Is the Bible Really True?

[JoStories]

posting not to really discuss anything of value, but to see what kind of reaction you get.

Go to landover Baptist forums for about 30 minutes. You then know it well.

Thank you my friend. Now I am going to see more about this landover place. You have me curious.

 

[jtartar]

Just reading a really interesting book, "The Pagan Christ" by Tom Harpur. It details the many common features of the Christian myth and the early Egyptian myth of Horus, which took place several thousand years prior to the Christian faith being established. It gives a person new thought about the stories in the Bible and is a real eye-opener. The basic conclusion of the book is that the Bible is mainly myth that has been copied from earlier Egyptian writings about the Egyptian god, Horus.

Anyone else read this book? If so, what were your thoughts? From reading my description above is there anyone who feels this book is "of the devil" or just not true? And if so, why do you feel that way?

And finally, do you believe the Bible to be true? If so what proof do you have?

maggie2,
For centuries, people who do not want to believe in a God, who has the right and authority to give to state rules for their behavior, have tried to find anything that is incorrect, in God's word The Holy Bible.
Here is a warning to everyone who claims the Word of God is wrong, a myth, or not useful in our modern times. The Bible says that there is one sin that cannot be forgiven, Sin against The Holy Spirit, Matt 12:30-32. So what is The Holy Spirit?? The Holy Spirit is the power that God uses to accomplish His will!!!
Consider 2Tim 3:16,17, and 2Pet 1:20,21, where the Bible says that ALL scripture is inspired by God, and that the Holy Spirit guided the writers of God's word. So anyone who claims the Bible is myth and inaccurate is actually calling the Holy Spirit a lier. Could this be sinning against The Holy Spirit. It sure is to me.
There is so very many things that prove that The Bible is The Word of God, that I could write for several hours on the subject, but I will give only a few that any reasonable person could see, unless they are WILFULLY blind.
That the Bible as a book written by about 40 men, over a period of over 1,600 years, having a single theme, and having all these men write in complete harmony, and being correct in their writings even writing so that their words are just as true today as when they were written, and just as applicable. Impossible for men without the Holy Spirit guiding them. Today books are obsolete before they reach the book shelves, or they are proved wrong by science, but not so The Bible. So-called Higher Critics have searched and searched the scriptures, and have not found even one thing incorrect in the Bible, except, they say, some names and numbers, which are easily understood with research, because in early times people used many different names, and some common words were also used as numbers.
Bible writers never wrote the myths that were believed by their contemporaries, the received their knowledge from God, and wrote things that no man on earth knew at the time of writing, and some things only understood in modern times.
Any time the Bible mentions something pertaining to science it is always completely accurate, although not written as a science book.
Something that proves that The Bible is definitely The Word of God is the fact that about a third of the Bible is prophecy. Some of the prophecies came true quickly, some over hundreds, ever thousands of years, but every one was so accurate, that many men tried to prove that the words were written long after the prophecy had been fulfilled, but each failed.
Think!!! Without a supreme God how would it be possible for men to write correctly, every time about things that would happen so distant in the future??? This would be impossible except that the powere and wisdom came from The Omnipotent, omniscient God, whose name is Jehovah, whose name in Hebrew means, He Causes to Become. The All powerful God is the only person in existence who can rightfully carry that name!!!

 

[Nakosis]

And finally, do you believe the Bible to be true? If so what proof do you have?

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Not even sure we can trust what is reported in the news today, let alone 2000 years ago. People are raised conditioned to accept certain authority, Religion, parents, teachers, law enforcement, government, science. It's all just people, likely as imperfect as anyone.

What's important here? Some concept of truth or being able to live a happy life. I always wonder what it is that gets a person to begin to question whatever they've been taught to accept as authority. I found my fellowman to be flawed so I looked for truth in religion. Kind of hard to give up on the desire to possess the truth. Didn't find it there either. Ended up teaching my kids to be less than trustful of any authority. Will that allow them to live a happier life? Probably not.

Without authority and truth, life becomes very insecure. Maybe why we cling to these ideas so desperately.

I think the reality is that people create their own truth. About who they are, what reality is, what their purpose is in life. You destroy one illusion only to run into another. Is there really anything behind all of the smoke and mirrors? I don't know and I suspect I will never find out.

I'm ok with that. I don't need the truth to be happy. I find my happiness in family, friends and helping others where I can.

 

[outhouse]

So anyone who claims the Bible is myth and inaccurate is actually calling the Holy Spirit a lier

It is if you read the book literally which ruins the beauty.

WE happen to know that the books we have are because they became the most popular. ONLY man decided which books would be canonized.


You also contradict yourself, in that different geographic areas, have different bibles, some with more books and some with less. So that shows the spirit must be different based on where you live

Its a shame some people don't understand mythology was very important to these ancient people, and holds value.