It has to include all 66 books of the Bible but not the writings of CS Lewis or Max Lucado.
This question came up during a discussion about what differentiates Scripture from powerful, effective, life-changing Christian writers of today? Should we have a re-evaluation of the canon? For that matter, what separates Scripture from Apocrypha besides arbitrary decisions of an anti-Gnostic council?
2007-11-01 08:30:57 · 13 answers · asked by Bitterpill 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
good answers so far, especially (sic!) confirmed atheist. But what I was trying to get at was not the truth of inherent divinity--rather I was trying to explore the demarcations of what makes something "holy" or "divinely inspired". I know those are loaded terms, thats the point.
2007-11-02 03:51:53 · update #1
Can anyone provide me with a definition of "divinely inspired writings"?
Answer: Pres. Bush's "signing statements" and Executive Orders.
2007-11-01 08:34:49 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the truest sense of the words, anything can be considered "divinely inspired", all one has to do is say that a god or gods inspired them. Whether or not other people agree is a completely different story. Christians claim their bible as divinely inspired, even though it was compiled by a vote and it isn't even the only version of the bible circulating the area in which it was voted upon. Jews don’t consider the New Testament any more divinely inspired than the Qu’ran, The Book of Mormon, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, Buddhist Suttas, Vinaya Texts, Confucian Canon, The Shû King, Shih King and Hsiâo King, Jaina Sutras, The Vedas, The Golden Bough, The Kojiki, Shri Guru Granth Sahib, Tao-te Ching, or The Zend Avesta. The corresponding religious believers of those texts would all beg to disagree, sometimes violently.
In short, all it takes for it to be considered "divinely inspired" is for someone to proclaim it, and someone else to say it's true. Christians, before you start with the thumbs down, do your research. You may not like what I said, but it is all true.
2007-11-01 09:17:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 09:44:34 · answer #3 · answered by gerrior 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Can anyone provide me with a definition of "divinely inspired writings"?
It has to include all 66 books of the Bible but not the writings of CS Lewis or Max Lucado.
This question came up during a discussion about what differentiates Scripture from powerful, effective, life-changing Christian writers of today? Should we have a re-evaluation of the canon? For that...
2015-08-13 15:41:18 · answer #4 · answered by Tenesha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is helping me to rewrite the Bible back into the modern science book He originally wrote It in. Get ready for the most "divinely inspired writings" since the original ones. No other man written book will come close to being the most important book ever written in modern times.
2007-11-01 08:46:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one thing I can relate to that is that God woke me during the night one time and said gently "get up and write" which I immediately did and a song came to me and I wrote it down and it had 14 stanzas
I neither know music, nor am I writer nor a poet and it all rhymed
perfectly
I heard the song ~
2007-11-01 08:40:58 · answer #6 · answered by sego lily 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about Sam Harris' "The end of faith"
or pretty much anything by Richard Dawkins.
certainly- if so many people didn't believe in magical deities, these books never would have been written.
2007-11-01 08:36:31 · answer #7 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Divinely inspired" is total garbage.
Mp deity is as full of hate as the buy-bull.
2007-11-01 08:36:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
2nd Timoty 3:16
2007-11-01 08:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
...trying to define inspired writings is the first foot on the wrong stone...only when you are not, do the divine manifest...once you are hollow, the divine can play its tune through you...who is to define...
2007-11-01 08:44:46 · answer #10 · answered by Odin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋