Did God write the Bible?
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Yes, God wrote the Bible but He used true Christianmen who wrote things that God placed in their hearts.\n\nThere really is no "scientific" evidence that God wrote the Bible, but if you're a Christian, you'll believe everything in it. It's all about faith. Though it may seem impossible to believe, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
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Could God do all the things in the Bible, if he is God YES!\n\nI did not see them but I go with the fact that God could do it and it would not be inconsistant with a loving God so I say yes it is true.
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Genesis was not written by Moses.  The First Book of the Bible is an acount of the beginings of the earth and the origins of mankind.\nMostly likely it is based upon earlier mythology, other cultural traditions prior to what has become known as the Judeo- Christian tradition.\nThe Pentauch - the five books of Moses are merely a reference point, not an acknowledge of Moses's specific role in documenting these mythological events and creation stories.
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Of course he could.  The many inaccuracies in the Bible lead us to a few possible conclusions:\n\n1.  If God is the author, then God is not perfect.\n2.  If God is indeed Perfect, then God is not the author.\n\nIts very difficult to accept that an omnipotent being revealed himself through a book at a time when almost nobody knew how to read.
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They don't. The Bible was written a few million years after the disappearance of the dinosaurs by people who did not have a clue about them. The Genesis book was inspired by the Babylolian's myths of Creation. Every old civilization had its own myth of Creation. We now have mathematicians, astrophysicists, biologists, etc. to inquire these fundamental questions : «What is the history of the universe? How did life began and evolved on Earth or - maybe - elsewhere ?» Etc.
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in Genesis 1:1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. it is God's nature not mother nature. isn't he wonderful!!
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The Bible is true.  It was written by men who were inspired by God to write what they wrote.... sorry for the confusing wording.  Even if you don't believe in God, the Bible is full of historical facts.  You can go back thousands of years in history and some of the same events will be recorded in the Bible.\n\nThe English versions are different because people translate the Greek and Hebrew text differently.  Like, the King James Version was translated by candlelight in the 1600s, and since it is one of the oldest versions, it is taken by some as the one and only true Bible.  The newer versions, however, may even be more credible because of newer technology and electric lights.  There are different versions of the Bible because there are not always English words that acurately portray what was written in Hebrew or Greek, so the people who translate it are forced to get creative in what the foreign word means.  Also, our language changes so dramatically over time that newer versions are needed so people who speak the newer English will more easily understand the Bible.  Like, we don't speak with "thee" and "thou" or "shall" and "needst" so it is adjusted for better understanding, but the stories are the same, wonderful events that happened so long ago.
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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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You missed the biggest point of all, Man wrote the Bible, It has lost and been added to over thousands of years in translating the bible. God himself is perfect, his Creation's just got a little lop sided is all.
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God may be "omniscient" (all knowing) but the writer of Genesis wasn't, and only wrote down what God led him (or her) to write.  \n\nthe writer ascribed human motivations to God, because that's all he or she could do, being human.  Just one of the paradoxes about God is that God "passes all understanding".  If we completely comprehended God, we'd be Gods ourselves. \n\ngood luck with this one.  humans have been puzzling with this one since there were humans to puzzle.
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I couldn't say yes or no with much authority, but I can refer you to some sources, and some questions for you to consider, that should lead you to answer your question for yourself. My observations base of the assumption that the Bible is consistent withitself:\nDeut 39:39 (the author of the Bible intended that people understand it => it has no secrets)\nRom 1:18-23 (reveals that everything is plain)\nRev 1:19 (Revelations writes about the past, the present, and the future)\nEcc 12:13 (purpose of life)\nIf you read some of the book of Daniel, you discover that Daniel's dreams prophesied things to come -- Alexander the Great.\nI cannot prove to you if this is the case or not, but all my research thus far has led me to the believe that the Bible is what it claims to be. We still have to use the basic principles of common sense and logic. Its message (including prophecy) can be discovered asking 5 basic questions as we read: 'Who wrote this/who is it written to? Why did they write it? Where did it take place? When did it take place/when was it written? What is the author trying to say.'\nAs does any book, when read in context, answers are found in doing more reading.\nYou could pose another question asking about a particular prophecy you had in mind. I hope your reading is an adventure.
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ok, im not a a genius, but i do read the bible daily..everyone gets something different out if the verses they read, just so it can touch them..thats whats so wonderful about it..secondly, he was talking about the evil right before he floods the earth..god cannot look upon sin..thats why jesus came and died on the cross for us and he washed away our sins..god was talking about sodomy and stealing and lying and sex and all the sins he could not look upon, he was upset that he made man and they turned around and disrespected him the way they did..i would be too you know..thats just what i believe
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The disicples wrote the bible
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the obvious answer: he didn't, and the bible is a work of fiction.
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yes because it is written in the bible
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Well, since no one alive today was there ... no one can be sure if Adam and Eve could write or not. But as has been pointed out before, Adam was created perfecly by God, and walked with God, so I think it would be safe to draw the conclusion that Adam was literate, and passed that knowledge on to his descendants. Certainly, it would have been lost by some of them in the events at the tower of Babel, and possibly only a few languages were developed into any written form for many years after that event.\nNoah would have been born 56 years after Adam died, but would have had 6 living ancestors who could have known Adam personally.\nAbraham was 58 years old before Noah died, so Abraham could have gotten his world history from Noah.\nThe actual writing of the Book of Genesis is attributed to Moses, about 500 years after Abraham, but it is generally accepted that (Genesis) was in written form before that time and Moses merely compiled the records written by others.\nIf you read the book of Genesis you will notice an interesting phrase that keeps appearing "these are the generations of ... "\nIt is apparent from the literary style that each time this phrase appears, it indicates that one author has finished his writing and passed the book on to the next family historian.\nThe first occurrence of this is in Gen. 2:4 and apparently, God is the one doing the writing and is passing the task on to Adam.\nNext is Gen. 5:1 where Adam is apparently finishing his writing and it is passed on to (probably Seth, or Enoch) the next historian.\nGen. 6:9 is apparently where Noah becomes the historian.\nGen. 10 and 11 are apparently recorded by Shem.\nAbraham begins to be the historian in Gen. 12:1\nIshmael and Isaac both contribute (Gen. 25:12&19)\nMost likely, Moses himself only wrote the portion after the death of Jacob (or possibly only after Joseph's death), which would have been very recent historical events for him.
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No, Yes and Yes.\n\nThe Bible itself tell us it is a mystery, and we know for a fact that not all of it is literal, but much of it is stories used to teach us lessons. \n\nI believe, and you wont find many like me, in a God seperate from the Bible. I believe there are things we don't know, and may never know. I believe the Bible gives us only a small acconut of history, and there is much that is left out. To me, God exists seprate from the Bible. I would still believe as I do, if there was none.