Why do some people believe what is written in the bible?

Easier for you to believe in evo? That's *not* far fetched?

For me the standard was/is prophecy!

The Word is 100% accurate with prophecy!

Nowhere else will you find perfect accuracy! The best of the best can only roll out prophecy that fits within the law of averages!

So if you take a perfect track record into consideration, is it not reasonable to believe the future prophecies will come to pass?

Btw...I grew up in a Godless household...far from it...and was not taught about The Lordship of Jesus - I wasn't brainwashed!

Just seriously read The Book!

God will have his way regardless of what is in a book. As for the bible, it's a mixture of truth and fiction. God's enemies have revised much of it in order to prepare their fight against God. Understand?

Lots of books, bibles a good one. Take it for what it is and go on to the next good book. It's a really BIG library.

Truth,

Frater

Say's the...?...what? Atheist? Cabalist? Buddhist?

Please expound on why "...a book..." is so "far fetched"

Do some research and study it, and study the evidence behind how it was written and its accuracy in both history and future events.

Then you will get it.

Or, you can be willfully blind because you don't want to believe in a moral creator and His word. That is definitely an option.

Reasonable!

Why do some people believe everything that people post on GLP same old crap either way.

Intellectual integrity...out the door right there!

Seriously?

Giving it a shot now!

Because it's comfort food for a baby brain. I wouldn't have to be the bible. It could be a better or worse book. It's just because it's reinforced by other humans also believing in it. If you were a modern day Zeus, Osiris, or Thor believer, you don't get the same reinforcement.

Love this follower of Christ!

Simplistic yet so Powerful!

The Book of Isaiah, "...come let us *reason* together!"

Good point!

The Word does not need man to interpret It!

So how come so many Christian doctrines have no biblical basis?

Thread: An experiment: reading the Bible as a trinitarian

Last Edited by vedklyvare on 12/23/2014 06:42 AM

I read a book.

It had talking snakes and a vengeful wizard.

Harry Potter?

Unfortunately not. It was the Bible and apparently some people think it's a factual book! I don't believe this, as I can't believe anyone, except perhaps some mentally-challenged child, would regard the Bible as anything other than an allegorical tale told to amuse a child before bedtime.

why question what other people choose to believe? does it bother you that much? do you lose sleep at night because someone prays before they go to bed?

what is your beef really?

Because it's true! Do you know of any other book that predicted so many things perfectly 100% of the time? Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome as successive world empires hundreds of years in advance? Jesus birth, baptism and death and resurrection? How about naming Cyrus as the person who would defeat Babylon 150 years before he was ever born? How about the prophecy that Babylon would never again be rebuilt or inhabited by people again and only beasts would dwell there? There are soooo many prophecies that have been fulfilled and you can guarantee all the others will surely come to pass! The Bible is the only book that's 100% accurate all the time!

Because they are not critical thinkers. Religion is for fearful weaklings and pedants; and the people that created this mess (for their benefit, at your loss...) knew that. There is nothing in there for a rigorous thinker. I am not an "atheist" either, they are just as wrong.

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Last Edited by AkashicRecord® on 12/23/2014 09:23 AM

hmmmm....


a critical thinker would realize that these ancient books that comprise the canon have been scrutinzed, studied, analyzed, verified, and discussed by some of the world's top minds for many centuries. Millions upon millions of people, historians, philosophers, scientists, educators/academics, scholars, philosophers, literary experts, archaeologists, etc etc etc, century upon century, and yet you say that people who believe the bible are not critical thinkers.


yeah, ok.....

sooo, the bible was a grand control device developed over a span of 5000 yrs by the ancients to control the masses of the far reaching future for machiavellian purposes.


yeah, ok.....

no.


are you a critical thinker?

Another verse that would be important to those who are married or have had a few wives in this life are not excluded from being part of the 1,000 year reign. That whole population is subject to this condition also so that is a time when no children are born. The 1,000 years is a time to prepare to see wrath that is many times greater than the one that arrives with Christ. Only 1/3 of the Gentiles see that and 144,000 from the 12 Tribes, the resurrected from Re:20:4 will be around for the show when Satan and the fallen angels are sent to the lake.

This group lives inside New Jerusalem in the New Earth, that is why they are a static population. The ones that are called 'the rest' in Re:20 are the ones killed by the sword in Re:19 and in Isaiah:65. Isa:65 goes on to cover their existance in the New Earth where they live outside the City. They have 100 children before they get the glorification the ones in the City have. The ones in the City are the Shepherds and the ones outside are 'the Flock'

M't:22:30:
For in the resurrection they neither marry,
nor are given in marriage,
but are as the angels of God in heaven.


Gulp. At the risk of proving you right the bible is complex enough that it is very unlikely that 40 men wrote it. As wise and dedicated as the men were that left writings explaining what the OT means they did so without using the whole of the text that would be available to them. Christians are free to use all the NT and all the OT as a single reference. Some Jews reject the NT as being as valid as the texts written by the OT writers.
The book of Daniel says he was not given all the information and that knowledge would also be increased beyond that once you got close to the 'end'. The OT only readers can still get the information without changing their view of the Apostles ability to write Scripture. The Gospel of John was written by a Disciple of John the Baptist and John was the last Prophet to be called by God. John had the same credentials as Moses and if he tasked one of his Disciples to follow Jesus and report back then that testimony is as true as if John did the task himself. Revelation was also written by that same Disciple, she would have as much authority as Miriam, sister to Moses and Aaron. John's mother was a daughter of Aaron as well as Mary, mother of Jesus.

John says who sent him and it is the same God mentioned in Ge:1:1. The Gospel of John is important as it is the closing part to the bruise to the heel from Ge:3:15, Revelation and Daniel are important because when their text is combined it gives the clearest picture of the bruise to the head part from that same verse. If you are looking for a fast way to do that takes out the first and last 3 chapters of the Bible as being the start and end of this earth and the introduction of the start of the perfected version that leaves this earth as being a seed bank for that place. The rest of the text apples to those two bruises, the cross was one, the 7th vial is the end of the 2nd one. Also quick is the realization that blending those two books is done in such a way as two different men didn't do it on their own.

Here is a small example of a version that is different from any you have read about. The time, times, and 1/2 a time in the vision explanation in Da:7 is referencing the 3 1/2 days the witness lay dead in the street.

If you are smart and the text is true then the current version is wrong. God would write the book so a person from our generation would recognize it as being 'special'. Ge:1 and the old earth creation does that as we know what powers of 10 are, let alone we have the means to do in dept text searches in just seconds. If there is a connect the dots in those searches then the picture becomes clear and the possibility that the book has one author and 40 writers becomes something less that zero. The good news is it doesn't matter where you start with Daniel and Revelations as there is a limited number of connections, that number increases as you add other books to the mix. You don't spoil the reading by peeking ahead to the ending, in fact you should know the ending just so the middle is more tolerable to read. (as in the captured virgin girls get their whole families restored to them in the 1,000 years) The way that is worked into the text would impress a contract Lawyer.

But since you do not believe what Moses wrote, how are you going to believe what I say? John 5:47

parting of seas
walking on water
coming back to life

therefore it is obvious that the bible speaks only the truth.

And what mess would that be?

Because they donated their brains.

I have corrected your post(and your poor spelling and incorrect grammar):

A critical thinker would realize that these ancient books that comprise the canon have been scrutinized, studied, analyzed, verified, and DISMISSED by some of the world's top minds for many centuries.

Millions upon millions of people including historians, philosophers, scientists, educators/academics, scholars, philosophers, literary experts, archaeologists etc and yet you say that people who DON'T believe the bible are not critical thinkers.

Are you a critical thinker?


The door swings both ways Jebus-Tard; just make sure it doesn't hit you, and your ego, on your way out.

grammar nazi?
that's all you got?

weak.... very very weak

What is said by a few who are considered as Christians concerning the doctrine of Jesus and the precepts of Christianity is not designed for the wiser but for the more unlearned and ignorant part of mankind. For the following are their precepts. "Let no one who is erudite accede to us, no one who is wise, no one who is prudent, for these things are thought by us to be evil, but let any one who is unlearned, who is stupid, who is an infant in understanding, boldly come to us," because the Christians openly acknowledge that sayings such as these are worthy
to be noticed by their God, manifesting by this that they alone wish and are able to persuade the ignoble, the insensate, slaves, stupid women, and little children and fools.