did god write the bible or did some biased humans who didnt know what god believed?

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also if youre athiast please dont awnser this, just cause you have the right to say goddoesnt exist we have the right to say he does, athiasts say that christians are wrong more so than the other way around.

i believe in jesus i believe in god i just dont think the bible is the word of god

i believe jesus is the son of god , le bigmac, and i am apolgizing for spelling
atheist wrong
p.s. does atheism or watever count as an anti religion

Answer 1

I believe the Bible is firmly based in truth and is intended by God to teach fundamentally important things to humans. However, many of the stories especially in the OT were written down centuries after the fact, so of course they may not be accurate history.
To give you an example from our own recent past, George Washington and the Cherry Tree ("I cannot tell a lie."). Didn't happen, but many Americans would swear it did bc the myth is so powerfully ingrained in our culture it's mistaken for truth.
I don't think the Bible is 100% literally true and my faith is strong enough that I'm not bothered by that. Human editing, errors and confusion can't obscure the salient points:
God has loved us always no matter what
God can redeem anyone and anything
God chooses unexpected servants and equips the called to do God's will, so that they can do any good and necessary thing
God came to us in the person of Jesus
God lives in us as the Holy Spirit

All the rest is details that people squander their time and life force quibbling over

Answer 2

The Bible is riddled with contradictions, killing, slavery, misogyny, genocide, just to name a few. Funny enough, the circumference of a circle is noted as simply "3," at a time when the Egyptians had already figured it out to several places. In other words, you would think that a divinely inspired book would not contain erroneous info. Further, it has been shown by biblical scholars that not only was it written many years after these events supposedly took place (at least the New Testament), but many stories were simply made up. The story of Jesus and the prostitute when he says, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" was added years later (read "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman for more). People need to wake up and realize that religion is man made. The only reason why it's still around because people fear death. NOBODY knows if there is a god, but by the looks of it (all the evil in the world), chances are, there isn't. Enjoy life while you can!

Answer 3

God inspired a bunch of different people to write the things that were included in the bible, then inspired a bunch of different people to compile what we now call "The Bible."

I don't believe for a minute that these men were 100% aware of God's will the entire time they were writing/compiling. I know there are factual errors in the bible and moral errors in the bible because I've read it myself. (More than a lot of bible-thumping fundamentalists can say.)

But that doesn't change the fact that the bible still contains God's truth. The story of Adam and Eve is clearly an allegory, but the truth behind it -- that God made all this stuff -- is still valid.

A great poet once said "Poetry lies its way to the truth." (John Ciardi). I kinda believe that about the bible; is uses stories and myths and allegories and poetry and drama to make true points about God. The people who wrote the books of the bible meant it that way. They would laugh loud and long at the people today who try to say that it's 100% literal and has no factual errors or contradictions.

Answer 4

Just because I don't believe in a god doesn't mean I can't answer a question. The way you've phrased it seems to indicate that you believe the Bible was written by biased humans, which, of course, it was. Genesis, for example, is not a first-person account of what happened, right?
Atheists (and that's how it's spelled, dear) have to put up with religion in our faces every single day. We don't get much chance to tell Christians they're wrong about anything.

Answer 5

Who Wrote the Bible - Evidence of Divine Inspiration
“Who wrote the Bible” is a question that can be definitively answered by examining the biblical texts in light of the external evidences that supports its claims. 2 Timothy 3:16 states that “All scripture is inspired by God….” In 2 Peter 1:20-21, Peter reminds the reader to “know this first of all, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, … but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” The Bible itself tells us that it is God who is the author of His book.

God does not leave us with just claims of His divine handiwork in the Bible, but also supports it with compelling evidence. The design of the Bible itself is a miracle. Written over more than 1,500 years by vastly different writers, yet every book in the Bible is consistent in its message. These 66 books talk about history, prophecy, poetry, and theology. Despite their complexity, differences in writing styles and vast time periods, the books of the Bible agree miraculously well in theme, facts and cross-referencing. No human beings could have planned such an intricate combination of books over a 1,500-year time span. Bible manuscripts (remember, there were no printing presses until 1455) have survived despite weather, persecution and time. Most ancient writings written on weak materials like papyrus have vanished all together. Yet many copies of the Old Testament scriptures survived. For instance, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain all books of the Old Testament, except Esther, and have been dated to before the time of Christ. Consider Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars. Only ten copies written about 1,000 years after the event are in existence. In comparison, there are over 24,000+ New Testament manuscripts, the earliest one dating to within 24 years after Christ.

The Bible also validates its divine authorship through fulfilled prophecies. An astonishing 668 prophecies have been fulfilled and none have ever been proven false (three are unconfirmed). An honest study of biblical prophecy will compellingly show the divine authorship of the Bible. Further, archeology confirms (or in some cases supports) accounts in the biblical record. No other holy book comes close to the Bible in the amount of evidence supporting its divine authorship.

Answer 6

Why don't you believe that the bible is the word of God? Just because humans wrote it? I'm in no way proclaiming that I am god, but if you were a reporter interviewing me on a subject, and you wrote that conversation down, does that make what I said untrue because I didn't write it myself?

A reporter's job is to document, verify, and report. Luke did a great job of it in his testimony. I suggest you start there. He interviewed first-hand witnesses to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. And other religions and historical texts of the time also make mention of Jesus the prophet, the Koran included.

Questions like this only help to build faith, so I commend you for it.

Answer 7

"Is absence of evidence of God evidence of the absence of God?" No. i think of you're leaning greater into the portion of agnosticism. (atheism and agnosticism are no longer jointly unique). i'm an Agnostic Atheist. i do no longer think interior the existence of deities, yet i do no longer fullyyt rule them out, the two. i in my view, sense that the existence of deities isn't likely (however achieveable). I additionally sense that maximum individuals of theistic religions are guy-made, and impossible. You stated a controversy of the burden of evidence. it constantly lays on the guy making the superb declare. If I have been to declare there have been a flying spaghetti monster, you will possibly ask for evidence, and rightly so. There can't be evidence that gods do no longer exist. What you may do is initiate from an independent ingredient. The data does not inevitably help a divine author. Theists usually tend to lean that way via their upbringing and social ecosystem. you may constantly initiate with the question and look at out to stumble on the answer. you may under no circumstances initiate with the respond and look at out to greater healthy the question to it.

Answer 8

Neither.

Humans, inspired by God, wrote the Bible. God did not zap the words onto parchment or papyrus. Nor did God guide the hands of the scribes who wrote everything down. Humans, being human, made mistakes, mixed and matched, and (as we so often do) generally messed things up.

So while the Bible is inspired by God, it's filtered through human errancy. We have to read it and interpret it for ourselves, using our brains and listening for our own share of God's inspiration.

Answer 9

I believe the bible was written by SEVERAL biased humans who were influenced by the propaganda of their time.

EDIT: The theory behind what samans442 said illustrates my point. Have you ever heard of the term "spin"? Reporters do it ALL the time! Since none of us were there to confirm or deny the stories, how do we know that they were not "tailored" to express the views of the writer about a certain event or cause that existed at that time?

Answer 10

God is a superstition. There's ample evidence that Christianity, and all of the other religions, were created by men. All of the gods of all of those religions were also made up. There is also ample evidence that people tend to make up and strongly believe in myths, superstitions, urban legends and the like. Religion is just another example of this.

How can you say that atheists say that Christians are wrong more than the other way around? Name me one Christian that says that atheists are correct.