Th Bible real or just a hoax?

Question

I know this has been asked before, but what if the Bilbe was just a compilation of camp fire stories made up by 6 or 7 stoners hopped on on peyote? Before you bash me I grew up Catholic, im just not into sodamy, My grandparents are Jehova Witness', which Jehova "Yawee" is supose to be a sacred name and not spoken. I consider myself Agnostic, I beleve in a supreme being, but not the teachings.

All I'm saing is wheres the proof? If Moses split the Dead Sea then why hasnt any one found any remains today, like the Swords, spears, or sheilds? Y ou honestly believe the world was flooded, and no one can find a boat on mountain? how often does that happen?

Love&&Life..... That dosent make one bit of sense. what does the laws of rain and path of lightning have any thing to do with the bible? I want proof like a boat on a mountain and someone finding it. not Cliff Notes.

Answer 1

It's a book full with exaggerated stories. Some are metaphoric and some are real.

P.S. You are more of a deist by definition, an agnostic holds the position that the existence of god(s) are currently impossible to know.

Answer 2

They're real. First reason why: The Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered and found to be entirely accurate to the Bible today. Second: the Bible, which was written a long time ago, contains very accurate information about the earth, things that people didn't discover until thousands of years later. Some interesting things: 1. At a time when science taught that the earth sat on a foundation of either a large animal or a giant (1500 BC), the Bible spoke of the earth's free float in space: "he hangs the earth on nothing".
2. The Bible also tells us that the earth is round: "It is He who sits above the circle of the earth". Man discovered this 2,400 years later.

3.Job stated that God "made a law for the rain, and a path for the thunderbolt." Centuries later, scientists began to discern the "law for the rain." They called it the water cycle. Sound familiar?

4. In speaking of the sun, the psalmist says that "its rising is from one end of heaven, and its circuit to the other end; and there is nothing hidden from its heat." For many eyars Bible critics scoffed at the Bible, citing that this verse taught teh old false doctrine of geocentricity. Then it was discovered in recent years that the sun is in fact moving through space. It is not stationary as was once thought. It is estimated to be moving at approximately 600,000 mph, an orbit so large it would take approximately 200 million years to complete just one orbit.

5. The bible indicates that the earth is wearing out. This is what the Second Law of Thermodynamics states: that everything is running down and wearing out as energy is becoming less and less available for use. that means the universe will eventually "wear out" so much that (theoretically speaking) there will be a "heat death," and no more energy will be avaiable for use. This wasn't discovered by man until fairly recently, but the Bible states it in clear, succinct terms.

There's only a few examples out of the bunch that I've found. It's quoted from a book by Ray Comfort.

Answer 3

I wouldn't say it was a hoax, and even agree that the writers may have felt divinely inspired. However, it was written by superstitious desert-dwelling tribes 2,000 to 5,000 years ago. It has been translated and retranslated. Even translating directly from original Greek and Aramaic documents (if it can be believed the original documents exist) how can we know exactly what the ancients' metaphors actually meant?

I see the Bible as no different from any other mythology or moral code created by humans to explain their existence and keep people in line.

There are some pearls of wisdom in it and in every other holy book.

Also, any "divinely inspired" author was probably not much different from the modern "channelers" of extraterrestrials and angels (by the same token, I love some of it, some is laughable, other stuff leaves you asking "huh?")

Namaste!

Answer 4

It is a book of stories loosely base around real events.

The stories have grown and changed over the retelling, just like all oral histories.

Look at the flood story. Very clearly it says that God wanted two of every animal. But Noah goes and gives a burnt offering of one of every clean animal once the ark is back on dry land. I can just see some smart alec youth listening to this story and pointing out this mass extinction sacrifice. To which the teller replies, well, of course it was, er, seven, yes seven, of all the CLEAN animals.

And so it goes down into the oral history, along with the two creation myths and everything else.

Answer 5

It's a real testimony.
One can't worship it as infallible.
Only the Father can call a person to Christ.
This is the awakening of spiritual unconditional love.
God is Love.
It's all internal and until it happens you will not understand the scriptures because you'll think it's describing physical occurrences.
Once it happens and you become spiritual you do not need scripture to know what's right because God writes his law on your heart.

It's sad that the faith in Christ became the book worshiping cult that it is today. Fighting science and common sense isn't what Jesus is about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-1JVctSOY
♥Agape♥
♥Blessed Be♥
♥=∞

Answer 6

The only shard of historical proof is an interpolated, disputed paragraph in the historical account of Josephus Flavius. It is as big a hoax as it can possibly get, as much as the lust-inspired texts of an arab who lived 600 years later than the purported event.

Answer 7

Hoax, just a bunch of exaggerated or stolen/borrowed stories....to date there has been no scientific nor historical evidence found to back or verify the legitimacy of any of the Bible stories...

Answer 8

I am no longer muslim however this come from christians and as a christian, hell in christianity is not a fabric position so it can't be beneath a specified zone, probably a few persons feel within the seven gates to hell however hell is not a fabric position within the christian catholicism

Answer 9

Its just a collection of fictional stories

Answer 10

Many of the stories were taken from other religions - resurrection myths were nothing new.