It would seem easy enough to get rid of personal copy of the Bible but No ban, No destroying of all Bibles.
Yes. It is possible to destroy all bibles. Even when (not if) humans no longer inhabit the planet, that one bible left will decay just as everything else. It's the laws of nature. Everything changes. Born, ages, decays, and recycles to be born again in another way or fashion.
Just like a Bible person can be killed, but No one can get rid of all Bible people (ones with a relationship with Christ).
People die. If the world was made up of only ten people, why would we not think that one person out all nine that died will live forever?
Yes, agree the Bible is a perishable paper, but No one has ever been able to bring an end to it. Sorry I was Not more clear about that. Bans, burning of the Bibles (and Bible people) can't make the Bible go away. A personal copy can be destroyed but the Bible as God's Word will never go away. Many Bible's in many languages are printed each day.
The Bible hasn't been around
that long. It's not everlasting. It sounds like you are more connected to the bible than who the bible speaks of and who existed way before the bible came to existence. The bible had a beginning. The bible has an end.
The bible
is not Jesus Christ.
Since there will 'never' be a time when all humans die on this planet, then there is No reason for the Bible to end.
It reminds me of the Dhamma talk I listen to I think this morning. I like Thubten Chrodron, a Buddhist nun who talks about
meditating on death. We cut our attachments of "living forever" for a life in the state of change. Her talks are beautiful.
That does not make sense that there will not be a time humans won't exist on the planet. Where do you think we were before the first human came to be? Why Earth and not the Planet Futon way on fifth quadrant of the sixty fourth galaxy? Why do people think they have the answer to the universe's problems?
Why is god's existence and his oral word dependant on whether the physical bible exists and ideas of humans who die?
Before Moses was Noah, after Noah people populated ancient Babylon. As the people left Babylon they took with them their religious practices and ideas and spread them world wide into a greater religious Babylon or Babylon the Great. That is why we see so many similar or overlapping ideas in the religious world. In other words, mankind can trace its family religious tree back to it base in ancient Babylon long before Moses.
Yes. Hinduism has older practices. African religions have old practices before colonization. We have Roman views everywhere in the states. In our nation's capitol. In our national archives. Our library of congress. Our politics. Everything. Christianity is Roman not Jewish. If you're just going off the bible, then
when the bible no longer exists, would you still have a relationship with christ? and what is your relationship dependant on?
Most christians who have no bible their relationship is dependant on god's words-the oral words in their heart. The whispers they hear and the experiences they have.
I find you are Not alone in your thinking about nothing lasts forever/ eternal, and to me that includes being reborn.
It's a Dharmic view just as the earth turns and stars blow up and dissipate, no different. It's not special. We don't need to be "spiritual" and have high states of consciousness to see the revolving nature of the earth, the people, how we change, and grow, etc.
Religion should be a fact not a belief. I don't need to be a Buddhist to know that Buddhist teachings are true and a fact. I just choose to live my life around how The Buddha taught to live and interpret these facts so our lives will be better because of
our effort and training of the mind. If were stuck on what rebirth is compared to samsara. Why Brahman and not Brahma, etc, then it defeats the purpose.
Christianity is very theological.
Always being reborn to me would mean eternally being born.
Many people ( all who lived before Jesus ) never heard of Jesus or the Bible, but Jesus' ransom death paid the price for all of us, so the Bible did Not cease to exist because they had Not heard of it. They will hear and learn about the Bible on Resurrection Day ( meaning Jesus' coming millennium-long day of governing over Earth when enemy death will be No more on Earth ).
Believe it or not, if I didn't move here, I would have never been christian. I'd be the only American I know in a highly christian influenced area who has never been indoctrinated, never believed in god, never taught about god, and never knew jesus (none of these things personal), and probably would never heard of RF. Half of this stuff I'd be pretty dumbfounded on, and most parts still am just I have something to go off of now, but not in a way that answers any questions.
I mean, I wish all people can follow The Buddha's teachings;
and that is not the way life goes. Everyone is at their varies stages in their spiritual growth. Rebirth in samsara happens to all people, all things, all living. It doesn't stop.
The bible is a physical written teachings about god's oral dictations incarnated as a human being. If anything, christ won't die.
If christ's existence is dependant on the bible, I see no sense in it. If the bible is dependent on christ existence, that's logical. Because without the bible christ will exist. Without christ, the bible won't exist.
Christ is the cornerstone. Not the bible. (John 5:39)
