What did the Bible leave out?

Question

What did the Bible miss, and why do some religions need more scripture?

Answer 1

The Bible is the true inspired word of God, there's nothing missing that any religion should need to add scripture to account for.

Answer 2

The bible left out that it's past your bed time.
I'm just kidding.
The Bible was compiled in 325 AD by scholars who were paid by the Roman Emperor Constantine to do the work.
Anything that was collected and did not agree with the scholars or the Emperor was burned.
many Manuscripts were destroyed. Many are now coming to the surface or being found. one such book was the Gospel of Thomas found in Egypt.
Some religions reject the bible as being incomplete or differing with some of the beliefs, such as reincarnation, living more than one life time as a human.
The bible also is missing the periods of the Life of Jesus from when he was 12 years old until he was 30. It says nothing about that. Hope this helps. Sorry for being funny at first.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 3

I don't believe that the Bible left out anything. It may not discuss every specific situation that we might come across, but by reading the Bible and understanding God's nature, you can find the answers. The Bible doesn't say "Do not kill un-born babies that are still in the womb", but it does say to not murder (Exodus 20:13). It does not say "do not speed", but it does say to submit to authority (Romans 13). And again, for those situations that the Bible does not address directly or indirectly, you can find the answers by reading the Bible as a whole and understanding the character of God, and therefore knowing what the right thing to do is.
I hope I understood the question correctly, and that my answer makes sense.

Answer 4

I think it leaves out a lot. In the New Testament, we see only gospels (most of which are duplicated in the first three gospels), a piece of history (Acts) a bunch of letters written by early church leaders, most notably Paul and then a rambling dream of the future (Revelations). What is needed is more instruction from Jesus not just observations of some of his teaching. The Old Testament has the Books of Law (Numbers, Deuteronomy, not sure maybe Leviticus). What we really need is the Gospel Q, the supposed writing of Jesus used by Mathew, Mark and perhaps Luke in the writings of their Gospels. Frankly, many of the apocryphal works like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Judas and some of the Dead Sea scroll material would be a great addition.

The bible also needs a preamble and perhaps a caveat like "Not necessarily to be taken literally"

To answer your question - all the bible really has from Jesus is about a dozen parables, many of which are essentially repeats (e.g. lost coins, lost sheep), the beatitudes, some contradictory advice on how to get to heaven (honor your mother and father, hate your mother and father, love your neighbour, hate your neaighbour, sell all your possessions, give all your possesions away [how many "saved" Christians reading this have, as Jesus says you must do, given away all their possessions so that they are not like camels trying to get through the eye of a needle], simply believe in Jesus, etc) and the witness of about 4 or 5 miracles. Not a lot to base society on and since we don't abide by the Old Testamant laws (e.g. we don't stone disobedient children to death) the church has found it necessary to create additional instructions like don't eat fish on Fridays, priests shall not marry, etc. none of which are supported by scripture.

Answer 5

I don't know what, or if, the Bible missed something. I do know that people are having a really hard time keeping up with what we have now much less something more. If we do as the Bible teaches, I think we'll be in pretty good shape.

Answer 6

Some say that the Bible says it all, that noting is left out. I beg to differ.

God's Revelation is INFINITE. God's teachings to us is infinite, wouldn't you say? How can everything, EVERYTHING about God be contained wtihin one book? Hell, a person can't see God and live, how can s/he read all about God and live too?

The Qur'an says it well. Btw, whenever the Qur'an says "Say:" as it does in the first example below, this means, "Thus saith the Lord."

Say: Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even though We brought the like thereof to help.
~Qur'an, Pickthall translation, Sura 18 (The Cave), verse 109

And if all the trees in the earth were pens, and the sea, with seven more seas to help it, (were ink), the words of Allah could not be exhausted. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise.
~Qur'an, Pickthall translation, Sura 31 (Lukman), verse 27

How can we ever put a "cap" on God? On His Revelation? Impossible.

Answer 7

During the council of Nicea they left out just about everything that would destroy the idea of a Saviour so they could reap the benefits of keeping the people under control and take your money. It's a con.

The bible is not the truth. It's a book of primitive, incestuous murderous criminals, not fit for anyone to read. It was not written by God or Jesus but supposedly inspired prophets. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John weren't even written until 30-100 years after the death of Christ so it's not even a first hand account. It's hearsay.

It rules by fear and lies.

Answer 8

Well, there's a lot of things missing in the bible as in the torah. Dats why bible was introduce to humans after torah to correct what has been wrong in the torah and input whatever is missing. And that is also why the quran was introduce after the bible which for the same reason, to correct what is wrong and input what is amiss.. Logically, you don't correct things backwards don't you. You do your correction and present it forward. So think..

Answer 9

The Bible leaves absolutely nothing out, and it boils down to this- GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, AND WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. Just because other "religions" have more writings it does not make it right- TRUTH can be spoken very easily in the Old and the New Testament - because the whole book leads to one thing- JESUS!!!!!!!

Answer 10

i could right a whole book on that. basically the bible was outrageously biast (im christian btw but i have my opinions). it didn't tell everything as it probably happened historically. Here is what i beleive but u dobviously dont have to take my word for it. We noe "virgin" was a term used for someone new to a certain group of nature loving, hippie-like plp 2000 years ago. Mary was part of them (thus "virgin mary") what plp precieved as miracles may have just been exagerations/things jesus learned from his mother about the medicines u can find in nature. he still could logically be the son of god and he definetly was an example to follow but the bible may have tried to sell that a little too much. sry just my opinion. the other books of different religions deal with different prophets besides jesus. its all about who u listen to.

the person above me is also right about nicia. the clergy took a whole lot out so the pope would hold lots of political power. for example there is a book of mary magdolin which was burned. it talk about jesus' life. It even mentioned he may have had relashionships with mary magdolin and obviously she wasn't a hooker