The Bible is, what it simply IS. A story with Inspiring life lessons, A heroic Main character & Amazing quotes?

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2012-11-02 08:35:22 UTC

What others believe has little bearing on how you believe.

Intelligence or education is not what saves us.

The message of Jesus Christ is to love God with all your heart, soul and might and your neighbor as yourself. He encourages us to walk in forgiveness toward God and ourselves.

Some atheists want Christians to be bound by the Old Testament authors and their writings.

Humans make mistakes and misunderstand .Jesus came to show us what the Father is really like.

I have no problems with JWs, Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals , Presbyterians and most of them have different church structures and some core beliefs that are not the same.

It doesn't matter . What matters is rather we choose to love people or retaliate . It matters if we are dishonest. It matters if we are unable to treat all people with love and respect.

There is that old story about the blind people all touching a different part of the elephant. One this it is like a snake because of the trunk. Another feels the hair and imagines an animal that is covered with hair. We all have a different piece of the puzzle.

I don't see how that negates the existence of God. The Bible is clear that we are not here to judge others People are never going to be perfect irregardless of their belief structure.

Lindsay

2012-11-02 08:22:56 UTC

You are trying to justify being gay, but you will not be able to stand before God someday and say that you could not believe in Him because of Christians or Jehovah's Witnesses.

You live in a generation that walked on the moon. Has the capacity to blow up the planet. Sent ships to other planets and brought back rocks.

You can travel faster than the speed of sound. Talk to people on the other side of the world in real time. If your organs fail you can get replacements.

There is nothing in the Bible more incredible than the things you see every day.

agape

2012-11-02 08:24:55 UTC

First of all no one can convert anyone....what do we do when we want to learn about something?....we do all we can to research etc....same with the Bible....you have to research it until YOU get a satisfactory answer from it and not what someone says.....you can look up secular information as to the customs back in Jesus's day....you can also look up information on where the cross teaching came into play....It all boils down to how you really view the Bible and if you really believe their is a living God who is using this venue to direct even modern day mankind. Don't forget the most powerful proof that the Bible is inspired and that is prophecy....start with that first and I guarantee that you will be convinced it is true.

?

2012-11-02 08:57:31 UTC

The bible is compilation of stories, historical events, and religious progression covering over 4000 years of one tribe of mankind. Israel.

What is astounding about this tribe, is that even 2000 years after their story and religious dogma was fairly set in stone, they (Israel) are still making waves historically and religiously today. How anyone would not be interested in such a publicized and controversial history is beyond me.

Like a puzzle if you can discern what other tribes were doing during the writing and compilation of these stories, you might very well get a true picture of ALL mankind's progression or should I say regression into their chosen God forms.

To me the book is far to interesting to dismiss as just poppycock, without examining all it's claims and resultant interpretations.

?

2012-11-02 08:31:30 UTC

an honest study into the hisotry of the bible will show how it was written, changed over time, parsed, etc by leaders and gnostics.

Matt mark Luke John all written on paper decades after the events occured

Moses writing styles differing so vastly from book to book of his writings

the 3 different "Paul's" as shown by his writing styles

the counsel of Nicea picking 1 Revelation out of 15 different gnostic books of the apocolypes

etc etc.

While I am very interested in the bible from a stand point of intellectual curiousity, it's certianly not divine.

*bRiTiSh*

2012-11-02 08:31:26 UTC

Inspiring life lessons? You mean like the ones that all those drowned in the Noah's Ark story learned? Or those characters mauled by bears? What about all the incest etc?

Heroic main character? Are you talking about Jesus? How is he heroic? Christians say that Jesus was sacrificed to "save" people from "hell" but erm wait a sec, do they forget that as they also say Jesus is "god" that he would of been the one who would of created this place in the first place???? Jesus' message is one of believe or burn for all of eternity, I don't consider that loving or inspirational in any way, it's horrifying!

Amazing quotes? Like these:

Exodus 21:20-21 "If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property."

Leviticus 20:9 "If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death."

Leviticus 20:13 "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death."

Deuteronomy 22:20-1 "If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house."

Just sayin......

?

2012-11-02 09:02:27 UTC

Know this, Kianna:

(Galatians 6:7, 8) Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap; 8 because he who is sowing with a view to his flesh will reap corruption from his flesh, but he who is sowing with a view to the spirit will reap everlasting life from the spirit.

What is our obligation to God? He tells us:

(Ecclesiastes 12:13) The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the [true] God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole [obligation] of man.

So what does these two scriptures mean to you or anyone? #1 We need to have a view to the spirit and not to the flesh. This means we need to be holy and have a Christ like personality for this is acceptable to God. Jesus was self sacrificing and gave up all desires to please his Father and to do his will. He said so numerous of times. He was given life as a man to also be a role model for us to follow his footsteps closesly (1 Peter 2:21). #2 We are to obey ALL of God's commandments for that is our obligation. We are not to pick only the ones that suit our lifestyle and disregard the rest. If it states that the commandment is not to be a fornicator for they will not inherit his Kingdom, then we are to obey regardless if straight or gay.

There were many who became Jehovah's Witness and had to conform their minds over to adhere to bible principles. Some were adulterers, some were promiscuous, and some were homosexuals. It is the practice that they had to bring under self-control in order to be approved by God.

The point is you will never achieve full spiritual happiness if you are not following God's commandments. You will not benefit spiritual freedom if you are breaking his laws. You can believe what Jehovah's Witnesses believe and you will still not achieve a spiritual awakening or inspiration if you are not obeying his commandments.

You don't think so? Look what God said to Saul who would not obey his commandments but still try to do burnt offerings.

1 Samuel 15:22 "In turn Samuel said: “Does Jehovah have as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Look! To obey is better than a sacrifice, to pay attention than the fat of rams; 23 for rebelliousness is the same as the sin of divination, and pushing ahead presumptuously the same as [using] uncanny power and teraphim. Since you have rejected the word of Jehovah, he accordingly rejects you from being king"

Your sacrifice to Jehovah would be learning his word and finding the truth. This means nothing to him if you are not going to obey his commandments. The same was with Cain. He offered but his heart was towards fleshly desires and Jehovah would not accept his offering.

What can we learn? You need to conform your life in harmony with God's commandments before you can do any type of praising or sacrificing. I gave you scriptures, it is up to you to exercise your free will to choose to obey Jehovah or not.

www.jw.org if you wish to learn more about the bible.

2012-11-02 08:33:30 UTC

you can trust the words of jesus as life and truth. john 8.32 to 36. he is divine and that is shown from john 1, rev 1, phil 2, heb 1. on what kind of wood he died on isnt important. the fact is he died for our sins, was buried and rose again for our justification and salvation. receive jesus today! rev 3.20. groundwire.net

2012-11-02 08:22:47 UTC

The bible is a retarded book of totally absurd, primitive, religious fairy tale nonsense!!

The only thing it's good for is to use the pages for toilet paper! I wouldn't even let my dogs chew on that disgusting book of repulsiveness!!- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkXOwBIRX7Y

RAO M.K.

2012-11-02 08:21:44 UTC

Not only The Holy Bible, but all relics say which is good and which is bad. One should use his conscience to find out which is good and which is bad.

?

2012-11-02 08:22:35 UTC

Christians are notorious for persecuting and killing homosexuals

Why anyone would find inspiration in their hateful scripture is beyond me...

Sara

2016-05-18 01:55:27 UTC

i WISH it would be a happy ending, but my screenplay would be based on a true story

?

2012-11-02 08:20:51 UTC

I don't share your feelings about the bible, have you read the old testament? I can fully understand why someone Gay would not want to be Christian or Muslim, it's a sin to be Gay, according to them.

If you want to believe in a god, that's fine, but why do you need any kid of religion at all? It's fake and for the most part sick.

Just enjoy your life and Relax.

Bongo McGurk

2012-11-02 08:20:58 UTC

the content of the bible ranges from sound moral guidance to outright insanity - it is ok taking the sound bits as a basis for life but it is ridiculous to think the bible is anything other than a human created text about a human invented god as that part is pure mythology

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2012-11-02 08:18:42 UTC

"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head, And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of THE LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." -- 2 Kings 2:23-24

cryptic_non_sequitur

2012-11-02 08:19:03 UTC

your standards for 'inspiring', 'heroic' and 'amazing' are very low ... on a par with a child who still believes in fairy tales ...

Mohammad Naseem

2012-11-02 08:27:08 UTC

biblel is full of scientific errors so that's why several people embrace islam because of its scientific authentications

2012-11-02 08:20:24 UTC

Question?????