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As a Christian do you believe in.....(Part 2)
- Thread starter Bishka
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I believe the Bible is God inspired but Jesus is The Word of God. I didn't vote.
Could you clarify this? I also believe the Bible makes it clear that Christ is The Word, and that the Bible was written by men inspired by God, but how is this different from the Bible being the word of God? Are you just taking the question more literally than I am?
Yes, I am taking the question more literally. 
James the Persian
Dreptcredincios Crestin
I can't vote either, due to the capitalisation. I could talk of the Bible as the word of God, as it is God inspired, but the Word of God was Incarnate as a man, and is not a text, so I abstain.
James
James
Gino Cerutti
Italian
Perhaps God speaks in the Bible but there are in the Bible texts that aren't Word of God, for example:
May the Lord bless everyone who beats your children
against the rocks!
Psalms 137,9
Simone Weil wrote in "Letter to a priest":
If we take a moment in history anterior to Christ (… at that moment Israel has less of share in god and in divine truth than several of the surrounding peoples (India, Egypt, Greece, China). For the essential truth concerning god is that he is good. To believe that God can order men to commit atrocious acts on injustice and cruelty is the greatest mistake it is possible to make with regard to Him.
May the Lord bless everyone who beats your children
against the rocks!
Psalms 137,9
Simone Weil wrote in "Letter to a priest":
If we take a moment in history anterior to Christ (…
at that moment Israel has less of share in god and in divine truth than several of the surrounding peoples (India, Egypt, Greece, China). For the essential truth concerning god is that he is good. To believe that God can order men to commit atrocious acts on injustice and cruelty is the greatest mistake it is possible to make with regard to Him.
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Dunemeister
Well-Known Member
I believe the bible is the Word of God (capitals and all!). However, I am not a fundamentalist. I take the scriptures to be something like a five-act play. Four acts are complete, but the fifth act is not. We only have snippets of the end of the final act. Our job, as actors, is to creatively fill in that gap. Of course, we have the Author to assist us in this.
I like this picture because it leaves room for creativity. And it makes sense of the bible as a narrative. Parts of that narrative, although important to the overall story, are no longer relevant to this part of the narrative. Thus I don't have to obey the Mosaic Law, for instance; that was an earlier act. That act was important, crucially so, but to act out the missing part of the play, my job is not simply to repeat previous acts.
This picture also gives an interesting and useful sense of how the bible -- a series of stories -- can be authoritative. To fill in the missing part of the play, I can't simply do whatever I want. Given what we know about the ending and the first four acts, there is such a thing as an appropriate gap-filling. Or at least there are a range of possibilities for filling in that gap that are more or less appropriate (perhaps there's no one final way it must be done).
In any case, this view preserves authority (God-given, God-authored, God-breathed) and humanity (human-expressed, human-acted, human-interpreted).
I like this picture because it leaves room for creativity. And it makes sense of the bible as a narrative. Parts of that narrative, although important to the overall story, are no longer relevant to this part of the narrative. Thus I don't have to obey the Mosaic Law, for instance; that was an earlier act. That act was important, crucially so, but to act out the missing part of the play, my job is not simply to repeat previous acts.
This picture also gives an interesting and useful sense of how the bible -- a series of stories -- can be authoritative. To fill in the missing part of the play, I can't simply do whatever I want. Given what we know about the ending and the first four acts, there is such a thing as an appropriate gap-filling. Or at least there are a range of possibilities for filling in that gap that are more or less appropriate (perhaps there's no one final way it must be done).
In any case, this view preserves authority (God-given, God-authored, God-breathed) and humanity (human-expressed, human-acted, human-interpreted).
I voted yes, but with the explanation that the Bible is inspired by God, and therefore the words in it can be attributed to God, the Word of God is Jesus
DadBurnett
Instigator
The question is asked AS IF there is a real something called a Bible. There is no singular thing, there is no original. The question is meaningless ... especially the second part of the question ... if it is not translated correctly (and all we have is translations of translations) how could it be "The Word of God?" On the other hand, I believe that much of the many translations are in part inspired ...
Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
There is much in the Bible that I do believe.
Un like the New testament, much of the Old testament is either law or History relating to another religion. and is not really a question of Belief, though it might well be accurate. The prophets on the other hand, still give us strong messages of faith.
The new Testament is a mixture of recollections on the life of Jesus, and his teachings.
It also contains a large number of letters written by Paul and his Own interpretations of Christianity.
Then it has books like Revelation, which is entirely mystical and very odd. Acts is rather like the historical parts of the old Testament and tells stories.
So no, I do not believe that the Bible is the word of God... Though it does contain many teachings from the Prophets and from Jesus which certainly are God Inspired.
It is the central Document of the Christian Faith.
Un like the New testament, much of the Old testament is either law or History relating to another religion. and is not really a question of Belief, though it might well be accurate. The prophets on the other hand, still give us strong messages of faith.
The new Testament is a mixture of recollections on the life of Jesus, and his teachings.
It also contains a large number of letters written by Paul and his Own interpretations of Christianity.
Then it has books like Revelation, which is entirely mystical and very odd. Acts is rather like the historical parts of the old Testament and tells stories.
So no, I do not believe that the Bible is the word of God... Though it does contain many teachings from the Prophets and from Jesus which certainly are God Inspired.
It is the central Document of the Christian Faith.
Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
I am not sure what you are doing in a Christian Forum.
But in here we are not in the least interested in your opinion.