How come all the stories in the BIBLE tell of GOD speaken to this one or that one...?
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Because we have the Bible now. God speaks specifically to us and confirms it in His Word. There is nothing more that God wants to say to us beyond what Jesus already said. That is, to not ignore your eternal destiny and take advantage of His free gift of salvation through His Son.
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I agree, but apparently most people have never read any of these texts that your talking about.  When you bring it up they will answer with "all cultures had similar stories".  I don't understand if they ever read the stories and saw that they are from what they call Pagan religions with multiply gods and how the same story is written in Genesis and is uncannily similar from the story plot, the sequence of events and even the language how they could deny that the bible was taken from them and changed to one god.\n\nScience has clearly dated these documents and the bible and the other texts are clearly more ancient by many centuries.  But apparently they are afraid that if they read them their belief system will be shattered and that thought may be unbearable to most people.
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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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This story (2 Kings 2:23-25), like the one about Elijah and the captains (2 Kings 1), is preserved for us in Scripture to convey a popular understanding of the dignity of the prophet. Told in popular vein, it becomes a caricature, in which neither Elisha nor the bears behave in character.\n\nThe story in 2 Kings 1 was told among the people to enhance the dignity of the prophet and to reflect the power of God whom he served. The prophet Elijah was well aware of the mercy which God extends even to the wicked. "Then the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, 'Have you seen that Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his time. I will bring the evil upon his house during the reign of his son.'" 1 Kings 21:28-29.\n\nSee also the contrasting narrative in 2 Kings 4.
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this story is actually the reason why i don't believe the bible. for one all that water had to go somewhere. yes, people argue that it evaporated. but even now, just as it has always been, when the water evaporates it doesn't disappear. its still there just in the form of clouds. so wheres all this water at? and the 2 of every species thing is just idiotic...its almost like they don't want us to believe it by putting forth a story so ridiculous. i NEVER believed it. even when i first heard it around the age of 3 in Sunday school. how could you believe this?
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What does The Holy Bible say?\n\nJesus Christ is The God Almighty.  end of story.\n\n\n.
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There are several places in the bible that say things, like adopted sons of God,sons of god,children of God,in ephesians paul says we are one with God, all these thing where said to people who could not comprehend the whole truth"God dwells within you as you"  in those days they would have cut off your head for such teachings,why do you think Jesus was crucified and paul was persicuted?? Throughout the ages God has had to communicate with people on their level. Hence paganism,burning bushes Etc.
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Maybe because that's what that person needed to hear at that moment.  \n\nBut when you cross reference that story with the other Gospels you see the other commandments are summed up as well.  \n\nJesus is basically telling the young religious man,that there's more to just keeping the law, the commandments (all 500+ of them).  You have to be able to be completely dependent upon on God, live to do His work, and not hold on to anything of this world more than you love God.\n\nIts a good lesson for all of us. \n\nBe blessed!  :o)
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Because the Bible is only a book, like all others......\neven now all the christians are taking a stone in their hand to throwing it in my direction....there is no more truth in the Bible than in the book of thousand and one night....fairy-tales...\n\nwhy?\nbecause this book had been translated so many times from people who did'nt understood the text's... it is impossible, that there is just one phrase, who is in the original form as he was written thousands of years ago...\nis there just one of the actual living priests who knows the date...when the Bible has been written ? The Bible was already an old Book on Atlantis, more than 40'000 years ago....
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The stories in the bible are meant to be taken out of context in my opinion. The story of Genesis goes something like this. Adam and Eve were man and woman... Both knew no evil. They enjoyed the light from each others souls. Each of thier thoughts helped the other to grow and prosper. One day a "serpent", or a cheat,  someone that didn't believe in the way god saw things. Came forward and while adam was away playing the serpent convinced Eve that she should do the exact thing that both adam and God told her not to do. She was run by her emotions and the facts of her life had meaning that she couldn't understand. She was convinced/baited into eating things of which she had no knowledge. When adam came back he saw that she was changed. He was curious and his lack of wisdom in his judgements caused him to eat of the knowledge of good and evil. They both gained knowledge but at the cost of living in paradise. The suffering that arised was not from Satan but what Satan knew would happen. They would see each other for what each other were. And that would escalate into more and more questions. When the fact is that they both had all the answers that they needed. It was people's greed and curiousity that allowed this to happen. Naivety can sometimes seem evil to someone that doesn't understand things on a bigger scale. If such a paradise existed in the meaning of the garden of eden then knowledge and understanding were the things that brought it crumbling down. Knowledge is power, power corrupts, so knowledge is the root of all evil. Eve was just a scapegoat. She was blamed for her naivety to believe in someone other than god himself. As for child birth, we are all sinners, it is suffering that we must go through to continue to survive. If we saw an end to child birth then we would see an and to humanity. Please also take into note that women have, since the days of homo-erectus, been the bearers of children and the protecters of the home. The men of that age were the hunters and gatherers. We have come a long, long way from that nomadic life. But the pain of child birth still remains something to be winced at. Women were never known to be what they are today. Intelligent contributing members to society. Why even 50 years ago they couldn't even vote. Women still have no rights around the world today. Men blame them for being weak back then and still blame them for it today. Women will never get thier share of the fair slive of the pie until they become the dominant ones. But men train thier boys to be dominant and thier girls to be subservient. Women train thier boys to be caring and thier girls to fight strong. So it's a matter of who's lessons are being learned and who's are being dismissed. I know I looked to my father for the real answers and my mother for the emotion ones. Because even as a child I knew thier strengths and weaknesses. If I had asked my mother for her strength and my father for his emotions then I would be gay or a complete idiot. Yes that does sound condescening but I know that to be the truth of the matter. \nWell to sum it up, I would have to say that women have always suffered the wrath of men. We just have to wait for the natural order of things to fall into place before women will be able to become the dominant species. Think about the amazon culture. (the fairy tale version) And some of us see the reality of what could be. I would reccomend reading Genesis and taking in the subtler nuances. Take all the stories from the bible and apply them to your own life. You may find that alot more of the stories make sense. But you may also find that the very knowledge you seek will hold you back from finding your eden. We all suffer the pains of knowing the truth. Those of us that don't, already live in eden and, merely wonder why everyone else left. I hope this answers some of your questions and helps to ease the sight of the suffering you witness. Bathe in the light of y
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yup, that's why there are so many different branches of basically the same religion, mormons, jesuit, RC, church of england, jehova's witnesses, ahmish, methodists etc etc. They all follow certain parts of the bible more than others. I've always wondered whether what is written down is accurate or happened at all. A good similie would be chinese whispers on a massive scale. Personally I don't believe in any of it, a massive sceptic here. If there is only one god, why are there so many different religions? Why don't we all believe the same thing?
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The Bible is a mythological tale. Do you actually believe that the red seas parted or that stone became bread? Perhaps there was a saint and he had many followers, Also perhaps some of the incidents described did happen, but the truth has been exxagerated to become a description of a super-human. And therefore, take the Bible, or for that matter most of the Holy Books with a pinch of salt. It is meant to evoke faith and thankfulness that there is a superpower above us who can do things that we can't(simply translated to hope!) Again, many versions of The Bible exist. Popular ones do not refer to Mary or his descendents.
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Christ speaks about being the Head of the Church. Notice that He says in Matthew 16:18 ...I will build "MY" church. In several other verses (to find them just look in the concordance of your Bible), He refers to "a" church or "the" church. These words are singular. He never says anywhere "all the churches" or "all the different congregations". I think God only intended for there to be one church. Man has created his own church to suit his own needs. I think it is important to find a church that preaches what the Bible says. ONLY what the Bible says. So many today add to the words of God and take from them as well.
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While the books were written thousands of years latter, the story was passed down orally from the original people that where there.  Some places it got messed up and modified, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.  When we look at figures like Noah and Abraham, they knew the stories and held on to the faith that had been passed to them, where as others didn't.  They added there own stories and eventually it all got written down.\n\nI am sure you know stories of your own family that go back generations but have never been written down.  You can see the variation in the story that each branch of your family tells.\n\nWhere Revelation comes in (and this is where it is often gotten wrong) is that it confirms the story and brings it to a higher plain of understanding.  It is not like the Hebrews didn't know the Genesis account and the book fell out of the sky one day and hit Moses on the head.  Rather God work with Moses to confirm the story and the Lord of History revealed what was clouded and lost.
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This is a point I try to drive home in Christians all the time.  Abraham, Moses, Ezekiel, and the like supposedly talked directly to God.  Did these men have faith?  No.  They had proof.  But they told everybody else to have faith.  Why?  Well, I think it's rather obvious.  Who the hell would believe them otherwise?\n\nAnd this is the problem with Christian "faith".  Christians say "God tells us to have faith".  Did God tell you to have faith, or did a man tell you to have faith?  A MAN TOLD YOU TO HAVE FAITH!  To be specific, a con-man told you to have faith.  Unless God has appeared before you and told you "Have faith in me", then you are placing your faith in the words of a man.\n\nLet me say that one more time, for those that skipped over it.  Unless God appeared before you and told you, "Have faith in me", then you are placing your faith in the words of a MAN.\n\nWake up.  Think logically.  Be rational.  Apply the same amount of scrutiny to your religion as you would to anything else in life.  No one ever does this, because they've been told all their lives that religion is the truth, and to doubt that is a sin.\n\nDo you not see that this is an elegantly designed snow job?!  This is how religion has survived all this time.  It is designed, from bottom to top, to keep its followers blind!  Open your eyes.  You're smarter than this!\n\nEdit - For those saying these men were prophets... who told you they were prophets?  THEY DID!!!!!! AGHHHHH!!!
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Most people don't understand the Bible because they are interpeting it theirselves. \nThere's only 1 Bible and 1 Religion(Eph.4:4-5; 5:27) people should know this. \nThe Bible tells us that God will tell you what it means; if you let the Holy Spirit (2Peter 1:19-21)guide you into truth. \nDoes anyone do that? NO
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It's true. I saw a movie about it and I learned it in Bible class. It even says it in the Bible.