Old and New Testament are okay. No flames, nothing mean. It's not homework, just want a general consensus.
I don't want facts, just opinions and thoughs please.
Loves, AngyThoughts, comments, just rants, and randam ideas about the Bible?
Ok...here goes...the Bible is simply a well-meaning attempt by mankind to try to express something that is universal - a belief in a higher power. The Bible was written by man and thus is imperfect and very fallible. There are many errors, contradictions, and illogical notions in that book. That being said, I do believe in a higher power - a universal intelligence, if you will. But I don't believe 'God' spends all his/her/its time worrying about man's soul and trying to play chess with humans against an evil being named Satan. Evolution is a real phenomena but it doesn't explain how life to came to be - only what ensued afterward. If we stick to science, we may some day have a very good explanation about how the universe and life itself came about but we may never know if there is or isn't a God. The worst thing we can do is take the Bible (or any religion) literally and try to kill each other or harass each other based on a book written by other men.Thoughts, comments, just rants, and randam ideas about the Bible?
I think it has some fascinating stories and I think they work as myths (though I don't take them literally.)
By myths, I mean, like, stories that transcend time and society and all that. I don't mean they're lies or fake or whatever.
I quote the Bible fairly often even though I've never been a Christian (grew up in a cult, and sweet fancy Moses did we read a lot of Bible!)
I think that it's definitely a book you need to take in context. People who think that it can be literally believed here and now are kinda missing the point. You're supposed to take myths and glean the universal truth, not use them as literal dogma. And you need to understand the historical context to really get the full story, anyway. Though myths do transcend their particular setting, it still helps to know what the society was like from whence they came.
That one guy is right. The bible is written by man, but the word that they wrote came from God. Although if you don't believe in God you probably don't believe in that. The bible is a lot of things. It is a instruction manual, a love letter, a book of proverbs. Even if you aren't Christian, you can find a lot of good proverbs in the bible.
It's really quite an amazing book when you see how opinions divide over it. Some people see fairy tales and myths and some people see the words of life and a message from the creator. I say that people have to read it with the same Light that wrote it, or most of it will never make sense.
It's just like the parables that Jesus taught - it revealed truth to some people and concealed it to others - and yet they heard the same words.
1Cr 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
Scripture was given by God to the Prophets. How do we know it was true? Because it was proven when the prophecies came true. So the Bible is the true Word of God and God promises there is an afterlife for the believers.
One of the strongest objective evidences of Biblical inspiration if the phenomenon of fulfilled prophecy. The bible is essentially unique among the religious books of mankind in this respect. Some of them contain a few vague forecasts, but nothing comparable to the vast number of specific prophecies found in the Bible. The same is true of modern ';prophets';, so-called. Such seers as Nostradamus, Jean Dixon, and others have made many predictions, but often they are nebulous and capable of various meanings. A few of their prophecies seem to have been fulfilled in a general way, but most of the have completely failed.(1/181)
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Prophets, to be legitimate, must stand the test of time. If the prophet was not completely correct 100% of the time he is a false prophet. Prophecy, to be valid, must predate the event; must be precise enough so as to not be vague; must have enough events described to be beyond human ability to calculate or manipulate; in other words not be something that man could do, without God's guidance.
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Only God knows the future. He is able to ';call the things that are not, as though they were'; (Romans 4:17). He declares ';the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done.'; (Isaiah 46:10; Acts 15:18). If one can demonstrate the ability to the future things that find exact fulfillment, it would follow logically that such a person, in possession of this gift, would be speaking on the behalf of God. His message therefore, would be valid. (3/81-82)聽
Scholars suggest that there are about 1,000 prophecies altogether in the Bible --- some 800 in the Old Testament and about 200 in the New Testament. (3/82) It must be noted carefully that the gift of prophecy --- clearly operative during those by-gone ages where the Biblical documents were being prepared and validated as God鈥檚 Word --- was terminated near the end of the first century AD, when the New Testament was completed (1 Corinthians 13:8-10) There are many religions today that claim to have ';prophets';, but remember for a prophet to be from God there can be no errors, ever! That lets all of the ';prophets'; since the first century out.
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PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS CHRIST
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The Old Testament, written over a 1,000 year period, contains over 300 references to the coming Messiah. All of these were fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and they established a solid confirmation of His credentials as the Messiah; the Anointed One (King; Priest; Saint); Intercessor (to release or deliver; help; meet; seek; accompany).
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God throughout the Bible spoke through his prophets to prove he was the only god.聽 He always foretold the future through them to verify who he was, to prove to the people that those who spoke were true prophets, and to draw mankind to worship him only.聽 The 100% accuracy of the hundreds (possibly thousands) of prophecies in the Bible that came true are proof Yahweh is the God of truth.聽 Not even Nostradamus can match this record!聽聽 Here are ten of those prophecies and the years they were fulfilled:
1. Predicted ca. 855 BC: The prophet Elijah predicts Jezebel would be eaten by dogs upon her death in Jezreel. (1 Kings 21:23)鈥?Fulfilled ca. 841 BC: Jezebel is killed in Jezreel and dogs eat her body (2 Kings 9:36).
2. Predicted ca. 760 BC: Amos predicts Israel would be restored as a nation and would never be uprooted again (Amos 9:15)鈥揊ulfilled in 1948.
3. Predicted ca 732 BC: Isaiah predicts the Medo-Persian empire will conquer Babylon [Isaiah 13:17-18] and Babylon would become a wasteland.鈥揊ulfilled in 538 BC when the Medes took over Babylon聽 and 275 BC when the聽Seleucids forced all of the inhabitants to leave.
4. Predicted ca. 732 BC: Isaiah says Egypt and Ethiopia would be conquered by Assyria (Isaiah 20:3-5).鈥揊ulfilled ca. 673-670 BC when Assyria conquers the northeast African nations.
5. Predicted ca. 701 BC:聽 Isaiah claims Israel will be taken captive by the Babylonian empire (Isaiah 39).鈥揊ulfilled ca. 597 %26amp; 586 BC: Babylon takes captives and sacks Jerusalem聽the first time then totally destroys Jerusalem about 10 years later.
6. Predicted ca. 589 BC:聽 Ezekiel tells about the destruction of the great city Tyre (Ezekiel 27).鈥揊ulfilled in 1291: Muslims destroy the city.
7. Predicted ca. 543 BC: Daniel tells of a great Grecian king who would conquer the Persian empire but would have his kingdom divided four ways after his death (Daniel 8).鈥揊ulfilled in 330 BC when Alexander the Great defeats Persia and 281 BC after the Greek generals who succeed Alexander reach an agreement after years of war to split the kingdom four ways.
8. Predicted ca. 536 BC:聽 Daniel prophesies that the Greek empire would not go to Alexander the Great鈥檚 h
I think that if it wasn't taken literally it would be fantastic. but it is taken literally and instead is one of the worst things to ever have come into existence.
Written by aliens and contains the knowledge of the universe in the form of a hidden code.
A book of stories and ideas on how us humans should learn to live with one another in universal harmony.
Fairy tales. Fairy tales that somehow manage to get legislated.
Great book of cool ideas.
Ideas that people have miss interpreted.
A lot.
I take it all as a whole, literal history and guide for all occasions.
The inspired word of God Himself.
1, a collect of ideas that made sense to people of the time NOT the voice of god
2,politically bias and changed over the years
Bible-God's word to us!
i also heard B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
corrupted by the hands of men.
The inspired Word of God. I can't live without it.
Romans 10:13
I blame the bloody serpent!!!!
If it couldn't randomly speak all would be good!
go to sleep
