If Pat Robertson said God told him to write a new book of the bible, would you believe him?
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I would not believe him, but, unfortunately millions of others would. Why? Look at the Mormon church - that's what exactly happened. The angel Moroni apparently visited Joseph Smith on a remote hillside in NY state in the 1800's and exposed gold scriptures to him. Smith translated these scriptures from a language he couldn't speak and got some of his relatives to witness that this was true.\n\nIt's nonsense. But the LDS is also a financial success and one of the fastest growing cults in history. There are no shortage of brainless morons lining up to believe this garbage - although they tend to hold a slightly different view than I do.
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the obvious answer: he didn't, and the bible is a work of fiction.
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And I've read many books that prove that the bible is a pile of crap.\n\nSo why do you still believe in the bible, and the discredited theory of creationism?
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Well as a writer of poems and short stories, take this into consideration.  Most of my poems I draw inspiration from either past life events or my g/f.  Now did my g/f write those poems???  No!  She inspired me to write them.  So pretty much to say, inspiration does do the bible some justice.  However it lacks credibility in just so many ways.  There are stories of the flood that predates the story of Noah by thousands of years, stories of a man-god, who just like Jesus, born of a virgin, born in a cave, fed the hungry, healed the sick, made the lame walk, died by crucifixion, and rose on the third day.  And to add to all this.  The earliest gospel was written 30+ YEARS after his "death" or after he "rose to heaven".  And to add to this, the coucil of Nicea was convened to discuss what books out there fit the bill.  In my view religion is a creation of man so they don't feel so ignorant and fell all special.  It gives them a false hope into thinking that if they follow it, they can live forever.  I could jot down all the beliefs out there on a piece of tissue paper and wipe my backside with it, for that's all it's good for.  Look at all the crap that's going down in the world!!!  Wars, famine, bigotry, hate crimes.  Religion was the beginning of the fall of civilization.  It turns normal people into fanatics.  They'll die for their beliefs cause they are right and just.  But they are just as human as me, same two eyes, arms, legs, ten fingers and toes, and organs.  They are no more special than the person living right next to them.  So if a person tries to tell you that you need religion, you can politely tell them to go away or just tell them to fuck off.  Me, it depends on my mood that day.  Hope this helps and sorry for ranting on like a complete nutcase.  Later....
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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.
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Many Christians, Jews and Muslims believe that God authored the bible. They believe in the inerrantacy of the bible because it is claimed to be inspired by God himself. If the bible is inerrant, without error, then they reason that  the bible must be literally true. The problem for them then is to interpret the bible so any inconsistancies can be explained within the entire bible when read as a whole continuous work. The bible was written by 40 or more individuals over perhaps 1500 years. Reading it as a whole continuous work inspired by God, does not leave room for the evolution of religious thought not to mention the evolution of the Universe and Mankind. This is "Group Think' on a global scale. I am not saying that the bible is not inspired by God, but it should be read in literary form not literal form. In the area of ethics and morals I believe the bible is more literal in nature. God communicates directly with his creation through Science, there is no middle man. Scripture has man in the middle, communicating ideas with his own limited understanding of the world. When fundamentalists are confronted with the science of evolution, they just do not believe it. Some will try to find ways to expain the Universe so it is in agreement with the bible. Examples would be that radioisotope dating is wrong or the Universe was created to look billions of years old when it is less than 10,000 years old. It does seem ridiculous to reasonable people.
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1. It would have to be proven (not merely suggested) that the Bible is subsantially different today, than when it was originally written. \n2. At least one historical event recorded in the Bible would have to be proven (not merely suggested to be) false.\n3. The over 400 fulfilled predictive prophecies of the Bible would need to be proven (not merely suggested) to have been written AFTER the fact.\n4. A real, honest-to-goodness contradiction would need to be shown (and I'm not talking about the 'straw men' that get set up every single day).\n5. At least one major miracle of the Bible would have to be shown to have been a fraud contrived by mere men.\n6. I would need a memory wipe to remove the miracles I have seen/experienced which correspond to Biblical miracles (healings, multiplication of food, etc).
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Not sure if you are suggesting the pope and Billy Graeme know something they are not telling :-)\n\nI feel another Dan Brown book coming on!
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God moves in mysterious ways..................!\n\nWhy did not he include a chapter "prophecies", "question and answers from followers" etc..\n\nAnd no little picture with his bibliography at the back ! really disappointing ! \n\nAnd why did he give away his author's rights ??
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O.K. admiralbob! I'm glad your not in charge of everything. Everyone wants to prove how things work, but they can't answer the question as to who made it all happen.....Anyway I've got broadband but the download is taking a minute so based off of others speculation and the website that I observed, I would say SURE THING. God is intelligent so why wouldn't he use science he created it? But yeah! They should use it to teach if they have found that proof! It would really back up the bible too.
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And you believed it??\n\nHA!!!!\n\nNo one should take the Bible seriously, at least not as a scientific textbook.\n\nIt was written by ignorant, superstitious Bronze Age nomads who knew nothing of modern science and biological specifics.
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now let me think about that for a nano second...yes!\nlets face it, the bible was a collection of STORIES...and if anyone thinks that people get turned into pillars of salt, then they are more stupid than i thought
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Since the bible was inspired by God, and it says so in many places including the ones mentioned above, then it must be God's word.  He would not inspire the bible writers to write someone elses words.
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Man has corrupted everything he has put his hands on. why would this book be any different? The Bible was not written in English. It has been translated many times before we got it printed in English. With mans ever growing struggle for power is to be able to control it's people. how better why then to make a book by our creator. Personally I do not know if this book is or isn't truthful. it has a lot of nice things in it but I can't allow myself to think that man has not altered it. I much rather trust my heart and know that I am trying to be the best me I can be.
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Yea, you would think that god would have released a bible in each of his languages, seeing that its importance is everything.
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God didn't write the bible. It was written by man, way after Christ lived.\n\nI would take what is written in the bible with a grain of salt. There are tons of contradictory things written in there, and since it wasn't written by God himself, you have to wonder if some of their "human" agendas got in there...
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I agree that the world would be a much better place if everyone understood the word of God and believed in Him, but unfortunately that's not going to happen until the second coming of Christ! Even people who walked the Earth with Jesus and saw the miracles He performed and listened to His teaching didn't believe. If those who had first-hand knowledge refused to believe then how much more will people refuse to believe what is written in a book? It's very sad really. But there will be a day when every knee shall bow! I'm looking forward to that day! God bless you.