Who wrote the Bible?

[Catherineanne]

I have read the bible and find it difficult to trust it for some of the reasons mentioned by Athiest001 and others. I feel that the bible says one thing but the followers interpret it diffently and and do the opposite.

How can i trust a book which is suppose to be from God but is written as though it is not from God??.

Gods revelation must be 100% correct, it must stand the test of time, it must not leave a least ammount of doubt, it must agree with mans natural disposition and reverence instinct - The bible fails to this for me. It a book other than from God

I think you are putting the cart before the horse, if you don't mind the analogy. We are not called to believe, nor trust in, the Bible.

Our calling is to believe and trust in God, through Christ. If the Bible helps you to to that, then all well and good. If it doesn't, then throw it into the bin and find something else that will. It is Christ who is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and last, not the Bible.

Having found Christ, and given him your life and soul, then you can retrieve that poor much maligned book and find him in it, but you will still find nowhere the authority to put the Bible before God, or Christ, or to believe it before your faith.

Christ said, by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Close your Bible, and spend the next 50 years of your life trying to get that one bit of Scripture into your heart, and when you get it right (if indeed you ever do) then find another bit to try.

Our faith is both very complex and very simple. The smallest child can understand it, and yet the greatest theologian has not even begun to understand the first part of it. But nowhere is it dependent on believing every word of Scripture, because there is no Scripture which demands this of us. It is Christ who is the Word, and it is he who we need to turn to.

 

[unkern]

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. God created the world with words, therefore the bible is God's word