What makes the God of the Bible any more important than any other God??
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I believe that GOD (much like anything in the Bible that Looks impossible) is a metaphoric representation of something that matches GOD's description. You have to ask yourself....\n\nWhat is the most powerful force you can think of?\nWhat creates?\nWhat is merciful?\nWhat is vengeful?\nWhat looks like a Human?\nEct.\n\nNow this being the case, I guess it would be possible for other Religions and Mythologies to also be heavily metaphoric and also have a representation of the exact same element. Hell, they may even call theirs King, too!!
433543
I believe God wants us to know specifically who he is and how to get to him.  Therefore, he provides us Scriptures. I just can't believe we can make up a god of our own imagining and have it be the right one. Only one can be right, otherwise he would be contradicting himself.
303705
More important than lets say an atheist or agnostic would believe to be so.  Less important as hardcore christians and other bible pushers would tend to believe it is at the same time...
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Many of the numbers in the Bible have deeper significance:\n\n1 – Represents absolute singleness and unity (Ephesians 4:4–6; John 17:21, 22.) \n\n2 – Represents the truth of God’s Word, for example, the law and prophets (John 1:45), two or three witnesses (2 Corinthians 13:1), and a sword with two edges (Hebrews 4:12). See Mark 6:7 and Revelation 11:3. It is also used 21 times in the books of Daniel and Revelation. \n\n3 – Represents the Godhead / Trinity. The angels cry “Holy” three times to the triune God (Isaiah 6:3). See also Matthew 28:19 and 1 John 5:7, 8. \n\n4 – Represents universal truth, as in the four directions (north, south, east, west) and the four winds (Matthew 24:31; Revelation 7:1; Revelation 20:8). In acts 10:11, a sheet with four corners symbolizes the gospel going to all the gentiles. \n\n5 – Represents teaching. First, there are the five books of Moses. Second, Jesus taught about the five wise virgins and used five barley loaves used to feed the 5,000.\n\n6 – Represents the worship of man, and is the number of man, signifying his rebellion, imperfection, works, and disobedience. It is used 273 times in the Bible, including its derivatives (e.g., sixth) and another 91 times as “threescore” or “60.” Man was created on the sixth day (Genesis 1:26, 31). See also Exodus 31:15 and Daniel 3:1. \n\nThe number is especially significant in the book Revelation, as “666” identifies the beast. “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Revelation 13:18). \n\n7 – Represents perfection, and is the sign of God, divine worship, completions, obedience, and rest. The “prince” of Bible numbers, it is used 562 times, including its derivatives (e.g., seventh, sevens). (See Genesis 2:1–4, Psalm 119:164, and Exodus 20:8–11 for just a few of the examples.) \n\nThe number seven is also the most common in biblical prophecy, occurring 42 times in Daniel and Revelation alone. In Revelation there are seven churches, seven spirits, seven golden candlesticks, seven stars, seven lamps, seven seals, seven horns, seven eyes, seven angels, seven trumpets, seven thunders, seven thousand slain in a great earthquake, seven heads, seven crowns, seven last plagues, seven golden vials, seven mountains, and seven kings. \n\n10 – represents law and restoration. Of course, this includes the Ten Commandments found in Exodus 20. See also Matthew 25:1 (ten virgins); Luke 17:17 (ten lepers); Luke 15:8 (healing, ten silver coins). \n\n12 – Represents the church and God’s authority. Jesus had 12 disciples, and there were 12 tribes of Israel. In Revelation 12:1, the 24 elders and 144,000 are multiples of 12. The New Jerusalem city has12 foundations, 12 gates 12 thousand furlongs, a tree with 12 kinds of fruit 12 times a year eaten by 12 times 12,000 or the 144,000. (See Revelation 21.) \n\n40 – Represents a generation and times of testing. It rained for 40 days during the flood. Moses spent 40 years in the desert, as did the children of Israel. Jesus fasted for 40 days. \n\n50 – represents power and celebration. The Jubilee came after the 49th year (Leviticus 25:10), and Pentecost occurred 50 days after Christ’s resurrection (Acts 2).\n\n70 – Represents human leadership and judgment. Moses appointed 70 elders (Exodus 24:1); The Sanhedrin was made up of 70 men. Jesus chose 70 disciples (Luke 10:1). Jesus told Peter to forgive 70 times 7.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Jesus was a 100% God and a100% man. He is part of the Trinity. IT is not something that can easily be explained, even if God were to reveal this answer to us now and explain this, our human minds would not be able to comprehend what he said. God is much bigger and infinitely more intelligent than we are. We cannot confine him in just a book, a church, or even up in heaven somewhere, because God is everywhere, he knows everything, and is King of kings and Lord of lords. He gave us his word which is called The Holy Bible in order to show us what we must do on earth to be good servants and followers for him, and that is all we need for now. Instead of asking trivial questions, ask yourself what purpose God has for your life, and how he wants to work through you to spread his Gospel to others. I will pray for you. Have a nice day! =)
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Everyone needs God. But God gave us a choice on who to serve. Him or Satan. People say God gives us free will, but not so. The inly will God gives us is His holy word. The Bible. That is the will for us. the devil doesn't have a will. Therefore whoever follows him will be doomed for eternal damnation. That's why it is important to hold to God and serve him. He is the only one who sticks closer than a friend, brother, mother, father, cousin, aunt, teacher or anybody else. He's there in the good times and the bad times. He'll never leave you or forsake you. God can\ndo more than what other man made gods can't do.
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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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**************************************************************\n\n   God has arranged the bible to contain the books it has in it, both the old and new testaments. The books He included were meant to be there to complete His perfect book. If it's in there, He has something to say in it. ANY word from God is important.\n\n   So my answer would be that there isn't a least important.\n\n***********************************************************
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The Bible is the instructions given by God for us through his Holy Spirit who wrote it through men.  So, yes, it is VERY important for me, and all other Christians.  It gives us instructions on how to live our lives, what is wrong and what is right, and, most importantly, teaches us about God's gift to us - Salvation.\n\n2 Timothy 3:16\n  \n    "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness."   (NIV)
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god murdered his bastard(no offense meant... check the dictionary) son... \n\nthe bible god is a middle eastern old wart that has an iq of 66
938733
Agreed.  I don't think the biblical god is God, if there is a god.  I don't think god would be a spiteful, vengeful, mysterious god.  If there is a god (and I am open to the possibility), then it would be a nice god.
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In which way monotheism is better than paganism?\n\nMonotheism as propagated by so called monotheist religion rather forces its followers to blindly follow . whatever concepts a small some 2000 year tribe had , has been forced on others, as the only truth. And in this quest it has shed too much blood through out the written history, and still doing it.\n\n"My god is the only true god " is not exactly monotheism whatever the followers will like to believe. It is more my god is better than yours concept and basically IT IS NOT MONOTHEISM. when you say any other god is false , you are accepting that there are other gods! though you are calling them inferior.\n\nPagans have much more respect for beliefs of others. And readily accept all forms of god as manifestation of same god. that is more monotheistic without insulting anyone. It gives freedom to followers to look for supreme according to there own perception.\n\nSomebody above claimed bible supports science! now that is funny seeing so many Christians refuting evolution theory.
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It's important always.  Everyone should also remember that's it's as much freedom OF as it is freedom FROM religion.\n\nhttp://atheism.about.com/od/churchstatemyths/a/freedomfrom.htm
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God? Well the bible depicts him as a murderer over and over again.  So I guess the word God means to me a descriptor of a ficticious murderer in the best selling novel in Earth's history.
37537
God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. You are thinking of God in human terms, and He is most definitely not human.
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God is all-powerful; he can turn water into wine and cure the blind. Heck, he created the whole universe. So what makes you think he can't change the text of the bible written by the misguided kings, warlords and other misguided beings who wrote the bible? \n\nAnd I love a God who punished people for the slightest sin as depicted in the infallible bible. So much for the all-forgiving God. \n\nThank you God for making us kill the very people who discovered that the glorious earth You created is not flat.\n\nThank you God for condemning me and 20 billions of soul into hell for being misguided by satan you created. I would rather sit in hell then to be in heaven thinking about all the people suffering in hell, esp my loved ones and the people in the jungles of the third world who has not even heard of You or people who were brought up being a jew, muslim, hindu etc. For that reason, even if He does exist and offers me a place in heaven, i'd say no thanks because it wouldn't be much better in heaven either.
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The Bible focuses on spiritual matters, not the physical world.  That's why it doesn't mention so many things that would be of interest (for example, the trade routes known at the various tmes the Books were written; population figures; manner of dress, etc.).