if the bible is "the word of god" ...?
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He gave this earth to mankind. He works through mankind because He gave us this wonderful place.
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Larry is correct. It's in the Bible.
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i believe the Bible is the Word of God because God is real ,i believe the Bible because i lived 42 of my 44 years on this earth ,as lost as lost can be and then the Lord came in to my heart and changed my whole world . other people can ,and will say what they want to , but as for me , God is real, the Bible is the Word of God. my eyes  and heart have been opened. i have seen the light and have found the truth.
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Back then the word basically traveled by word of mouth.  The bible is a collection of writhings..66 to be exact.  Faith and trust in Jesus  'blossomed' and florished right from the day he began his ministry.  And it is still blossoming today.
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Along with other portions of Genesis, this is why the ultra conservative literal believers are so mistaken. The Bible is the Word of God, written by man and divinely inspired. Is it 100% word for word true? yeah right! The insistance on literal, the world was created in 6 days, belief of every word is just silly. Do you really think God would be so self-limited. A much bigger concept.\n\nI don't believe people have the least clue as to the answer to your question. My analogy for heaven is a movie house. When I get there God is going to roll the film and I'll understand it all then.\n\nAs a Christian, I believe the Bible to be a tool for contemplation and spiritual support. I believe it's historical information presented to glorify God and teach people about a broad, diverse and complex being/force/spirit/whatever. \n\nI believe that when Jesus said no one knows God except through me the meaning was clearly not about his physical person. I believe Jesus goes by Mohammed and Buddha and Krishna and Gaea in other religions.
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Of course.  All of the bible has been translated and re-translated hundreds of times, and all subject to the political and social morals of the monks keeping the records through the centuries. Don't kid yourself about it being "God's Word" and thus unchangeable and infallible.
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According to the Bible it is.
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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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Nope. On the Rock of the Word is where my foundation is planted. Winds of fiction will come and go--always have, always will. But the Bible continues on as the Word of God.
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I'm Christian but I do not believe the Bible to be the ONLY word of God.  I agree 100% with your assessment of the Bible.  Christians will never come to a complete understanding of the truth if they do not open their eyes/minds to the possibilities that other writings could be inspired by our Heavenly Father.\n\nThis is the importance of communication with God through prayer.  I once asked a fanatic Evangelical "Is the Bible God?" and he quoted the scripture John 1:1 "IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." He then said "clearly God is the Bible and the Bible is God."  It became clear to me at that point that many Christians had a real problem with the Bible.\n\nThis is also why there are thousands of Evangelical Churches.  Ever since the break away from the Catholic Church by Martin Luther, Protestants have had a fiasco of Biblical interpretations and hence Churches.  This break away was important for freeing up human thinking, but it has gotten out of control.\n\nSince so many Christians don't allow the option of anything else being true, their faith becomes circular, beginning and ending with the Bible. And they loose focus of God, and Jesus Christ.\n\nBelieve it or not it happens and I've seen it first hand.
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I have the KJ Bible. It is the true inspired word of God. There are no books left out. God put everything in there that He wanted us to know. I take God for His word. Many other Bible have been changed, and rewritten to please man.  Jesus is the living word, and the Bible is the written word, and it is true from the beginning, to the end.
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The Holy Bible is the word of God and is the truth.
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No- it is NOT the word of God. Not one bit...\n"Yes because even science proved its authenicy. That gospel is indeed factual."\nTime out! They did prove it was written in the correct time frame- but that does NOT mean the words written are fact... Especially since it is not fact.\n\nGod Bless.
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In Protestant (liberal) theology there are several "middle grounds."  There is the notion that the Bible "contains God's word" and also that is can "become God's words."  These are of course nuanced meanings of how Scripture communicates God's message through a supposedly imperfect text.
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God promised to preserve his Word, not the English language. He knew about the translations, and the annomalies that may arise.\n\nYou can bet the translations (not all of them), but a few of them, potray the message in a clear and concise manner.\n\nWhile the enemy may taint some avenues of the Gospel, the Lord will not allow them all to be corrupted.\n\nI posted this in another thread:\n\nThe Bible is made up of 66 books, written by 40 authors on 3 continents, using 3 languages, and penned over a 1600 year span of time, yet it uniquely fits together without contradiction, making up one volume we call, “The Bible”.\n\nCharles Spurgeon said, "This Bible is the anvil on which many a hammer of critics has been worn out." It has truly withstood every test and trial while remaining the undisputed bestseller of all time! Over 1/2 billion Bibles were printed in1997 alone!\n\nWhat makes the Bible so different from all other books? It's incredible accuracy both historically, scientifically, geographically, and prophetically.\n\nArcheological findings, have proven the Bible’s literal accuracy. The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947, substantiate the accuracy of the Old Testament scriptures written 2,500 to 3,500 years ago!\n\nThe Bible revealed many truths thousands of years ago long before they were discovered. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica; Volume 4 page 937 "Columbus discovered America by Bible prophecy rather than by astronomy." Columbus believed the Bible and convinced the Queen after reading to her the following scriptures:\n\nIsaiah 40:22 (about 800 B.C.)\n\n"It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth..."\n\nJob 26:7 (Almost certainly over 1,000 B.C.)\n\n"He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."\n\nMan thought the earth was flat and perhaps sat on the back of a turtle, just 500 years ago, yet God revealed the earth's true Geography over 3,500 years ago, a circle that hangs on nothing.\n\nIncredible as it may sound, we probably killed our first president, George Washington, by bleeding him to death. A practice called blood letting, the cutting of ones wrist and removing life giving blood. If we had only read and believed God's word:\n\nLeviticus 17:11\n\n"For the life of the flesh is in the blood..."\n\nThere are hosts of incredible proofs like these throughout the Bible. The water cycle and evaporation process is revealed in Ecclesiastes 1:6-7 and Psalms 135. \n\nThe Bible is the only book that foretells the future with 100% accuracy. It foretold the birthplace of Jesus 700 years before He was born! (Micah 5:2), That He would be crucified over 500 years before this inhumane practice ever began! Details about Jesus’ crucifixion such as: His hands and feet would be pierced, His beard would be torn out, His garments would be gambled for, and that He would die between two thieves, and be buried in a rich mans tomb (Isaiah 53, Psalms 22). Jesus fulfilled 30 different prophecies in just one day. There were about 300 prophecies that foretold His first coming and over 500 that tell of His second coming.\n\nOne such prophecy was fulfilled and witnessed by millions of people alive today! On May 14th, 1948, three million Jews from all over the world speaking 85 different languages returned to a tiny piece of desolate desert land, that most had never seen. God foretold of this incredible event through His word over 2,500 years ago.\n\nJeremiah 30:3\n\n"For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it."\n\nEzekiel 36:24\n\n"For I will take you (Jews) from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land."\n\nZechariah 8:8\n\n"And I will bring them, and they shall dwe
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When people speak of the Bible being inspired, they are referring to the fact that God divinely influenced the human authors of the Scriptures in such a way that what they wrote was the very Word of God. In the context of the Scriptures, the word inspiration simply means “God-Breathed.” Inspiration communicates to us the fact the Bible truly is the Word of God, and makes the Bible unique among all other books.\n\nBecause the Scriptures are the inspired Word of God, we can conclude that they are also inerrant and authoritative. A correct view of God will lead one to a correct view of His Word. Because God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and completely perfect, His Word will by its very nature have the same characteristics. The same verses that establish the inspiration of the Scriptures also establish that it is both inerrant and authoritative. Without a doubt the Bible is what it claims to be - the undeniable, authoritative, Word of God to humanity.
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I'm sure this is tongue in cheek, but obviously one can be christian and not think that the bible is meant to be read as literal truth in every word.  you'd go crazy reconciling the contradictions.