what makes the bible any different than a book of children's fairy tales? They both have magic and people with magic powers.
2007-08-20 11:33:35 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A). They want to feel loved by God/Jesus.
B). They were raised like that and never really questioned it.
C). They want some kind of meaning in life.
D). They want to be able to rape children and then go confess to it, and have that be ok.
E). They're just too stupid to understand science.
F). They want to feel like they are better than people (Non-Christians)
G). They see stuff happen that appears to be some kind of miracle and so they look for some kind of logical explaination can't find it and just pretend it's God.
H). They're scared into it, and over time convinced themselves that the Bible was true.
I).Some kind of other thing.
2007-08-20 11:44:09 · answer #1 · answered by Derek 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Magic? I don't see any magic in the bible..
I also don't see any fairy tales; almost everything in the bible has been proven to have happened by theologians.
All I can say is the Bible must be pretty powerful.. because even the unbelievers question things about it.
2007-08-20 11:42:05 · answer #2 · answered by S L 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Uh... because the Bible is true.
The accuracy of the Bible is 100%. These experts that keep showing up are looking to sell books. If you look at the historical, archaeological etc accuracy of the Bible right from Genesis 1 and the creation...
"If I had no other data than the early chapters of Genesis, some of the Psalms and other passages of Scripture, I would have arrived at essentially the same picture of the origin of the universe, as is indicated by the scientific data." Nobel Prize-winning physicist Arno Penzias (Big Bang Theorist)
If you choose to actually look at the history etc. carefully you will find the Bible is realible. C.S. Lews, Alister MacGrath, Lee Stroebel, etc. etc. all searched for truth and found it in the Bible!
C.S. Lewis - "Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it."
"Truth is absolute and knowable and must be searched for diligently, but many will try to hide it, deny it or muddy it." - Bia Leung.
2007-08-20 11:46:41 · answer #3 · answered by Pilgrim in the land of the lost 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"In 1952, a professor of military history, Sanders, set down three tests which can be used for any historical writing. He named these tests the bibliographic test, the internal test, and the external test. We can examine the Bible with these tests in the same way we would examine other ancient documents.....
Apart from the New Testament, the only other ancient writing which has any level of accuracy associated with it, is Homer. And yet the New Testament has a far higher degree of accuracy than Homer. Scholars universally accept the copies of Homer's writings as being accurate. It is undeniable, then, that the New Testament is by far the most accurately reconstructed ancient document. It passes the bibliographic test with flying colours."
``....Jesus...fulfilled over three hundred propecies (spoken by different voices over 500 years), including twenty-nine major prophecies fulfilled on a single day - the day he died.'' Since many of these prophecies were to do with the place and manner of his death, and even the place of his birth, he could hardly have deliberately set out to fulfil them!....
Just suppose the chance of each one of those prophecies being fulfilled in isolation was a very generous 50%. Then the chance of three hundred such prophecies all being fulfilled is the same as that of three hundred consecutive coin-tosses all
coming up tails: one in 2037035976334486086268445688409378161051468393665936250636140449354381299763336706183397376 - that is, about one in two million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million."
2007-08-20 11:48:36 · answer #4 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is not a fairy tale, in my opinion.
Thank you for respecting what I believe and for not mocking me.
What is a fairy tale to you is real to me.
I am not hurting you with my belief. Can you then accept my belief without resorting to name calling?
I would really appreciate it.
I know that you get your fun in life by ridiculing me and other Christians, but could you please find another amusement in life? There is so much more that might entertain you.
2007-08-20 11:42:05 · answer #5 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unlike fairy tales, the Bible attests a massive invisible man who poofed life into existence, created woman out of man's ribs, and violently destroys his creations for arbitrary reasons. Fairy tales just assert that animals can talk and fairies exist, which is mild by comparison.
2007-08-20 11:40:34 · answer #6 · answered by Heidi S 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why is the world so full of fools who can't understand it's real? If the Bible was not the word of God it could not have lasted as long as it has and will last, plus it is the most widely distributed book of all time as well as the most read, translated into more languages than any other book, and the best selling book of all time, proving it has God's protection.
2007-08-20 11:41:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Holy Bible is God's Holy Word. Not a fairy tale
2007-08-20 11:39:11 · answer #8 · answered by Karenita 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
The Bible doesn't use magic. Aside from that the history in the Bible is accurate, as well as what is said about science.
2007-08-20 11:40:27 · answer #9 · answered by RB 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Truth vs. fiction the Bible has been proved true through MANY different resources. One being the historians (not Bible writers) of those times corroborate many of your so called 'fairly tales'.
2007-08-20 11:42:49 · answer #10 · answered by cbmultiplechoice 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋