religous people question.if i write a book?

Question

Question for religious people,and die hard believers of the bible.If i were to write a new chapter for the bible or said that i found one,and claimed that it came from the christian god himself would you have to accept it as gods word like you do with the bible or would you question its authenticity.Would you think that its just a man making up stories to control others, or would you believe it without question or doubt just on blind faith alone.If so what are your reasons

Answer 1

some will believe you
remember that guy who last year claimed to be Jeus,they still believe him and he has lots of fan,money and fame.
your only problem would be wrong timing,may be you need to wait till this current goverment's abuse of trust and naivety subsides and gets forgotton
but you can start drafting from now.

If they have believed God can have a son without the slightest research and application of reason,they can believe anything

Oh,you argue you will research it,then why havent you research this old claim:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Asepcg_QVmoq364gyx5dRiYjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20071015144445AACDeBb

I researched.

Answer 2

The Bible was canonized in 375 AD so you are nearly 2000 years too late to add anything to it or take away from it. See the link below at points 14 and 15.

You can't add anything to the Newish Scriptures at all which are the Old Testament. And you can't add anything to the New Testament which are Christian and talk of Jesus Christ.

That kind of careful consideration about what is included in the Bible means it must be very important. What the bible covers is over 4,000 years of human history. And the life of Jesus Christ has impacted man for 2,000 years, even to our time here.

This kind of fact about the Bible is not blind faith to me. Neither is the fact there are many Jewish and Christian believers in the scriptures from Bible times until our time today.

Answer 3

I'll give you a serious answer.

If you were an Apostle, we had reason to believe that you wrote this, that it had not changed in substance (ie, necessary wording changes due to translation notwithstanding) during the time it had been known, that your writing was believed to be divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that your writing reflected matters of faith, theology or ecclesial issues, then I'd be inclined to examine your book in the serious light of Scripture.

The process that went into deciding what books to be considered sacred as Scripture was much more in-depth than many (even Christians) give it credit for, although it did follow a bit of what was outlined above.

In your case, I'd consider something you wrote to not be Scriptural, though it may be interesting and uplifting. I enjoy John Eldridge's writings, but I'd hardly call them Sacred. Likewise, were you to "find" something, whether it agreed or disagreed substantively with the Canon we call the Bible, I'd question it based upon its location, date of writing, and attempt to confirm its authenticity. This would be the job of a scholar, and would include technical analyses such as materials dating in the writing, a lingustic analysis of the style of writing and syntax to compare with other known writings of the language and period, and a historical cross-reference with known events. These tests are common when surviving manuscripts are uncovered. As you may or may not know, we have no copies of the "original" Scriptures, and some variations in grammar, syntax and use of wording do exist in those manuscripts that survive. A good translation of Scripture will make note of substantial variations (including omissions and additional wordings), and a good student of Scripture will understand that languages have their own evolutionary structure.

Answer 4

"All" the books of any bible in the present world come from one SOURCE. Roman Catholicism. Truth ? Doubtful. Unless your book "shows" genuine superior "intelligence" it will no better than all the ignorance already out there which portrays a God no better than common MAN.

I "am" an AUTHOR, and will SOON publish many works which relay the ignorances of "man's" religions. Not "women's" religions. MAN'S. That's where the "stupidity" lays, for no "supreme" creator would ever be prejudice and exclude the one member of his creation which gives LIFE to the world through the bearing of CHILDREN. Of all the religions of the world NONE come close to be the least bit in the Lord's WISDOM.

Answer 5

No, I wouldn't believe it came from God. I believe that God is sovereign over all things, including His Word, and I would find it *very* hard to swallow that the God who has graciously given us all things needed for our faith would have kept a book hidden from us. That seems awfully capricious, and God is certainly not capricious. If we need it, He gives it to us. He has told us so in His Word.

If the book was written by ONLY human hands, without being divinely inspired, it certainly won't match up perfectly with the rest of scripture. Scripture is such a beautiful and consistent showing of God's message, and if *anything* contradicted God's Word in your book, I would toss it out for that reason. And, again, see above. God wouldn't 'hide' a book from 2000 years of Christians. He enabled us to be fully equipped by His Word and His Spirit.

Answer 6

Are you a Christian? Do you believe in God's word, his existence, the fact that he created the world?

To ask such a question proves that you aren't and that you don't. If you were a true believer you would know the answer to your question and understand fully what faith is.

Sorry if that doesn't answer your question, but if I even tried... you would contradict my every word.

Answer 7

In order to get into the official cannon of scripture you have to pass rigorous tests. One of which is how contemporaty scholars felt about the book as scripture.
As far as making something up and calling it scripture. Consider the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith ended up chased out of civilization and (if I remember correctly at 1 am) murdered over it, but his heirs made a lot of money.

Answer 8

1Timothy 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
1Ti 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.


2Timothy 2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

Answer 9

i would simply ignore it. It's obvious what you wrote is not the truth or no where near it. Just like revelations says that there will be people claiming to be prophets or to be God/Jesus himself trying to decieve humanity. That would make you a liar.and worst of all why would you try to decieve God's children? Are you questioning the Bible? Don't even try to say that you found it lol silly of you

Answer 10

Don't be silly. The Catholic Church first assembled the various books into the Bible in the Fourth century. Your forgery would have no place there.