here i go again!!!!!think about it what makes an actor,popstar,author,etc popular, them or its believers i mean cmon anything sells today even if its crap,people go on and on about the bible being inspired and beneficial for teaching but are other self help books inspired or are counselers or therapists inspired so back to the question is the bible inspired by god or mans imagination?
Is the bible really inspired ??
by master chief 12 Replies latest jw friends
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Fredhall
Inspired by God
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DazedAndConfused
I believe that it is inspired by God...just as love song/poem is inspired by the person it was intended for. In other words, I think that their love for God inspired these men to write about Him. I don't believe that, other than the hand of God writing the 10 Commandments on the tablets, God had a hand in the writings of the Bible.
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Adonai438
I believe in fact only- and fact and proof show that yes, the Bible is inspired by God. I don't take that statement lightly-- There is so much proof for it that there is no room on here to go through it all. There is not any errors in the Bible as some accuse- the sad thing being that most of the people that claim that have not even read it (I mean it as in the whole thing or most of it not just a few passages). There is no othe historical document to date that has lasted unchanged, scientificly supported and archeologicly proven since its original writting. I won't go into details cuz no one asked to hear them but I have some great books on the topic that are very researched and easy reading that I can mail (free :) ) to anyone that wants to read up on it. Have fun <>< Angie
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rem
There is no othe historical document to date that has lasted unchanged, scientificly supported and archeologicly proven since its original writting. I won't go into details cuz no one asked to hear them
I'd love to hear the details...
Please post them here, if you would.
rem
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
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Francois
If you mean was each and every word dictated by the spirit of God whispering in the ear of the writer, NO.
If you mean the writers at least knew ABOUT the spirit, probably so.
If you're talking about the old testament. NO on both counts.
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Mr Bean
IMHO, any material written by God should have some information
which beyond any doubts would be out from this Earth.That would be a geographical, scientifically correct or prophetic information
which could be not just a guess.Jesus' prophecies are not very reviling and today any person can use Jesus prophecies and fit in any period of time.
Read prophecies of Mother Shipton.
In these ones are clear indication that such information’s are impossible to just dream out
It is an result of sick mind.It looks like someone is trying to tell us what he actually saw and tried hard to use the language which would be understood by people of all times.
In the Bible is almost nothing this kind and that makes me wonder, why?
God of the Bible had no idea?
Some passages of Isaiah and especially Revelation do contains some things which have some very strong indication that this info comes from God.
But, compare this with Shipton?
And now a word, in uncouth rhyme
Of what whall be in future time
Then upside down the world shall be
And gold found at the root of tree
All England's sons that plough the land
Shall oft be seen with Book in hand
The poor shall now great wisdom know
Great houses stand in farflung vale
All covered o'er with snow and hail
A carriage without horse will go
Disaster fill the world with woe.
In London, Primrose Hill shall be
In centre hold a Bishop's See
Around the world men's thoughts will fly
Quick as the twinkling of an eye.
And water shall great wonders do
How strange. And yet it shall come true.
Through towering hills proud men shall ride
No horse or ass move by his side.
Beneath the water, men shall walk
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall even talk.
And in the air men shall be seen
In white and black and even green
A great man then, shall come and go
For prophecy declares it so.
In water, iron, then shall float
As easy as a wooden boat
Gold shall be seen in stream and stone
In land that is yet unknown.
And England shall admit a Jew
You think this strange, but it is true
The Jew that once ws held in scorn
Shall of a Christian then be born.
A house of glass shall come to pass
In England. But Alas, alas
A war will follow with the work
Where dwells the Pagan and the Turk
These states will lock in fiercest strife
And seek to take each others life.
When North shall thus divide the south
And Eagle build in Lions mouth
Then tax and blood and cruel war
Shall come to every humble door.
Three times shall lovely sunny France
Be led to play a bloody dance
Before the people shall be free
Three tyrant rulers shall she see.
Three rulers in succession be
Each springs from different dynasty.
Then when the fiercest strife is done
England and France shall be as one.
The British olive shall next then twine
In marriage with a german vine.
Men walk beneath and over streams
Fulfilled shall be their wondrous dreams.
For in those wondrous far off days
The women shall adopt a craze
To dress like men, and trousers wear
And to cut off their locks of hair
They'll ride astride with brazen brow
As witches do on broomstick now.
And roaring monsters with man atop
Does seem to eat the verdant crop
And men shall fly as birds do now
And give away the horse and plough.
There'll be a sign for all to see
Be sure that it will certain be.
Then love shall die and marriage cease
And nations wane as babes decrease
And wives shall fondle cats and dogs
And men live much the same as hogs.
In nineteen hundred and twenty six
Build houses light of straw and sticks.
For then shall mighty wars be planned
And fire and sword shall sweep the land.
When pictures seem alive with movements free
When boats like fishes swim beneath the sea,
When men like birds shall scour the sky
Then half the world, deep drenched in blood shall die.
For those who live the century through
In fear and trmbling this shall do.
Flee to the mountains and the dens
To bog and forest and wild fens.
For storms will rage and oceans roar
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore
And as he blows his wondrous horn
Old worlds die and new be born.
A fiery dragon will cross the sky
Six times before this earth shall die
Mankind will tremble and frightened be
for the sixth heralds in this prophecy.
For seven days and seven nights
Man will watch this awesome sight.
The tides will rise beyond their ken
To bite away the shores and then
The mountains will begin to roar
And earthquakes split the plain to shore.
And flooding waters, rushing in
Will flood the lands with such a din
That mankind cowers in muddy fen
And snarls about his fellow men.
He bares his teeth and fights and kills
And secrets food in secret hills
And ugly in his fear, he lies
To kill marauders, thieves and spies.
Man flees in terror from the floods
And kills, and rapes and lies in blood
And spilling blood by mankinds hands
Will stain and bitter many lands
And when the dragon's tail is gone,
Man forgets, and smiles, and carries on
To apply himself - too late, too late
For mankind has earned deserved fate.
His masked smile - his false grandeur,
Will serve the Gods their anger stir.
And they will send the Dragon back
To light the sky - his tail will crack
Upon the earth and rend the earth
And man shall flee, King, Lord, and serf.
But slowly they are routed out
To seek diminishing water spout
And men will die of thirst before
The oceans rise to mount the shore.
And lands will crack and rend anew
You think it strange. It will come true.
And in some far off distant land
Some men - oh such a tiny band
Will have to leave their solid mount
And span the earth, those few to count,
Who survives this (unreadable) and then
Begin the human race again.
But not on land already there
But on ocean beds, stark, dry and bare
Not every soul on Earth will die
As the Dragons tail goes sweeping by.
Not every land on earth will sink
But these will wallow in stench and stink
Of rotting bodies of beast and man
Of vegetation crisped on land.
But the land that rises from the sea
Will be dry and clean and soft and free
Of mankinds dirt and therefore be
The source of man's new dynasty.
And those that live will ever fear
The dragons tail for many year
But time erases memory
You think it strange. But it will be.
And before the race is built anew
A silver serpent comes to view
And spew out men of like unknown
To mingle with the earth now grown
Cold from its heat and these men can
Enlighten the minds of future man.
To intermingle and show them how
To live and love and thus endow
The children with the second sight.
A natural thing so that they might
Grow graceful, humble and when they do
The Golden Age will start anew.
The dragons tail is but a sign
For mankinds fall and man's decline.
And before this prophecy is done
I shall be burned at the stake, at one
My body singed and my soul set free
You think I utter blasphemy
You're wrong. These things have come to me
This prophecy will come to be. -
gumby
Angie:..I believe in fact only- and fact and proof show that yes, the Bible is inspired by God.
Amen sister!!!!!!!!!!!! -
Carmel
FRED inspires me!
caveman
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ballistic
ok, here's my uninspired opinion: I believe the Bible is a good book and part of my JW brain washing which is still active will still not allow me to show it disrespect. THe power of the mind is a strange thing. However, I believe that if you were to sit down and write a novel with God and life as the theme, would you make up events and say th Romans invaded Britain in 2001 and the American Cival War was in 1501? No, why would you even think of doing that? You would make it as acurate as possible. I have read many a novel based on true facts which if read in 5000 years time would most certainly pass for extremely accurate historical documents. Therefore I see many things in the British museum which relate to the the bible and many archaeological and geographical proofs of what an important book the bible is, however, I no longer believe in the God of the old testament, or in any possibility that it was written by such a God. After all, why would God write a book for us, mostly written in cryptic signs and leave it to imperfect humans to interpret it. If God wanted to talk to us, is he not powerfull enough? Why would God hide? When you step back and consider the full reality of what we ascribe to God, I can actually see it as demeaning and disrespectfull for us to place such limitations on God.