God and the Bible

People seem to make the false assumption that the Bible and God are interchangeable. God didn't write the Bible. The Bible was written by scribes many years after the events being described.It is my belief that the Bible was written by people with the knowledge of a number of scattered factual events that happened many years prior to the time of writing. Without having any way of linking this events together, fiction was introduced to fill the gaps, with the belief that it could not be disproved as no-one would no any better. This is why the Bible appears to be written from the perspective of a person living in the same time that it was written. There appears to be no knowledge of any other places in the Universe other than the Middle East. Nowadays people often say that the text needs to be translated to suit modern society. Why, if the Bible was written by God would it not be suited to all people from all cultures for all time, as God is all knowing?Having said this, simply by showing that the Bible is severely flawed as a document of factual history, does not have any bearing on the idea of the existence of God. It simply means that God did not write the Bible.

Hello Mytym: I agree that God didn't write the Bible. In fact I strongly believe that anything written anywhere is the result of the inspiration and hand of man. One evening, after listening to a report of an indefensible defense of Biblical literalism within three minutes I created two new hypotheses for the nature and designs of God. I won't repeat them here because I don't want them to be picked up by opportunistic New Agers and turned into the newest cult. The point is, it doesn't take divine inspiration or revelation to create a belief system, as science fiction writers do it all the time (see CALCULATING GOD.) I'm a non-believer myself but I am constantly searching every avenue for support and flaws in my ideas. Don't know what you may or may not have read, but I have found GOD - A BRIEF HISTORY by John Bowker to be a good source for information rounding out the total human experience of defining the idea of God.My own feeling is that the idea of God is a naturally occuring result of our minds' need for order and continuance. The idea of the soul is also similarly naturaly occuring and also because once a mind becomes conscious and sentient it has very great difficulty contemplating it's own non-existence.Let's all work for peace in the coming days so that we may debate this.

the Bible is the Word of God written in the Words of Man.just that. [This message has been edited by amai, 05-23-2003][This message has been edited by amai, 05-23-2003]

I thought Jesus was the word of God?------------------
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