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Can you trust the bible?
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NO It's a fairy tale for adults like Santa Clause is for kids.
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No it's real. I believe in God. I Believe that there is an after life. People now days need proof to see if something is real. People now a days just want to party and have fun. Christians are ready for Jesus's return, by being faithful and true. Santa is fake, yes. What kind of fat guy can fit down a chimney? But ask yourself this, How exactly was the Earth made? There was this girl that lived in Canada, she never believed in God. When she got older, her liver started to fail. Her family that went to church prayed for her everyday! They asked their friends to pray for her. Then one day, the doctors told the family that her liver was healing. She recovered and is still alive today, but she still doesn't believe that God helped her. It wasn't the doctors that helped her, who did?
Sixty one years ago, something happened to me that you reminded me of your answer, and I thank you for that. I came home from Baptist Sunday school, and sitting in our house with my mother was a lady studying the bible with her. I was all excited about the next week?s Easter egg hunt, and started telling, with all the exuberance of a seven year old about the Easter bunny. The lady interrupted me and said in a mater of fact voice. ?Young man hasn?t your mother told you that, there is no such thing as the Easter bunny?? I looked at my mother and she hung her head. At that moment I was devastated! Words cannot describe the despair I felt at that moment. I knew that all the things that the church had been telling me were lies. My very own mother was a part of it. That despair turned to anger very quickly. Much like the anger I see reflected in your answer. It resulted in my life long quest for truth. I was a very fortunate young man however. My mother was studying with one of Jehovah?s Witnesses. But I took nothing for granted I trusted no one! I had been lied to and I was determined to trust no one ever again! Every thing they said was suspect I looked it up, I did research. It?s amazing the information you can find if you are a lover of truth. The public library is a gold mine of truth if you are willing to look for it. I found out that there is truth to be found. Now as I look back after a lifetime of checking it out, it?s not the Bible that?s not trustworthy, it?s those who have misrepresented it for their own gain that are untrustworthy. What Jesus said I have found to be true read it for yourself at (Matthew 7:15-20) 15 ?Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to YOU in sheep?s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits YOU will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? 17 Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; 18 a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. 19 Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Really, then, by their fruits YOU will recognize those [men]. I have found the truth, It is my fondest wish that you find it also.
For more information and/or a free home bible study you can go to, www.watchtower.org. Or write to Jehovah?s Witnesses, 25 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2483.
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?Trust not to rotten planks,? wrote English dramatist William Shakespeare.
Indeed, before steeping onto the wooden planks of a boat, you would want to be sure that the wood was not rotten.
The words of Shakespeare echo the sentiments of wise King Solomon of ancient Israel
Who some 3,000 years ago wrote: ?A fool will believe anything; smart people watch their step.? (Proverbs 14:15, Today?s English Version) Yes only a fool would go through life blindly accepting everything he hears, basing his decisions and actions on frivolous advice or baseless teachings. Misplacing our trust-like stepping onto rotten planks- can lead to disaster. So can you trust the bible?
The November issue of AWAKE, is a special issue that discusses that question.
Be sure to get your copy when Jehovah?s witnesses call at your door this month.
If you are not going to be home, put a note on your door they will leave it, or go to www.watchtower.org.
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Good answers Larryhyder, but I still go by the maxim - "read between the lines", the Bible can no more be trusted than any religious text. Neither can any news service be truly trusted to report the truth of a matter. I would say the Bible cannot be 'trusted' to report what Jesus or God or any person mentioned in the that book. Considering the revisions, the fact it was 'written' many years after the events and was written by 'the winners' casts doubt on all of the inherent truth of the Bible. That said it does give a good guide on how to live a fruitfull life, provided you only read the New Testament.
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There is a great DVD available it was put together a number of years ago but the inormation in it is still relevent, its called "Incomparable Book: Messages From The Memory Banks" Its redily available on line. It deals with a number of your points quiet clearly. Certainly worth having a look at. Just on the "winners" issue have a read through the old Testament and take a look at the monumental stuff ups made by some (most) of the great men and women mentioned it really doenst read like a storey written with the winners (or losers) bias. The stuff ups shown in the OT highlight the need of the NT.
Not only that, but the priests decided what could and couldn't go into the bible, the dead sea scrolls are an interesting read as they provide evidence of the fact Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, a quite major twist as she was near enough branded as a prostitute, the bible can not ever be trusted as as you so rightly put, its from the winners side. In my opinion, anyone who can be taken in by what is a blatant attempt at controlling people for financial gain need to take a look at communism, the similarities are startling, everyone equal apart from the chosen one? It is my belief that religion as a whole is for simple minded people who cannot think for themselves.
Dear young lady, thank you for your comments. You however need to know, that reliable information does not come from supermarket sensationalist tabloids.
Dear young lady, thank you for your comments. You however need to know, that reliable information does not come from supermarket sensationalist tabloids.
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Dear young ladies, thank you for your comments. You however need to know that reliable information does not come from supermarket sensationalist tabloids.
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For one, I am not a female & im sure the female viewers of this website appreciate your sexist views, 2, I am allowed my beliefs. Supermarket tabloids? You have your beliefs, which you insist on spreading by continuously knocking on peoples doors, but dont assume I read supermarket tabloids, as I can actually read full books, I would welcome you to read 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' before making assumption of my sources and beliefs.
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The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records, by George Rawlinson, 1862, pp. 290, 291.
(Ezra and Nehemiah: Their Lives and Times, by George Rawlinson, London, 1890, pp. 21, 22)
DO YOU think of the Bible as something unrelated to the real world? A lot of people feel this way.
It is noteworthy, however, that a respected scholar, Oxford University Professor George Rawlinson, M.A., pointed out that because of the factual nature of the Bible, Christianity ?is in nothing more distinguished from the other religions of the world than in its objective or historical character.? Did you realize that? Now, this is not true of every doctrine taught by all the groups that claim to be Christian. But it is true that the Christianity taught in the Bible itself is based on facts, not myths. This is because the Bible tells about real people who lived at particular times in precise locations.
*** si Study Number 10?The Bible?Authentic and True ***
24 (9) Integrity of Witnesses. Of the weight that may be accorded the testimony of early Christians?the writers of the Christian Scriptures as well as others?George Rawlinson says: ?The early converts knew that they might at any time be called upon to undergo death for their religion. . . . Every early writer advocating Christianity, by the fact of his advocacy, braved the civil power, and rendered himself liable to a similar fate. When faith is a matter of life and death, men do not lightly take up with the first creed which happens to hit their fancy; nor do they place themselves openly in the ranks of a persecuted sect, unless they have well weighed the claims of the religion which it professes, and convinced themselves of its being the truth. It is clear that the early converts had means of ascertaining the historic accuracy of the Christian narrative very much beyond ourselves; they could examine and cross-question the witnesses?compare their several accounts?inquire how their statements were met by their adversaries?consult Heathen documents of the time?thoroughly and completely sift the evidence. . . . All this together?and it must be remembered that the evidence is cumulative?constitutes a body of proof such as is seldom producible with respect to any events belonging to remote times; and establishes beyond all reasonable doubt the truth of the Christian Story. In no single respect . . . has that story a mythic character. It is a single story, told without variation, whereas myths are fluctuating and multiform; it is blended inextricably with the civil history of the times, which it every where represents with extraordinary accuracy, whereas myths distort or supersede civil history; it is full of prosaic detail, which myths studiously eschew; it abounds with practical instruction of the plainest and simplest kind, whereas myths teach by allegory. . . . Simple earnestness, fidelity, painstaking accuracy, pure love of truth, are the most patent characteristics of the New Testament writers, who evidently deal with facts, not with fancies . . . They write ?that we may know the certainty of those things? which were ?most surely believed? in their day.??Compare Luke 1:1, 4.
25 An enthralling field covered by the Bible is that of divine prophecy. The authenticity of the Bible has been in no way as strikingly demonstrated as in the fulfillment of numerous prophecies, all showing the remarkable forevision of Jehovah in foretelling the future. This prophetic Word is indeed ?a lamp shining in a dark place,? and paying attention to it will strengthen the faith of those who desire to survive until all Kingdom prophecy is fulfilled in God?s everlasting new world of righteousness. The three tables that follow add further proof of the Bible?s authenticity in showing many of these prophetic fulfillments, as well as the harmony of the entire Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. With the passage of time, the Bible shines forth more and more brilliantly as being truly ?inspired of God and beneficial.??2 Pet. 1:19; 2 Tim. 3:16.
[Footnotes]
The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records, 1862, George Rawlinson, pages 54, 254-8.
1871, pages 29-31.
The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records, pages 25-6.
Sinai and Palestine, 1885, pages 82-3.
Reader?s Digest, March 1954, pages 27, 30.
1984, page 24.
1968, pages 4-5.
The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1855, Vol. 15, page 232.
Insight on the Scriptures, Vol. 2, page 246.
Insight on the Scriptures, Vol. 1, pages 555-6, 1035.
Wine as Food and Medicine, 1954, page 5.
1955, pages 211-13.
The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records, page 290.
The Bible?God?s Word or Man?s?, pages 12-36.
The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records, pages 225, 227-8.