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How are Christians so sure of the validity of the Bible?

  • Something struck me recently
    Bearing in mind that Christians base their lives on what is written in the Bible, how can they be so sure of its genuinity as a religious document? How do they know that what is written in it is even true? It was written a very long time ago and over the years could have had any number of corruptions, mistranslations and elaborations.

    I want to make it clear I am not trying to insult or belittle anyone's beliefs, I am just curious as to where such an enormous amount of confidence in what the Bible says comes from.
    Voted for by aerozeppelin.
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  • Faith
    The definition of religon has quite alot to do with belief. So it is here. If a religon was not based on some form of unprovable belief then it could not be classed as a religon. A religon fills up the unsure places in a mind and helps us understand, creating moral beliefs as it does this.

    In the end it all comes down to how they see the Bible and how they choose to believe it. Many Christians do not take the Bible literally in many places.

    The problem with corruption of the Bibles script over a course of years doesn't have any real meaning here. The underlying ideas on morality are the same, and that is what people choose to believe in, the ideas.

    This is my opinion.
    Voted for by WavyLine.
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  • Does the Bible need to be?
    I'm not heavily educated on the Bible - by whom and when passages were written, etcetera - nor am I religious.

    But for the most part each religion seems to have good, core, moral values that have done more good than harm to society as a whole.

    I'm not sure why it's so important to some people these religious texts are "validified" and "proven" - they're based on faith. You know that, I know that, they know that - it must just prove frustrating to "them" when asked to prove and validify.
    Which some do, even scientifically and historically, with some sections.

    I mean, I suppose I wish that some people wouldn't take the Bible so literally, and so seriously - leading to homophobia, etcetera - but I think that's more those people finding a reason to justify their prejudices than the text itself actually being against those points.

    That is, the Bible is just one thing that makes up a religion anyway. There are Christians out there who still have faith while not believing in the Bible.
    Voted for by sca.
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  • It shouldn't have to matter!
    I am a Christian and I can see exactly where this question is relevant in my life and spiritual growth.

    When I was younger, I too questioned the validity of the Bible, why do so many believe in it?, how do I know it's true etc..

    The truth is this: it doesn't really matter how valid the bible is or is not. I had a personal exerience that has greatly influenced me as a Christian (and essentially it's what made me really BELIEVE in God) but the Bible shouldn't be used as the building block for your believing in general, it has the information and the motivation for living out your faith as a Christian eg The Ten Commandments. The Commandments shouldn't be viewed as jobs or rules but rather as values or morals that you should uphold and carry out.

    In similarity, recounts or stories or the Bible shouldn't be viewed as the truth or fake but as motivation messages to either encourage or discourage certain behaviour and practices.

    If all else, there has been many different scripts of the Bible that have survived and been discovered all over the world. There HAD to be some reason why so many would be bothered to write all of it out, translate it, copy it, spread it to othter nations etc. There is a lot of evidence to say that what happened in the Bible DID happen according to other historical resources. In an attempt to dis-prove it, a scientist did actually prove that a star would have appeared to move along the sky on the night Jesus was born (wise men).

    So overall, it's not the validity of the Bible that we as Christians believe in, but rather the values, ideals, motivations etc that we so agree with and follow.

    Please, if I have said anything you agree with or don't, have any queries etc please comment. I'm open to all obuse that you may wish to give me or any ideas you may want to discuss. That's all. GOD BLESS!
    Voted for by tfry.
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