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Old 04-19-2007, 02:18 AM   #21
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I'm biased here because I see the Bible as a work of fiction as well as Dan Brown's novel. So if both are fictional I have nothing to question and have no opinion.
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Old 04-19-2007, 02:23 AM   #22
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'Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious--that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Old 04-19-2007, 03:44 AM   #23
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As A catholic I don't belive in this, I don't belive that Jesus married Mary Magdelene and ran away with her and so on and so fourth...
Is there a particular reason why you can't consider this as a possibility? There are 18 years in the prime of his life completely unaccounted for in the bible, is it really that crazy that someone whose sole purpose for being was to live a good, proper, and completely human life would not take part in the holy sacrament of marriage, would not take part in God's directive that humanity go forth and multiply?
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Old 04-19-2007, 12:38 PM   #24
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People also draw paralells to this in the fact that Joseph and Mary were also jewish, and it was somehow inconcievable that they could have a child and remain married without having continued to live a normal life after the birth of Jesus which presumably means sex, which presumably means more children, which presumably means Christ had siblings.

I find that one much more likely than to believe that Jesus was married and had children of his own. I can absolutely believe that Joseph and Mary went on to have other children who lived fairly mundane and normal lives, once we see Jesus teaching in the temple at 12, suddenly he's 30, and carrying out the last three years of his life, there isn't really -room- to spend on discussing his boring old family back at the workshop, so they don't.
Jesus did have siblings, I'm pretty sure they are right they're in the bible, one was called James I think, and I can't remember the other names, haven't got time to look them up now, might post it up later
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Old 04-20-2007, 02:39 PM   #25
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Well now, thats... intresting. So the bible is false?
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Old 04-20-2007, 03:36 PM   #26
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The bible has been translated and passed down over hundreds of years. It is very likely that some of it has been misconstrued through time.
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Old 04-20-2007, 03:49 PM   #27
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Well now, thats... intresting. So the bible is false?

I think it is far more accurate to say that the veracity of the bible is subject to question. I don't believe you can -prove- that it is historically true on grounds that many of the claims put forward of, among other things, miraculous occurences are by their very nature unreproducable, and just unprovable, but I also don't think you can -prove- that it is -all- historically false if just because a decent number of the events depicted do in fact correspond to events for which there is a dearth of evidence to support.

If you were to put forward the stance that the Old testament was True but not Factual, and that the New testament was Factual, but with some exaggeration of Jesus' abilities, you'd have what I would consider a fairly well-thought out and defensable stance for why you should be able to use the bible as a primary source to explain your faith and beliefs.

Edit: And because I'm sure someone is going to post about my use of "True but not Factual" I'll just pre-emptively explain:

True: Reflects reality insofar as what it describes accurately reflects the way reality works (ie. A story about someone tormenting a dog that then attacks the tormenter can be "true" even if it never happened as described, because if you -did- torment the dog, it is true that the dog -would- almost certainly attack you)

Factual: Reflects reality insofar as what it describes is a faithful reproduction of actual events that actually happened in reality.

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Old 04-20-2007, 06:38 PM   #28
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Is there a particular reason why you can't consider this as a possibility? There are 18 years in the prime of his life completely unaccounted for in the bible, is it really that crazy that someone whose sole purpose for being was to live a good, proper, and completely human life would not take part in the holy sacrament of marriage, would not take part in God's directive that humanity go forth and multiply?
The thing is if you believe that he was sent by God etc. then you believe in God, and you probably believe God would tell you something major like Jesus marrying

http://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-siblings.html

muaha, I told you I would find it, he had four brothers, James, Joseph, Simon and Judas (different Judas...) and some sisters who aren't named. They are mentioned in quite a few bible verses all listed on that helpful website

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Old 04-20-2007, 06:50 PM   #29
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The thing is if you believe that he was sent by God etc. then you believe in God, and you probably believe God would tell you something major like Jesus marrying.
Except that the new testament was written by Jesus' followers, not by God, and as I already pointed out, everything from 12-30 is just not there. Is it safer then to assume that for 18 years Jesus just sat in a box, drinking water and eating bread doing absolutely nothing noteworthy, or is it safer to assume that he lived a pretty well normal life, travelling around, teaching, discussing, living his life, and it was just not considered especially relevant compared to the major events of the last three years of his life?
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Old 04-22-2007, 10:07 AM   #30
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Yeh but it was inspired by God, meaning it's perfect, basically God wrote it through those people, everything he wants is in there. So yeh, Jesus probably lived a pretty normal life between those years, carpenting and teaching and the like
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Old 04-22-2007, 11:39 AM   #31
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Yeh but it was inspired by God, meaning it's perfect
How does being inspired by God to write down stories of what happened necessarily mean that the human wrote a flawless, perfect rendition of the events? People feel "inspired" to do all kinds of things that are niether perfect nor flawless.

There's a difference between "God inspired Noah to build the ark" and "God took control of Noah and used him to build the ark"
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Old 04-22-2007, 04:34 PM   #32
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It doesn't necessarily, but to be Christian means that it does, well my denomination anyway.
We believe the whole bible, is the perfect word of God, not written by him, but everything he wants is in there, how can anyone base a faith upon a book which may not be true or complete
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Old 04-22-2007, 05:17 PM   #33
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how can anyone base a faith upon a book which may not be true or complete
The reason you have faith in the truth of the bible is that you don't think you could have faith if the bible wasn't true? Does anyone else see the issues in that logic?

I mean...the bible actually may not be true or complete...there's no actual direct confirmable proof that it is...but you are going to continue believeing it is anyway, simply because it would call other beliefs into question if it weren't...that's a dangerous place to be.
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Old 04-22-2007, 06:17 PM   #34
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Yeh it is, I'm not denying that, sorry, trying to explain my faith isn't very easy and I'm probably not doing it very well.

I don't think you could have faith if the bible wasn't true, but I don't receive faith from the bible, I receive that from praying, communicating with God and the like.
However that doesn't mean I don't think you should question whether the bible is true or not, and if it is found that it isn't true then yeh, I would be forced to abandon my faith. I'm constantly questioning my faith, too much in fact, I think.
Sorry, it's a really hard thing to explain, especially late at night, but we have also gone way off topic
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Old 04-22-2007, 07:13 PM   #35
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Yeh it is, I'm not denying that, sorry, trying to explain my faith isn't very easy and I'm probably not doing it very well.

I don't think you could have faith if the bible wasn't true, but I don't receive faith from the bible, I receive that from praying, communicating with God and the like.
However that doesn't mean I don't think you should question whether the bible is true or not, and if it is found that it isn't true then yeh, I would be forced to abandon my faith. I'm constantly questioning my faith, too much in fact, I think.
Sorry, it's a really hard thing to explain, especially late at night, but we have also gone way off topic
There's a difference between taking the Bible literally, and using the Bible as a guide to living a good life. The truths that are presented in the Bible concerning morality are universal and can be found in every religion all around the world. In fact, Jesus figures, flood stories, sacrifice, devious serpents, etc can be found in various religious texts that developed in isolation. There is much truth to the Bible. The teachings of Jesus are laws to live by...whether he existed or not, whether he were the son of God or not, it shouldn't matter.

However, what the Bible says about the natural world is inaccurate. Seriously, the people who wrote the Bible knew nothing about the natural world. These people believed the Earth to be flat, the center of the universe around which all things revolved, and probably hadn't traveled outside of a 20 mile radius from where they were born. The "New World" was unknown to them and the heavens and the Earth were separated. Are you seriously going to let some guy who didn't even know of the existence of bacteria or viruses dictate to you the truths of the natural world?

Seriously, if you brought a laptop to the time of Jesus you would either be 1) Considered a God 2) stoned to death for witchcraft. That's the kind of mentality these people had.
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Old 04-25-2007, 09:29 AM   #36
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I'm biased here because I see the Bible as a work of fiction as well as Dan Brown's novel. So if both are fictional I have nothing to question and have no opinion.
I completely agree with you. Infact i watched a show, i believe on the history channel possibly the disocvery channel, Where they had many People in the buisness of Religous studies on and they were completely tearing apart everything in the bible, Using the bible. They would take diffrent books of the bible, That where telling the same stories but with 100% completely diffrent recolections on the events that took place. Infact they even stated most of the books written in the bible where not even written by people involved in any of this, or even first hand witnesses.

I have another thing to say, Which supports my oppinions but could very well upset many people. On the subject of Jesus and the bible as a whole. I fully believe it is fictional. However i have also given much thought to the idea there could have very well been a guy name jesus in those time who just had alot of smarts and munipulation skills. Its basically the same concept of hitler.. He knew how to munipulate. He convienced so many people he was right, with no proof once so ever. Just his own reasonings. Week people easily buy into things like this. Most people are followers. Say this guy was incredibly smart, and munipulative. He could have made it all up.. Convienced enough people it was all true.. and then boom.. He bible. Like i previously stated they have no proof or even reason to believe any of the books in the bible were even written by first hand witnesses (according to the show) Which means there is no written documentations known that were written by anyone we can prove accutally witnessed any of the events in the bible. It could be alot of munipulation and exagerations.
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Old 04-25-2007, 01:52 PM   #37
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It was said earlier and I back it up. The bible may be true but being passed down generation after generation, some things are changed or misunderstood. Jesus could have had a wife and such, I believe it is very possible.
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However i have also given much thought to the idea there could have very well been a guy name jesus in those time who just had alot of smarts and munipulation skills.
There is plenty of corroberative evidence that Jesus of Nazareth was a real guy who existed at that time, and who actually did travel around teaching, preaching and so on.

The part that is problematic is this: So did hundreds of other people at the time. Being a travelling teacher and theologion was a perfectly valid way to spend your time those days (For a nice comedic take on that, see the preaching scene of Monty Python's Life of Brian, where a stretch of road has a half dozen misc preachers) so just because Jesus was one, doesn't mean he was any more of less genuine than the others.

As for the bible being written afterwards...that one is a tricky criticism. After Jesus' death, his apostles really did think that the second coming would be like..."Any day now" so they had more important things to do than bother recording events when they thought rapture would be within their lifetimes.

It was only much later in their lives, when it became more clear to them that maybe they'd gotten the timeline a little wrong, that they realised it would be a good idea to record all of that for future followers.

So I mean yes...it was generally accepted to have been largely written years after the fact, but they had a better reason than "Lets invent a holy book"
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