It depends on what they say. Please show one example?
One example of what? a different scripture?
I don't see your point. Different scriptures exist. You can google them with a few keystrokes.
Are you saying that if they disagree with the Bible that they're not authoritative? That clarifies nothing. A Sikh or Muslim could make the same claim for their scripture.
Why have interpretation at all? Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to try to understand the Bible as it is written, without interpretations?
Excellent point. The fact that a document
can be interpreted is evidence that its not clearly written.
In the Bible's case, its full of contradictions, errors, mythology and edits. It's a wonder anyone can make heads or tails of it.
The fact that one can read it without even noticing these glaring stumbling-blocks speaks to a serious intellectual deficit.
For me Bible is reliable source, because it has knowledge that I don’t think people would have without God and that things go as told in the Bible. It is not tied just to one person at one point in history. Here are few examples of what I mean:
1. Bible knew that there was original single continent at the beginning:
God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:10
How in the world are you getting Pangæa out of this?
2. Bible knew that Jews will be scattered, as they were, and later gathered back as they are no being gathered back.
I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Leviticus 26:33
Predicting disaster for religious transgression is prophetic? Please... what religion, myth or færie tale doesn't do this?
It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you, and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you. If any of your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there will he bring you back:
And salvation in the end? -- typical folk-tale.
Look, you can cherry pick passages from just about any book and interpret them to mean whatever you want. You can see weasels and whales in the clouds, but they signify nothing.
This is not a clear prophecy. It does not read like a paragraph from a history text.
Nobody saw Pangea or modern Israel in the scriptures until they became scientific or historical fact. Had they been clear prophecy they'd have been anticipated, and believed a thousand years ago.
The major difference to other gods is that Bible God has a message, He tells how things will go and they will go so.
And other religions make the same claim. Do you not know this?
If many have them, why don’t many live by them?
Because we have the brains of impulsive savanna apes.
In Bible “love God” means that you keep His commandments. Basically, this means, if you love your neighbor as told in the Bible, you also love God by doing so.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:3
Curious that the most xenophobic, nationalistic, and militaristic among us are the most religious.