The Holy Bible
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Whether or not you believe the Holy Bible is the word of God, you can't deny that it has shaped our society. Over the last two thousand years, billions of people have found inspiration and solace within its pages. Others have selectively used Bible verses to justify various atrocities. The Holy Bible is arguably the most important book ever written.
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Table of Contents
- The King James Version: 1611 Edition
- The Original Hebrew and Greek
- Other Versions
- The Word of God?
- What do you think?
- The best verse ever:
- Most inspirational verses
- Atrocities justified by Bible verses
- The Bible Tells Me So
- Old Testament
- Who is the most important figure in the Old Testament?
- New Testament
- Who is the most important figure in the New Testament
- People in the Bible
- God's official site
- God according to the Wikipedia
- More books by God
- Vote for Future Updates
- What else?
- Alternative Viewpoints
- Irreverent Links
- Bible Study for Atheists
The King James Version: 1611 Edition
The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition
For many, the King James Version 1611 of the Bible is the only valid Bible. Interestingly enough, though, most KJV Bibles printed today are not the KJV of 1611, but variations of it: different spellings, some punctuation changes, different words, and most notably, without the Apochrypha. This edition is the real thing: complete, unabridged, no translation changes, and in a sturdy, handy format, and not expensive.
--Amazon review by Blue Bird of West Virginia
The Original Hebrew and Greek
In case you do read Hebrew and/or Greek.
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The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew-Greek-English
The only complete interlinear Bible available in E more...2 points
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The Greek New Testament: Bonded Leather
The leading edition of the original text. English more...0 points
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Hebrew-English Tanakh Student Edition
A gorgeous new Bible... real value comes from addi more...0 points
The Word of God?
Do you believe the Holy Bible is the word of God? If so, do you think it should be interpreted literally?
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Is the Holy Bible the word of God? If so, should it be interpreted literally?
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Gandree says:
Yes it is the Word of God. Some of it is to be taken literally but some of it is symbolic. The symbolic parts are generally explained in other parts of the Bible. It's amazing how it continues to minister to every situation I find myself in.
Posted May 14, 2008
Classicvideogamesplus says:
2 tim 3:16,17 is one of my favorite verses saying the bible is inspired by God... Jesus spoke a lot in parables so you have to use reasoning to sometimes get the message. Some things are meant to be interpreted literally and some are symbolic references. We're imperfect so we can just do our best and try to follow his word to the best of our ability. I wanted to leave a comment and didn't want to choose yes or no but generally falls more towards the YES area.
Posted May 13, 2008
waykeeper says:
Emphatically, yes! Sure it was written by man, but have you ever been inspired by a burning yearning with in? I can't imagine what it must have been like to carry hte passion in the womb of my mind that would later become such a powerful, demonstration of the inpiration of God. So many lives weighed in the balance for this book to thrive and remain alive-- and to think-- since the history of the best sellers list, it has ever been number one! This in and of itself is enough to point a red flag in the direction of validity whether it was tampered with by the Romans, king James, or whomever! I find it really hard to believe that a God who is the Creator of all that there is, who is also omnicient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, would be void of understanding so much that he would not protect the only way we have to learn about his attributes. Especially when the rule of thumb is, you learn of someone by what others say about them. Because of this common sense logic, I have to say even if some pope somewhere altered all the jots and tittles, God is still powerful enough to come shining through, whithout any help form anyone's peanut gallery. Face it. He told set the Sun a blaze, placed it in the sky one time and gave it boundaries of day and night and in all these years it has never been confused about its purpose. At some point we are either going to have to use the measure of faith we have all been given to believe in the one who gave it to us, or enshrine it in a capsule of doubt and unbelief to the point that it permanently separates us from God all together. Choose this day what you will believe and serve that.
Posted April 13, 2008
ms-giggles says:
Yes I believe the holy bible is the word of God. On Easter I gave my heart to God and my life is changing before me. I've always believe, but wasn't committed to learning my heritage.
I will be visiting you lens, to learn more. Thanks Beth
Posted April 09, 2008
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GeminiSky says:
It should be read thoroughly before really interpreting it and as for literally interpreting it...well...you have to read in between the lines a bit and find the hidden meanings within the words. I am "really" reading the Bible for the first time this year for I am a fairly new Christian so I am not an expert on the "Word of God" but from what I have learned...I love it and it seems to be the "Instruction Book of Life" that I was looking for a long time ago.
Posted May 09, 2008
spirituality says:
Golly - it's pretty obvious that it is a book written by people, probably people who felt some sort of divine inspiration. It's pretty foolish to take it literally in the sense that when the number pi is abbreviated to '3' instead of 3.14(etc), you should actually also calculate the circumference of a circle with 3 as pi. Even if it is the word of God - God spoke to people in the days before Christ in ways that wouldn't be appropriate now. Does he have to make a book that will be interpreted correctly (by some magic) from the days of the Israeli temple to now? Pretty tough call - even for a God.
Posted April 10, 2008
bruisefixer says:
The Holy Bible helps me to step in to the light in the domaine of the mind.Of course the creator has trusted us enough to give us the options to choose right from wrong,which again can only be defined in the realm of the mind.
But when you sooner or later get to find out that the mind is corrupt,therefore makes us automatically sinners from the word go,the Holy Bible can only be a database of some of what we are and more to come.
Which brings me to the second part of my answer that,intepretation of this Bible will therefore become key to its importance or relevance to humanity.
No doubt the proliferation of all these churches all over the place.
Posted March 30, 2008
lens4Him says:
Obviously it isn't all to be taken literally otherwise you would be believing that Jesus is a vine and a lamb, not to mention a light and a door.
It's odd how people who profess to take the Bible literally only do so selectively - 'This is my body' for example.
Posted March 20, 2008
What do you think?
Everyone has their own point of view about the Bible which don't really fit a yes or no question. Which of the following best matches your point of view.
The best verse ever:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Matt. 22:39
Most inspirational verses
What are your favorite inspirational verses. Vote for your favorites and/or add your own.
Atrocities justified by Bible verses
Unfortunately, various atrocities have been justified with verses from the Bible. Here is a partial list. Please add any I have missed.
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Slavery
10 points
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The Rationalization for War
Our president and many past leaders driven by ego more...7 points
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The crusades
6 points
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Witch hunts during middle ages
5 points
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Promoting hatred of gays
5 points
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Murdering abortion doctors
5 points
#8
Slaughtering the native Americans, North and South
4 points
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The selling of indulgences
2 points
#10
Perverted the Women
2 points
The Bible Tells Me So
The Bible Tells Me So: Uses and Abuses of Holy Scripture
This matter-of-fact approach to the many controversies that arise from disagreements over the meaning of the Bible is very refreshing. Read it if you are truly interested in studying this subject from an academic standpoint, not if you are just looking for another source to support your own views. This is a wonderful book to zero in on the specific passages in the Bible that have led to disagreements and how those disagreements have played out in history. It takes neither a liberal nor conservative stance, so anyone will find it useful.
Old Testament
The Old Testament (sometimes abbreviated as OT), in Western Christianity, refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), with some variations and additions. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church the comparable texts are known as the Septuagint, from the original Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. The term "Old Testament" itself is credited to Tertullian, who used the Latin vetus testamentum in the second century.
Most scholars agree that the Hebrew Bible was composed and compiled between the 12th and the 2nd century BC,Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Written almost entirely in the Hebrew language between 1200 and 100 BC"; Columbia Encyclopedia: "In the 10th century BC the first of a series of editors collected materials from earlier traditional folkloric and historical records (i.e., both oral and written sources) to compose a narrative of the history of the Israelites who now found themselves united under David and Solomon." before Jesus' birth. Jesus and his disciples based their teachings on them, referring to them as "the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms ... the scriptures". () The accounts of Jesus and his disciples are recorded in the New Testament.
Who is the most important figure in the Old Testament?
I started with one poll and then decided to break it up into two.
New Testament
The New Testament (Greek: ????? ???????, Kain? Diath?k?) is the name given to the second half of the Christian Bible, the first half being the Hebrew Bible (also called by Jews Tanakh), known to Christians as the Old Testament. It is sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, or the New Covenant ? which is the literal translation of the original Greek. The original texts were written in Koine Greek by various authors after c. AD 45 and before c. AD 140. Its 27 books were gradually collected into a single volume over a period of several centuries. The New Testament is a central element of Christianity, and has played a major role in shaping modern Western culture. Although certain Christian sects differ as to which works are included in the New Testament, the vast majority of denominations have settled on the same twenty-seven book canon: it consists of the four narratives of Jesus Christ's ministry, called "Gospels"; a narrative of the Apostles' ministries in the early church, which is also a sequel to the third Gospel; twenty-one early letters, commonly called "epistles" in Biblical context, written by various authors and consisted mostly of Christian counsel and instruction; and an Apocalyptic prophecy, which is technically the twenty-second epistle. Although the traditional timeline of composition may have been taken into account by the shapers of the current New Testament format, it is not, nor was it meant to be, in strictly chronological order. Though Jesus speaks Aramaic in it, the New Testament (including the Gospels) was written in Greek because that was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire.
Who is the most important figure in the New Testament
other than Jesus
I believe most people would say Jesus is the most important figure in the New Testament. Who would come in second?
People in the Bible
Here are lenses about various people in the Bible. Do you have a lens about a Biblical figure? Add it to SquidWho in the Bible and I may add it here.-
Moses In The Bible - Biblical Moses
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This lens is a tribute to the meekest man who ever lived... "Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." (Numbers 12.3 KJV) We will include many links in this retelling of the...
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Moses
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The Ten Commandments serve as the fundamental moral laws of Judaism and Christianity. According to the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament), Moses received the Ten Commandments directly from God on Mount Sinai. He smashed the table...
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Abraham In Bible
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There is a good reason the Abraham is called “Father of the faith!” Abraham is one of the most exceptional individuals of the Old Testament. The Bible says God actually visited him in his home, spoke to him face-to-face, and even reckoned...
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King David History – Biblical David
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This lens is tribute to Biblical David. David was, according to the Bible a man after God's own heart. What I like most about him was that he was far from perfect but teaches us through his life that, if we stay with the right attotude an...
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Apostle Paul In Bible
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This lens is a tribute to the greatest Christian witness of the New Testament, The Apostle Paul In The Bible. He is second only to Jesus Himself in importance for the Christian church. THANKS for visiting. More materials to come be sure to bookmark th...
God's official site
Just kidding God!!!
- God, as viewed by Christianity and other religons
- The concepts of God, as viewed by Christianity and other religions
God according to the Wikipedia
God is the principal or sole deity in religions and other belief systems that worship one deity.Swinburne, R.G. "God" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995.
God is most often conceived of as the creator and overseer of the universe. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the many different conceptions of God. The most common among these include omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, jealousy, and eternal and necessary existence. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologian philosophers, including Augustine of Hippo,Edwards, Paul. "God and the philosophers" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995. Al-Ghazali,Platinga, Alvin. "God, Arguments for the Existence of," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, 2000. and Maimonides. Many notable medieval philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God, attempting to wrestle with the apparent contradictions implied by many of these attributes.
More books by God
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