2007-11-09 21:04:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It had better press in Europe and America.
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2007-11-09 21:07:49 · answer #1 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What you asked is true - what makes it so special? Nothing. The only difference between the bible and other smaller holy religious texts is how widespread its influence has become. The bible APPEARS to be authoritative because it rode the coat tails of power, imperial expansion, and gained the ear of royal courts hundreds of years ago.
The same could have occurred for any other holy book. Imagine if Islam would have conquered Europe entirely. Columbus could have been someone named "Muhammad" who discovered America, and brought the Quran with him. You would then be asking why the Quran is so special?
In today's society we ask why things are so powerful and the most likely explanation is to "follow the money". For the bible one might ask the same.
2007-11-10 05:29:29 · answer #2 · answered by fierce beard 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever read it? It was written over thousands of years, and has about 40 authors and yet has a marvelous consistency of ideas. It is wonderful literature. It has hundreds of prophecies of the Messiah, made many hundreds of years before Christ was born and He fulfilled all of them. It has wisdom and beauty and has given me so much help for 37 years. I never read any other book that can do all the Bible has done in my life. I find new things in it; it never has gotten old and stale. I've read it all at least 5 times and some favorite parts much more than 5 times. The Holy Bible is the one book I'd want if I were marooned somewhere - even if I were marooned all alone.
2007-11-10 05:13:41 · answer #3 · answered by LeslieAnn 6 · 2⤊ 6⤋
Because there is only One God, and his Word is the Bible, all the rest are just idols made by man. Jesus Christ is the only Living God, 2000 years ago Jesus came and died on a Cross at Calvery for you and me, He gave his life to wash away our sins. We are sinners, unholy, worthy of only death, Romans 6:23, but Jesus loved us so much that he left Heaven and came down to man and provided away for us to be able to enter into Heaven with him someday. He suffered all that pain and torture. Being Crucified was about as bad as it can get, nailed to a cross, you would stay there at least for a day and by evening if you weren't dead they would finish you off. Jesus did that for us. Now all we have to do is accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour and we will get to live in a Paradise when we die, the Bible doesn't lie. Its Truth. If you are willing to confess your sins and admit to Jesus you need a Saviour you can be saved right now, just pray this prayer of faith believing with all your heart and soul, just pray Dear Jesus, I know and confess that I am sinner in need of salvation. I believe you died on a cross at calvery and arose from the grave to wash away my sins, I ask you right now to come into my heart and save me, I pray this Prayer believing in the name of Jesus Amen. If you prayed this prayer with a sincere heart you are now a child of God, rejoice that your name is written in the Lambs book of Life. Jesus will now send his Holy Spirit to come and live in your heart and guide you into all truth. If you have any questions just send me an email, God Bless YOU!!
2007-11-10 10:11:02 · answer #4 · answered by victor 7707 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Holy Bible is the oldest book around, and for good reason, God wanted us to know, to have the guide and the answers, to live by, many and many have tried to destroy it, destroy the word being spread with no success, why because you simply cannot fight God, and God wants us to have His Word, that Book is the only material thing in this world important, you better read it, and hold it close, everything in this earth will be gone destroyed, the saved will be raised with Christ and well you know where everything else goes. That Bible is Gods Letter of Love to us.
2007-11-10 05:11:28 · answer #5 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 0⤊ 7⤋
Why Word Inspired by God (Bible) has three genealogies of Jesus pbuh.
How could the "inspired words" of God get the genealogy of Jesus incorrect (See Matthew 1:6-16 where it states 26 forefathers up to Prophet David, and Luke 3:23-31 says 41 in number). Or for that matter, give a genealogy to Jesus who had NO father?
There is difference of centuries between II Kings 19:1-37 and Isaiah 37:1-38.Why both has same verses.
See II Kings 19:1-37, now read Isaiah 37:1-38. Why is it that the words of these verse are identical? Yet they have been attributed SAME WORDS to two different authors, one unknown and the other is Isaiah, who are centuries apart; and yet, the Christians have claimed these books to be inspired by God.
What is According to:
Christians boast about the Gospels according to Matthew, according to Mark, according to Luke and according to John. However, if we think about it, there is not a single Gospel according to Jesus himself. According to the preface of the KJV (King James Version) new open Bible study edition, the word "Gospel" was added (see below) to the original titles, "According to John, according to Matthew, according to Luke and according to Mark." Incidentally, why does every "Gospel" begin with the introduction According to. Why "according to?" the reason for this is because not a single one of the gospels carries its original author’s autograph!
Luke never met Jesus pbuh, Is the gospel of Luke really a hearsay.
If you read Luke 1:2-3, you will learn, as I did, that Luke (who was not one of the 12 disciples and never met Jesus) said that he himself was not an eyewitness, and the knowledge he gathered was from eyewitnesses, and not as words inspired by God. Incidentally, why does every "Gospel" begin with the introduction According to. Why "according to?" the reason for this is because not a single one of the gospels carries its original author’s autograph!
Was ‘Gospel according to Matthew’ was not written by Matthew, according to Bible?
Matthew 9:9 proves that Matthew was not the author of the first Gospel which bears his name:
"And as Jesus passed forth thence, He (Jesus) saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and He (Jesus) saith unto Him (Matthew), follow me (Jesus). And he (Matthew) arose, and followed Him (Jesus)." Without any stretch of the imagination, one can see that the He’s and the Him’s of the above narration do not refer to Jesus or Matthew as its author, but a third person writing what he saw or heard - a hearsay account and not words inspired by God.
Did Pagan Constantine contribute in writing the word of God?
It is worth noting, and well known throughout the religious world, that the choice of the present four "gospels" of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were imposed in the Council of Nicea 325 CE for political purposes under the auspices of the pagan Emperor Constantine, and not by Jesus. Constantine’s mind had not been enlightened either by study or by inspiration. He was a pagan, a tyrant and criminal who murdered his son, his wife and thousands of innocent individuals because of his lust for political power. Constantine ratified other decisions in the Nicene Creed such as the decision to call Christ "the Son of God, only begotten of the father."
2007-11-10 05:07:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes, there are. The Bible got promoted better.
2007-11-10 05:11:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's the only one that claims that bats are birds of the air, insects have four legs and rabbits chew their cud.
2007-11-10 05:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because its the only Word of God
Hbr 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
2007-11-10 05:17:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
since it was written at the time when the prophets, saints, and Christ are living or have just died. So it is the closest account of their lives and works.
as all communication, the farther it is from the source the more corrupted it is.
2007-11-10 05:23:34 · answer #10 · answered by aka_gian 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋