Why Is The Bible So Revered As The "Word of GOD"?

Why is the Bible so Revered as the "Word of GOD". It's not like god wrote a book and placed it down for a prophet to find it. The bible is just stories that where told orally until someone that actually knew how to read and write turned it into a book. So how do we know The bible is not just a really famous fiction novel that a roman solider brought back to Italy and said god wrote this so follow it with me.
Because as you may notice all the origins of Christianity are based in the middle east, yet there are hardly any Christians over there.

It's easier to believe your friend won a fight if you weren't right there watching him get his ass beat. know what I mean.

^^^ Because long before Christopher Columbus and his mother was born, the book of Job said: "The earth is round and it hangs upon nothing." Job 26:7

Now you think about the implications of this statement for a moment. Advise like this is throughout the scriptures. Do you see the light?

I will hold my tongue. Now Im no expert on the Bible, but you have to have faith. I believe it is God's word through men who had stronger faith than I ever will. The middleages and even before that make it even harder to have faith because of all Katholics bs and missing an even deleted books from the Bible. Just got to have faith man.

BrotherBuz said:

^^^ Because long before Christopher Columbus and his mother was born, the book of Job said: "The earth is round and it hangs upon nothing." Job 26:7

Now you think about the implications of this statement for a moment. Advise like this is throughout the scriptures. Do you see the light?

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That's pretty interesting, but I can't reference anything stating the earth is "round".

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.


This says nothing about being round. I suppose if YOU want to interpret it that way more power to you.

saves on ink....and printing costs

Zcomfort said:

Just got to have faith man.

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What you have to do is use your intellect. For example, the Dead Sea scrolls were found in the 1940's, which chronicles many books of the bible. Some of these books date back to 300 B.C. That's damn now near the beginning of recorded human history and yet there were to discrepancies when compared with today’s Scriptures. Do you understand the implications of this?

RyanTheRhino said:

Why is the Bible so Revered as the "Word of GOD". It's not like god wrote a book and placed it down for a prophet to find it. The bible is just stories that where told orally until someone that actually knew how to read and write turned it into a book. So how do we know The bible is not just a really famous fiction novel that a roman solider brought back to Italy and said god wrote this so follow it with me.
Because as you may notice all the origins of Christianity are based in the middle east, yet there are hardly any Christians over there.

It's easier to believe your friend won a fight if you weren't right there watching him get his ass beat. know what I mean.

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beause people en mass are gullible and want to beleive in a higher power.
sometimes its easier to let someone else do the thinking for you than decide for yourself, i guess.

it must suck to be like that

BrotherBuz said:

What you have to do is use your intellect. For example, the Dead Sea scrolls were found in the 1940's, which chronicles many books of the bible. Some of these books date back to 300 B.C. That's damn now near the beginning of recorded human history and yet there were to discrepancies when compared with today’s Scriptures. Do you understand the implications of this?

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im sorry, but recorded history predates 300 bc by a cpl thousand years.

whats interesting is that modern man has been around for at least 50,000 years that we know of... Homo Sapiens... not Neanderthal...
we've only got records for maybe 7000 years at best.

thats alot of time to account for.... with a blank slate. enough time for civilization to rise and fall and have all evidence of such destroyed by natural phenomena, several times over.

let THAT cook around in your noodle for a min

HighLowGrow said:

That's pretty interesting, but I can't reference anything stating the earth is "round".

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.


This says nothing about being round. I suppose if YOU want to interpret it that way more power to you.

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This is where you have to pay attention to the "context", the original Greek and Hebrew words. Unfortunately, there are many who have “inserted” their own agenda into the scriptures, thus changing its meaning. In your case, instead of reviewing Greek and Hebrew meanings, I would just grab as many bibles as possible, then compare Job 26:7, then you will see the light.

Some translations use the word sphere instead of round - keep an open mind okay

BrotherBuz said:

What you have to do is use your intellect. For example, the Dead Sea scrolls were found in the 1940's, which chronicles many books of the bible. Some of these books date back to 300 B.C. That's damn now near the beginning of recorded human history and yet there were to discrepancies when compared with today’s Scriptures. Do you understand the implications of this?

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300 bc? Beginning of recorded history? Um, no.

Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC
Recent discoveries of Maya occupation at Cuello in Belize have been carbon dated to around 2600 BC.
There are more, Incans, some older chinese cultures, etc Granted, these are carbon dates, but their recorded history still dates to much much earlier than 300bc. Most chinese dynasty's are considerably older than that.

The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC.[3] This is the beginning of history, as opposed to prehistory, according to the definition used by most historians. "ripped from wiki"

IAm5toned said:

im sorry, but recorded history predates 300 bc by a cpl thousand years.

whats interesting is that modern man has been around for at least 50,000 years that we know of... "
let THAT cook around in your noodle for a min

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I said that 300 B.C.was damn "near" the beginning of human recorded history. Much closer than 50,000 years of human existence, which the fossil record does not support-you're dead in the water-enough said.

BrotherBuz said:

This is where you have to pay attention to the "context", the original Greek and Hebrew words. Unfortunately, there are many who have “inserted” their own agenda into the scriptures, thus changing its meaning. In your case, instead of reviewing Greek and Hebrew meanings, I would just grab as many bibles as possible, then compare Job 26:7, then you will see the light.

Some translations use the word sphere instead of round - keep an open mind okay

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Absolute rubbish!

There was no biblical Hebrew word for sphere. The closest that we can get is the word used for 'ball' in Isaiah 22:18.

Job never mentions the shape of the earth (although it does say it has 'edges'). You are thinking of Isaiah 40:22.

I think the bible is so revered to be the word of God because.................So much of the prophecy has come to pass (came true).

mindphuk said:

Absolute rubbish!

There was no biblical Hebrew word for sphere. The closest that we can get is the word used for 'ball' in Isaiah 22:18.

Job never mentions the shape of the earth (although it does say it has 'edges'). You are thinking of Isaiah 40:22.

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You sir should pay attention to the point. Okay, Job 27:4 mentions the earth is hanging upon nothing and Isaiah 40:22 says, " . . .above the circle of the earth." Some translations use the word sphere

Are you able to connect the dots?
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I have probably opened a bible 5 times in my life. These were the 5 times I have been to church. I do find the bible fascinating, but as you can see, everybody that reads the bible interprets it differently, or interprets it the way they are told to interpret it.

And then what's up with:

Whatever it was in the tree. ???
The bloody tears. ???
The old cookie or sandwich. ???
The sheet with the Jesus imprint. ???
Noah's Ark. ???

One time I saw the Easter Bunny in the clouds. Whoopty doo.

People are always looking for PROOF that they will never find. Patient - "I saw THE LIGHT during my surgery". Doctor after surgery - " maam your all done, we flicked the light switch off.

Then theres the 10% you are suppose to give to the church. Who the hell made this up? Really? Let's just say the average family makes $50,000 a year. That's 5k a year for every family that goes to church. You add it up. On top of that, you are suppose to fill the pantry? I have never figured this out. Maybe I should have asked to see the books.

The money goes where? To beautify the church? To pay the preacher? New Bibles?

The last time we went to church the preacher was basically saying that people didn't contribute enough the previous week. Too damn bad.

That was the last and final time I went.

Just being real. Am I wrong?

-HLG

chillwills said:

I think the bible is so revered to be the word of God because.................So much of the prophecy has come to pass (came true).

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For example, (732 B.C.E.) Babylon the Great, demise was foreseen 200 hundred years in advance - in detail, including who would conquer her, with dates. You can't touch that.

except for the nagging detail the prediction was written after the fact...
no matter though...it's in the surviving copies of the notes...

so it is and so it was. Good enough for most...

I predict we will have a terrorist attack within the next 25 years. And it will be al Qaeda related. While I'm predicting that, we will also see a huge earthquake in this time frame. It's in writing now. Print this out or you can purchase my book. It is all spelled out in there. Crap, I forgot about the tsunami in my book. But I was imagining one and it did happen.

If you believe in me please join my cult. Pay me and I will preach my book to you. If any of you would like to preach my book, there is a 10% franchise fee.

HighLowGrow said:

I have probably opened a bible 5 times in my life.

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Herein lies the problem. Never. . . never accept someone else’s translation of the Scripture without reading the entire bible yourself. Otherwise, you'll be a fool for life.

It is revered as God's Word only by those that believe it. Others ridicule and burn it. For me, I say if we would all just follow the 10 Commandments, we wouldn't need all the other laws we have today.