bible

[PearsonP]

did the events of the bible realy happen or is it a load of ****!?

[andy hughes]

Who knows? The perceived wisdom is that most of the events are based on fact, but may have been embellished - as stories usually are - with repeating telling.

[Octavius]

It's like most Hollywood films - based on a true story

[gypsy]

its a fairy tale.passed from one to another with bits added on...and bits taken away those that want to believe are welcome to it..every time it is rewritten it changes to suit whoever,,,,,i personally dont have any interest in it allthough as a child in school it is forced upon you ..well it was in my days,,of school...its just a man made book to give people something to believe in its called hope...everyone is entitled to believe in it or not,,its a free choice..gypsy

[bernardo]

did the events of the Bible really happen...

No

 

... or is it a load of ****!?

Yes

[spudqueen]

The best way to answer this question is to study the work of Zecharia Sitchin who has dedicated his life to exploring this very issue. That Sitchin's findings please neither the creationists nor the darwinian evolutionists is something that is quite extraordinary.

As for the comment on 'fairytales', remember that Troy was a legend, myth, fairytale or whatever, until that is, someone discovered that it actually existed.

Also when you look at today's technology, many of the events in the Old Testament can be reviewed in a very different light.  For example, a study of human mitochondrial DNA reveals that the entire human race is traceable to a single African female who is now referred to by geneticists as 'mitochondrial Eve'; curiously, this backs up the Sumerian account of our creation, which ultimately ended up in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament!

We live on a very, very curious planet: rule nothing out!!

[Clanad]

It would be pointless to discuss in this limited forum the answer to the question in it's entirety.  However, one of the recurring myths promulgated is that the Bible changes whenever it's "rewritten".  It can be shown unequivocally, that the translations in hand today for the New Testament, are esentially the same as those written within 20 to 40 years of the actual events. The significance of this is fully realized when one considers the eyewitnesses still alive at that time who could have readily discredited the writings.  Granted, the autographs are not available, but scholarship consistently reveals that there have been no changes.  I find it amusing that the writer restating this belief appears to be his/her self, an adherent to spiritualism, for which there is no written evidence.

Additionally, no archaeological discovery has ever been shone to contradict historical evidences contained in the Old or New Testaments.  This is, certainly, not to say that all such ancient discoveries have been made for every event in the Bible, just that those, and there are many, that have been made indicate the Scripture to be extremely reliable. I believe that all reliable evidence must be considered and then a verdict rendered...

[liverpool1]

it wasnt a load of **** but only one * and that was the * of bethlehem

[gypsy]

clanadd..i am not a spiritualist in any shape or form so you have that wrong..i am pagan and have no christian beliefs at all..through the work i do i do send people to the spiritualist church for many reasons one of them is the mediums and healers are trained and monitored and its free,,as i dont agree with people paying vast sums of money out for spiritual works,,as i believe its a gift and should not be used to generate money..i have no interest in the bible or different religions interpretations of it,,and different religions do change bits of it to suit themselves and that is fact...gypsy

[Goldensmile]

Read it and judge for yourself.  There's no-one alive today who can say for sure that the events happened or they didn't happen.  People spend their whole lives studying to discover the truth, when they can only gauge anything from what is there to be found, i.e. they may not have all the facts either, who's to know? 

Are you going to take someone else's word on whether or not the events were real?  If it's something that's preying on your mind, I would say pick up a copy and have a read.  What have you got to lose?

[Octavius]

Can we all put this question on hold until we have all studied the work of Zecharia Sitchin.

No ta

[Reader]

http://urbanrim.org.uk/Jesus.htm

[simms]

It ain't necessarily so, the things that you're liable to read in the bible, it ain't necessarily so

Sing it blues style

[Merlin]

Some of the events in the bible can be accepted as historical, or embellished fact and we can accept them more or less at face value because there is no good reason to deny them.

Some of the events described, however, are clearly impossible if taken literally and are obviously to be interpreted.

A lot of the bible stuff falls between those two camps. What you accept as truth and what you perceive as allegorical/metaphorical etc rather depends, to some extent, on your attitude and preconceived ideas.

 

[Yeah Bee]

Jesus is a historical person and probably his men also. But the myths N* F****** W**