Do you mainly\nSee the Bible as a document you go to in times of need?\nSee the Bible as a rule book for life?\nA book read to you on sundays in church.\nDo you go to church on saturdays for real Bible study?\nOr something else?\nWhat are your experiances thoughts and feelings?
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As a book that bares no meaning or influence on my life, because i choose to let it just be a book.
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I have, but I'm not a Christian... so it's really not "my" Bible, is it?
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Before I became a born again Christian, I was in your shoes. The bible made zero sense to me. I would read it, and could not remember what I read, nor see the importance of the "dusty old book" However, the only way you will be able to understand it is if you accept Christ into your heart. To do this you must be convinced that God exists, then you must have Him dealing with your heart (which I think He is given your concern about not understanding the bible) Then when this comes to light you will see your need of a Savior due to your lacking in the eyes of God.\n\nBleesed be unto you to harken unto this call.
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The Book is True and De vine. If you have truly read it you'll see that everything in the book of Revelations that God said would happen Thousands of  years ago, is happening now. The Laws In world, Spring right from the BIBLE. I don't go to church every Sunday but I know the book and I believe it.
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The thing about Bible Studies is that they all come from a specific human slant. I would just do this: choose a chapter for you all to read and then get together to discuss it. Even better, read the chapter out loud and then discuss it. You don't need any bible "expert" to guide you.\n\nYou often get a different perspective from hearing it than from reading it. And after all, before the printing press, hearing it is the way most people got it.
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My source of morality growing up (and up until Pangel helped me to see things differently) has been what was drilled into my head by very conservative Christianity, as it relates to the Bible.  I'd probably consider it my church teachings first, ego second, Bible third, and fear of damnation fourth.\n\nNow, however, I still consider myself a Christian, but I would call human decency first, and the Bible second (interpretted very differently than before).  They practically go hand in hand.  I now interpret the Bible based on the world I see around me.  How do the teachings of the Bible fit with the observations I see in my day-to-day life?\n\nGod bless!
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The Bible is not the silver bullet, of course. I do believe in God and in Jesus's ressurection, however, there are parts of the Bible that sound like pure nonsense to me while other parts contain great, true wisdoms everyone should live by.
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OK,\n1. The Bible is unique in its continuity, circulation, translation, survival, teachings and influence on literature.\n\n2. The bible is trustworthy. The Bibliographical test, the internal evidence test, the external evidence test, and it confirmation by Archeology.\n\nI could go on and on. \nAnd as for the bad stuff that goes on in the world, it is man, not God who chose to do evil things. It is called feel will.
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if you feel the bible is so wrong and your kwon(whatever its called) is right why do you have to question the bible ..because to be honest i dont care what it says in the kwon(ha,ha) because I KNOW THE BIBLE IS TRUE!!..so whatever else is written in other books means nothing to me!
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We all cut and choose in the Bible- most of us couldn't hang with most of Deuteronomy, for instance.  The Holy Spirit leads us to know what is right for us and what isn't.  A lot of the Bible- The Book of Job, the parables of Jesus-are presented as fiction in the first place, and are meaningful anyway.
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I'm Christian but I do not believe the Bible to be the ONLY word of God.  I agree 100% with your assessment of the Bible.  Christians will never come to a complete understanding of the truth if they do not open their eyes/minds to the possibilities that other writings could be inspired by our Heavenly Father.\n\nThis is the importance of communication with God through prayer.  I once asked a fanatic Evangelical "Is the Bible God?" and he quoted the scripture John 1:1 "IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." He then said "clearly God is the Bible and the Bible is God."  It became clear to me at that point that many Christians had a real problem with the Bible.\n\nThis is also why there are thousands of Evangelical Churches.  Ever since the break away from the Catholic Church by Martin Luther, Protestants have had a fiasco of Biblical interpretations and hence Churches.  This break away was important for freeing up human thinking, but it has gotten out of control.\n\nSince so many Christians don't allow the option of anything else being true, their faith becomes circular, beginning and ending with the Bible. And they loose focus of God, and Jesus Christ.\n\nBelieve it or not it happens and I've seen it first hand.
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The 10 commandments say nothing about going to "church" on "saturdays".\n\nThe word "church" comes from the word "circ" as in "circle" - specifically the word used for a circle of witches.\n\nThe word "saturday" comes in honor of the false god "saturn". \n\nWhy in the world would you think that the Bible would use either of these words?  The commandment is to work 6 day and then rest upon the 7th day and do no work on that day.  It says nothing about coming together as a group at all. In fact, as written, you could fulfill the commandment in its entirety just by staying in bed all day!
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I guess if it is for a church group, you could use ideas from the Bible too:\n\nwould you rather run from God and get into trouble (see Jona) or would you rather follow God and get martyred (see Peter, or Paul, ...).\n\nwould you rather read the Bible for five minutes or would you rather watch the Superball for hours?\n\nwould you rather pray for God to help someone or would you rather take it into your hands and help them?\n\nwould you rather play mind games forever or would you focus on God's will for your life?
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I follow the Bible, and many doctrines that many many churches follow are not scriptural. People accept them without asking, why? We are taught to read for a reason. \n\nIt has SERIOUS implications! Christianity carries with it a HUGE responsibility that so many Christians either do not recognize or ignore. Look at the questions and answers on this site, at the comments of unbelievers. Look and listen to their negative views on our faith because of some Christians - they fight amongst themselves, they can't decide what they believe, they judge, they are hypocrites, they believe blindly. Well, if you want to lead more people to Christ, then we had better stop all this non-scriptural doctrine and start waking up, because as it stands, there will be many Christians answering to God one day for why they led others away when they had the opportunity not to.
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I have 4 bibles. My favorite is the original KJV, with study helps.\nThe NIV is second favorite.
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You know, YOU take the Bible more literally than we ""Bible-thumpers"" do! You here, not us, seem to be claiming that every single verse in the Bible MUST be taken literally, and we believe that, yes, there really are verses that are meant only to be taken as allegory. Did Gd actually ""walk"" in the Garden of Eden? YOU seem to say that this, too, must be taken literally, and not us!\n\nSo, it is possible, FOR US, to ""Believe in"" the Bible without taking Every Single verse literally, although you seem to say this verse must be taken literally for us to believe in it....
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Hey sister,\nAnother Baptist here. \nI believe that the Bible is the Word of God.\nI believe that you must trust in Jesus Christ to be your Savior, repent and turn from sin. \nI believe He is coming soon to take His bride (the church) home to glory.\nHow can it get any better than that?\nGod Bless