The Bible is a good book but is it practical for nowaday?
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the bible talks out of both sides its mouth..plain and simple.
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There are bible for children and teenagers. If you want a 'real' bible, I would buy the New International Version.
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Yes.  The Bible is an amazing book.  Those who are wise will read it and try to understand it.  The fool simply sits back and says "it all a myth"...
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The Bible is a study. It is not ment to be read as a novel. I have been a Christian for 6 yrs and have not made it through all of the Bible. But I know many, many who have. But none who have , that I know would tell yo to just  start at the begining and read to the end. \n\nI recomend Starting in The New Testiment. Try First John. Or Luke Chapt 1 & 2 and then go to First John...\n\nfor my pov on the Bible:\n\nhttp://pages.zdnet.com/mikevanauken/mikesinternetoutreach/id4.html
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Find wisdom in the Book of GOD.
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Please refer http://www.bible.com\n\nYou can also buy it there.
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I couldn't say yes or no with much authority, but I can refer you to some sources, and some questions for you to consider, that should lead you to answer your question for yourself. My observations base of the assumption that the Bible is consistent withitself:\nDeut 39:39 (the author of the Bible intended that people understand it => it has no secrets)\nRom 1:18-23 (reveals that everything is plain)\nRev 1:19 (Revelations writes about the past, the present, and the future)\nEcc 12:13 (purpose of life)\nIf you read some of the book of Daniel, you discover that Daniel's dreams prophesied things to come -- Alexander the Great.\nI cannot prove to you if this is the case or not, but all my research thus far has led me to the believe that the Bible is what it claims to be. We still have to use the basic principles of common sense and logic. Its message (including prophecy) can be discovered asking 5 basic questions as we read: 'Who wrote this/who is it written to? Why did they write it? Where did it take place? When did it take place/when was it written? What is the author trying to say.'\nAs does any book, when read in context, answers are found in doing more reading.\nYou could pose another question asking about a particular prophecy you had in mind. I hope your reading is an adventure.
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To know right from wrong you need a foundation. I found that foundation to be very firm with the Bible. Every difficult moral decision I have had to make in my many decades of living have been illuminated by the light of scriptures.
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The Bible is very reliable and the message has not been changed with new translations.\n\nThere is contradictions in the Bible but I would like you to ask specific contradiction so we would be able to help ou to understand.\n\nThere is very big change that the Bible will not make any sense to you if you do not let Holy Spirit in your heart to guide you.\n\nThe Bible is written by men but inspired by God.Feel free to contact me personally....and if you ask specific contradiction questions here, you will get great answers.\n\nGod bless.
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1. Yes and No. The Bible (if read in the origional languages) has so much more meaning that any English translations - so much so that it can make the Bible very confusing to us today.  Additionally, the Bible wasn't written to speak to you and me. It was written to speak to the people of the Biblical world with completely different cultures and values.  Again, when you map Biblical stories and ideology on their paradigm, again, it makes much more sense.\n\nThe most important thing to take out of the Bible - whether figurative or literal - is the overriding message that God loves each of us and desired a personal relationship.\n\n2. No. I do not think we will see another prophet ever.  There are people with prophetic giftings, but Jesus was sent to a world full of prophets.  Today we have a completely different frame of mind and do not need "prophets" to speak God's word to us.  With a personal relationship with Him, prophets really become unnecessary.
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Anything is possible when you read the bible.
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Contrary to what a lot of Englightened people on here will have you think, the Bible isn't just for scholars or spinners. If it is true, the Bible is God's Word to man, then I think it is safe to take the book at face value assuming that most people were quite illiterate at the time of its first use. \n\nGod would not make his only word to man undicipherable to all, save the rich intellects of the world. This seems like the biggest, most obvious trap, out there! The rich have the key to salvation, but of course they do! The rich Europeans, to take it even further and make it better! Give me a flippin break. This is getting stupid.\n\nThis is one of the major "flaws" in the entire idea of the Bible being God's Word. Does God not know that most people on Earth are hardly literate, can't understand Hebrew or Aramic, and by inspiring a 3,000 plus page text, he has put the salvation of nearly everyone on earth in the hands of a very few who can actually READ who came from Europe and were bent on ruling the world at all cost??! Impossible for God to do such a thing to 90% of the rest of his own creation!\n\nSo, read the Bible just as it comes to you. Yes, God asked God why he forsakened himself. That is the surface interpretation, no spin. Unless your parents could afford to send you to private school, where they teach you how to spin, I mean interpret the Bible, or unless you were born into Christianity where there are churches all around you that teach these spin techniques, you would never know that when you read page 2,198 in the Bible, that it is ACTUALLY refering to page 1,328 which REALLY means what page 498 said in the third paragraph referring to page 20.\n\nThe logical or face understanding of the text, is that God called out to himself(strange indeed), in a manner that seemed  much like begging of himself to help himself. It's ridiculous.
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the holy bible is full of prophecies, i suggest you look into the fullfilled and soon to be fulfilled prophecies. It's better than codes, believe me.
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"Bad Girls of the Bible" and "Really Bad Girls of the Bible" are both great books.  Also DC Talk has a book called "jesus freaks" which is a bunch of short stories about martyrs around the world, excellent book and a quick read.\n\nPurpose Driven Life is a good book as well. \n\nIf you want a good book to read in regards to eduction as well, "Reading the Bible for All it's Worth" (or it may be How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth). Very good book to help you discern what you are reading and the relevance of it.\n\nCase for Christ and Case for a Creator are by Lee Strobel.  He was an anthiest set out to disprove God/Christ and instead became a believer.\n\nLeft Behind series, Present Darkness series (although it can spook you) etc are all books that focus on tribulation/revelations.
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That was society at the time. I'm an atheist (just for your info) and I think the Bible has a lot of good advice in it (don't kill etc), but you have to take it as something that was written a very long time ago. Your quotes are cultural, and of the time, more than religious, word-of-God and so on. That doesn't mean they're right though.
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Bible means book. The word book was in the "holy book" lots of times.
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its practical... but also has a lot of complicated positions... it is written in the form of sanskrit verse and has aphrodisiac descriptions that are not practical in day to day life... but it can always be applied to ingredients available today... it describes how a man and woman united together in matrimony should behave towards each other and also the virtues that each partner should possess. it also describes the ancient practices of the kings , the middle class and the poor class people behaved as far as making love was concerned