the real story of the bible based on upon an full investigation into the history of the bible - Robert Beckworth
the second half of the new testament was written by paul wrote them far way from the holy country in Turkey. Paul was the man changed on the road to Damascas and killed many christians. He was a serial killer who wrote almost 3/4 of the new testament. What does that do the books written by him and what does that say about you have to be holy for God to speak to you. It says angels can appear to anyone and God can speak to anyone. would we give much creedence to serial killer today who wrote lots of holy books.
He never met jesus and did not write about Jesus. paul is fanatic and wrote more books in the bible than anyone else. He wrote his rule books for the early church based upon what he believed. He wrote a letters to address any problem that came up in the church. All his letters were written by a scribe. He scribe has an infuence in the writing as well. He wants to get the message of jesus to everyone. late 60s AD the was executed. All the accounts of the 4 apostle are all different in the birth of Christ and some missed out more than others and some do not talk at all about the birth of christ. If these aposales were all eye witnessess why are their accounts so different. If this was police evidence such different accounts would question what really happened.
: Who wrote the Bible?
It's a question that has preoccupied biblical scholars.
Did God say that?
The ancient texts still have power, for good and evil. It is clear from the progamme and from many books that the bible is not the word God in the same way and mnay other religons but written by peole who believed they had been inspired by God or spoken to by God. If God wanted to make sure that people heard his word he would not speak exclusively to some people who then could manipulate and change things to suit them or people in power and in ancient days Religions had a lot of power and these people high in the religious organisations had agendas and had to get people to come to church and pay money to the church using religion.
Paying Tithing is one way and saying you can only get blessings and other things if you pay your tithing is one way. If you are to pay God a 1/10 of your earnings then why are you paying it to a church and to a human. Why can you not pay 1/10 of your earnings to different charities? This is not acceptable - you have to pay it to a church who then spend it on money to stop people having abortion, or supporting the death penalty or stopping minority groups have equality. they spend millions doing this every year. Instead of helping people it goes to destroy people and not to God. "Do to others what you would like to be done to you. As you have treated others you have treated me. We are one. We are all Buddha." All phrases from different books and religons.
The work of many hands
The answer to 'Who wrote the Bible?' turns out to be simply not God, but a lot of different people and not the people it is supposed to be either.The Bible isn't a single book, but contains 66 separate books which were collected over 1,200 years and written many 1000 years after the events. With that amoun of time there are likely to be missing information and history that inaccurate and not true.. Scholars believe they were written, edited and compiled by human beings under the inspiration of God. The problem is the people who did this are not infallible or not above being bribed or corrupted into saying or changing things or taking out books that do go along with the political agenda of the church.
Take the Five Books of Moses weren't written by Moses at all, but by four anonymous writers, each with his own particular view to promote. These writings were only brought together when an Israelite king found them useful to promote his political agenda. Beckford says : 'King Hezekiah turned the Bible into a party political manifesto for monotheism. He definitely knew something about spin.'
it is clear that the books of the bible do not make sense at all and miss out how the world was made or the dinosaurs, the evolution of man, cavemen etc which we know from science existed. What is 7 days and we also know by science and knowledge that the world was not built in 7 days and is more likely to be 7 thousand years or more.
the tower babel is another story which sounds like a fairy tale and is more likely to be just that, a story. We have built large storey building with our techology but none that reach the sky or even God. This is just not possible unless you know where God is. so God was afraid they would get to heaven so he confused and gave them all different languages.
We know from Science, scholars and history that languages have evolved as a way to communicate and so this story is just that.
now let's take the story of Noah as this does not make sense either and most people know this. think about how many animals, reptitles, insects etc are there in the world and they situate all over the world. it would take all the animanls years to all come together to the Ark and many would die on the journey. None of this could have happened in time stated in the bible and how would all the animals live together or be in fed during that time. Again it is not possible that this story is true. It is a tall tale or fairy tale passed on through the ages.
the Gospels
The same goes for the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. the books was not written completely by the disciples themselves and a lot of them have been put together by interviewing eye witnesses and other people to get a truer a picture of the time. the books are not free not personal views. Mark wrote about Jesus in an encouragement to the first generation of Christians facing persecution. Matthew wanted to show the Jewish side of Jesus. Luke showed us Jesus from the Roman angle showing us the teaching and miracles of Jesus so even romans could believe them.
The Bible is cannot be used to justify political agendas as a lot of it is not accurate or completely true and was written by humans and not God, influenced and written for faith communities with their specific needs or political agendas in mind.
Saturday, 21 August 2010
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