If the Holy Bible was never written ..Do you think people would know GOD?

Question

GOD creator of Heaven and Earth?
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Would people today be following all sorts of Pagan GODS not knowing who GOD in heaven is?

Answer 1

YES!
There was no New Test that was available until after the year 300 AD or so. Then the RCC made it illegal to own one or to read one. Services were in Latin when most people spoke other languages so...But yet they still had faith in the God of the bible.
Searching for God is innate. If one is truly seeking the truth God reveals himself.
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Answer 2

Yes. Romans (also the OT) even tells you that the "laws of God' or something like that is written on the hearts of men.

Also, if you really looked into it, you would find that the GOD of the Bible and Jesus are themselves more than likely based on so-called "pagan" dieties.

If you look at the world today, you will see that in South and Central America Catholocism and the original religions of the original populations has mixed, if you look at Islam in Central Asia you will find that it has mixed with the original religions of those areas. This goes on and on, in fact all religions can easily be found to have been influenced by the region in which they have spread. This is just a fact of life. It would be very naive to say that the Jewish nation was not influenced by the Egyptians or that the early Christians were not influenced by the Greek religions. That is just not how religion works, it will always mix with the native religions. This is true with language, food, etc. Things always mix. Religion in no exception to this rule.

But again, mixing doesn't make anything untrue, the divine truth will always remain.

Answer 3

People today are following all sorts of Pagan gods not knowing who God in heaven is even with the availability of the Holy Bible. Anyways if the Bible was non-existent people will still know the true God in heaven. Moses existed when there was no bible and he knew Jehovah Yahweh.

Nuch

Answer 4

gods have always existed in one shape or form, and gods would exist with or without the bible, the Christian God however would not exist.

Religion was created by man, as a way to explain things they couldnt explain. Where do we come from, what happens when we die are the main questions of today. But when gods were originally created, they were very primal, where does love come from how does fire burn who causes people to go to war who makes the sun come up every day so on and so forth. Science has dispoved many of the old gods, but some things cant be answered thus religion still exists to answer the 2 main questions, where do we come from, and what happens to us when we die. Once those questions are proven religion would not be needed. That is the history of the origin of religion. SO, the christian god would not exist without the bible, but something else would have taken its place. God is a man created idea to explain that which cant be explained, period. gods do not exist except for in the hearts of those who believe. Many things only exist because we believe it exists, and because of this theory, god exists because people believe he exists.

Answer 5

Probably becaue for centuries people have been turning to a higher up for answers. The romans had a god for everything... Love, weather, food etc. I think people fell relieved when they can leave the reality of life up to a God of some kind. The bible is just basically an instruction book of how that god wants his people to behave, but he's not the first god to be created in human minds

Answer 6

The stuff written in the Bible was written decades after jesus supposedly died. The first writings were Paul / Saul who never met Jesus, but only met people who supposedly met him. So, it's second-hand information, at best.

Paul really didn't say much about Jesus. He said nothing about his upbringing or earlier life. He doesn't give much of Jesus' teachings, either.

Decades after Paul wrote about him, suddenly some stories were "remembered" by Mark, or whoever wrote in Mark's name. (It was common in those days to sign a more famous name to your work) The later writings of Matthew, Luke, and John seem to have copied Mark or used similar stories or myths that were being circulated in that day.

There were many other stories written about Jesus, too. As Christianity was becoming more popular, people would add to the legend, just as the Gospel writers did.

Around the mid-300's, Constantine converted to Christianity, and made Christianity a state religion. He convened a council of Bishops to decide what stories would be official canon or not. They rejected the rest, for whatever reasons, calling them the Apocrapha.

After more councils, they decided other doctrine, such as whether Jesus was divine or not, created the concept of the "Trinity", decided that Mary was a virgin and a bit divine herself, and other matters not addressed in the Bible

Answer 7

Well, native American religion was all orally told. Unfortunately many Native Americans have died out so their traditions languages and religious history is being lost. But the Romans are the ones to thank for many Christians not being Pagans anymore. They conquered Europe and turned all Pagan holidays into Christian ones. The festival of lights is a Pagan tradition to celebrate winter and because of the darkeness they decorated trees with lights. Now it's known as a Christmas Tree. That's just one example. Clever litle Romans weren't they?

Answer 8

There are lots of religions that nobody follows anymore. Someday Christianity will be one of them. Your question assumes that there IS a god in heaven to know. When something doesn't exist you can make up anything about it that you want. that is what the bible has done. If there was no bible, there would just be another book in its place.

Why do you assume that the bible is the only conduit to god?

Answer 9

This is kind of an odd question, since the God of Christianity is generally held to be directly responsible for the Bible being written; therefore, its non-existance would be an indication that that God doesn't exist in that world. So, I guess people would worship other gods, and, given that any god exists at all, they might be right.

Answer 10

God has put the idea in the minds of all to search for the Truth and when they find the Truth they find God. Even in the areas that the people have never even seen a Bible.

Answer 11

Since your religion came from those pagan religions, I'd say that your God is a trumped-up version of what people already had. Were there no bible, perhaps we'd all be pagans, dancing in the forest with flowers around our heads, not only preaching love but showing it as well. If only...