Do fundies actually believe God wrote the Bible?

[Toots]

If so how did man get his hands on it. Why was there no ceremony handing "The word of God" over to mankind. It should have been a very sacred event. Or do they believe man wrote it and said he was inspired by God. If that is the case do they believe every man who today says he is inspired by God. I get lost in the details I guess. Is the New Testiment also supposed to be the word of God or is it the word of Mathew Luke and John etc.? I am not religious in any other way than to believe all should be treated as I wish to be treated but am curious as to the contradictions that arise.

[SteppingRazor]

1. It's the "inspired word of God"

God didn't literally write it. But he influenced the writers to write it exactly how they did. All clear? Now stop asking questions.

[WeRQ4U]

15. That's like ouija board though isn't it?

[htuttle]

2. As I understood it...

...'God' possessed the actual authors like in the Exorcist, but instead of vomiting pea soup across the room, they wrote books. Apparently, he must have 'possessed' each successive translator down the centuries, too.

Or something like that.

Except for the book of Mormon, where an angel handed Smith a cigar box of golden plates and magic glasses to read them. After he was finished writing it all down, the angel took all the evidence back...of course.

[windlight]

3. in short, yes

As it was explained to me once, they feel that the humans that wrote it were so filled with the holy spirit that god* wrote it... I then asked how do you know it wasn't the devil* acting like god* and i was given the reply that it just is...

go figure....


* I'm a Buddhist/Wiccan and don't believe the in whole Ultimate Evil/Good paradigm

[asjr]

4. In the beginning--how did they know how to write?

[htuttle]

7. The same way they knew what Jesus was 'thinking'...

...in the Garden of Gesthemane. The cosmic narrator filled them in with highlights of last week's episode and all the missing dialogue.

[asjr]

8. Don't you wonder how many drafts they wrote before

the got it the way they wanted it?

[Wapsie B]

5. The phrase," The inerrant word of God,"

is something you'll hear being repeated nonstop.However it has to be the King James version in order to be genuine to a conservative fundy.
Funny how if they're such sticklers for accuracy they don't find a bible written in Aramaic.

[craychek]

13. actually...

the king james version is probably more of an inaccurate translation than previous ones. Most of the newer translations have been americanized.

For example, there is no word in hebrew for hell, or eternal, however, hebrew words have been translated like that because it sounds better. I would go into more detail but I'm really not up to it at the momment

[Wapsie B]

14. I would love to take a class on the history of the bible

taught by someone like John Spong.



Welcome to DU!

[atreides1]

6. My Take

Not sure what the fundies believe, but I was taught that the Bible was written by men inspired by God. The Old Testament is actually a portion of the Jewish Talmud(sp). There are more then just the Ten Commandments that the fundies would like us all to live by, there are
over 630, each of the ten is actually a chapter of the entire list of Commandments handed down by God, in accordance to Jewish belief.

The fundies don't truly believe in all of the Bible, in my opinion they only believe in the passages that further their own agenda of
power and control over peoples lives.

The New Testament is about the life and teachings of Jesus, and what happened after he died and was ressurected(sp).

[tsuki]

9. Yes, they do. It's a hold over from the Klan. It is much easier to

find the hate and bigotry in the Bible to justify their Conservatism than it is if you only adhere to the New Testiment.

I had an argument once with a Fundie. I pointed out that the Jews say that the Old Testiment is a book of literature and allegories. Reply, "what do the Jews know about the Bible."

Fundies/Klansmen are proof positive that intelligent design is a flawed theory.

[seabeyond]

10. i am now taking my good christians to, you say literal interpretation

of bible. then, you must say beating and murdering a woman by man is ok. slavery is ok. is this what you are suggesting to me

oh, the screws turn, lol lol as they dance around to figure that one out

[eallen]

11. That is what makes them fundamentalists. Just like fundamentalist Moslems.

Fundamentalist Moslems believe that the angel Gabriel literally dictated the Qu'ran to the prophet Mohammed, and that Allah chose Arabic as the preferred language for his Holy Writ.

The world is full of crazy people.

[Kraklen]

12. Yes.

And in English.

[carnie_sf]

16. God may have written it

but Constantine and Henry VIII were editors

[leftofthedial]

17. fundies believe whatever they need to

to justify their hatred of themselves and the "other"

[Ravenseye]

18. They're hypocrites

I've had multiple converstaions that go like this...

"It's the word of God!"

"God wrote it? Like with his own pen?"

"No he wrote it through others. He inspired them!"

"Ah just like the Koran right? So you're Islamic?"

"No, the Koran wsn't inspired by god."

"But the bible was?"

"Yes."

"How can you say that the Bible was inspired by god, but the Koran wasn't?"

"Because it wasn't."

"How do you know?"

"Becuase THE BIBLE is the inspired word of god and it says it's the final word."

"The Koran says that the bible was meant to be the final word, but that people screwed it up, isn't that possible?"

"No, it's not."

"why?"

"Because."

*sigh*

[Connie_Corleone]

19. God guided the hands of the 40+ writers of the Bible.

They wrote God's WORD. The WORD OF GOD is infallible, complete and without error. God also guided the Council of Nicea to put the right gospels and letters together to form the New Testament.

Any books and letters that were left out of the New Testament were heretical in nature and God made sure they were not included.

Thus saith the LORD.