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An analogy to ponder?

I have a bookcase in my room. It contains various books of literature, science, history, mythology, poetry, and philosophy. In my collection of books, some are factual and some are not. A fictional book of literature is not automatically true because it is next to a factual book of science. A factual book of history cannot be dismissed as false because it is near a book of imaginative poetry.

If the Bible is a collection of books, possibly similar to the types of books on the average person's bookshelf, how can anyone consider it entirely true or entirely false?

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  • borhan
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    If u r a collecter and searching the truth than find a book about what Quran say .cz it will complete ur bible and it will tell u about Jesus ,Who send Jesus and What really happend when jesus was about to be crusified .Hope u will find the truth u r searching for

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    And a fiction book often has elements of fact in it. It may have real locations, people groups, religions, historical facts, scientific facts... it doesn't mean the entire book is fact.

    Source(s): agnostic atheist
  • 1 decade ago

    I agree! People fail to realize that the Bible is not one book but a collection of books written over thousands of years.

  • 1 decade ago

    If the Bible is the real-deal, the Word of God, then we have a book that answers the issues of life. Therefore, it is very important to determine IF the Bible is reliable. The Bible is a collection of 66 books (39 Old Testament, 27 New Testament) written over a period of 1500 years by approximately 40 different authors about creation, history, prophecy and Gods plan for all of creation. This fact is a miracle ALL by itself!

    How can 40 different authors over a period of 1500 years write a collection of work that doesn't contradict itself?? It can not do this without Divine intervention! Facts and principles such as the earth being round Isaiah 40:22 , earth being suspended in nothing Job 26:7 , valleys in the seas 2 Samuel 22:16 , sanitation Deuteronomy 23:12,13 , quarantine Leviticus 13:45-46 , and blood being the source of life Leviticus 17:11 (DNA) ALL these scientific findings were recorded in the Bible hundreds (sometimes thousands) of years before they were “discovered” by scientists. These are just a few examples, there are many, many more.

    Who else but God could have revealed such things that were unknown to man – and yet would later be discovered and confirmed? GOD knew because he created them all! Hundreds of prophecies have been documented! Prophecy is a promise from God of what is to come. Unlike other books and false religions whose predictions have come and gone (and failed) the Bible has never missed. Consider Psalm 22:12-18 which describes the crucifixion of Christ. Now consider that this book was written 1,000 years before Christ was even born, and at least 600 years before crucifixion existed! This is just ONE example regarding Jesus, there are hundreds more.

    Google "fulfilled prophecy" There are many ministries, scientists and historians whose work exclusively deals with prophecy. It seems pretty clear at this point that a book written by so many different people over such a period of time containing all of these undiscovered scientific principles and specific predictions about people, places, and events with 100% accuracy could only be the product of something supernatural - God. He tells us in 2 Timothy 3:16 that he is the author. The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947, are an overwhelming source of confirmation. These scrolls contain manuscripts about 1,000 years older than what we previously had... and they all match! It takes a lot more blind faith to ignore the Bible than it does to accept it as divine and reliable. Many intelligent and scholarly skeptics have set out to disprove the Bible and God’s existence only to find overwhelming evidence that God does exist and the Bible is His Word. Jesus says if you seek him honestly He will personally make himself known.

  • 1 decade ago

    You need to read

    Evidence for Christianity - Josh McDowell

  • 1 decade ago

    There are enough of falsehoods in the bible such that to accept it as divine truth is laughable at best.

  • 1 decade ago

    A better analogy might be one of your science or history books where each chapter is written by a different author. Do you go through the book deciding which chapters to accept and which to reject?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The books in the Bible were all written by religious zealots from a small cult. You don't really need to know much else to dismiss it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it is neither, yet both.

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