For those of you who were missing my religious streak.. 
Call it the time of year, but I felt the need to post another one.
Call it the time of year, but I felt the need to post another one. So here's my question. Is the Bible God's Word? I believe that the Bible is God's Word as interpreted by man. (Guess I should check with the Catholic Church on that, I might have just excommunicated myself.) I will go as far as to say that some of it is God instructing what to say in certain passages, obviously the 10 commandments falls into this, but I am also willing to add the passages where the prophets say that God "told them to say..." There may be other examples, but you get my drift. I also believe that the parts of the New Testament that quote Jesus can be considered the Word directly.
What sparked this, is someone recently saying that the Bible was the True Word of God and should be taken as the absolute Truth. I don't think that alot of the Old Testament can be taken as the absolute Truth because quite a bit of it was creating Jewish laws which Jesus generally discounted during his time.
Now that I have upset everyone, I will leave you to comment or not as you see fit. 
7 comments:
didn't upset me, mary, you know me...i'm a complete heathen, remember? but i like reading your stuff about religion!
Okay this in the wrong place but i did'nt see any point burrying this in the archives. Its a response to your VPL post and thong debate.
It is said that North American women dress to impress their freinds while European women dress to impress men thats why european women tend to dress alot more alluring. anyways just my 2 cents have a good day
I think it is the word of God interpreted by man. Therefore, how much is really accurate? I think it is something to base teachings off of however, I don't necessarily know how much is truth. That's my 2 cents.
I will agree that God could lead men to write what he wanted them to write. However, I think if he were giving them the entire content of the Bible, there would be no discrepencies between the Books. If you believe God is infallible, which I do, then he could not have possibly been responsible for stories not matching.
I do believe that the Bible is the Truth, but I also believe that some of it is created by man and other parts are dealing with symbolism because man, at that point in time, would not have been able to understand certain ideas.
Now if God had been speaking to women.... whole other story. LOL
I happened across your comment in my blog, and found my way to yours. I will enjoy this greatly.
Wow. Some many answers here.
'N then I shows up and wonder if'n it'll be read, but, what the hey. I go back to m'old blogs and such.
How about this...
Some will use the words, "what GOD means is," and they say what they think HE means.
Some are more powerful than others and for this, writings are made of things they have heard for the last few millenia, told person to person in storytelling.
By the time we get it, already it has been retranslated some three dozen times, books have been thrown out because they seem too incredulous or have names of those who were excommunicated or thrown out of the church or synagog.
Then there's the continuing conflict of translating, and clerics from all over the world are good at this, whether from Afghanastan, I ran, Iraq, or here and tv clerics like pat robertson, benny hinn, and other holy rollers on a binge, or even specific religious notion movements like Jehovah's Witnesses or the Mormons, not to even get started on Baptists and Methodists and Disciples no instruments or the like.
I reckon I ain't sure, but I got a good guess.
It's mostly hogwash, but puts the spirit in ya 'cause of where it started. That one little touch, whatever the line is, is going the distance, but has picked up several parcels of claptrap along the way. Not unlike a snowball rolling down a hill. Might have started out as no more'n a marble, but, depending on angle of decent, trjectory and velocity and snow amounts, may be as big as a house by the end.
I put it where Jesus put it, and that works fer me.
Trust in GOD with your whole heart, mind and soul.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
That's just too easy to throw away. And, it would be just like our GOD to have a sense of humor enough to let that work for us.
So, there it is.
Question is,....
did it get read?
Boneman, It definitely did get read. And I agree about the retranslations, etc., etc. It makes you wonder what the original message was. I wonder the same thing about the Koran. I'm currently reading a Bible with introductions to the books and a ton of footnotes, and one of the things that I've learned is that one thing that the scholars (or whomever does the translations)agree on is that the Letters of Paul where actually written by Paul. I found that wonderful on a historical level. At least it's someone's thought at the time things were starting up. It might be translated over and over, but at least the original thought was from the time period.
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