Is the bible divinely inspired? (salvation, church, scriptures, Holy Spirit)

[Scott1]

Originally Posted by greatcalgarian

"The Bible, as we know it today,

I'm sure Mr. Larue is a swell guy, but who cares?

I can give you 100 quotes from professors who believe in the Divine insiration of the Bible... what makes this one so special?

[greatcalgarian]

Nothing special, just to entice you to read his whole book

[greatcalgarian]

Chapter 8 ?Who Were the Hebrews?

ACCORDING to biblical tradition, the Hebrews are peoples descended from Shem, one of Noah's sons, through Eber, the eponymous ancestor, and Abraham. Gen. 7:22 f., reports that the flood destroyed all life except that in Noah's ark; consequently, the whole human family descended from Noah and his sons: Japheth, Ham and Shem. As yet, not all of the names of eponymous ancestors in the family lines can be identified,1 but some probabilities are listed in Chart 6.

From Shem, through Arpachshad and Shelah came Eber, the eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews, and from his descendants through Peleg, Reu, Sereg and Nahor came Terah, the father of Abram and his brothers Nahor and Haran. It becomes clear that if "Hebrews" are descendants of Eber, then others besides those of Abraham's line would be included (see Gen. 10:25-27).

Read Gen. 12-25
With Abraham the story of the Hebrews begins, and it is clearly stated that Hebrew origins lay outside Canaan. The summons to leave his ancestral home and journey to Canaan is accompanied by a promise (Gen. 12:2) that becomes a submotif in patriarchal accounts, re-appearing again and again (cf. Gen. 13:14 f., 15:5 f., 18:10, 22:17, 26:24, 28:13 f., 32:12 f., 35:9 ff., 48:16), finally taking covenantal form (Gen. 17:14 ff.). The promise has two parts: nationhood and divine blessing or protection. The precise location of the nation-to-be is not specified but was, of course, known to those hearing or reading the account. The promise of blessing signified the unique and particularistic bond between Yahweh and his followers, so that the enemies of Abraham or the nation were enemies of Yahweh, and those befriending Abraham and/or the nation would be blessed. With this assurance, Abraham journeyed to Canaan, Egypt, the Negeb, Hebron, Gezer, Beer-sheba and back to Hebron where he and his wife Sarah died.
Go to the following for more on the origin......
http://www.infidels.org/library/mode...tll/chap8.html

[samgeorge11]

How many mistakes would you like me to point out in this "Divinely Inspired Bibble". I'm sick of reading contradictions and fallacies in it. It made about a million people(Germany, France, Asian Christians) skeptical about Christianity when it talks about Creation of Humans (Creationism) infact reject christianity. Creationism is not only rejected by Science but was also rejected by the second Vatican council in 1960s.
You want prophecies in a book, written ages ago; proved and confirmed by the present science as well, read the Quran, just read the translation and then its upto you to decide which is DIVINELY INSPIRED.
Talk about the embryology. Water cycle, solar system........ just pick a topic its all in there with colossal detail.
As we have seen today science actually confirms what Quran had already said. Scientists are only discovering the laws of the creator, because everything in nature is caused, by secondary causes, regulated by the primary cause, the creator.
Karen Armstrong, the author of "Holy War", says, "This fact has never been acknowledged in the west that all the scientific and technological development that we have today, we owe it to the Arabs and Muslims".