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the Bible...
The_Retarded_Moron:
--- Quote ---The (Christian) Bible is just a collection of religious articles collated by the Catholic Church, many hundreds of years ago, into a single book form. The individual chapters where just written as historical records by normal men e.g. Moses, King Solomon etc.
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no. they were written by monks.
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No idea why they chose the name "Bible" but they did. (Why did the Jews called theirs the Torah?)
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Torah = Law = Hebrew word.
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God didn't give it a name because God didn't write it, nor did he directly ask for it to be written.
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;D
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--- Quote ---A lot of the Old Teastament is plain stupid
Adam and Eve etc
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thats just fuckin ignorant and fucked up....that comment is complete bullshit....
i cant believe u would say some bullshit like that!!!
if u knew anything....Both the Old and New Testemants have stories that teach us....Adam & Eve is one of those stories....
in short...FUCK U!!!!
The_Retarded_Moron:
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The Bible is about God and is a history of the world and how God created it, and in that sense is a Holy Book.
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It's about man.
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Christians should by definition believe the Bible as otherwise they're not Christians. i.e. You don't just decide one day to be a Christian and then start to read the Bible to find out what it says, you read the Bible first and if you understand and believe it you join your chosen religion.
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no. Christianity is about choice. You may choose which way to take. You're not forced to take a certain way.
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Whether or not the Bible contains "wrong information" it's really up to you to determine that for yourself. God did not proof read the Bible and as the chapters were written by normal people they may have made normal mistakes so it could contain errors. However, you can use various historical sources to cross reference Biblical stories and make a decision as to whether or not they are true. Also, you have to assume that people who wrote the original religious texts had good intentions and were not deliberatly trying to mislead people by lying to them. So they would have tried their best to be accurate. In the end religion is about faith and there is no proof of the existance of a God so the question you really need to ask is "Do you believe the stories are correct?".
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30 years ago we would have got into trouble if we used words like "wanka" or "cocksucker" in public. Today it's "rather normal". Language changes. The bible was written a few thousand years ago. These people used a different language. They used different images ("mythos") to describe their experiences with God and their environment. Is it correct? Some things are, some things are not. It depends on the people who wrote down a particular passage etc.
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To be honest one should never claim to be a Christian without reading the Bible (and the same goes for other religions and their related religious texts) because you're just being told to believe something that may or may not be correct.
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true, but you need some basic knowledge.
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For example, where was Jesus born? In a stable perhaps? But where in the Bible does it actually say he was born in a stable? Almost all Christians seem to go around with the belief that there was "no room at the inn" and thus Jesus was born in a stable but this is not mentioned in the Bible. So don't accept things at face value just because someone tells you something is true.
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Jesus was most probably born in Nazareth.
The_Retarded_Moron:
--- Quote ---Google strikes again...found this info:
The Origin and Meaning of the Word Bible
The word Bible is a literal translation of the Greek word biblos (inner bark of the papyrus plant). Many ancient writings were on rolls of papyrus from which comes the word “paper.” Such a roll was called a biblion and contained only one book. The plural of biblion is biblia, which passed over into Latin as singular and came to mean Bible.
So "Bible" literally means a collection of paper rolls or ancient books.
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damn, I didn't read this one.
Sikotic™:
Jesus lived in Nazareth, but was born in Bethlehem.
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