If the bible had been written today, do you think it should have been written in crayons?
599489
it would be an ebook available for download.
794372
Well back in the day, and I know this comment is going to offend people. But my husband used the bible as rolling papers for his \n"recreational smoking" They work perfectly!!!!  LOL
626486
I agree with you. the bible has a very seedy background and its a damn shame that christians refuse to question where thier bibles came from.
133458
The idea was started by royalty. The real rich would have their Bible pages outlined and decorated in red ruling(all the words not just Jesus').This was to make it easier to read due to the extremly small print of Bibles back then. It wasn't until the 1900's that book publishers decided to incorporate this idea into a useful tool and put the words of Christ in red, also helping make the Bible easier to understand. I don't know which company started it first but it wasn't King James, he was dead long before this. Today the antique red ruled Bibles bring a much higher price than non red ruled, still catering to the royalty.
835491
I believe that human beings wrote the bible and since they are fallable and capable of everything from blind opinionism to predudice to ourright cruelty and disregard for others, there may be some messed up untrue things in the bible.  I think that Jesus was an amazing being but the desciples that wrote the new testement were just normal human beings for bad or good depending on their personalities and quirks.  I'm not so sure there is such a thing as "the devil".
611381
I have a blue bible, my SIL has a purple bible and I have friends with red bibles.  Not all bibles are black I think you are misinformed.\n\nBTW, Bibles are meant to be "read."
190601
Of course the Bible has errors, the Synoptics (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) don't even agree on what time of day Jesus was crucified.  The Bible was written by MANY differeny people and there are bound to be things that are inaccurate and just flat out wrong.  The Bible was written by people, not God, and there for it is a statistical impossibility that none of those people made absolutly no errors over a periond of two thousand years.  To me, the Bible is for inspiration and for insight into a lot of spiritual topics, but it is by no means without flaws.  To believe that the Bible is without flaws is a very, very rigid way to look at it and if someone doesn't think so, there is plenty of proof otherwise.  And those who always quote and espouse the stuff in the Bible usually can't come up with anything interesting theologically on thieir own.
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It would be a major miracle if any original Parchments remain Today.   They were shared with all the existing Churches of the First Century A.D.. No doubt they would be in poor repair very quickly.\n\nThe Dead Sea Scrolls would be the oldest known copies. So far they have been very valuable in proving the accuracy of The Biblical Text.
1004247
The bible, was put together from a group of writings that a bunch of men did a long time ago, Someone got smart and decided to put it together into 1 book, the only bad thing is they LEFT OUT alot of things as well. They should have left it alone and let us decide what we felt we needed to know.
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only if you're planning a diabolical plot to steal all the pens in the world and send them back to pen island so we alll have to use pencils agian like the 1400s BCE\nactually. the pen came first. so you'd actually be modernizing us. :)
475764
The book to read about it would be called the Bible...and it would be how Christians are truly suppose to walk...according to Jesus.\nSome of the "pet peeves" of today are man made...not made by God.\nTrue Christianity= Christ like.
64897
I think you should always have one clean, unwritten Bible, just because sometimes you'll have new inspirations, and all those messy things you wrote down previously may interefere with it. \n\nYou can buy another one to write notes on it, or just write your notes in a separate notebook or use your computer.
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Your concept of the books of the bible are totally wrong.\nThe bible writers were chosen by God and their writings weren't just added together.\nThe library as we know it, now bound together was written over nearly 6 thousand years.\nYou cannot make a holy man of yourself. If not inspired of God, nothing will happen. You would be looked on today as a KOOK and ignored
1177688
It depends. I spoke to our Parish priest about that, (^_^) and he said that it was INSPIRED in the prophets who wrote it, so in reality it was not really what Jesus exactly says (or said).\n \n(^_^)
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Because men wrote the bible.
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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).
1035838
Okay, back in the day when the first set of pagans under Constantine converted to Christianity, a group of clergies and etc...got together and collected all the books every written by those who lived in that era of Jesus.  They sat in a council and decided which books they wanted to include in the bible and which ones they would throw out.  The people who wrote the current books of the bible read many of the ones who were not included, thus leaving us with a half written story of the bible.