linwood said:
That you are unaware that the "BIBLE" AS WRITTEN BY THE PROPHETShad pre-existed the few people who GATHERED THE ALREADY EXISTING WRITTEN PAGES and compiled a "BOOK" AS WE KNOW IT CALLED THE "BIBLE", is not surprising. These PAGES written over a period of more than fifteen hundred years existed long before there was even a Christian church. It was from these pages that Christ Himself and likewise Peter and Paul and all of Jesus' disciples quoted. It was from these pages that the Gentile Bereans read as Paul opened to them for the first time in their godly lives, the Holy scriptures. The same identical scriptures that you and I and others read as the bible are the same identical scriptures as read by Moses more than four thousand years ago.
Your claim that some men sat in some room to compile the bible....should read :"some men sat in some room; gathered the already written bible and bound them together in one book". "They were sufficiently intelligent to see that the old testament already existed as the Torah in Judaism for upwards of three thousand years before 'they, the men in the room' were even thought of. They had sufficient intelligence to see that the Jewish Torah spoke about Messiah, and so decided to accept that the Jewish Messiah was Jesus. They then also gathered all the ALREADY EXISTING writings about the Jewish Messiah and excluded the books[writings] that did not corroborate with the Jewish Torah's teaching and with the extant writings about the Jewish Messiah. These writings that did not corroborate with the Jewish Torah and the extant writings about the Jewish Messiah, contradicted the events surrounding the life and teachings of the Jewish Messiah.
After putting together the ALREADY EXISTING MANUSCRIPTS they sat down and claimed to have "compiled the already written bible". Taking full credit that had it not been for them the previous multi-millions who lived before and after Jesus and who "predated these few men", where entirely in the debt of "these few men" for their having "compiled/written the already existing bible". HOW PREPOSTEROUS!
These men claim to have written/compiled the bible, in which there is NO ERROR!and whose information they had had no way of knowing. Yet their own individual published essays of a few pages on subjects ranging from whether God was human or divine; whether a human was a sinner or not; whether when a human dies, that he immediately takes flight accross millions of light years accross space to a destination of which he had no previous knowledge...That these men teach that there are humans in heaven as we speak, who are able to use their common 'human ear lobes', point them to earth to hear humans pray accross the great divide of millions of light years--that these their own published works are riddled with inaccuracies; yet cannot see that the words on the pages that they put together should in fact be the pages riddled with errors and --Not theirs!
It is quite easy to test the accuracy of scripture! The THEME OF THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURES FROM GENESIS TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION is about JESUS, THE JEWISH MESSIAH! All other events as recorded in the scripture only chronicle the human journey since his creation by God. This journey began with Adam, continued through Abraham and Jacob and culminated in Jesus, who was sent by His Father to redeem fallen humanity. Jesus is the entire reason for the scriptures and the creation of Adam in the first place.
The bible therefore speaks to all those who believe the word of God as penned in 1 Peter 1:20....Where, before God even made humans, He had planned to redeem them because He knew that they would join Satan in sinning against Him.
The reason for the bible was just to inform man of God's plan; and how He would save fallen humanity from the death that satan and sin had caused.
God is life; and when He made Lucifer and the angels they were made to lve forever! God did not create "death"--Sin did! If there was no sin there would have been "no death"! The bible tells us humans how to choose God over Satan so that we like God will live forever; while anyone who decides to choose satan will also automatically choose death, and be as condemned to eternal death as is condemned Satan.
The bible has no time to see if someone said something different from someone else. Or whether someone wrote something different from another! When any can prove that the story of salvation written by God Himself and beginning in the book of Genesis, continuing through each and every book to the book of Revelation is in error, he would have just pushed God over and assumed His title!
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