Is there anything in the Bible that makes you believe that some or all the writings in the bible are inspired from God?
Bible is inspired of God??????
by Crazyguy 23 Replies latest jw friends
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cantleave
Nothing at all.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
It must be inspired because it says so right there in the Bible....
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Witness My Fury
No.
Peel away the layers ...
That's a no.
Understand the history and background to when by who and why it was written.
Defo a no.
Drop the logical fallacies ...
Hell no.
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cofty
Oh my god no! Have you read that shit?
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jam
From Christian International....Think about this, 66 books written on 3
different continents, written by 40 different authors, over 1500 years,
in 3 different languages. These collection of books shares a common
storyline and a common message. In addition to sharing these
commonalities, these 66 books contain no historical errors (LOL) or
contradictions.
He challenged a student to go to any library in the world, you can choose
any library you like, and find 66 books which match the characteristics
of the 66 books of the Bible. You must choose 66 books, written by 40
different authors, over 1500 years, in 3 different languages, written on
3 continents. However they must share a common storyline, a common
theme, and a common message, with no historical errors or contradictions.
If you can produce such a collection of books, He will admit that the Bible
is not inspired.
The student reply, "that's impossible". LOL
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whathappened
No, absolutely nothing!
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Crazyguy
Jam, there is contradictions, unless you believe Jesus came back in the first century and all that was written in Revelation was fulfilled. I'm starting to think that these books were written then re written for the benefit of the priest and some followers of the religion of the jews. Just look at the differences from the Masoretic texts and the dead sea scrolls, it becomes clear that they were once polytheists and then later monotheists and trying to hide their polytheism.
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transhuman68
Yes, it seems to be true that much of the Hebrew Scriptures were written/ rewritten in Babylon, and/ or just after the Jews returned to Jerusalem from exile. That gave much of the OT a common theme; but even in the Greek Scriptures (the NT) much has been copied again; for example- although Revelation seems so bizarre that it must be inspired, it actually uses a lot of imagery from Ezekiel. It does get complicated, but there is an explanation for it all, LOL.
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Phizzy
If it was inspired by god it would be accurate in all details, and it would contain some piece of knowledge that the writer himself could not have known at the time.
Unless you pretend that books were written before they really were, there is simply no such knowledge, not one bit.
What is worse, is when the Bible touches on matters Scientific, it gets them wrong !!
Notice in 1 Kings 7 v23 , where it describes the dimensions of the "molten sea", the big basin that was used in the Temple, the writer obviously has no concept of the value of Pie, 22 divided by 7, so gets the circumference wrong. (There are lots of convoluted explanations for this error by Bible apologists, but it still is evident god did not inspire the writer to get that detail right, strange a ?)
There are many more examples like this.
Inspired by god ? the concept of god held at the time by the uneducated sheep-herder or nomad who wrote maybe "inspired"him to write his rubbish, but no more than that.