Bible Question......?

Question

If all we have to base belief in God and Jesus is in the Bible, and the Old Testament is based on ancient folklore that portrays God as a homocidal maniac...therefore inducing most Christians to only use the New Testament...where is the actual basis for believing in God in the first place? The only proof of the Judeo/Christian god are ancient writings from a Bedouin society. What makes this believable or reliable?

No Coop, I would not. That God is the one who made the rule not to kill. Is he not to be held up to the standard he made for us? He is almighty, remember? He made people, remember? The answer to every infraction for an omnipotent god should not be to kill the offender. That is monstrous when he should have the power and the wisdom to do much better than that.

Answer 1

Nothing at all makes such primitive tales worthy of belief. There are many scientific errors and contradictions in them. It is just that some people want to believe such stuff and cannot bear the truth. After all, many people do believe any politician's campaign promises and never learn hey are lying.

Answer 2

It's all to do with the peasants' inherent FEAR of death AND there's an element of the Pascal’s Wager thingy as well.
The peasants aren't really courageous enough let alone intelligent enough to go from 'well there must be some truth in the god thing cos all the millions of people who came before little old me can't all be wrong' to 'well then why are there so many abused and starving children in the world' and 'where's the actual evidence of such a critter existing'.
If they had courage they would realise that no such entity exists.
It has more to do with FEAR than LogicReason.
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Answer 3

Early man had a need to explain who they were and how they got here, and how the planet got here.

They formulated ideas based on the information available at that time, and then passed those stories down by word of mouth until it was eventually written down.

Just like with works like the Iliad & the Oddessey, there are some truths in the bible, some fiction, and some where the lines blur between the two.

Believeble? To many certainly. Reliable? Certainly not 100%, as any time you pass a story around verbally it gets changed over time, and that's to say nothing of the official re-writes various Churches and Popes have done over time to skew the persecptive more to be how they wanted it to be.

Proof? Of course there is not irrefutable proof of anything. People have speculated and believed what they wanted to believe for centuries, but that doesn't equate to proof. The only way we know for certain what happens, how we got here and if there is a god, is when we die.

Answer 4

If you were god and you wanted to settle an area with your people but the people in that area practiced a religion of mating with animals. Your people were clean would not want the people dead rather than crossing with your people and defiling them. You see it is how look at things. God said, "Kill every living thing in the town. Even the animals." Did he do just to kill no it was to protect his people. Wouldn't you do the same?

Answer 5

The entire Bible is to be believed by the Word of Jesus Christ.


Reliability of the Bible
The Bible is 98 percent textually pure. Through all the copies of the Biblical manuscripts of the entire Bible, only 1% has any question about it. Nothing in all of the ancient writings of the entire world approaches the accuracy of the biblical documents.
The 1 percent that is in question does not affect doctrine. The areas of interest are called variants, and they consist mainly in variations of wording and spelling.
The NT has over 5000 supporting Greek manuscripts existing today with another 20,000 manuscripts in other languages. Some of the manuscript evidence dates to within 100 years of the original writing. There is less than a 1% textual variation in the NT manuscripts.
Some of the supporting manuscripts of the NT are:
John Rylands MS written around 130 A.D., the oldest existing fragment of the gospel of John
Bodmer Papyrus II (150-200 A.D.)
Chester Beatty Papyri (200 A.D.), contains major portions of the NT
Codex Vaticanus (325-350 A.D.), contains nearly all the Bible.
Codex Sinaiticus (350 A.D.), contains almost all the NT and over half of the OT

Answer 6

if u are a christian u must believe it otherwise it is blasphemy.
If you are sanctimonious u must not worry about all this.
If you believe in God then no problem - gift the bible to some-one else.
If u have no beliefs nor believe in god then worship the bible.

Answer 7

Nothing

Answer 8

Prophetic fullfillment to the last jot and title.
Just becasue you watch too much tv and do not care about prophecy does not make it wrong.