Why Bible is a collection of some letter?

[arifulislam]

I am Muslim.But i study all rerigious book.I ve a ques..which ans i ask many person but i didnt receive proper answer.Can anyone inform me why BIBLe is consists by some letters?is it true holy book?I mean Jesus Gives us Teach and Father gives her bible .i think Those bible is send by god not present bible whats we read now?ans me plz

 

[Galahad]

The actual "founders" of Christianity were Paul and Peter. It is a religion "about" Jesus. Not a religion founded by Jesus. Paul was the earliest prominant travelling "preacher/church leader". The letters are to his congregations (that he supported) around the middle east and Rome. They amount to a laying out of the doctrine of the "church" as well as using ongoing arguments from followers as a means to illustrate that doctrine. Think of them as printed sermons rather than spoken sermons. In fact, the arguing and doubt among the followers is, in my mind, a key illustration that skeptisism and doubt was/is not only tollerated but expected.

 

[TinklednPants]

.i think Those bible is send by god not present bible whats we read now?ans me plz

Exactly!

 

[Wishing on a star]

I totally disagree with the first response above... IMHO, Christ is the founder of 'christianity'... I follow NO man... just Christ my creator, lord, and saviour.

There is SOOOOO much more to the Bible (The WORD) than those 'letters' written by Peter and or Paul.

To the OP.
The bible is a collection of 'writings', but not 'letters' (as in we write a 'letter' to someone). Could God, with his own hand/powers, have chosen to write all of this and then left it in the form of some sacred scrolls or something??? Yes, quite definitely he could have. But, in consideration of the fact that Christianity is a living and progressing spiritual religion... with a definite history from Adam and Eve, to the Jews, to the coming of Jesus Christ, it would only be natural that this story has been been unfolding, and has been written (as inspired by God) over many years....

The fact that it is not a single document, penned by one man, is actually testament to the fact that it is inspired by God... Study of the Bible shows that things written by men inspired centuries earlier actually prove and validate and work together with what is written by inspired men centuries later in a way that can be explained as divine providence.

Except for these scriptures that are considered to be the inspired word of God, the Bible tells me that no man shoud add one single letter... The Bible says that one follows the 'words of man' in vain... But, that truth, life and salvation are found in the Word of God.

 

[SteveInBrooklyn]

I am Muslim.But i study all rerigious book.I ve a ques..which ans i ask many person but i didnt receive proper answer.Can anyone inform me why BIBLe is consists by some letters?is it true holy book?I mean Jesus Gives us Teach and Father gives her bible .i think Those bible is send by god not present bible whats we read now?ans me plz

Welcome to the CB. Are you talking about the epistles? I always wondered about the epistles as well. There is some beautiful language in Paul's letters, but I think the Gospels are much more important than the epistles.

 

[bicker]

In fact, the arguing and doubt among the followers is, in my mind, a key illustration that skeptisism and doubt was/is not only tollerated but expected.

Very good point.

 

[Imzadi]

How odd, to come to a Disney forum to ask about the bible instead of a bible study forum.

 

[breezy1077]

How odd, to come to a Disney forum to ask about the bible instead of a bible study forum.

with only 5 posts toboot.

Methinks 'tis the season for

 

[agnes!]

How odd, to come to a Disney forum to ask about the bible instead of a bible study forum.

Indeed.

agnes!
PS - Maybe it's just another proof that all Internet roads lead to The DIS .

 

[Laura]

How odd, to come to a Disney forum to ask about the bible instead of a bible study forum.

The Community Board isn't just for Disney, if you haven't noticed. But it is odd that a new person should post these questions.

 

[bicker]

I don't think it is that odd, actually. Here you're more likely to get something closer to a balanced view, whereas in a Bible study forum you almost surely will get a view heavily biased in a specific direction.

I do something similar, quite often, with regard to general issues regarding television (HDTVs, DVRs, cable television service, etc.) There are forums that are more specific to those issues, but there you end up getting the über-geeks, who generally hold perspectives that are outliers within the general population.

 

[ford family]

Welcome to the CB. Are you talking about the epistles? I always wondered about the epistles as well. There is some beautiful language in Paul's letters, but I think the Gospels are much more important than the epistles.

My only exposure to epistles was some years ago. We were in Turkey and visited Ephesus. There is a wonderful amphitheatre with splendid acoustics. If people are talking normally on the floor their voices can be heard everywhere.
Anyway, the story goes that St Paul visited Ephesus and arranged to speak in the amphitheatre to promote his Christianity project. The Ephesians took exception to this and constantly shouted him down. He gave up, travelled to Cyprus and wrote to them instead, thus creating the Epistle to the Ephesians!
Strange feeling, walking in history.

ford family

 

[POB14]

with only 5 posts toboot.

Methinks 'tis the season for

Same guy, different thread.

Is it against the rules here to call somebody a troll? Not that I would call somebody a troll. I would never call anybody a troll. But you know, just in case it ever came up, that somebody was acting just like a troll, by trolling and stuff, I was wondering if it was against the rules to call that troll a troll.

 

[Tanuki]

Having never looked into it I didn't understand that the Koran wasn't in any sort of chronological order until I read about it a week or two ago. As I understand it Muslims don't believe humans should impose an order to the thoughts of God

I suppose if you came from a Muslim background it would be just as surprising to see the Bible is a collection of a lot of different elements: some sections tell stories, some are lists of geneology or laws, some parts telling about battles and history, there are poems, there are letters, there are prophesies.

It isn't the dictation of God to a single person but includes what was put down in writing by many different people over a period of thousands of years, some inspired by verbal histories that go back even further. The church considers them to be inspired by God and to represent God's message to us here on earth.

 

[bicker]

I think in order for a poster to be a troll, that poster needs to (1) be an active protagonist in the thread, not just a single-posting original poster; and (2) be practically the only person advocating his or her perspective. Both of these threads have more than enough active participants on more than one side of each issue raised to hold the OP faultless with respect to trolldom.

Now... "instigator"... that's another story.

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

This thread makes my head hurt.

 

[Imzadi]

Indeed.

agnes!
PS - Maybe it's just another proof that all Internet roads lead to The DIS .

The Community Board isn't just for Disney, if you haven't noticed. But it is odd that a new person should post these questions.

Yes, usually we wait till we've had a number of posts & flames under our belts before we start posting our own controversial topics. Like I just started what probably will be a heated debate over whether one of the women on Housewives of Orange County is possibly a gold-digger.

That show is great entertainment regardless. But, I never would have done that with only 4 posts under my belt.

I think in order for a poster to be a troll, that poster needs to (1) be an active protagonist in the thread, not just a single-posting original poster; and (2) be practically the only person advocating his or her perspective. Both of these threads have more than enough active participants on more than one side of each issue raised to hold the OP faultless with respect to trolldom.

Now... "instigator"... that's another story.

Ah, thanks for the distinction.

 

[Imzadi]

This thread makes my head hurt.

You mean because of the typos & punctuation & lack of capitalizations?

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

You mean because of the typos & punctuation & lack of capitalizations?

That...and much more.

 

[Galahad]

I totally disagree with the first response above... IMHO, Christ is the founder of 'christianity'... I follow NO man... just Christ my creator, lord, and saviour..

I too am a Christian and follow of Christ. Not a follower of Paul or Peter. But Jesus did not found our religion - the structure of it. He is in fact the reason for it of course. To a Christian - the reason for everything. But Peter and Paul had free will and structured the doctrine they were inspired to. Thus the answer of why the letters are important.