Many people believe what is written in the Bible - Why? Do you even know what the Bible is ?
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Many people that believe what is written in the Bible to be true have never read the Bible from cover to cover.\n\nIt's easy to pick them out too.  When they make statements about the bible, they start off by saying:  "my pastor told me".\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThat's some deal, six questions for the price of one.
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A plethora of authors wrote the Bible. It is contrary to Church teaching to say that God wrote the Bible. It is understood that the books of the Bible are inspired by God.
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The Bible claims to be actual communication from God to humanity. Notice these biblical passages:\n\nAll Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 \n\nAbove all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21 \n\nThe Bible claims to be the very Word of God (verbum Dei), indeed, the very words of God (verba Dei). But this claim often raises a number of objections. \n\nObjection #1: The Bibles we have today are nothing like the biblical books as they were originally written. \nThis is a real concern people have. The question of whether or not the Bible was God’s Word 2,000 years ago is irrelevant if the Bible we read today is substantially different from what was originally written. Until the invention of the printing press around 1450, all literature was hand-copied and scribes could make mistakes in copying. It’s hard to know if errors are present with many ancient works simply because few early hand-written copies exist. But this is not a major concern with the biblical documents: \n\n1. There are at least 24,800 surviving partial or complete manuscripts of New Testament books today. By comparison, the next largest number is for Homer’s Iliad, with only 643 surviving manuscripts. We have only 7 copies of Pliny’s History and only 10 of Caesar’s Gallic Wars―but we don’t hesitate to trust them. \n\n2. Furthermore, the New Testament has unusually early manuscripts compared with other ancient literature. Our earliest copy of Pliny’s History dates to 750 years after Pliny’s death. A lot can happen in 750 years. And the earliest copy of Gallic Wars was copied 1,000 years after Caesar’s death. By contrast, some early New Testament fragments date to within 30 years of their first writing, as with the John Rylands papyrus found in Egypt. There simply wasn’t enough time between the original writing and our earliest manuscripts to allow for much corruption. \n\n3. There are over 84,000 quotations from the New Testament (mainly from sermons) dating to the early centuries of the Church. In fact, even if we didn’t have a single manuscript of the Bible today, we could reconstruct all but 11 verses of the entire New Testament from material within 150 to 200 years from the time of Christ. \n\n4. Similarly, with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1950s, we now have copies of the entire Old Testament from before the time of Christ―complete copies of every book except Esther.\n\nModern translations of the Bible (New International Version, New American Standard Bible, etc.) are translated directly from these earliest biblical manuscripts. \n\nObjection #2: The Bible is just a book of fairy-tales. Its account is not historically reliable. \nWhile there are letters and songs and laws and doctrinal teachings in the Bible, the most common genre within the Scripture is history. Observers point out that the Bible is an historical document in that it consistently gives accurate information on the geography, chronology, people, places, customs, nations and events recorded within it.\n\nThe Bible is therefore unusual compared to other human religious literature. The Book of Mormon, even though relatively recent, nevertheless reads like a cheap nineteenth century American gothic novel. It describes an entire pre-Columbian civilization which shows no signs of ever having existed. There simply never was a highly advanced Jewish civilization in ancient New York. There is today, but not before Columbus. Or compare the Bible with the Hindu Vedas, which explain that the moon is 150,000 miles higher than the sun and shines with its own light (like a big GE light bulb), adding that the eart
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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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Do you believe every word of the Bible? Don't you understand that it contains parables not facts? Or do you believe that Methusalah lived 900 years? That it's Ok to have slaves and concubines? That women who commit a sin should be stoned to death? It's all in the Bible.
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And I've read many books that prove that the bible is a pile of crap.\n\nSo why do you still believe in the bible, and the discredited theory of creationism?
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Nostradamus had predictions that has come true so far and as far as the bible goes, No one knows. The bible was man written. How do you know that those men just had to sit down and figure out where we came from and that so they did. And today those words are read by many. But it is still a theory. Not a truth. Some chose to believe it, and some don't.
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I've always held the belief that the Bible has been changed to fit the beliefs of whoever commissioned the latest translation.  It's no surprise to me at all that some of the stories were tacked on later as some were removed when they didn't fit in with what was being taught at the time.  \n\nWhy is the Bible supposedly above scrutiny?  Why is it that when people question whether or not it was written and re-written by men, people freak out?  In this day and age, if somebody were to claim they were divinely inspired to write a holy book, we'd call them nuts.  But, we should just believe that this particular group of men really were divinely inspired?
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I think the bible is a book. Printed on paper made by men, with ink made by men, and full of fables and folklore written by men for the purposes of men. \n\nMany Christians hold to that book as though it is their "idol". They believe it so blindly that even if God itself were to come down and tell them that even ONE verse in it was wrong they would side with the "idol/bible" over God itself.
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I never thought the bible is a myth...the bible is a book written by man, why should I base my life and beliefs on a book?  Just because it was written a long time ago?
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The Bible was written by more than forty different authors.  I could go into the different parts and their function throughout history, but I'll just be short.  Despite the variety of the authors and the many different types of writings in the Bible, Christians believe that "All scripture is God breathed" (2 Timothy 3:16), and a group of believers at one point decided which writings were part of the "canon" of scripture.\n\nMany people believe that the Bible often contradicts itself, and sometimes it seems that it might.  However, closer study and learning of the context reveals the story of the God of creation and his desire to redeem his people throughout history.  It is the written word of God, and through the preaching of the Word people can come to salvation.
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You want to know the answers to why the Bible is historically accurate and reliable? Well this is going to be long but it will answer your question. This writing discusses common myths held by most people concerning the Bible and analyzes the evidence that points to the Bible’s authenticity.\n\nMyth #1: The Bible’s been copied, translated, and handed down for so long it looks nothing like the original and cannot be reliable anymore.\n\n    This is undeniably a misconception and misinterpretation that’s been around for over a century. It is probably the most common and told myth of the Bible. It has no doubt hindered many people from ever reading and even considering the Word of God.\n\nThe Facts\n    In the early nineteen hundreds scholars started to seriously question the Word of God particularly the Old Testament. Since the earliest copies we had dated to around 900 AD, they started to question how reliable are copies really were. Since we didn’t have the original and since they’ve been copied so many times, we had no idea how accurate our version was. Critics mocked believers of the Bible claiming that the prophecies (particularly about Jesus) could have easily been altered to fit history.\n\n    Enter a small Bedouin boy. In 1947 in an effort to recapture a lost goat he accidentally stumbled upon a cave with hundreds of clay jars found near the Dead Sea in Israel. Further investigation revealed that inside those clay jars lay ancient copies of the Bible written over a century before Jesus. Here were copies of the Old Testament dated around 130 BC written a thousand years earlier than our oldest copies!\n \n    When compared to our version of the Old Testament it was analyzed that the two versions were 95% identical. The 5% variation consisted chiefly of obvious slips of the pen and variations in spelling. Not a single teaching or main passage of the Bible was in question or in error.  So now we can rest assured that our current Old Testament is completely and utterly reliable because it has not changed in over 2,000 years!\n\nMyth #2 of the Bible: It’s contradictory.\nThe Bible is unbelievably and completely harmonious with itself. In simpler terms the Bible addresses hundreds of controversial topics (i.e., marriage, divorce, salvation, morality) yet from Genesis to Revelation (the first and last books) the Bible is in complete agreement with all of these topics. \n\n    Let me just put this into perspective for you. How often do two people agree on anything? How often do three people agree on the same issue? How about 30? The point is that given the hundreds of books out there hardly any of them agree on any one issue. They are all horribly contradictory with each other. One book says to eat eggs, another says to not eat eggs, yet another one says to eat only the whites of eggs. Which one is right? \n\n    Yet when it comes to the Bible every single topic is completely in agreement with each of the 40+ authors. “But what about the contradictions in the Bible?” you ask. Well, show me them, or simply show me one. Every contradiction that people claim are never actually checked up on. People just believe what other people say and they believe because someone else said it, so on, and so forth. If they actually read the passage they might see that there is no contradiction. In any event saying that there are contradictions in the Bible is just an excuse to keep people from reading the Bible which might contain the very thing people are looking for.\n\nThe Facts\n    Most if not all contradictions are due to interpretation error. There are several tests or principles you must use to determine the meaning of any given passage in the Bible. Some include: 1. You must understand the context of the passage, 2. Interpret difficult passages in the light of clear ones, 3. The Bible uses non-technical, everyday language, 4. Note when the Bible uses different literary devices, 5. Don’t base teaching on obscure passages.
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The Bible is only a version of what happen, that is why they call them versions.  There are many eyes that seen what happen and many different versions.  But only a few that are widely popular.  People see things differently in every aspect and that goes with today as well.  It is history, but only a version.
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There are Christians who believe in the Bible fundamentally, in that everything in it is 100% true.  The problem with that is that the Bible oftentimes contradicts itself, so you'd be hard pressed to read it cover to cover and not be a little confused.  Then, there are Christians who believe in the spirit of the Bible and the example of Jesus Christ.  They understand that the Bible was written for a certain audience in a certain time.  The Bible was not written in a time where modern science existed, for instance, the concept of sexual orientation was not something that was known during the time the Bible was written.
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The bible is designed for anyone to read it... but it can be hard to follow.. that's why we have churches. Just beware of the churches that bash every other church and "enforce" THEIR rules (most baptist churches)
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I know your question is more rhetorical in nature, but my personal comments about this:\n\n1. The huge majority of people who claim to BELIEVE the Bible have never read it cover to cover. (Usually Christians skip the majority of the Old Testament, which can be confusing or seem irrelevant, since we do not understand the cultural context, and much of it involves lists or long prophetic passages.) Some don’t even read it at all, or they comprehend only a few particular passages in the New Testament. There are very few people committed to reading the entire Christian Bible and understanding its passage.\n\n(Which is okay, to some degree. We are all gifted with different abilities, and only a few of us are strong teachers/readers that way. Many people learn better if someone else can guide them through the material and direct their study – i.e., just like our school system, where teachers are responsible for the education of the students. It’s not unreasonable to depend on others to SOME degree on your understanding, if you have trustworthy teachers.)\n\n2. We all go into faith issues with a specific mindset. We are either open to new ideas (questing), or we are closed-minded and more interested in defending what we already believe and using it to refute others. This isn’t just with people who are opposed to Christianity (where I’ve seen it happen a lot and is what you point out), it also applies to Christians who want to defend the faith or proselytize others. Usually they’re just looking for supposed flaws in the other point of view, without really entering a discourse with the other person and REALLY understanding their POV.\n\nPersonally, I find that I am showing a lack of intellectual integrity if I cannot articulate the other person’s point of view as if I were defending it. I should understand not only its weaknesses but its strength.\n\n(This not only seems sensible to me, and encourages discussion and unity, but it is also a matter of respecting other human beings, their choices, and their intelligence. At one level, it’s very much an insult to discourse with someone in a manner suggesting that the only reason they believe what they do is because they’re too stupid or uneducated to know otherwise. Yes, maybe on occasion someone is acting that way, but often the other side has good reason to believe what they believe, and we need to approach them as such.)\n\nThe DiVinci Code craze is just one more manifestation of this – people who read a fictional novel and believe it to be gospel versus people who actually study the Gospels – and the Gospel of Judas, and Thomas, and all the other “Who Was Jesus Really?” books we see popping up every year. Some of the books get popular culture acclaim, but the real scholars who have spent a lifetime studying the details just laugh at them because they’re so un-credible.\n\nPeople believe things like this because it’s easy. They believe this because what they want to believe is more intriguing than what the actual text seems to say. They believe this because they want to.
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Looks like you answered it yourself. However, my personal opinion is that I really don't care what it says, because I don't believe in it anyway.\n\nThe bible is all I need.