What should be in the bible?

sleepy

Ok. I've been thinking again (?) and wondering if I was God what would I have made shure was in the bible.
For a start I would have tried to help my human creatures fight against diseases.
It would'nt have took many pages to explian that there were such things as germs and that you needed to wash things well , and boil contaminated water etc.
This would have prevented millions of early deaths and a lot of suffering.

writerpen

I just recently learned how the Bible came to be in its form. As Witnesses, this item is never really touched on since they teach that religious leaders after the apostles' deaths were products of the devil and God was not backing them. Anyway, my priest talked about how religious leaders sat down at some council and decided which books would make up the Bible. And, they had a number of them to choose from - including writings by women. I just thought - WOW. And all these years I just assumed God just dropped the Bible out of the sky. But doesn't this prove that God was in fact working with religious leaders and that His spirit was active on earth and didn't leave for centuries and return in the late 1800's. And doesn't it suggest that God is using all religions?

Elsewhere

The Bible according to Elsewhere:

"When I say DON'T KILL, I mean DON'T KILL... well, except for in this instance or that or this other..."

Oh wait a minute... that’s already in there.

"As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible" - The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126
Believe in yourself, not mythology.
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trevor

You would think that if God could write a book to us, all those years ago - now he would have a Web site of his own. Ah! Hold on! May be he has - and he is working through simon?

sleepy

And he forgot pictures.

Hyghlandyr

Writerpen, your priest gave you just an inkling of what went into making the bible. He probably neglected to mention that which books were considered canonical continued to be argued and hotly debated for centuries. The Orthodox have 88? books in their bible. Catholics 72, and protestants 66.

The council of Nicea was a rucous event at best. There were many gospels to decide from, those eventually being boiled down to four. And that in itself is a story. Not to mention the mobs on all sides fighting and arguing, violently, with threats of great physical harm, should their particular books not be chosen.

Of course there is also the fact that the entire mythos (sacred story, as opposed to fable) of the bible is pre-existent in the notions of the most cultures and religions around the world.

Which brings up what should be in religious books LEAVE THE CHILDREN ALONE. Define a reasonable age of consent and enforce it. Rape, is against the law, period. Women are not stoned just because they do not scream, as if it is there fault. On the other hand it is balanced, if a woman consented, she is not to falsely accuse a man.

Further sex is sacred, not something demeaning or sinful. It should be between consenting adults. It is a path to the divine.

Humans are perfect, sinless, as is the rest of life. We are divine.

TexSham

I just wish Jesus hadn't tricked everything up so much. Like, he had to pay admission or a tax or something, and he sends off one of his apostles to go get a coin out of a fishes mouth! What's the point in that? To prove he's god, or god's son, fine. But, do it with some class! It's like, Jesus is doing a Barnum and Balley thing. Walking on water, raising the dead, scoring party favors for everyone gratis. Why not just tell Paul, look, Paul, write this down. Make sure everyone gets a copy, this is called, "The Theory of Relativity," by this they will know I am the one.

But, I guess he was reaching out to the trailer park witnesses, too, and needed to create a context they could comprehend. Thanks.

Elsewhere

So how do they decide which books/scriptures belong in the bible?

With this in mind, I can't help but think about the passage about all scriptures being inspired of god. Does this mean that a committee decides what is inspired and what is not? If so, what standards do they follow and where did the standards come from?

They certainly could not come from the "bible" BEFORE it is assembled based on the same standards, and they certainly would not use "worldly wisdom" to decide what is a proper standard for determining what is "inspired of god".

So how did they do it?

"As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible" - The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126
Believe in yourself, not mythology.
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What should be in the bible?

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