The Bible is NOT out of date historically, socially, or scientifically. It stands true forever!
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I agree.
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???✊?✍️? true
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Truth!
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Every New Testament epistle stems from a specific historical context that prompted the human author to write it. Romans was written by Paul as an introduction of himself and his gospel ministry to the saints in Rome—in part because he sought their future assistance on his way to Spain (Rom. 1:11–13; 15:22–25). Paul wrote both Corinthian epistles as a result of numerous issues that surfaced within the church at Corinth. The Pastorals (1 and 2 Timothy and Titus) were addressed to ministry companions of Paul. Each was written from a distinct life and ministry situation, and all three letters give specific instructions related to the handling of affairs in the ministries of Ephesus and Crete. Even the book of Revelation was written from the context of John’s exile (Revelation 1) and the historical contexts immediately present in the mid-AD 90s in the seven churches addressed by Christ (Revelation 2–3).
Each of these historical settings was used by God to provide the context from p 83 which his divinely inspired Word was penned. The providential arrangement of all the persons, problems, praises, personalities, cultures, governments, and social and secular challenges—and all the rest—collectively work together to provide the divinely intended context from which each book of the Bible was written.
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Have you contextualized that?
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Does that mean slavery laws still apply according to exodus 21?
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The Bible is the most logical, insightful and influential collection of books and letters ever written. It includes the most beautiful book ever written, the Gospel of Luke, the most profound book ever written, the Gospel of John, and the most intellectual treatise ever written, the Epistle to the Hebrews. Biblical scientific foreknowledge has anticipated or guided nearly every great human achievement.
The Bible is unique in the literature of the world, and was studied extensively by the greatest modern thinkers, including Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Bernhard Riemann, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Georg Cantor, John von Neumann, and Kurt Godel.
Shorter than you might think, the Bible consists of two parts: 27 short books and letters of the New Testament of the Christian faith, and 39 Hebrew and Aramaic books recognized by both Christianity and Judaism, which are included among the collection of 46 writings known as the Old Testament. The text of the Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, and was later translated and expanded in Greek by rabbinical scholars in the Septuagint Bible of the Greek-speaking Jews which was the Bible of the Apostles. The New Testament itself was originally written in Greek and was soon afterward added to the Septuagint, forming the Greek Bible of the ancient Christian church. The Bible has been translated into more than 2,000 languages.
The Bible is the best selling book in history, a testament to its timeless and compelling message. In addition, the Bible has had an immense, positive influence on literature, culture, and history. According to the website Guinness World Records, “A survey by the Bible Society concluded that around 2.5 billion copies of the Bible were printed between 1815 and 1975, but more recent estimates put the number at more than 5 billion.”
Jesus Christ himself may have authored the perfectly written Epistle to the Hebrews, which was composed in magnificent Greek and which discloses information that could have been known only to Jesus.
Most Christians, Protestant and Catholic, agree on the 27 books of the New Testament, and while the Old Testament of the Orthodox Bible includes 50 books, for a total of 77, and the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible includes 46 books, for a total of 73, the Protestant Bible includes only the 39 books of the Old Testament which entirely correspond to the 24 books of the Hebrew canon of the Jews, for a total of 66. The English King James Version of the Protestant Bible has 593,493 words in the Old Testament and 181,253 words in the New Testament.
The Old Testament (Tanakh (תנ״ך) in Hebrew) is a collection of different biblical books comprising the Jewish religious scriptures. It can be divided into three general categories: Historical, Poetic, and Prophetic. The Old Testament was inspired by God, giving His teachings to human beings in document form: using direct communication with Moses, communicating through the Prophets, and through works inspired by the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh), in the Sacred Writings. The human authors of some books are known, while for others the authorship remains a matter of controversy. The Hebrew names of these three sections give rise to the acronym “Tanakh”: Torah (Instruction), Nevi’im (Prophets), and K’tuvim (Sacred Writings).
Christians embrace the Old Testament as part of their holy scriptures, which, together with the New Testament make up the Bible. In contrast to Jews, they see the Old Testament giving prophetic references to the coming of Jesus Christ. Versions from ancient times exist in both Hebrew and Greek including the Dead Sea Scrolls giving a very ancient snapshot dating back to the time of Jesus.
The Old Testament documents the creation of the world by God, and the tribulations and errors of human beings, in particular His chosen people the Israelites. Following the history of the Jews from their earliest patriarchs to their enslavement, freedom, becoming a nation, period of the judges, ruled by kings, splitting into two nations, and eventual conquest. It continues until about 400 B.C. when God’s chosen people have once again been allowed to return to the Holy Land and have come back to the worship of the Lord God. From the writing of the earliest five books, which is traditionally ascribed to Moses, to the last, is believed to be a period of about 1,000 years or a period of about 1,350 years. The New Testament of the Protestant Bible doesn’t pick up the history of the people of God until 400 years after the time of Ezra with the story of Jesus. The New Testament of the Orthodox and Catholic Bible doesn’t pick up the history of the people of God until about 50 years after the time of the Maccabees and the high priesthood of John Hyrcanus (104 B.C.) and the Book of Wisdom (circa 50 B.C.) with the birth of Jesus in the Gospels.
The laws set forth in the Old Testament include the Noahide laws and the Mosaic Law. The latter further includes the Ten Commandments.
The New Testament is a collection of biblical books written by various authors between 45 AD and 100 AD, revolving around the life and work of Jesus of Nazareth and His apostles, as well as the history of the early church.
The books are traditionally classified into categories:
The four Gospels (literally “Good news”): varying accounts of the life and ministry of Jesus, consisting of the gospels attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The Acts of the Apostles (or just “Acts”) (which J. B. Phillips evocatively called “The Young Church In Action,”) which concerns the ministry of the Apostles after the death of Christ. It is similar in language and style to, and reads as a continuation of, the Gospel of Luke.
The Epistles (which J. B. Phillips called “Letters to Young Churches,”) Romans through Jude, consisting of fourteen letters attributed to St. Paul and seven by other writers including James, Peter, John, and Jude. The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews is not known with certainty, but was probably Jesus himself.
The Book of Revelation (or just “Revelation,”) the prophetic book which ends the New Testament. It is also known as “the Apocalypse” (Greek for ‘revelation’). It is somewhat similar in style to the Old Testament book of Daniel (and indeed weaves common prophecy), and tells of the end of the world, including Armageddon, Judgment Day, and the arrival of the Kingdom of Heaven. Despite Jesus’ thrice repeated promise in it that ‘I shall come very soon’, opinions vary as to whether it refers to imminent events set amid the then Roman Empire or to the far future.
As with the Old Testament, the chapter and verse divisions of the various books are not original, but were added in medieval times for greater understanding. But the term “New Testament” was first coined (in Latin) around A.D. 200, by the theologian Tertullian, who was the first biblical scholar to write in Latin.
The oldest books in the New Testament are the letters of Paul, or possibly the book of James.
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Amen.
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Luis Lopez,
I don’t think I need to a sell my daughter into slavery
Exodus 21:7 (NRSV)
7 When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Or
How to beat your slavesExodus 21:20-21
When a slaveowner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner’s property.
It’s good I don’t have any tattoos
Leviticus 19:28
You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
But I do love lobster
Leviticus 11:12
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Great, but is this not an apologetics group? How is this post associated with apologetics?
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Amen, their is only one truth and it’s not man made .
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Amen!!!
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It’s the living word
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Agreed
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It’s THE Book that is today, everyday, and forevermore.
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Let’s drop experimental science and start stoning witches, adulterers, rebellious adolescents etc.
Everything we need to know is in the Bible. I know some Muslims think like that about the Qur’an but for Christians the Word became flesh not a book. The Bible is the word of God in a secondary sense. -
Amen! The bible is not out of date, rather science is not yet up to date.
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Jesus demonstrated quantum behavior. He traversed time instantly reaching the “other side of the shore” (entanglement). He was rendered on the other side of the walls in the upper room. Walked on water. Was God in Heaven and God on earth simultaneously (superposition). Vanished before the eyes of the two He encountered after breaking bread and breathing on them. They did not observe Him, once they did, He collapsed into the immaterial realm. It’s all there. The bible is quantum leaps ahead of man’s silly infantile arrogant “knowledge.”
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It depends on what you mean by that…
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Yep the Bible is never out of date socially.
“The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.”
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You should have added on there contextually too.
Too many people, as can be seen by the comments, don’t tend to read the Bible in context and at face value. They don’t apply it correctly and don’t even try to understand what the author(s) were trying to convey. They would rather make wrong assumptions based on flawed thinking instead of do their best to grasp the context of the books over all.
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Hallelujah
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True! I had an older gentleman say that the Bible was out of date and not applicable to today’s world. I asked him to give me an example, after a few minutes, he couldn’t think of any examples.
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Forever !
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Unicorns are a good example of how the Bible needs to be contextualised for today
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