It's May 11, 2024, 08:06:46 AM
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.
No idea why they chose the name "Bible" but they did. (Why did the Jews called theirs the Torah?)
God didn't give it a name because God didn't write it, nor did he directly ask for it to be written.
A lot of the Old Teastament is plain stupidAdam and Eve etc
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.
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.
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?".
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.
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.
Google strikes again...found this info:The Origin and Meaning of the Word BibleThe 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.
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!!!!
Calm itI know what you're sayin man, about the stories, but my point is that it didn't actually happen. Some people will not recognise the fact that it teaches something, and instead will see it as a lie.
no. they were written by monks.
Don't get confused. The KJV was not the first Bible produced, it was the first English Bible. The first Bible WAS commisioned by Catholic Rome. Anyway, most Monks are Catholic anyway and actually King James might have been too. But I digress...
A lot of you of you seem to understand the Bible quite well. By Bible I'm talking about the Christian old+new testaments. And by understand I mean you don't just blindly take it at face value and are willing to question aspects of it that don't seem right.Yes, the Bible is full of inconsistancies. To be honest I've neither the time nor the inclanation to list them all or argue them. But as an example, take the genealogy of Christ as described in Matthew 1 and Luke 3. They both claim to describe Joseph's family line but they are both totally different. Whether or not one is actually Mary's family (as I've heard claimed) is irrelevant as this is not stated in the Bible. Therefore, there is an inconsistancy. If you actually sit down and read the book, preferably from the orginal Greek and Hebrew, you will see these mistakes. You don't need specialist knowledge, you just need to be able to read and have access to a library. There's also the Internet!It's not just mistakes in the original documents but also in the translations. Although translators may have tried their best, who's to know if the translations are perfect? When the original texts were written, some words had more than one meaning so who's to say the correct meaning has been used or correctly interpreted? For example consider the "no room at the Inn" told to us in Luke 2.7. The original word for Inn is translated elsewhere in both Luke and Mark as a large upper room in a house. Even Matthew (2.11) states when the Wise Men found Jesus they were in a house. So where did the nativity story with them living in a stable come from? (Please don't tell me the answer because I already know).But of course there are bound to be mistakes in the originals anyway. Most of the books were written years after the events they depict. Even the calendar didn't change to A.D. until almost 500 years after Christ died and the wrong start date was probably chosen - as most scholars put the death of Herod the Great at 4BC and seeing as he was reportedly alive when Christ was born then the birth must have been before that.The point I'm trying to make is that the Bible is a small book, made of sources written in more than one original language, over thousands of years, sometime many years after the events depicted, and in some cases translated again into another language. Ironically the people of the time did not have as good a grasp of history as we do today as they did not have access to the resources (in terms of reference material) we have. In addition a lot of the Bible is written metaphorically and isn't intended to be taken literally. So you can't just read the Bible and say that everything in it is right and true. There is no such thing as "Gospel Truth" as the Gospels quite clearly are not 100% true. You have to be skeptical at frst, read other history books and you can work out what is right and what is wrong.
^^^ Exactly.The bible probably does have some wrong information, 1 for instance is that in Genesis it doesn't mention adam and eve having daughters, but yet at one point Seth is married.