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Aside from the Bible, How can we learn about God?

The only "Proof" that the Bible is the Word of God is the CLAIM that the Bible is the word of God -- Where is this claim upheld? -- In the BIBLE! (By that same logic, I am God because I say so! Oh, darn, now I have to smite myself with a thunderbolt for blaspheming my Holy Self!)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It is the same reason that your alibi cannot support itself in court. A claim cannot support itself, a book cannot prove its own validity, and a lie cannot become truth no matter how many sheep follow your false words. Hail thyself :)

  • 1 decade ago

    Hmm most ancient creation stories can be separated into three groups that are still the three groups today. We have the australian that seriously paints the picture of evolution, we have creation from the "cosmos", and the rest are creation stories that all have a messiah. The prophesy of the messiah is seen in many other ancient cultures besides the Hebrew culture. This is even in the Bible, being that the Persian astrologers found Christ as a baby. They knew of the saturn occulation that would happen over bethlehem, and this is found in their Zoroastrian text Vendidad. They found Christ without a Bible.

  • Sergio
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The Bible is proved when it is lived out. Also, for one who REALLY is interested in finding God, He allows His Spirit to assist the seeker to find His Way and His Presence.

    On a lower level, many addicts have denied being helped through AA or NA. However the Principles only work for those who SERIOUSLY apply them; there's no understanding without application.

    If you objectively look at Nature, you must stand in Awe of the Creation. Just like a good book makes one admire the one who wrote / created it, Creation is a masterpiece to savor. A aesthetic soul will be inspired to know the One with such multifaceted expressions!!

  • 1 decade ago

    just look around you at the beautiful world God created and.... oh sh*t, is that a mountain lion eating a gopher! ...Anyways, um, the bible also says that creation gives us a glimpse of its creator. first of all, if that's the case I shudder to think what that creator is like!

    second, I look, and I see no proof. Things that make me wonder if MAYBE there's something out there, but certainly no specific proof that the biblical god is the one. So looking to nature does not do anything to strengthen one's faith in the Christian god. Yes, the bible is the only thing that we have to tell us the bible is the way. Not much to go on.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The American Association of Clinical Anatomists awarded Dr. Moore with their Honored Member Award (in 1994). In 2007, the American Association of Anatomists awarded him with the first Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award.

    Who is Moore?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_L._Moore

    "It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur'an about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God, or Allah."

    Professor Moore also stated that:

    "...Because the staging of human embryos is complex, owing to the continuous process of change during development, it is proposed that a new system of classification could be developed using the terms mentioned in the Qur'an and Sunnah. The proposed system is simple, comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge.

    "The intensive studies of the Qur'an and Hadith in the last four years have revealed a system of classifying human embryos that is amazing since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D... the descriptions in the Qur'an cannot be based on scientific knowledge in the seventh century..."

    Who can tell all this about Embryology1400 Years ago?

    http://www.islamicmedicine.org/embryoengtext.htm

    http://www.islamicmedicine.org/

  • 1 decade ago

    God doesn't punish anyone for anything. He's not going to smite you or anyone.

    Grace is a choice, you don't have to receive it and obviously you don't want it. That's fine, but some people do choose to receive it. And it's possible for both parties to lead fulfilling lives. It's a CHOICE. You either choose it or you don't. There's no need to mock the people that want it.

    God's not going to punish you for anything.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, indeed, for as God is not an old man living in the sky, but Divine Consciousness, of which all sentient Beings, including us, are part, it is possible to sit quietly, to still the mind and go within, and then gradually an awareness of God within us will grow..

    Our *aliveness*, consciousness and conscience are all aspects of that which we call God which are within each one of us!..That*s why we were advised to listen to *the still small voice (of God) within*.

    The phrase *Be still and KNOW (that I am God)* then takes on new meaning...

  • Ernie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    If you seek Him, you will find Him, and He will reveal Himself to you. No other book has so many prophecies been fulfilled, and there are many more to yet be fulfilled. You can read about who God is and what He has done starting in Job 38.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hallucinogenic mushrooms. Psychedelic drugs. Anything else that does the same sort of things.

    Source(s): Just spreading the Good News. May Raptor Jesus be with you, my child.
  • 1 decade ago

    • Jesus is Allah's prophet to lead the jews at that time to worship the one & only god Allah

    & Muhammad peace be upon him is the last prophet & islam is the true religion

    Allah created the universe as we know it Stars,Planets, galaxies & so on who made the earth revolve around itself to make day & night

    who created the sun to make life supported on earth

    Allah is so big to create these things & manage every soul & creation in the same time that's called god

    allah is so big that we humans with our weak brains can't realize it !!

    only people feel Allah influence in their lives

    Allah directs us in every way !! allah protects you all the way

    Allah sent prophets all over history to let you know him & worship him

    can't you see every thing all around you !! who created teeth for us to chew food to make easy to the stomach to digest who created eyes to let us see the world around us ???

    do you think that a god who created life to Re-tribute every soul for it's behave & whether it follows it's prophet or denies the one & only god & wreaks havoc on earth ...can this god sends a son to die for our sins ???

    it is so illogical

    mind discards this by all means

    my friend learn about islam you won't lose anything

    consider it general knowledge

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