Didn't man write the Bible not God? And didn't God give people power to do things to the Earth?

Answer 1

Men wrote the scripture as inspired by the Holy Ghost.

Of course God gives people power to do things to the earth. Like, take care of it.

Answer 2

Not necessarily. You see, Humans decided themselves that they were superior to every other living creature, because they thought they had absolute knowledge of Who Should Live and Who Should Die. When the Gods (Or God, whatever you want, it's just figurative here) decided, "Okay, time for a drought to keep the Human population in check," the Humans decided, "No, I'm not going to die." They learned farming, taking plots of lands food resources way past what they should be.

Still, there were some societies that decided to follow the Laws of Nature. These were primarily Herders. When the Farmers saw this, they decided them inferior and killed them all, watering their fields with their blood. This is Cain and Abel. The whole "Tree of Life"from the Bible's Genesis fits here too. Genesis was in fact written by the Herder's, which is the reason why when Adam and Eve ate the fruit it was a sin. If it was written by the Farmers (The dominant society for almost all of history), the Fruit would've been thrust upon them.

Still, Humans ate the Fruit of Knowledge. But only the Gods (Or God) knows if it's only a God Fruit. So it was even more dangerous in that a Human might eat it and only think he had the knowledge of Who Should Live and Who Should Die.


And yeah, a whole bunch of men wrote the Bible after everyone from Jesus' time was dead (A few hundred years)

Answer 3

A) to l-o-d-tiger: it's 72 books, dear. Martin Luther ditched some of them because they directly contradicted HIS bright ideas.

B) Man wrote, but God inspired the writing. It goes something like this: God decided one night that it was the perfect time for Paul to dash off the definitive statement on love, so he slapped Paul upside the head with the divine equivalent of a 2x4 and Paul got busy. He got so into it, the beauty and poetry of what he was writing, that he just kept on going and getting a lot of extraneous and quite unnessasry stuff written down. Finally God inspired Paul to put down the quill and go to bed and that's how we got the book of Romans.
C) God gave man dominion over the earth and all the things thereof. Please note that the word "dominion" means "lordship", ie, take care of it the way God would take care of it, with nurturing love and genuine caring. What we are most prone to do is take domination, ie POWER, over the earth and all the things thereof. As anyone can plainly see from the results, domination is clearly Satan's way of doing things, ie destructive.

Answer 4

God, through man inspired the collections of stories of faith and hope. This is done simply to remind people that there is a god and for our dominion there will be accountability. No god then there is No nothing. Whatever designed, created and sparked the existence of everything known and unknown is god. Humans unlike every other species ever found, feel compelled to pay homage to something they cannot see. There is no scientific justification for this compulsion that would explain away something greater than us. So no matter what book of stories(religious or the dogma of man supreme)you commit to, there is no denying that we didn't create the earth and don't have the right to destroy it.

Answer 5

The Bible is written by men, but inspired by God. And yes, God did give those who believe in Him power to do things.

Answer 6

Did you know that “The 66 books of the Bible were written on three continents? In three languages. By about 40 different people (kings, shepherds, fishermen, priests, and a physician). Over a period of about 1500 years. On the most controversial subjects. By people who in most cases had never met. By authors whose education and background varied greatly. Yet all 66 books maintain harmony with each other…as if written by one great mind. And indeed it was.” 2 Peter 1 verse 21 “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy spirit” Critics of the Bible have tried to say that certain “historical statements” in the Bible are not accurate but archaeologists have uncovered many discoveries that have proven the history of the Bible as accurate. The principles and the prophecies of the old testament as well as its history holds for us today as much relevance as it did for the Israelites in Jesus day and it blends perfectly with the new testament.

Answer 7

Yes, God gave people power to do things on Earth. And one of those things is the power to put words on things. Some of those words made it into the Bible.

God also gave SOME people the power to understand it.

Answer 8

The bible is Gods word, simply writen by the bible wrighters. and yes god gave man free will

Answer 9

Yes, and yes.

However, God also gave humankind responsibility for the earth. We are expected to be responsible stewards of God's creation, not rape and pillage nature.

Answer 10

Absolutely.