Question for those who believe that the Bible is the absolute, true Word of God?
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In one way, Bible is God's letter of introduction. He described His character through the Bible so that people may know Him. I don't think that He would allow His character to be misrepresented by wrong translations, cause it is His character we, people, can rely on (among other things). If God is omnipotent, I am sure He could and can find a way to prevent some catastrophic errors to appear in the Bible which would lead its readers into wrong assumptions and beliefs.
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Truth is true whether we understand it or believe it. You said yourself, something is true or it isn't. It can't be both. People are fallible. Nobody has perfect understanding. All we can do is share what we believe to the best we understand it. God communicates through imperfect people, through nature, through the Bible. He will be found if you look for Him. But there is still some mystery to it. It requires faith, not every question has an easy answer
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There is only one Truth. God's Word can only be interpretted one way.\n\n Jesus said that those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.\n\nIf you'd like to find out what is Truth, then go here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/\n\n You will also be able to read my personal testimony that will show you how God's Truth has transformed my life.\n There just isn't enough space to do it here.\n\n God bless you, as you seek His' Truth.
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It's entirely up to you. \nThere is no absolute proof; therefore, whether the bible is true or false is merely an opinion. \n\nI, however, believe it is mainly fiction. If you compare Christianity to other religions, such as Buddhism, although many Christians are too close-minded to do this, you will see broad comparisons between the messages trying to be conveyed. Buddhism provides guidelines to live by, ways to live in self-actualization. The bible does the same in a different method. The ideas in the bible are hidden; they are dressed in a story as though it's needed to be interesting to be convincable. \n\nI personally take most books in the bible as a story with hidden symbolism. Many people take these stories more seriously; they refer to them as though they were there and that there is no other way. \n\nAs long as you are open to other's beliefs it doesn't matter whether you think the bible is a lie or it is the word of god. Just respect that, although some are placed in a seperate religion stereotype, we are all human and our beliefs are our individuality.
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Seems that every person walking has a slightly different view of the Scriptures than anyone else. You're no different. Neither am I.\n\nUnlike you, I do believe that every word of the Bible is true. God's word would be way too important for Him to let it get distorted.\n\nLike you, however, I wonder A LOT about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and what it really meant for humanity. \n\nSince the Bible says, "If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that God has raised Him (Jesus)from the dead, thou shalt be saved." AND it also says, "Every knee will bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.", it sure sounds to me like everyone will be saved because of Jesus Christ's work on the cross.\n\nI just don't know and I continue to think about it. I know it is totally against everything I've been taught as a Christian, but Martin Luther thought on his own too, thank God.\n\nAnyway, that's where I am today in my faith walk, and I pray that you and I both can get peace with this issue.
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there is little evidence that any of the bible is true but most would say that the bible is about 5% fact and the rest is made up stories from many other religions before them. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK DISPROVE THOSE CHRISTIANS!!!!!!
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Short answer: Yes, it is the Word of God.\n\nLong answer:  The Holy Bible is the Word of God, handed down to many people over thousands of years, compiled, translated, translated, translated, interpreted (if you turn protestant) and truncated), translated, translated, and translated.  However, it still remains the Word of God.  Only the exact words changed, while the message (the most important thing) stays the same.
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No version of the Bible is correct. They can't even get Jesus's name right (Isa) or answer why the concept of the Trinity didn't show up in the original manuscripts of John, and yet it started showing up in the Latin translations out of no where.\n\nAny Christian 300 years believed that the Bible is the word of God, and yet it was neither written by God, nor by Jesus, only by people who were assistants to the disciples of Jesus, and wrote what the disciples remembered Jesus saying 50 years after Jesus's ascension into heaven. Also if the Bible is the "complete word of God", then why is it that even to this day, there are extra passages and scriptures being included into it and being found (i.e. The dead sea scrolls)?
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If there is no such thing as an absolute truth, then, how can there be order in the world?  Before Jesus left His disciples, He told them that they are fortunate to have seen and believed in Him.  But to those who have not seen Him and yet believes, He greatly favors.  Yes, it is difficult to believe in something that we do not see.  Yet, in everything that surrounds us, wont we not find it amazing that there is a logic, an order, a purpose for everything that is created?  And of course, the Bible is created for the purpose of enlightening us about the God we worship!  That He did not create us to stay here on earth for no reason at all!  In all of the scriptures in the Bible, we find the nature, the existence and above all the love God has for us!  Whether we believe this book or not is up to us, but the absolute truth about God, as stated in the Bible, is forever!
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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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There is only one true God.  I do not as a christian worship the holy spirit nor Jesus Christ.  The Bible never gave such directions, only to worship one God as one.  the holy spirit is God's active force and Jesus  as his son never wanted worship for himself
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The verses you quoted are just one of many contridictions the Bible contains.  The most blatant one is the one that claims the Bible is the literal word of God.  If so, the Bible could not say anything which could even be the least bit ambiguous.  This of course accepts the premise that God is perfect.  Either God is imperfect, or the Bible is not God's\n literal word.
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Just so you know where I stand. I asked a question of whether or not all the Bible should be taken literally or not. The best answer chosen was a good one.\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ales.wK5IftnZfqP3dD5hbHsy6IX?qid=1006012504879\n\nWhen Jesus said regarding the bread and the wine, "this is my body and this is my blood of the New Covenant", He was not speaking literally. When the Bible says that the blood of Jesus washes away sin, we do not go off to mount Calvary and look for spots of blood to wash our sins away. Jesus said, "I am the door, whoever enters by any other way is a theif." The disciples did not turn to Jesus and see a large board with hinges and a knob. Jesus was saying there is a single way to heaven, and He is the Way.\nQuite a bit of the Bible is spoken in allegorical and metaphoic language. Jesus said that He was the Light of the world, the Good Shepherd, Living Water, the Bread of Life, and more. He came as the Lamb of God. He will return as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. All of which is true, but all spoken in a metaphoric language.\n\nWrath, I have not run in to any Christians who believe the Bible is 100% literal. However, there are many areas of the Bible that ARE literal and many are trying to change the statement because it is not politically correct, or they have an agenda or they find it personally offensive.\n\nCase in point:\nRobert Anderson worked for Scotland Yard during the Victorian era. He was the main investigator for finding Jack the Ripper. He took the prophecy in Daniel and was able to calculate the coming of the Messiah to the DAY. This is in the his book "The Coming Prince". He started this project based on taking the prophecy as being literal. He was rewarded for this effort with knighthood from Queen Victoria and became Sir Robert Anderson. However, in this same book, he notes the prophecies about Israel being gathered together and becoming a nation once more. Seeing how this has never happened in history, he dismissed the literal meaning as pure fantasy. In May 14th 1948, this brilliant man was proven wrong. The idea that the Jews would return to the land and make it Israel was so preposterous that this brilliant man equated it to being metaphorical--the literal interpretation was too hard to believe. So we could easily make a mistake by either way.\n__________________________\n\nBTW-This topic reminds me of a very good movie called "Lady Jane". One of the main focuses was the rise of the Protestant movement against the Roman Catholic church--especially in regard to transubstantiation. The Roman Catholics took the sacraments as being literally the body and blood of Christ, while the Protestants kept arguing that it was metaphorical. Check it out sometime!
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I am christian and I take the Bible seriously.\n\nReasons for considering the Bible\n\nThe Bible itself says it is from God, mankind’s Creator\n\n2 Tim. 3:16, 17: “All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.”\n\nRev. 1:1: “A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place.”\n\n2 Sam. 23:1, 2: “The utterance of David the son of Jesse . . . The spirit of Jehovah it was that spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.”\n\nIsa. 22:15: “This is what the Sovereign Lord, Jehovah of armies, has said.”\n\nWe would expect God’s message to all mankind to be available around the globe. The Bible, the whole or in part, has been translated into some 1,800 languages. Its circulation totals in the billions. Says The World Book Encyclopedia: “The Bible is the most widely read book in history. It is probably also the most influential. More copies have been distributed of the Bible than of any other book. It has also been translated more times into more languages than any other book.”—(1984), Vol. 2, p. 219.\n\nBible prophecy explains the meaning of world conditions\n\nMany world leaders acknowledge that mankind is on the brink of disaster. The Bible foretold these conditions long ago; it explains their meaning and what the outcome will be. (2 Tim. 3:1-5; Luke 21:25-31) It tells what we must do in order to survive the impending world destruction, with the opportunity to gain eternal life under righteous conditions here on earth.—Zeph. 2:3; John 17:3; Ps. 37:10, 11, 29.\n\nThe Bible enables us to understand the purpose of life\n\nIt answers such questions as: Where did life come from? (Acts 17:24-26) Why are we here? Is it just to live a few years, get what we can out of life, and then die?—Gen. 1:27, 28; Rom. 5:12; John 17:3; Ps. 37:11; Ps. 40:8.\n\nThe Bible shows how we can have the very things that lovers of righteousness desire most\n\nIt tells us where to find wholesome associates who truly love one another (John 13:35), what can give assurance that we will have sufficient food for ourselves and our families (Matt. 6:31-33; Prov. 19:15; Eph. 4:28), how we can be happy in spite of difficult conditions that surround us.—Ps. 1:1, 2; 34:8; Luke 11:28; Acts 20:35.\n\nIt explains that God’s Kingdom, his government, will remove the present wicked system (Dan. 2:44), and under its rule mankind will be able to enjoy perfect health and eternal life.—Rev. 21:3, 4; compare Isaiah 33:24.\n\nSurely a book that claims to be from God, that explains both the meaning of world conditions and the purpose of life, and that shows how our problems will be solved is worthy of consideration.\n\nEvidences of inspiration\n\nIt is filled with prophecies reflecting detailed knowledge of the future—something impossible for humans\n\n2 Pet. 1:20, 21: “No prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.”\n\n· Prophecy: Isa. 44:24, 27, 28; 45:1-4: “Jehovah . . . the One saying to the watery deep, ‘Be evaporated; and all your rivers I shall dry up’; the One saying of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and all that I delight in he will completely carry out’; even in my saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘You will have your foundation laid.’ This is what Jehovah has said to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue before him nations, so that I may ungird even the hips of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, so that even the gates will not be shut: ‘Before you I myself shall go, and the swells of land I shall straighten out. The copper doors I shall break in pieces, and the iron bar
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Many people that believe what is written in the Bible to be true have never read the Bible from cover to cover.\n\nIt's easy to pick them out too.  When they make statements about the bible, they start off by saying:  "my pastor told me".\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThat's some deal, six questions for the price of one.
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The Holy Spirit has revealed the truth to me, through God's word- and through Believing in what Jesus Christ did on the cross for me- As the bible says, the Holy Spirit would come to help those who believe and lead them into all truth.\n\nThe word of God is alive and active. I know that the word of God is powerful- for the Lord has shown me. And I know he teaches me through it. It strengthens my faith in Him and keeps me on solid ground with Him- rooted and grounded- so that I am not led astray by different doctrines. The Bible is the truth of God and it is God breathed (2 Timothy)- Men who wrote it were carried along by the Holy Spirit ( 1 Peter) \n\nGod gave us His word for our instruction- for our spiritual growth in Him- for teaching us, and keeping us rooted in faith. We who believe in Jesus Christ, abide by what the Bible says- because we know it is the word of God- and to know Jesus Christ one must hear the word- For as it says in Romans 10:17 "Faith comes from hearing, and by hearing the word of God"\n\n--The holy spirit convicts those who hear the gospel- and many believe.
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Yes. Absolutely. Everything in the Bible is absolutely and inescapably the Reality of the Universe. If something contradicts what is written in the Bible, it must be false, because the Bible is infallible. If something in the Bible contradicts something else in the Bible, you must have misunderstood it, because the Bible is infallible.