The Bible is it a myth and folklore or the words of GOD???
@4skaisthelimit (412)
Niger
April 29, 2007 2:39pm CST
The bible was written and rewritten so many times no one can tell what was in the original.
Today could the vatican prove the existence of the original bible???
To report to Israel finkelstein that have archeology profs that Israel where not as big as what it's about in the bible and the last documentary of James Cameron about the discovery of the lost tomb of jesus,I'm just asking if the bible is words of God???why can't the vatican open their libraries for the Humanity to know about the original bible???
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@DesigningLife (903)
• United States
29 Apr 07
I don't have an opinion about James Cameron or his "findings", but I have studied religions and the origins of biblical texts for some time.
From my studies, I have learned the bible is the rewritten mythology of Horus, the sun god (son of god), that around the time of Constantine the roman empire was looking to create a following and the books to be included in the bible in order to "convert" people were actually 'voted on' by a group including people from many religious followings, including paganism. Mithraism played a large role in the bible we have today.
Our forefathers were deists (not theists) and stated time and again that the bible was a "blasphemous injustice to God".
Personally, I love the morals, some of the stories, poems, and parables, but after years of studying, I have no reason to believe they came from any "God". They are man-made.
Did you know there are 19 major world religions, divided into 270 large (and some smaller) religioius groups? Among them there are at least 34,000 differing "Christian groups" - over a thousand of these in the US and Canada alone?
I think we are all deeply connected LONG before the concept of religious division even enters the picture, and that our religious divisions IS THE CAUSE of our inability to stop judging and warring upon one another.
@4skaisthelimit (412)
• Niger
29 Apr 07
I've not study the religion,and don't have the opportunity to,I'm just an African that come to the fact that Chinese have their own religion and no one say it's from Satan,Indy have their own and again nobody come with the fact that it's from the devil even christian do respect them Why do the Humanity just don't have any respect to my people's way of worshiping God in their Vodoo rites???
I've not choose to be christian my parents show me the religion and from what I've leaned from them and for my experience with the religion I just come to the fact that too much have been hidden to us.
@DesigningLife (903)
• United States
29 Apr 07
Although I am having trouble understanding your post, I have to say it is not right to tell anyone their ways of practicing spirituality are wrong simply because they are different from others.
I do not ever see people who practice Voodoo trying to tell the rest of the world they are "wrong" for doing something else in the way that Christians often do.
Until I met you today, I never knew anyone who practiced or was knowledgable about voodoo. I do not have a negative opinion about it.
I think that before we choose any religious paths, we are all connected on much deeper levels, and too many allow their religions to divide them from these connections and from others....leading to warring, disapproval, judgment, etc that never ends in something "good".
I hope that helps to answer your question.
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
30 Apr 07
i read the bible very much. i happen to have faith in its truth and origins. i believe that the people who wrote the books in it were guided by God in so doing. i believe that God the Father has sent God the Son in order to save the world from sin. happy are those who have faith and have found peace in their lives while living in this earth. it is really difficult to make people understand fully about the bible and then be able to plant the seeds of faith at the same time. anyway, each one of us has our chosen path.
@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
30 Apr 07
of course, all the written books in the bible were truly written at their respective times. these were unearthed in the caves mostly. the caves were scattered in various places of the world. these books were open to scrutiny of those who were tasked to interpret them and then to make the appropriate translation. these books, the original, are well protected now for obvious reasons.
