How much of the Bible orginates from God, and how much of it is changed by the opinions of those who wrote it?
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You're not mistaken, the New T was not written by Jesus, most of it was written by diciples of diciples, like Paul who never even saw Jesus. There are more then 3000 versions of the new testment coz so many priests, monks and popes added, 'corrected'  and took off whatever they thought they would\n\nThere was no 'giving' ceremony marking the New T which is very much out of the tratdion of what we new of GD through Judaism.\n\nThe OLD Testmnt originates from the Torah.\n\nThe Torah was given over to the Jews at Mount Sinai, the Jews numbered 600,000 men, counting those only over the age of 20 and under 60, which there are is a reason for, namely that those under the age of 60 wherent involved in the sins in the desert, and those under 20 hadnt winessed its aftermath. Here are some passages from the Torah...\n\nExodus 12:37\n37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. \n\nNumbers 11:21\n21 But Moses said, "Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!' \n\nUs Jews hold our Torah jealously for fear of translation and consqnt misinterprtation. This occured when the Christians 'hijacked' our Torah converting it and all its meaning in their then pagan mindframes, which it still embodies of you look a bit better at christianity. The muslims made a similar hijacking though they didnt mix it too much with pagan beleifs.\n\nAnyways what im saying is, if you read the Bible in Hebrew, yes it is reliable, all of our Torah's after 3200 years are word for word, letter for letter the same...\n\nIf you count the letters in the Hebrew bible there exactly 600,000 of them, one for each Jew that received it.
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I personally agree with much of what you are saying. The bible was written by many different men, and is missing parts that were in it many y&#92;centuries ago. We have the English version (thanks to Henry VIII0, and that is a translated version from thee original Hebrew, Arab and Greek. It is therefore, in my opinion, ridiculous to take it literally. I also believe in God but not in the bible, per say. I believe in the golden rule and being a good person but do not allow myself to be bullied into certain behavior and beliefs by the church out of fear.\nBelieve whatever you want, in the end you have to live with yourself, and should therefore be true to yourself. Who cares what anyone else thinks? Many of the people who would "bash you" for not believing in creationism are just narrow minded people who believe what they were brought up to believe and never questioned any of it.
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The Bible was written by people and has a bias.  We read it to attempt to interpret what God means.  Since God lives within us, if we pay attention to our hearts we'll know what's right.
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The disicples wrote the bible
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I believe in God.  I believe man wrote the Bible, and I agree with you that it is inaccurate.  That does not mean that God does not exist.  For the same reason, just because you do not accept part of it, does not mean you cannot accept God.
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The bible is a compilation of hundreds even thousands of authors who wrote stories about their experiences, sermons, letters to churches/congregations, over thousands of years.  They had Faith in their beliefs about what they wrote, but none of it is really supposed to be fact so much as an expression of faith through illustrations and stories.
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The bible is complete if anyone adds to it you will regret it.And if you follow them. So there is no truth but the bible.You choose your choices.
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It dosen't matter so much WHAT they're thinking about it, as much as it matters that they ARE thinking about it.  Organized religion has always been & still is very corrupt.  They make up their own doctrines, misinterpret the Bible, or re-write it altoghether.  Because of a number of factors, I believe we need to interpret the Bible subjectively & remember the context (or discount it altogether).  It is a fact that The Bible reflects the political, societal & cultural ideals of that time. Not only that, but it was put together by Church officials who used their own beliefs & desires for total control to decide what got in & what got thrown out.  At least these issues have been brought to the forefront.  Question everything!!!
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I find it ironic that people pick and choose what they want out of the Bible... what about the rest of Corinthians? When those letters were written they did not have chapters and verses... that is something King James concocted. So should you not consider the writing as a whole?
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Some people really don't read the bible very well God and Jesus are not the same person God created Jesus and God has more power than anyone ever.
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100? There's a LOT more than that- don't you use the Skeptic's Bible list?\n\nSo- of those listed, how many affect doctrine or the central lessons of the Bible? No denomination I know of bases any doctrine on the age of the varius kings, or the numbers of soldiers.\n\nYeah, you can make the arguement that it somehow destroys the integrity of the Bible... but it really doesn't when two different authors over a period of time disagree on relatively minor issues, especially when the oral history element is facotred in.\n\nThe only REAL issue is that it invalidates the idea of inerrancy of the Bible... but for that to be an issue, you have to believe in a pretty 'stiff' and formal definition of inerrancy- the idea that God's hand moved the pen and protected each translation... which is so obviously untrue that it amazes me anyone believes it.
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It is my view that the Bible is written by man and may have the writer's bias.  This is not to say that the Bible is not inspired by God/Jehovah or not a valid holy work, but rather His desires have been interpreted by His followers.  After all, if God inspired you to write a holy work that went against what you'd been taught or against common belief, could you write it just as God wants.  We are here on earth b/c we have the freedom to choose Him or not, so why would He control what is written.\n\nI also want to point out that the Bible in modern days is quite fallible.  Most scholars (religious or not) will tell you translating is not a perfect science.  Because most of us can't read the Bible in its original languages, we must rely on what someone has translated for us.  Translating without the original writer is dificult.  One word may have mutlitple meanings, and noone knows which meaning was intended.  That means that even if the Bible is perfectly from the hand of God, it probably isn't anymore.\n\nIf you want me to elaborate, e-mail me at adam_macpharlain@yahoo.com.
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Your question also begs a more basic question:  regardless of version, timing, or translation, human beings wrote the contents of, and chose and assembled, the texts that were called The Bible.  (Same with the Talmud, and the Koran.)  So it's reasonable to ask, why do so many believe it to be God's word?  I mean, it could be.  But why do people today so strongly believe it to be so, with such certainty?  When all they have is other people's word for it?  It is indeed remarkable, and hard to understand.
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There are many millions of people who believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God. millions who regard this book as a torch that conquers the darkness of death, and pours its radiance on another world. They forget that it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart. They forget that it is the enemy of intellectual freedom. They forget its ignorance and savagery, its hatred of liberty, its religious persecution; they remember heaven, but they forget the dungeon of eternal pain. They forget that it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart\nIt is now not only admitted by intelligent and honest theologians that Moses was not the author of the Pentateuch, but they all admit that no one knows who the authors were, or who wrote any one of these books, or a chapter or a line. We know that the books were not written in the same generation; that they were not all written by one person; that they are filled with mistakes and contradictions. It is also admitted that Joshua did not write the book that bears his name, because it refers to events that did not happen until long after his death. \n\nBasically it does not matter how you translate it. It all boils down to what you believe and can live with. If you believe the Bible is inspired by God, then read it and make your own decision on which translation suits you.
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There have been thousands of different versions of the Bible.\nMany books have been edited or dropped over the centuries \nWhat we now call the Bible was asssembled many years after the events described
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you believe the Bible, right?........This is the rest of it.
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Nothing was "taken out" of the bible. Some things were left out, but they were never "in" to begin with. The bible is a hodge podge collection of writings from many different people. Not one of those people ever meant for or expected their writings to become part of a holy book. Some of them are freaking letters, ffs, written specifically from one person to another, not for the purpose of being scripture. One day a bunch of priests got together and decided that some of it was "the word of god™" and some of it not. How do decide what's "the word of god™" and what isn't, you ask? You don't. You do what they did and pick whatever suits your agenda (power, money) and leave out the rest.