Why did the Bible leave off 2000 years ago? Why didn't it just continue?
92861
The Bible wasnt the only thing that ended 2000 years ago, While Jesus was on the earth he established his church which included apostles (among other things) and then gave them the priesthood which included the authority to administer in his church.\n  After Christ was crusified his church continued for a short time being led by a prophet and apostles but continued to recieve much persecution and the members and leaders were killed and his established church was taken off the earth.  \n  Later the catholic church was formed and stood as the only church for a while then following the invention of the printing press more people were able to access the bible and therefore noticed the faults in the catholic church and they began to protest and form new churches which has now led to hundreds of christian churches.  \n  The question is which is the right one with the authority to continue to give furthur revelation for our times.  Then we will be able to find more of Gods words spoken directly by prophets of God.  Just like the Bible is.
737087
There are many many more sections of the Bible out there.  The Vatican removed them many years ago to cover up many things so that people will not learn the truth about many things listed in the Bible.\n\nDo a Google search for "missing bible".  Look at the missing bible verses, people, places, things, religions, etc.\n\nAlso look for some special books.  Take a look at the list of what the Torah consists of and compare that to the list of the Old Testament.  Find all those that are in the Torah and not in the Old Testament.\n\nLook for a 2,000+ page multi-volume set written by a nun from France many centuries ago.  She claimed to be the reincarnation of Mary's mother and wrote about her past life in very great detail.\n\nLook for the African accounts of Mary and Jesus - it gives a blow by blow detailed account of how Mary first encountered the Angels from God when she was born, how she was taught all about childbearing while she was a mere babe, and how when she was 5 years old she went to the temple to demand that the Priests approve her for marriage because she was going to carry the child of God.  It also explains how the priests sought out a suitable husband for the 5 year old, eventually blackmailing the just widowed Joseph into marrying Mary, how he had to flee his village with Mary when she became pregnant, and how they only place they could find was a manger because the inn keepers did not want a pregnant child on the premises.\n\nThere is so much more to be learned.  The reasons for not having any male figures is discussed in detail - you learn that God is female and not male - the change of the sex was done by rulers in power to stop female rulership.\n\nOops, I am rambling now.  I could go on forever with the things removed, cut out and altered in the Bible to try to halt technological progress, prevent science from gaining a foothold, prevent people from learning about the solar system is laid out and so much more.
298820
You missed the biggest point of all, Man wrote the Bible, It has lost and been added to over thousands of years in translating the bible. God himself is perfect, his Creation's just got a little lop sided is all.
300535
Yes it is true there were many more 'books' in the bible centuries ago. And an equmenical council was organised to detirmine what should be removed because it didn't stick to bible principals that they  had  agreed on at that time.\nMany scriptures refer to others to form a common thread.\nGod  choose certain men to write his materials over thousands of years, and that was the guiding principal for continueity.
1106196
If you think that the Bible is a literal description of the beginning of the world, then the "tree" which you refer to would have died long ago...after all, even in the counting of fundamentalist's ages, the world is AT LEAST 8000 years old.  However, I believe that this a figurative, not literal, tree or trees, which are an example to us of the gifts that God has given us.
474412
That's a very good point. In the early days of Christian religion, Christians were also required to fast (not eat from sunrise to sunset) in certain times of the year. This is similar to what Muslims do. But Christians have given up this tradition just because the early practioners chose what to carry out and the bible was written a long time after Jesus's death. That's why so many things have been lost or modified. In Islam, the Quran was written at the time the Prophet Muhammed  (sm) was still alive. So, there was no chance of it being changed or modified later.
957633
I'm not gonna look it up but we do know the Bible was penned by men, translated by men and retranslated by men,  is it not a miracle that though all that the message with regards to how you should behave (which is the message) is never corupted.  God does not ever give us the idea that those who penned the Bible were infallible buyt that they were inspired.  This is no doubt a trivial mistake or different battles, or different view points like two people who see the same accident.  What does it matter.  The Bible talks of evil people so they no doubt exist and some of them were no doubt scribs.  I know of two other inconsequencial errors but as I watch movies who do not have even 1/10 th script and many more editing tools I always see mistakes in continuity like these you ask about, so what these things do is make it all the more real.\n\ntry reading a court trial transcript one time and see what kind of continuity you get in there,  and those trials do not take 10000 years worth of testimony.
783982
The bible never changes and it can be applied to the times today no matter what day hour or situation the bible is relevant. It has answers and there is nothing going on today that did not go on when the bible was written, Also the bible is more than ever applied to our time because it has a lot of prophecy's that apply to us.
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100,000 years ago according to the bible and scientists because the sun is decreasing at 5 ft per hour so if you would add all that up, it would have started 100,000 years ago , it is not a million or billion or else the sun would have been too big for the earth to have survived.
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my religion is Bible-based, so that is the text that i will be focusing on.\n\nover the years archaeologists have used the Bible to find people, places, kings, kingdoms, and even entire civilizations that were previously thought to not exist.  they were in the Bible, but no one found them until they used the Bible to find them. \n\nthe Bible puts on a timeline a cataclysmic flood about 4500 years ago where everything was destroyed from the face of the earth.  the oldest tree discoevered dates to about 4500 years ago.  coincidence?  read on...\n\nin the late 1990's, the earths population topped 6 billion.  in 1810, it was just over 1 billion.  following the curve that these numbers give us, the human population was at it's beginning about 4500 years ago (where the Bible has 8 living people)\n\nthe first greek translation of the new testament was written 250 years BC (before christ).  it has in it over 300 prophesies pertaining to the life of the messiah; all of which were fullfilled by Jesus.  the odds of this all happening as written are monumental. \n\nGod proved that He surpasses time and space with the prophesies, that He created time and space with the intricacy of His creation, and that He loves time and space with the sacrifice He paid.  maybe the Bible was penned by men, but each and every word written was via divine inspiration from God Himself.  no man could accomplish that.  religion was created by man, as the simple definition of "religion" is "man's quest for God"; however i believe in a different school of thought, and that is one of "God desiring a relationship with His creation; specifically man."  it isn't about being religious, it's about having a relationship with God.
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How long have you got?\n\nNo books of the bible were written in christs lifetime.  Even the fundys know that.\n\nAnd why do ppl believe it?  A mystery to me.  Because their parents taught them to is my best guess
1060158
It's all a load of nonsense. The whole 666 thing came from the Bible, which was put together by a bunch of Romans who wanted to control people. Why is it people still believe in the Bible despite the fact it is just a selective history? They take it as gospel, at face value. There were hundreds of books but only a few were chosen to go in the Bible, the ones that reflected the view of the Romans and gave across the views that they wanted to give across. Know a story when you read one!
375606
the bible is rewritten a lot\nit was changed a lot\n\nits now FALSE\nif you need evidences \njust contact
562476
Any book that denies or trys to change or add to the written Word of God is a danger to read.  Stick with the orininal Bible It worked in peoples lives for 1000's of years so why try to change it. Is it becuase people in the 21st century think that they know more than God?
866497
Catholics read the Bible for 1,200 years before Protestants existed. Why wouldn't we? The Bible belongs to the Catholic Church. It was compiled by Catholic bishops, and approved by a Catholic Pope, for the sole purpose of use within the Catholic Church. Those who have borrowed the book from the Catholic Church have consistently demonstrated their inability to interpret it correctly. When I read the Holy Bible I see a Church that is ONE, even as Jesus and His heavenly Father are ONE, a church united in teaching, united in beliefs, united in worship, not a manmade tradition fragmented into thousands of conflicting denominations.  I'll continue to read the Bible as Catholics have always done, and I'll continue to look to God's holy Church, the biblical pillar and foundation of truth, for correct and authoritative interpretation. Leave God's Church for the doctrinal chaos of manmade denominational religion?  No. I don't think so.
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The Bible was written by people in the very early stages of mankind's existence, before we understood astronomy and how the planets and heavenly bodies worked.  We didn't get a good understanding of these things until the telescope was invented many centuries later.  There are many things in the Bible that we now understand through science, but at the time of the Bible's writing, it wasn't understood so the authors put down the best explanation they had at the time.  Even God's influence helped them keep it simple, in terms that the people of the time could understand.
1014118
You are very right.  When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev  22:18.  ; )  But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.).  Really it's all just a buffet.