Is the Bible based on a true story?

Question

Is the Bible based on a true story? Is there really a God? Are churches just taking up space? Are the athiest correct? I was just wondering the answers are to these questions. I want to believe, but I would like to have proof of if he (God) does in fact, exist.

Answer 1

Ask God to reveal himself to you this week. If he doesn't then don't worry about it. If he does, then do something about it.

My experience is that God has absolutely shown up when I need him. I think a lot of people don't want to ask him or when he does reveal himself, they just rationalize it. If you believe God is real, it is really easy to see the truth of the Bible.

Answer 2

My dear friend,
I am 68 years old.I have studied the Bible since I could read.I think I am rather intelligent.I use a minimum of 3 languages for study,reading and writing.Yes the Bible is I believe the inspired Word of God.I believe it is without error in its original.Many people claim it is full of myth and contradictions.I do not think so.The miracles are hard to believe but God is omnipotent.There is overwhelming evidence;That God exists,That He created all things and that there indeed was a global flood.Indeed the Bible has still the best explanation for the questions like;where did we come from,why are we here,and where are we going.If you like I will tell you more some other day.

Answer 3

Your questions break down to questions of faith. I have studied many religions and don't adhere to any one. Different people are going to answer you differently, but here are MY OPINIONS:
The Bible is a combination of real events as well as fictional stories intended to teach readers a lesson. I think the more important thing is that the Bible teaches us right from wrong and reminds us that God created this world.
I do believe there is a God. I would like to believe that we are a creation of some higher being (God) and not just here out of dumb luck when lightening struck water and created life. Maybe it was God that caused the lightning strike!
Churches are a means for followers to focus on their beliefs. They are a place for celebrating and sharing ones's beliefs with others that are of the same mindset.

Answer 4

Is the Bible based on a true story? Parts of it (very few parts)

Is there really a God? No

Are churches just taking up space? Yes

Are the atheist correct? Most definitely YES

And proof does NOT exist.

Answer 5

for the reason which you're inquiring for my opinion on the Bible, i'm going to tell you that i've got faith the thoughts contained in the bible are mostly in accordance with outdated pagan religions. it is not be conscious for be conscious, no, yet particularly some it extremely is rather such as greek, sumerian and different pagan religions. rather of many gods, there is one god ... yet God created extra suitable than only people, he additionally had sons (angels) that weren't born from people. a number of those angels mated with women human beings and created the 6 fingered and six toed giants (goliath, etc). those "nephilim" are be conscious for be conscious fairly plenty the comparable component because of the fact the greek Titans, and in case you look at particular factors of the bible then in some places you will locate similarities in case you realize the place to look. subsequently finally, no, i don't have faith the bible replaced into "in accordance with a real tale". Christian artifacts have been shown to be fake, and if Jesus rather ever existed then we would have chanced on his physique or tomb a protracted long term in the past. it extremely is rather elementary to anticipate that faith is a lie outfitted to enforce conformity, and that's my opinion for my area.

Answer 6

There is no "proof" if you're looking for something scientists could measure in a laboratory or lawyers could argue about in frfont of a judge. The proof for you has to come from inside you. If you are truly interested, try spending time in some church, preferably one that demands you to study the Bible.

Answer 7

Only the Holy Spirit can open your eyes to see the truth. Go buy a King James Version of the Bible and Read it. Start with Romans, which gives you a good basis of everything overall.

Most of all, believe the Bible, and not all the non-biblical post here.

Answer 8

Some of bible is true history. Alexander the great who conquered the known world is part of history and in the bible.

Answer 9

Some stories in the bible are true in our sense of "historical fact" sense; many are not true in that sense but true in other senses.

As for the existence of god, well, in facing questions like this one it is important on the one hand to distinguish between "what has to exist" (sometimes called "necessity"), and what is "in need of an explanation" on the other hand. So, for example, while there is a formula for solving quadratic equations, which every high school student learns in algebra, there is no formula for the general quintic. It follows from this that if god were to exist god might know the solution to any quintic, but god would not be able to write down a general solution. Every quintic has a solution (in fact it has 5 of them and for the same reason that a quadratic has 2). This is a necessary feature of algebra; that is to say, it is necessarily true once one discovers algebra. Does it make sense for someone say, "Well, do you have any evidence for that?" Well, no there is no "evidence" that a formula for solving the general quintic does not exist. Indeed, it doesn't really make sense in this case to ask for evidence: the assertion that there is no formula for solving the general quintic is still true because it is necessary. This is a product of how one works through the questions arising from thinking algebraically.

There are lots of situations where asking for evidence, asking for an explanation, seems to make good sense. Physics, chemistry, biology, botany and astronomy are good cases in point. It makes sense to ask, for example, "Why does the DNA in my mitochondria come only from my mother and not my father?" There is something very different about this question than the question about algebra, and it seems to be a type where asking for evidence seems warranted. Physicists, too, are bent on providing explanations of this latter sort, and they are careful when they meet questions of the former sort not to confuse the two. So, for example, good physicists will happily assert that everything we see around us is subject to needing an explanation: people, trees, water, the solar system, galaxies, sand, bacteria, states of mind; all stand in reference to this latter sort of questioning: "Why are things this way and not some other way?" This happens in the Astronomy section of Y!A all the time. "Why is the sky blue?" shows up with annoying regularity! So, why is the sky blue and not red? Why are all large solid bodies roughly spherical in shape? Why is the sun yellowish? Why is the solar system stable over long periods of time?

Care needs to be taken when lumping individual items into systems because not every attribute of a planet, say, becomes an attribute of a solar system. It is not always clear how explaining the parts of a system explains the whole system. For example, no good physicist would assert that a wall made of small bricks was, therefore, a small wall; but it would still be a brick wall. A pile of cheerios on a table isn't an "empty" pile when the cheerios are eaten. None of us would assert --except as a joke-- that the world is littered with empty piles of cheerios, or $10.00 dollar bills. So, it makes sense to ask "How did this pile of cheerios get here" without the answer being "Well, the pile was always here, it just has cheerios now, whereas before it was just an empty pile." The pile itself is susceptible to the same sort of questioning that the sky is, that the solar system is, that my DNA is.

At each step in this process of asking questions we always ask for a set of reasons (sometimes those reason give evidence and sometime they do not) which give us some explanation for what we see. When do we ever stop asking for an explanation or for evidence? When we cite reasons which are perforce necessary. For example, there is no equation from which one can derive the positions of the planets of our solar system. This is called, in the parlance of mathematicians, the "n-body" problem. If the solar system were composed of exactly two bodies which were themselves perfectly rigid spheres, and if they are reasonably small and at a great distance from each other, then there is such an equation which was derived by Newton. But when the number of bodies is greater than 2 then no such formula exists. There are *numeric* solutions which can be quite good over long spans of time; but no general solution. No physicist searches for one; what's the point? Likewise, absolute zero is what it is. Occasionally on Y!A physics, one sees the question "can something get colder than absolute zero?" Asking that question makes clear that the person asking does not understand what "absolute zero" means, no why it follows from the way one thinks in the process of discovering physics.

So, when one faces all that physicists, biologists, psychologists, chemists, geologists and astronomers have discovered it does indeed make sense to ask, "Is there a reason for all of that?" One can, of course, choose not to face ths question, one can minimized the question, but those are personal issues of integrity; yet as the discussion shows this question still makes sense to ask.

The answer to that question is what Muslims, Jews, Christians, Taoists, Wiccans, and the like refer to when they use the term "god." As a consequence, there is no "evidence" for god, nor does god need further explanation. Quadratic equations have a general formula for their solution, the n-body problem is not solvable, god is the answer to a particular question and there is no "going beyond" these. There is no good way to answer the question, "Well, can you give me some evidence that every quintic has a solution without an explicit formula?" It follows from a whole way of thinking about algebra that it is so. The same is true for god. As I pointed out, god is the answer to, god follows from, a whole system of questioning.

HTH

Charles

Answer 10

I'm like you, I need proof. There is no proof. Until I am shown otherwise, I will continue to be non religious. Wish I had some proof to show you, but I have looked for it myself, and I don't think any exists.