If the bible is just a story book people then why are there so many things happening that the bible predicts?
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YES\n it is all true! The Bible is an AMAZING BOOK!\nBecause it's GOD'S WORD!
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Nothing from the bible has been proven except obvious things (the sun rose that morning lol). There's much better explanations for nature and the workings of the universe than the bible has ever given. EVIDENCE and FACTS point towards things VERY different than those written in the bible. It's vastly outdated and filled with lies and things we should long have forgotten.
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It is tiresome to read answers from people that have not actually read the Bible. All the prophecies of the Bible have been fulfilled and are 100% accurate. The only one left is the prophecy of judgement day...when Christ returns. The Bible is the ONLY religious book that is 100% accurate in prophecy, history and in every other way. If you want to learn more, feel free to e-mail me.
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The answer depends on which stories and the context in which you are asking.  Much of the Bible relates true history and has been documented by archealogical study.  Some Bible stories are exactly that, stories.  This doesn't mean they are not true in the theological sense.  They are stories told to relate a truth about God and his relationship with people.  Its like telling a story to illustrate a point.  The story may not be true, but the point the teller is making is true.  The key is to know what kind of story you are reading.  There are histories.  There is poetry.  There are songs.  There are philosophical dissertations.  Many forms of literature appear in the Bible.  When reading remember what the Bible is for.  God is trying to help us to know who he is and how he wants us to be.  If we read looking for the answer to these questions, "Who is God?" and "Who are God's people?" we will find that the answers found in the Bible are always true.
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The Bible was written by people and has a bias.  We read it to attempt to interpret what God means.  Since God lives within us, if we pay attention to our hearts we'll know what's right.
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It's a parable - a story to teach us a lesson.  The Bible is not always an accurate history of life.
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There have been thousands of different versions of the Bible.\nMany books have been edited or dropped over the centuries \nWhat we now call the Bible was asssembled many years after the events described
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Nostradamus had predictions that has come true so far and as far as the bible goes, No one knows. The bible was man written. How do you know that those men just had to sit down and figure out where we came from and that so they did. And today those words are read by many. But it is still a theory. Not a truth. Some chose to believe it, and some don't.
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It's just a novel - like the bible.
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the stories in the bible are just that stories .. symbols. yes every generation has their way of killing or their controlled laws or simply human nature or jealously, be it by the sword or the tongue it is all the same remorse is the effect of the cause, the story was to show we are all keepers of our brothers and sisters , what we do to others we also do to our selves, the bible was a book like many others that were and are written  to help con troll the free people, this is why the bible was a voted organized book the voters of the time the bible was put to .gather was in ..controlled on what was to lead its people then , and now we have the same in all our organized church what ever church you follow will be your book. by you controlled vote.
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because the bible is fiction, full of self-contradicting garbage and most of the "authors" are anonymous.  it is one of the most poorly written mythical stories of all time.\n\nproof that the bible is false?  simple.  2 points.\n\n1. What you pointed out.  Nobody, NOBODY, gets the same message from it.  Hundreds of different denominations exist to worship, and they in-fight and battle one another constantly about it.  (One example -- look at all the christian church people who wish to make gay marriage illegal, even though it is blessed and performed by other christian churches, like episcopals).\n2. the bible (buy-bull) exists in over ONE HUNDRED different versions, editions and translations.  Each different, each claiming to be the word of God.  You don't get any more ridiculous than that.  YOU DON'T EVEN NEED DIFFERENT PEOPLE INTERPRETING IT DIFFERENTLY - THE BIBLE ITSELF EXISTS IN OVER 100 DIFFERENT FORMS, SAYING DIFFERENT THINGS!!  \n\nROFLMMFAO!!!!!\n\nIt is clearly a false myth that none of its followers can agree upon.
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Bible is older and they both make up stories.
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your first rule of reading the bible you need to accept that it does not make sense and it is full of contradictions\nit is only a book of fairy tales
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well for starters the so called rapture is a non event ,it will never happen.and nobody  knows what hell is like,those books that you are quoting are just fiction because if they were real then they would be the first to go and come back to talk about it,,please dont be fooled they just want to sell books.
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No it isn't a good plan since it probably wasn't God's plan to begin with. The Bible was created by the church and by religious leaders. So the way God reaveals himself to humans is through personal experience with each one. Of course most of us won't realize that He is doing so.
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I never thought the bible is a myth...the bible is a book written by man, why should I base my life and beliefs on a book?  Just because it was written a long time ago?
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good point.  you've discovered another fatal flaw in the bible.\n\ngod knows the future and the past.  he already knows how everything turns out.  he already knows who exercises free will, who doesn't, and how they exercise it.  he already knows the outcome.\n\nthere is no need for any of this.  he already knows the future and how we all turn out.\n\nit also begs the question...why would a god put things into motion, when he knows the future, an knows he would have to flood the entire earth, killing everyone?  he already knew that was the future, he knew he'd have to do that.  so why set things in motion when you know you eventually have to kill all your children?\n\nand why inspire a bible, so ridiculous and poorly written that, after over 2000 years, less than 30% of the people on earth believe it?\n\nchristianity is total and utter nonsense, and is based on so many fatal flaws in its own theory, myth and certainly fatal flaws in basic logic, i'm surprised people are really ignorant enough to follow it.