when it becomes irrelevant enough, it will then re-assert itself, and a pendulum will swing in the direction of making it relevant BIG TIME, once again.
only a complete folking idiot would pose such blaphemy
....Yet it is still the #1 best selling book of all time.
I wonder if the family and friends of the victims of the massacre in Kenya wished the attackers were Bible thumpers.
Strange piece for the foxes to tackle. They as much as any are front and center in tempting God. Sodomy still has the same outcome as it did when it was first denounced by God Himself. And then Christ said Mark 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
This modern age of liberalism, has deceived itself ‘they can do things better’.
This article reminds me of the “news stories’ we used to make up as knobs at the Citadel. We were supposed to read a newspaper every day and relate stories at mess for the entertainment of upper classemen and learn how to carry on a proper dinner conversation. Freshman didn’t have time to read a paper so we’d often just pull something out of the air to talk about. Looks like the author had a dead line and needed to do the same.
It’s always amazing and sad to see that even many who profess to love the Bible, do not even capitalize the word.
YES!
It is, always has been, and will always be.
Everyone will know this 100 years from now.
Scientists “debunked” the Bible? When did that happen?
Whether or not people believe the Bible is God’s word it is clear that the world would be a MUCH better place if people lived by the 10 commandments and the teachings in the New Testament.
Scientists debunked it? When?
Scripture is God-breathed. Lord Jesus appealed to it—”Have you not read...?”—as authoritative, even though He IS the Word made flesh. So did his apostles.
It would be just words on a page if not for the fact that it is the living Word from the Living God.
Yes.
Only if it was read as much as it is written about.
There are some good arguments on both sides.
To start with, the KJV Bible is more important than Shakespeare as an essential part of the English language. Likewise its contribution to western culture is extraordinary.
However, considering that socialism, secularism, and even atheism are rather perverted outgrowths of the Bible, there needs to be a clarification of its contents, to try and preclude such future distortions.
Since the “finalized” version of the Bible was accepted, more or less, in Christendom, the world of the faithful has not stopped. Brilliant people of faith have created a vast library of knowledge that could be integrated into future Bibles (I use this in the plural, because longstanding argument really prevents an accepted single future Bible.)
In Israel right now, is an incredible project to analyze the earliest Hebrew writings of the Pentateuch, that has unveiled that it existed as a poem or song before written language, if you can imagine the Book of Genesis as a poem.
On the flip side of things, indeed there are parts of the Bible that are “not relevant”; but that is a tricky statement, in that they *might* be relevant to people today, but in the context of the Bible, they are not particularly relevant to the Bible. They don’t really fit in, and never did, and why they were included in the first place is a good question.
And there is so much brilliance in Jewish and Christian writings since then that they would fit much better in the Bible.
As a great example, likely the greatest Jewish philosopher of the 20th Century, Martin Buber, wrote a (rather thin) book called “I and Thou”, about the relationship at a personal level between an individual and God. Each simple sentence of that work contains volumes of religious philosophy behind it, and can be pondered for days or weeks, one at a time. It is just as accessible to Jews as it is to Christians.
People of faith could get some real spiritual exercise in pondering it. An excellent inclusion into a new Bible.
But that is just the tip of the iceberg of Judeo-Christian spiritual writings. So much brilliance that most people never learn about.