Example Genesis.
As the 'missing' elements of the Periodic Table were eventually discovered long after their predictions, likewise the provable parts of the Bible authenticate ALL of the Bible?
Anonymous
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the Bible authenticates itself to those the truly study it .. theres much much more there than is on the surface ...
Proverbs25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
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Not necessarily, without really understanding the makeup of the Bible.
Two issues come to mind --
First -- the author. If Moses wrote Genesis, from whence did he get the account? Only two possibilities come to mind:
1 - Moses received a vision of the creation and all the events found in Genesis. This may have happened for the creation and the Adam and Eve events -- through Cain, Abel and possibly even up through the flood.
2 - The stories had been passed down orally over the centuries. It is highly unlikely that the accounts were passed down in written form.
Second -- Not everything in the Bible is history. And, not everything is literal. In fact, there are plenty of examples of various forms of literature (particularly poetry) as well as literary construction. In addition, the original language words have both literal and metaphorical meanings. So, to consider everything to be literal (despite the fact that the original language words had metaphorical meanings) is to ignore the metaphorical aspect of those passages.
There are scholarly analysis which are based largely on opinion and many may or may not have validity. Therefore, a lot of the interpretation is nothing more than interpretation, especially those interpretations that are expressed by "authorities" of one kind of another.
In other words, acceptance of Biblical passages are more a matter of faith, than of fact.
Anonymous
Yes, We are WRONGLY taught that there is a 'god' beyond the horizon... Q: ''God has not spoken audibly to any of us except through Bible stories'' A: The bible stories are NOT of divine nature, they're written by other members of the same race as you & i. Q: ''What is the meaning of human life without God? There's got to be something beyond the grave to hope for''. A: Every animal has a birth & a death, the matter it is made from going back into the mix, to be recycled... Why should Humanity be any different? Oh, because people long ago, people who knew nothing about Humanity, the World & Universe said so? The same people believed We lived on a flat Earth & the stars were just above the sky remember!! .
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thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill.
and person of any faith or any sensibility can agree that these two phrases found in the bible, like many other holy texts are just and noble clauses for being human...
Indeed, there are parts of the bible that make a logical sense, that say "do good for yourself and for others."
and then there's the parts that god commands his army to burn a city, kill it's inhabitants but keep all the virgin women as "wives".
there are also the parts that speak of dragons, talking snakes, a 300-150m wooden boat fitting two of every genus of species of animal (because there can't be evilution, it would have to be EVERY form of each species) which is more than a few thousand, more than a few million, it's close to a billion, including insects and plants and including fish, segregated to their own temperature and water/PH controlled habitats, not limited to a large feeding/waste removal system for all the Billions of animal pens held in a... tiny wooden boat run by six people.... who would repopulate the world into the billions in less than 150 years... whcih goes against the laws of biology... never mind physics...
oh, and the noah's ark story would ONLY corroborate any factual evidence if, in fact, Egyptians were secretly lovecraftian fish-people who were finishing up their third of the most famous pyramids while that whole flood thing was going on... easy for amphibi-humans to completely miss the fact that they're under a kilomieter of water and crushing pressure and then completely neglect to record such events anywhere...
so... is the bible litteral fact and should we fear all egyptians summoning Cthulhu?
or does it contain a lot of falsehoods, metaphores, a FEW messages on what is the right way to live and a few messages that are, according to the christian people, "not meant for us, and were totally meant for ancient israelites and jews, honestly, would we lie to you?"
there are some messages of truth like "don't steal, don't kill." but in no way do they corroborate messages like "stone rape victims to death, stone unruly children to death."