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see the arguments given in the answers to this question: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/118550#ans8755950
Many of the answers include a proviso that the exact measurements given may or may not be accurate.... so... is it? or is it not all true???
by thatsJustme on March 7th, 2010
I have found nothing to be UNTRUE, only men who strive to prove it so.....by their assuming,presuming,adding and taking away...guessing at God which has been done by the Jews since the Torah....if there is no answer, they make their own speculations.....they have also made it a mans book with women of lower importance...which is wrong also....all these things of man is FORBIDDEN but its not stopped the study for over 3,500 years....ALL have misread, changed and misconstrued and made it UNSIMPLE......there are things we are not to know ,yet , and may not ever....like: where is Moses buried. where did Melchizedek come from......
you take it at face value ,simply...men make it harder than it is....Just as the Jewish Priests Jesus rebuked for the way the had used Scripture to cause suppression,oppression and HATE for all the laws and rituals...they had to endure....and the way the priestw held themselves above their people and almost like taking their own hate for God and truning it on the people....
if you understand the Old , yu will understand the New , bu tno one knows all and never will....But even the 'layman',common man.....can understand AND we HAVE ALL WE NEED to know and understand God and what HE is and wants from us...amen
by Randoley on March 20th, 2010
I haven't found any part that isn't true. The Bible isn't a book to judge others with or damn the world. It is a book for yourself how to find your way back to God. The Bible should be a personal guide to God.
by Rinky Dinky Do on March 7th, 2010
The Bible is like beauty, in the eye of the beholder
by LePoupon is a proper gander. on March 7th, 2010
Most people only read the synopsis on Wikipedia.
by Stormarm on October 19th, 2010
Because they're uncomfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty, not to mention poetic license, flyspecks, and printer's errors.
by Parepidemos on March 17th, 2010
I for one believes that every single word of the Bible is true and although I don't need any archaeological findings to prove to me that the Bible is true, there are new findings all of the time that do just that, which in turn helps to prove wrong some of it's harshest critics.
Just how long is a cubit? It depends on whom you ask. Noah’s cubit was somewhat longer than the Egyptian, Greek and Roman cubit. For Noah, the cubit was the measurement from his elbow to the tip of his middle (longest) finger. This inexact measurement likely caused great problems throughout the world, particularly in Africa, where a cubit could range anywhere from less than 12 inches (for pygmy cultures) to more than 36 inches (for the Watusi).
Most sources agree that a cubit in the Bible was equal to 21.8 inches, an Egyptian cubit was equal to 20.6 inches, a Greek cubit was equal to 18.3 inches, and a Roman cubit was equal to 17.5 inches.
by Talamasca on March 9th, 2010
I haven’t seen this much mindless, run-on babble since… I gotta go back to the chick from North Carolina and the Ms America pageant. Or whatever that was.
“Getting’ Stoned For Jesus”!
Amen and pass the joint! (Or ‘ludes or whatever).
I want some of what you’re on!
by Talamasca on March 9th, 2010
Because it doesn’t require you to think. Then something happens that isn’t covered in the all-encompassing book of knowledge and morality, so you have to wait for the pope to make a decision on what you are to think. That way everyone is controlled.
Perfectly.
Almost. (But I don’t think that part is covered in the Bible. At least not yet. You’ll need another thousand years and several hundred editions before it becomes in-grained. Where the people in 3010 can claim ‘it’s the word of God’. Or whatever they deem necessary to manipulate and control their masses. Sheep. I mean masses. People. Spread the love. Yeah, that’s it, Spread the love).
by Icameback4now on March 9th, 2010
To question the word of God is to question faith, i simply would not do that.
by Moongrim on March 8th, 2010
Those who do so, choose to worship a book. As opposed to trying to find truth.
More often than not, they read the bible to judge others and get them to change their life. When they read of something that requires them to change their ways, suddenly it's a 'metaphor'.
That's humanity for ya.
We all complain about what Lawyers do, yet we do the very same thing.
by Pater Murmidonorum on March 7th, 2010
The problem I'd like to point out is this: when you take the bible as being 100% true you can extract information from the bible and 'know' it is true. the bible has authority, it is the literal word of a superior being.
When you take 1 single story, line, or even 1 word, and say it is not true, for whatever reason, valid or not, a problem is created: now the bible has become something that needs verification, something that requires human input. It is no longer a source of information, but rather a source of suggestions. It is no longer the author of the book that decides what is good and bad, but it is the person reading it. After all, if you don't believe genesis 1, why WOULD you believe matthew 12? Since there is no superior being to tell us which parts of the bible are true and which are not, humans shape their faith to whatever suits them. You want to justify a war, we just take those parts of scripture that agree with you, and deny all parts that disagree. Whether you want to whipe out Jews, homosexuals, nations, martians, economists, whatever, you can no doubt find a verse in scripture to support you.
At this point, the bible is nothing better than Homer's Ilias, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Hitler's Mein Kampf, and an essay I wrote in my first year of high-school.
So when it comes to believing the bible, it really is all or nothing, if you ask me.
by Riding the last galaxy on March 20th, 2010
The measurements given are correct. The problems arises when people speculate on how long a cubit is , how much a shekel weighs or how long a Sabbath Day's journey is. Where the Bible is silent, we must be as well. Guess work and opinion are not good measuring rods when it comes to Biblical interpretation. Let Scripture interpret itself and where no information is given, the best thing to do is just let it alone.
The Bible says what it means and means what it says and for man to add too the Bible that, which doesn't belong there and to take away from the Bible, that which is there causes the problems that we see in this and other questions like it.
Revelation 22:18-19 "For I testify to every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
by Davjohn on August 26th, 2010
It's not that some people say that every single word of the bible is true, until they face something that may or may not be true, but it's that some people say that every single word of the bible is true, until they face something that they may or may not like.
As far as measurements are concerned, that's not a matter of fact or guesswork. That's a matter of Archeology, which is a science, and in science many things are not certain.
Is there a study guide along with"Know the Bible in 30 Days"?
by Answerbag Staff on July 11th, 2010
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What year did ronald knox publish the new testament?
by Answerbag Staff on July 6th, 2010
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How firm of a grasp do you think you have on scripture, especially relating to end time events?
by drequeen on January 14th, 2012
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Who publishes the new King James Bible?
by Answerbag Staff on June 14th, 2010
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Christians, does the Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20) still apply and still matter today? This is a follow up of my first question.
by Parepidemos on January 14th, 2012
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"I have found nothing to be UNTRUE,"
"..they have also made it a mans book with women of lower importance...which is wrong also..."
so.... is it true or not?
by dea_ex_machina on March 7th, 2010
What a load of codswallop.
by Moongrim on March 8th, 2010