perversion in bible
http://www.bibleperversion.com/...

Christians admitted Holy Corruption Scriptures in the New Living Translation
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/NLT/nlt_exposed.htm

Christians confessed that 40 WHOLE Bible verses are deleted in the NIV
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/nivdelet.htm

Corruption and interpolation in bible exposed.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/american_standard_version_expose.htm



Christians confessed that they are Corrupting and Interpolating Bible

Concept of trinity Trinity is taken from 1 John, chapter 5 verse no 7 "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one."
In Bible (R.S.V.) revised by 32 Christian scholars of the highest eminence backed by 50 different co-operating denominations, this verse which is the keystone of the Christian faith has been removed as an INTERPOLATION, as a fabrication and as a concoction. It has not been expunged from the Bible by the Muslims or non-Christians, but by 32 Christian scholars as a concoction fabrication because this verse does not exist in the original manuscript. We Muslims must congratulate the galaxy of D.D.’s (Doctors of Divinity) who have been honest enough to eliminate another lie from the English R.S.V. Bible, thus bringing it closer to the teachings of Islam and the Glorious Qur’an.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/comma_johanthon.htm
www.1john57.com
www.wayoflife.org/fbns/defending1.htm
www.studytoanswer.net/bibleversions/1john5n7.html

There are more than 3,500 versions of bible in this world.

Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses.
First Roman Catholic Bible was published at Rheims in 1582. Second one published at Douay in 1609. These called RCV version of Bible. The Protestants regarded 7 books as ‘apocrypha’ (doubtful authority) and removed them from Bible. (The Book of Judith, The Book of Tobias, The Book of Baruch, The Buck of Esther, etc.) Jesus pbuh said in the book of Revelation Chapter 22 Verse 18-19 ". . . If any man shall add to these things (or delete) God shall add unto him the plagues written in this Book." On deleting 7 books from bible, the Catholics call ‘cult of Christianity’ to the Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Catholic Encyclopedia states Bible is Skeptic and Concocted
A. THE FORMATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON (A.D. 100-220)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm
The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history. The Canon of the New Testament, like that of the Old, is the result of a development, of a process at once stimulated by disputes with doubters, both within and without the Church, and retarded by certain obscurities and natural hesitations, and which did not reach its final term until the dogmatic definition of the Tridentine Council. ("Canon of the New Testament")
There is a lot of confusion about the earliest existing texts of the Bible. The oldest extant manuscript of the Bible is believed to be the Codex Vaticanus, (preserved in the Vatican Library), which is slightly older than the Codex Sinaiticus (preserved in the British Library), both of which were transcribed in the fourth century.
As for the story of Jesus, there were at least 50 gospels written in the first and second century CE. Four of them (Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John) were included in the official canon during the fourth century CE and are found today in every Bible. All of the original copies of the gospels were lost. What we have now are handwritten copies, which are an unknown number of replications removed from the originals.
Rudolf Bultmann, a prominent 20th-century professor of New Testament studies writes about the life of Jesus:
We can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus, since the early Christian sources show no interest in either, are moreover fragmentary and often legendary; and other sources about Jesus do not exist. (Bultmann 8)
Why Word Inspired by God (Bible) has three genealogies of Jesus pbuh.
How could the "inspired words" of God get the genealogy of Jesus incorrect (See Matthew 1:6-16 where it states 26 forefathers up to Prophet David, and Luke 3:23-31 says 41 in number). Or for that matter, give a genealogy to Jesus who had NO father?

There is difference of centuries between II Kings 19:1-37 and Isaiah 37:1-38.Why both has same verses.
See II Kings 19:1-37, now read Isaiah 37:1-38. Why is it that the words of these verse are identical? Yet they have been attributed SAME WORDS to two different authors, one unknown and the other is Isaiah, who are centuries apart; and yet, the Christians have claimed these books to be inspired by God.

Answer 4

Yes. If you believe any of the bible, you have to believe it all, since it's all the 'inspired word of God'- 'God breathed,' etc., etc., etc. Therefore, you must believe that God (aka, Jesus) is a huge man and that when he comes down from heaven, everyone will see him at once.

The funny thing is, that 'God' aka, Jesus, does come down from heaven every single day . . . without fail, yet nobody recognizes him.

Gotta love the bible.

Watch the sunset tomorrow. 'God,' aka, Jesus, is coming down from the sky, yet again. Every last eye will see him . . . again. I wonder who'll be paying the slightest bit of attention?

Answer 5

I think the Bible and other such religious texts do have didactic and literary value. But it always seemed obvious to me that the outrageous stories and grandiose claims are not meant to be taken seriously.

Answer 6

You have no choice but to believe the facts of a science book written 3500 years ago, that human scientific knowledge is now just starting to catch up to.

Answer 7

Two thousand years ago this passage from revelations appeared impossible but with today's technology this is now very feasible.

Answer 8

Yes, the Bible is the Word of God, and Yes Jesus will come back, and all will be able to see him at once via television.

Answer 9

Yes. The greatest truth I know is that "Jesus loves me, this I know for the bible tells me so." Years of study, critical theory and I come back to the truth I heard when I was six years old.

Answer 10

LOL. Huge man? I don't think so! And there's nothing about a long flowing white beard, either! Try actually READING the Bible before you condemn it.

Answer 11

No. According to the Bible, specifically what Jesus said in it, that only those with the eyes to see and ears to hear will believe it.

And you see all this arguing and contention?

That's what He was talking about!