Wasn't the bible just a good way of passing the time before PCs and TVs?
341933
OMG YES!! Just because it is a spiritual book does not mean that the stories in them are supposed to be taken literally...symbolism people! Good question.
224657
The Bible was written by people in the very early stages of mankind's existence, before we understood astronomy and how the planets and heavenly bodies worked.  We didn't get a good understanding of these things until the telescope was invented many centuries later.  There are many things in the Bible that we now understand through science, but at the time of the Bible's writing, it wasn't understood so the authors put down the best explanation they had at the time.  Even God's influence helped them keep it simple, in terms that the people of the time could understand.
928885
The Bible doesn't mention a lot of stuff that is real, because it spends a lot of time mentioning things that are not.
218828
Not in the least.\n\nThe bible is a book of fiction just like any other novel, so it would not make the tiniest difference to me.
569893
Yes, I support this view.\n\nI think all the religious texts have some wisdom in them, but you can't take them literally.  Some bits were written just for that time and aren't applicable, some are true bits of wisdom that stand the test of time.  However all to me is just nice stories to tell a message/moral, not history.
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The Bible is a very good tool to use in arguments if you don't really want to think too hard because it's pretty easy to find whatever passage in there to suit your needs if you need to pull something out.  Seeing as how it's a pretty popular book, it's not that bad an idea.\n\nThere are people out there who actually take time to study it and figure out things, but those kinds of people seem more rare these days.
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It most certainly can! All that was said in the Bible can still be applied today. Some things did change from the Old to the New Testament, but both are still very much valid. The Bible is our guide to life! Read it, study it, meditate on it! I guarantee you will grow from it! God bless!
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I don't think that people understand his message and they take it way out of proportion. I saw a show on TV that says everything in the bible isn't true because back then no one could read or write anyways. Personally, I don't believe in the whole crock of it.
1045700
I totally agree. People should read the Bible if they are going to question it, praise it, or reject it. Then they are basing their decisions on what they KNOW rather than what they think they percieve.
781772
Just remember that back then there were no computers, cars or whatever we have nowadays, so them people not having anything to do started to write their dreams and their thoughts, that's how the bible originated, have hundreds of books but just a handful made it..☺
1158310
The Bible-for can't just read once and be done with it.  Theres always new understanding,new discoveries and if one didn't get it or understand read again and hey theres the light of understanding. It is THE guide to life.
136189
The Old Testament for-warns us of up coming events and how it all came to be. Its like going to the end of the story and reading the last page...we need the old with the new to better understand and to encourage our faith.
1003687
The bible is designed for anyone to read it... but it can be hard to follow.. that's why we have churches. Just beware of the churches that bash every other church and "enforce" THEIR rules (most baptist churches)
994244
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.
627168
Jesus did a lot just to fulfill the prophecy's of the old testament. It's good to question things. If the book can't stand up to our questions it's not worth the paper its printed on.
59875
Most definately not.  Here's why.  First of all, when you go to the bookstore and bye a book named 'the Bible', you're buying a translation of an anient text. By its very nature, a translation is not the original, thus any anient codes woud be lost by the simple fact that it is translated.  Next, the Bible is very old, and was written before the age of computers, so when you needed a new Bible, it had to be written by hand.  Mistakes were no doubt made, along with mistranslations.  Again, more of any ancient code would be lost.  Finally, there are today several flavors of the Bible floating around.  Do a Yahoo! Search for, say John 3:16 and you'll find at least 4 'versions' .  Essentially the same text and meaning, but one might have a comma, or the other may use an archaic form of spelling as opposed to modern.  Thus, any code that depends on character placement would be lost the instant you insert an extraneous coma or a different spelling.  Last, the reason many of these 'codes' appear to be true, is because people are very open to interpretation.  Further, the codes themselves have been found mostly by using powerful computers with complex  search algorithms.  Given a sufficiently manipulative search pattern, even a desktop computer can cull words and phrases out of a book that are in 'a code'.  Case in point, my friends and I wrote a program in ADA (a computer language) that could find 'codes' in random texts.  We even manipulated my college report card to reveal 'you will fail', which was 'hidden'.  Of course we had to run the report card through a dozen algoritms, but as soon as we 'found' one that worked we called it a 'code'.
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I have been reading about that as of late and find it interesting.  plausible. The bible has seen a lot gone through a lot in that i mean translations.  It also stands that some books were purposely left out.  With that in mind I don't feel it proves with out a shadow of a doubt that its true.  However it does leave enough room for the thought and probability.