If whatever is written in the Bible is true then why is not the Bible expanding?

Question

Has God stopped talking to people and teaching how to live.

Answer 1

Because what is written in the bible is not always true in fact most of it is myths and half truths from possible historic events that may or may not have happened. If there is a god and one supposes there must be some sort of force or being that started the universe expanding and laid down the chemical and physical rules by which life exists, you can be sure that "god" has no interest in you personally or indeed the human race as a whole and the laws he was supposed to have laid down are actually written by men

Answer 2

Evidently "god" said all he was going to say a few thousand years ago, when the bible was written. There are no additional commandments, and no new admonishments in the form of "verse." And he performed all the miracles at the same time. Since then, there have been no more direct messengers from "god", like the disciples, and no more miracles like changing water into wine. It seems that "god" simply retired from doing these things, and now justs kicks back and lets people pray to "him." There are still horrible disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia, the hurricane Katrina that wrecked New Orleans, volcanoes that bury entire towns, jetliner crashes.......all of which "god" supposedly has the power to prevent, but chooses not to. It seems that "god" doesn't do much at all these days

Answer 3

The bible never changes... but what religious puppet-masters say it MEANS has changes quite a lot, over the centuries.

"5 But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;"

This verse should be taken as a CLUE that the guy who wrote this was an ignoramus, whose perception of the 'universe' that was created by his diety consists of a clump of dirt, that the diety commanded to rise from water (which existed before god he his creation activities), covered by a solid sky-dome, with heaven 'on the other side'? EXACTLY as described in Genesis?

This is MYTH. Genesis describes EXACTLY how they thought the world was created. That is all there was... earth and heaven. Pre-existing water. God did not create it... it was already there. He divided the water with a solid structure... the 'firmament'... we know it as the 'sky'. Half the water on the 'earth' side... half the water on the OTHER side of the sky... heaven. This provided them with a credible explanation for why the sky is blue... because of all the water on the other side of it. Genesis essentially describes a universe which, today, we would call a 'terrarium'. That line of scripture, above, confirms that description, in part. The PROBLEM is that actual KNOWLEDGE replaced this mythical account, and this erroneous perception of our world and our place in the universe... an ordinary planet orbiting around an ordinary sun among 200 billion OTHER suns... in an ordinary galaxy among over 100 billion OTHER galaxies. We now know that rather than being the center of and the object of a special CREATION by the petty, jealous, murderous, psychotic imaginary diety of a band of ignorant desert-dwelling goat herders, our sun and our planet are no more significant in the grand scheme of things than a grain of sand.

Yet, amazingly, people keep changing the story. I keep hearing 'the Bible never changes'. If it changed, then that would mean it isn't true. What a load of horse excrement. What it MEANS keeps changing. Centuries ago, the 'terrarium' heaven/earth/universe was TRUE. Then, when it was discovered that the sun is actually a seperate celestial body (re-discovered, actually... the Greeks knew it centuries before christ... that is part of the heretical 'pagan knowledge' that was destroyed by christians), it was thought to circle the earth. For centuries, THAT was TRUE... and the christian authorities would have people tortured and killed for even THINKING differently. Heresy! Somewhere along the line, what used to be 'literal truth' became magically transformed into 'metaphor' and 'allegory'.

So, to say that the bible never changes is a fallacy... a LIE, actually. Maybe the WORDS don't change, but the meaning has changed over-and-over again, through the ages, as the 'truths' of the bible have been revealed to be absolute hogwash.

“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.” ~ Sam Harris, 'Letter to a Christian Nation'

“Anyone who cares about the fate of civilization would do well to recognize that the combination of great power and great stupidity is simply terrifying, even to one’s friends.” ~ Sam Harris

“Any intellectually honest person will admit that he does not know why the universe exists. Scientists, of course, readily admit their ignorance on this point. Religious believers do not.... an average Christian, in an average church, listening to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse.” ~ Sam Harris
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Answer 4

No God has not stopped talking to his people, but most are blind,deaf ,and dumb by choice and have stopped seeking .
We see it today in everyday life,if Northen Rock and other Banks had not closed so many other branches people would have hardly noticed,but as there are fewer, when the people saw this they follow the crowd and so it will be in the end ,will it be to late? or are all going to be bankrupt .Open you eyes, ears,and mostly you hearts love in the lord.

Answer 5

The canon of the Old Testament that Catholics use is based on the text used by Alexandrian Jews, a version known as the "Septuagint" and which came into being around 280 B.C. as a translation of then existing texts from Hebrew into Greek by 72 Jewish scribes (the Torah was translated first, around 300 B.C., and the rest of Tanach was translated afterward).

The Septuagint is the Old Testament referred to in the Didache or "Doctrine of the Apostles" (first century Christian writings) and by Origen, Irenaeus of Lyons, Hippolytus, Tertullian, Cyprian of Carthage, Justin Martyr, St. Augustine and the vast majority of early Christians who referenced Scripture in their writings. The Epistle of Pope Clement, written in the first century, refers to the Books Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom, analyzed the book of Judith, and quotes sections of the book of Esther that were removed from Protestant Bibles.


In the 16th c., Luther, reacting to serious abuses and clerical corruption in the Latin Church, to his own heretical theological vision (see articles on sola scriptura and sola fide), and, frankly, to his own inner demons, removed those books from the canon that lent support to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed in this way were books that supported such things as prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45), Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7), intercession of dead saints (2 Maccabees 15:14), and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15). Ultimately, the "Reformers" decided to ignore the canon determined by the Christian Councils of Hippo and Carthage.

The Latin Church in no way ignored the post-Temple rabbincal texts. Some Old Testament translations of the canon used by the Latin Church were also based in part on rabbinical translations, for example St. Jerome's 5th c. Latin translation of the Bible called the Vulgate.

The "Masoretic texts" refers to translations of the Old Testament made by rabbis between the 6th and 10th centuries; the phrase doesn't refer to ancient texts in the Hebrew language. Some people think that the Masoretic texts are the "original texts" and that, simply because they are in Hebrew, they are superior.

Some Protestants claim that the "Apocrypha" are not quoted in the New Testament so, therefore, they are not canonical.
Going by that standard of proof, we'd have to throw out Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Obadiah, Nahum, and Zephaniah because none of these Old Testament Books are quoted in the New Testament.


But there is a bigger lesson in all this confusion over not only the canon but proper translation of the canon , especially considering that even within the Catholic Church there have been differing opinions by individual theologians about the proper place of the deuterocanonicals (not that an individual theologian's opinions count for Magisterial teaching!).
The lesson, though, is this: relying on the "Bible alone" is a bad idea; we are not to rely solely on Sacred Scripture to understand Christ's message. While Scripture is "given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16-17), it is not sufficient for reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness.
It is the Church that is the "pillar and ground of Truth" (1 Timothy 3:15)!
Jesus did not come to write a book; He came to redeem us, and He founded a Sacramental Church through His apostles to show us the way.
It is to them, to the Church Fathers, to the Sacred Deposit of Faith, to the living Church that is guided by the Holy Spirit, and to Scripture that we must prayerfully look.

Answer 6

God speaks through Jesus his son and the bible

Answer 7

It is all complete and if you want to know how to live you will find the answers in the Bible. Nothing is to be added or taken away....see below:

18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Answer 8

NewVersion, no... our Loving Father has not stopped teaching, leading and expanding truth for those who diligently seek it, and have asked the questions, sincerely wondered and desired to know and who have honestly earned the knowledge necessary to proceed onward to new truths.

Answer 9

Actually, yes. There have been no prophets since the beginning of the Second Temple.

Answer 10

God did not stop talking with us, He talk with you by Al-Qur'aan, when you will amaze.
God Bless you all