if the bible is a book of truth and the only book of truth?
609186
Lol coz its fiction thats why.
1033610
Gnosticism agrees with the teachings of just about every religion in the world.  Orthodox Christianity is the only one with that dying for sins nonsense.  I don't know, in my opinion the truth is within us, not within a book, if it is in us all, it would be universal.  The actual words of Jesus are universal.  All that other nonsense came from Paul and is not.
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The devil can copy anything God can do...except Truth.\nBecause Truth is an ABSOLUTE.\nThere can be only ONE TRUTH to anything.\nIf we say we need oxygen to breathe, or we need water to live, these are absolute truths.\nWe live on planet Earth and need the moon and sun to survive as a world.\nThis is an absolute truth.\nBut if you tell me (of a truth), that your name is Sam Green, and you were born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1973, then that's an abolsute truth...but if i then turn around and tell the next person that your name is Sam Green, you were born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1974, then it's no longer the truth.\nEven though everything i said was true, except one tiny detail.\nThis is the way with Satan.\nHe will give you 99.9% Truth...but he always adds or takes away even just that one tiny detail.\nThis is why the Word says that these Last Days would be so decpetive, that it could decieve the very Elect (of God), if it were possible.\nBut it's not possible to decieve God's Elect (His End-Time Bride, aka, the Wise Virgins), because we stand on the ABSOLUTE TRUTH of His' Word.\nThere can be only ONE TRUTH.\nJesus said it would be, in these Last Days, as it was in the Days of Noah.\nWell, who had the Truth in Noah's Day?\nAMOS 3:7\nMALACHI 4:5,6\nMATTHEW 17:11\nLUKE 17\nREVELATION 10:7\n\nJOHN 4:23,24\n   23    But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.\n   24    God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.\n \nMATTHEW 7:7\n    Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:\n\nJOHN 8:32\n    And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\n \nI JOHN 3:19\n    And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.\n \nI JOHN 4:6\n    We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.\n \nGod bless you, as you seek His' Truth.
723690
There are all kinds of contradictions in the bible.
1035888
False. The Bible is a masterpiece of ancient literature with some good advice and wisdom. Your brain is the owner's manual should you choose to let it be.
421234
The Holy Bible is the word of God and is the truth.
484814
No not all but most because there can only be one truth, when God speaks through his Word the Bible, it can only have one meaning, the rest r all fabrications like the manufacturers manual for a product how many do they have for each product? and if that manual is fabricated to the customers desire would the manufacturer say they would still fix the product if it stops working I wouldn't think so, just try it next time you buy something and see!It's either true or it isn't there can't be hundreds of truths to the same thing can there!
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bible is a history of faiths, that's all.
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There is only one Truth. God's Word can only be interpretted one way.\n\n Jesus said that those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.\n\nIf you'd like to find out what is Truth, then go here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/\n\n You will also be able to read my personal testimony that will show you how God's Truth has transformed my life.\n There just isn't enough space to do it here.\n\n God bless you, as you seek His' Truth.
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The Truth is. It is a book of lies. If you want the Real Truth, Read the Bible. That is the True Gospel of Jesus Christ.
1064943
Fundamentalists (self-proclaimed "Bible Christians") must take the Bible as literal truth because that belief is the foundation of their ideology. If it can be shown that the Bible is not the sole word of God, or that the Bible contains untruths or errors, then their entire ideology and movement collapses.
1139723
there is little evidence that any of the bible is true but most would say that the bible is about 5% fact and the rest is made up stories from many other religions before them. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK DISPROVE THOSE CHRISTIANS!!!!!!
795419
Actually, I think it would be quite difficult to "understand" the Bible as each concept that is presented is contradicted by another.  It's hard to understand a book that has no clear message.
1176751
Of course there's a significant element of truth to it. Why do you think the Catholic Church is so wound up about it ? Why haven't scholars been allowed to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls in the public arena ? Catholicism has manipulated the truth for it's own ends .... it's used threats over the centuries to ensure there is no debate. The end is nigh .... if there's nothing to hide they'd happily open their vaults & show the full spectrum of religeous texts .... not just the ones they'd like us to see. Now the truth is becoming available with or without their consent - Truth Lives once more.
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I see your point, but it's not 100% accurate. You see, the Bible and God are inseparable. We believe it is the inspired, infallible Word of God. Basically that even though human hands actually wrote it, they did so using the exact words God was speaking to them so that when we reread it we hear God speaking directly to us as well. So while I see your point of worshiping a book as idol worship, I disagree when referring to the Bible because it is nor "just " a book - it truly is the Word of God. John even refers to that in the opening of his Gospel:\n\n"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." - John 1:1-5, 14\n\nSo as you see, John referred to Jesus as "The Word", which makes God 7 the Bible inseparable from each other.
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I think the truth is in all of these place and in none. I know that sounds like a bunch or philosophical garbage, but bear with me.\n\nLet's assume there is a God (or gods) who created the universe (and by extension, Earth and all of us). Let's further assume that the divine creator(s) decided to communicate some universal truth and wisdom to us, and that this is what actually made it into a holy book somewhere (meaning that there is validity to at least one religion, and that all religions were not necessarily created by power-grubbing people). Most religions preach that God is good and loves us. Most relgions preach that we should try as hard as possible to live in peace and harmony with one another. If this is the case, why would and God give the truth to one group of people and not another? If people are spread all through the world,then why would people thousands of years ago in, say, Israel or India be any more deserving of the truth than people anywhere else?\n\nFrankly, I don't think God "chose" one group of people to recieve the truth and misled (or allowed to toil in ignorance) all the rest. This would contradict the idea that God is good and wants us to get along. What would make sense (at least to me) is that the universal truth is way, way bigger than any mere mortal could possibly grasp, so God wouldn't try to give all that truth to one person (it would be like explaining to your dog how to build a house - you could lecture all day, but he still isn't going to understand!). And what primitive, stone-age people could understand would be much less than what we modern humans can understant (we just know more about the world and ourselves, learned through experience over thousands of years). An all-knowing God would understand this, and might give some part of the truth to one group and another part of the truth to another group. That way, both groups have a good start and neither has been deceived. And as an added bonus, when those 2 groups meet up in a few thousand years, they'll need to come to some kind of understanding as to the differences in what they believe. People from Group A will need to understand the beliefs of Group B and accept those as valid (unless they just want to fight with each other, which doesn't seem to be what God's interested in). Eventually, Group A and Group B could find a shared value system that encorporates both groups' beliefs, thus bringing both groups one step closer to the whole truth, and at the same time working together peacefully (which, as I said, seems to be a theme in most major religions). \n\nSo, where is the truth? It's in all the places you mention, because God inspired it to be there. But it's in none of these places, because no book could ever hold all the truth of God or the universe. The real truth comes in understanding as much as possible and not taking any single viewpoint as being the only correct one. Only God has the single, ultimate viewpoint, and no religion can mimic that. Look for what is common - common to many religions, common in many people, common in many societies and ways of life. This is where the truth lays.
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The Bible, in the book of Acts tells us that there is only salvation found in the name of JESUS... {Acts 4:12} Only through JESUS CHRIST can we be reconciled to the FATHER... Every other way is false. JESUS also said In John 14:6- I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father but through me. Did you know that there is literally thousands of prophecies in the bible that have come to pass exactly as the Bible said they would? That being said, what if the Bible is true in its declaration of JESUS as well? I challenge you to give JESUS a fair shot... would you except him if he revealed himself to you in some way? Pray to JESUS and ask him to reveal himself to you some way and that if he does you will except him.. The Bible says that who ever rejects JESUS CHRIST will spend eternity in hell... That being said in a book that's filled with prophecies that have came to pass doesn't that warrant looking into...