Originally posted by sonhouseThe Origin of the Bible
Here is one creation myth from over 3000 years ago, written in cuniform:
http://www.cresourcei.org/enumaelish.html
Here is the main list, Egyptian, African, etc.
http://www.magictails.com/creationlinks.html
http://www.thescriptures.org/origin/index.html
Originally posted by jaywillThe author might be just a touch biased.....
[b] The Origin of the Bible
http://www.thescriptures.org/origin/index.html[/b]
If there were 'god inspired' words written today, would anyone believe it?
Did new 'god inspired' writing get forbidden when the bible was finalized in the 4th century?
Originally posted by josephwAMEN to the no-brainer.
It's a mistake to speculate about too many details, but the Bibles says this and that about heaven and hell. There are too many interpretations about what it all means. Personally, I just accept the fact that heaven and hell exist, but I don't try to understand more about "the other side" than what I know. Which isn't too much.
It's okay to ponder possibi ...[text shortened]... at's a no-brainer. There is only one true God. All the rest of them are impostors.
I also choose to believe in God for the same reasons - I can not believe that some people can not see God, He is everywhere! Look at the sky, stars, planets, universes, galaxies, cells, people, children. You can see His hands in creation everywhere or are we too blind to see people!!!
Originally posted by NickstenOthers don't see any patterns which point to a God. In fact, the sky, stars, planets - they all look pretty random. Not saying they are, just how they look.
AMEN to the no-brainer.
I also choose to believe in God for the same reasons - I can not believe that some people can not see God, He is everywhere! Look at the sky, stars, planets, universes, galaxies, cells, people, children. You can see His hands in creation everywhere or are we too blind to see people!!!
Originally posted by KunsooThe english Bible was put together by a bunch of scholars and academics in a room hundreds of years ago, so when they have to write something about hell...... they all toss ideas around the room in what they believe hell might be like ( they also consult the scrolls at hand).......but what they came up with at their meetings is what we now find in the present day Bible.
Where is Hell? I mean physically?
I always assumed that the belief was that you die and basically your soul is taken out of the physical universe altogether, kind of like what science fiction would consider another dimension. But I've been reading some Christian stuff that suggests that it's physically underground - in the core of the Earth. One website ...[text shortened]... ed.
Do you have a belief about the location of Hell? Is Heaven then literally in the sky?
The Bible is a fabricated writing put together by about 50 unqualified translators under the order of King James.
Hell is not a physical place but exists in the realm of mind.
If some one has lived a very sinful life then they will most probably expect to go to hell, and its this expectation that allows them to visit the hell of the mind after death.
So the greater your imagination is then the greater will be your experience of hell in the mind after death.
The Christian belief that sinners go to the lake of fire for eternity is false.