How do you decide your particular bible is the absolute authority word?
Does this mean you took the time to investigate other religions, bibles, theories, science, history and then made an informed decision, you looked at everything in depth and then decided your bible is the one?
The absolute authority outside the many things that Jesus taught and did that were not written down are no longer available to us. We do not have the manuscripts written down by the writers. We have copies of copies of copies from the days before photo machines. A few Aramaic, probably the language written in. A lot of Greek, many of which are translations from other languages. I even heard that there are some in Armenian.
As with deciding about global warming, I read the popular literature, I mistrust the newspapers, and I read some formal presentations by scientists to Congress. I do not read original science published in journals because that doesn’t help me. I compare the scientific politics of global warming to plate tectonics. I rely on my judgment honed by an undergraduate education with alot of physics and chemistry and a great high school biology class.
So, I have parallel bibles. I have read the translation philosophies. I have read book reviews by knowledgeable people. I know what liberal protestants recommend. I know what is used in seminaries and colleges. I know of the fondness people have for the KJV. I have studied the history of Catholic Bibles in English.
Completely examined? no. Thoughtfully informed?I think I am.
Once you are past the Christianity of a child, in order to have an adult faith, or to make an informed rejection of Christianity, a sound knowledge of the Bible is required. There is alot of material out there, but with a good guide you won’t read so many duplicate articles and can stick to the well thought out ones and skip the dross.
Oh, one other safeguard, I don’t pick one. Three that are similar. NRSV, NAB, New Jerusalem Bible. I also have the Gospels and Psalms translated to a gender neutral English. And I have the Five Books of Moses translated by Robert Alter.
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March 18 2010 05:11 pm | Bible
angelbaby on 18 Mar 2010 at 10:58 pm #
Read the king James bible
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RogerRoger on 18 Mar 2010 at 11:45 pm #
The holy spirit assures you of the truth of the bible.
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oldandtired on 19 Mar 2010 at 12:26 am #
Everything man has ever done, or will ever do, will be flawed. Including writing the Bible.
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Rita Nacion on 19 Mar 2010 at 1:12 am #
Catholics don’t do that. That is private interpretation and sola scriptura.
My Bible is the Word of God, but I am not a theologian, or philosopher, or moralist, and Jesus does not expect that of me.
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the Christian on 19 Mar 2010 at 1:50 am #
A revelation thru faith in christ jesus…is the only way to know….do you have that faith in christ? without that faith you will never know the truth, it will always seem to elude you like it is doing now.
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Shalom Y'all on 19 Mar 2010 at 2:17 am #
There is no inerrant text of "The Bible" existent today……. The original God inspired texts were lost long ago…… The Bible is not the basis of The True Christian Faith…. God is… The Bible proves nothing… but God will prove The Bible, to those who come to him in The Way He prescribes, and to honest seekers who are open to God’s leading through The Holy Spirit
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Francois Le Clerc on 19 Mar 2010 at 2:33 am #
flip a coin and run forward.
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guncontrol on 19 Mar 2010 at 3:21 am #
You hold it up to history and science. "The rocks will reveal the truth" The resent findings of Sodom and Gomorrah, the unearthing of the Pillar made by the people of Moses crossing the Red Sea and Chariot wheels fossilized in the rock under the water off the same location. Science has prov-en that the earth is "round" and the "heavens were set upon nothing" and the ancient "Great Beasts of the field" dinosaurs …many case in points.
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Reoriented on 19 Mar 2010 at 4:01 am #
The absolute authority outside the many things that Jesus taught and did that were not written down are no longer available to us. We do not have the manuscripts written down by the writers. We have copies of copies of copies from the days before photo machines. A few Aramaic, probably the language written in. A lot of Greek, many of which are translations from other languages. I even heard that there are some in Armenian.
As with deciding about global warming, I read the popular literature, I mistrust the newspapers, and I read some formal presentations by scientists to Congress. I do not read original science published in journals because that doesn’t help me. I compare the scientific politics of global warming to plate tectonics. I rely on my judgment honed by an undergraduate education with alot of physics and chemistry and a great high school biology class.
So, I have parallel bibles. I have read the translation philosophies. I have read book reviews by knowledgeable people. I know what liberal protestants recommend. I know what is used in seminaries and colleges. I know of the fondness people have for the KJV. I have studied the history of Catholic Bibles in English.
Completely examined? no. Thoughtfully informed?I think I am.
Once you are past the Christianity of a child, in order to have an adult faith, or to make an informed rejection of Christianity, a sound knowledge of the Bible is required. There is alot of material out there, but with a good guide you won’t read so many duplicate articles and can stick to the well thought out ones and skip the dross.
Oh, one other safeguard, I don’t pick one. Three that are similar. NRSV, NAB, New Jerusalem Bible. I also have the Gospels and Psalms translated to a gender neutral English. And I have the Five Books of Moses translated by Robert Alter.
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TERRY S on 19 Mar 2010 at 4:27 am #
It*s always interested me that in the KJ Bible it says in the inside cover *Authorized Version*!
By whom and why, I wonder?..
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