Why Belive The Bible

I've been taking a class at this church in Calgary called Why Believe? and it is about why we should believe in God and answers really tough questions like why God allows suffering, why he allows the innocent to die, why one way to God, why believe in God, why believe in the Bible, why believe in Jesus, why would a loving God spend people to hell, why believe in the resurrection, and lastly why believe in the church. These classes have made me soo confident in what I believe and I feel like I now have the head knowledge to back up what I believe. It is no longer that I feel that God is real, I know God is real and I have information to back it up.

Last nights class was about why believe in the bible. A lot of people are very suspicious about the Bible's reliability and accuracy. Prior to the 19th century, the bible was criticised for detail unsupported by secular historical documents and therefore judged to consist of folklore, myths and legends. Since then, an explosion of archaeological evidence has shown the Bible to be historically accurate.

There is soo much evidence to prove credibility of the bible, it blew my mind!!! I have always thought of the Bible as a story book, and not really a historical document. I have been told that the stories are true but they have never been real to me.

The famous biblical city, Jericho, has had critics saying that is a folk tale because the city was supposed to be very large with 100,000 people in it, therefore, it would be impossible to walk around the city seven times in one day, but in fact you can walk around the city 7 times in the morning and have a round of golf and then have a nice dinner afterwards. Under the direction of archaeologist, Kathleen Kenyon, Jericho was found in the 1950's. With the evidence Kenyon found, she concluded that Jericho was destroyed 1550 BC by the Egyptians. Fortunately, her evidence was re-examined and it was found that the destruction of Jericho took place at the end of the 15th century; exactly when the Bible says it happened. Also, it was found that the walls of Jericho fell outwards! So, that has to prove that the bible is credible and that something supernatural happened there.

Another thing that blew my mind was, how many manuscripts of the new testament have been written. Plato and Aristotle had 10 manuscripts of their great work made, but over 900 years. The poet Homer had 640 manuscripts made of his works (the closest number to the bible) but these manuscripts were made over 500 years. The bible has 24,000 manuscripts of the new testament all written within 30 years of Jesus's death!!! How crazy is that!

Also, there were some scrolls of the old testament were found by a Shepard boy in some caves that are dated 100 BC, and they are exactly the same translation as our Hebrew bible, except for some spelling.

The bible is the most well documented piece of literature and is available for anyone to look at, unlike the Kuran. The reliability of the bible is undeniable once you research everything. It is also proven that the bible hasn't been changed, even though thousands of years have passed since Jesus's death.

Another point to believe in the bible is: if it was all wrong, and the accounts made were just stories, then why didn't the people of that time have protests against it, and why weren't people angry? Why were so many copies made if it isn't true? Say I wanted to write a book about how instead of terrorists running a plane into the twin towers, aliens had conquered the plane, and had alien ships shooting red beams at building up. People would be furious about what I was writing because its not true. There are eye wittiness that saw what happened on 9/11 and theres no way my book would be published. Wouldn't that be the same for those days? The manuscripts made were not abolished because there were still thousands, perhaps millions of people that were still alive to give their eye witness accounts, to prove what the bible was saying is true.

Alot of people think the prophecies made in the bible are wrong because they could have been made after the fact, and also that because if Jesus is really all-knowing then he could have just known the prophecy's and fulfilled them because he already knew. But it has been proven that the old testament was made over 450 years BC. And there are many prophecies that Jesus has no control over, for example: his birth, his birth place, his origin, that he would be betrayed, that he would be sold for 300 coins, and being crucified etc.

There are over 300 prophecies that have been fulfilled by Jesus. And the odds of even 8 prophecies happening to one person are 1.0x10^17... that is hardly any probability at all, yet he had 300 prophecies fulfilled.

Isn't all that just mind blowing!! There has been soo many people that are out to prove God/Bible is wrong and have become believers in the process. The evidence is overwellming

 

http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2008/06/the-walls-of-jericho.aspx#Article

nothing of consequence

well my family has left to go camping so i have the whole house to my self. Its so quite! Usually theres two cute little girls running around and my brother and his wife having their pleasant squabbles. But it feels nice to fully relax, and just lay here on the swing and listen to some Alicia Keys. I love that girl! She can make me cry and be happy in just one song haha. I wish I could see her in concert one day.

Well Ive been in Calgary for basically 6 weeks, and it was a huge change. I never really thought about being without my family, my girls or  my man. It is pretty lonely moving to a whole new city and having absolutely no friends. I thought that if i was really nice and spontaneous friends would just pop out of no where haha. It always seems like that in movies anyways. So its been a pretty lonely summer so far... but i am seeing Cody in two days. So I'm really excited for that, and Holly and Kevin are coming next week, and then school starts! So that's exciting; my first time in college.

Man how do ppl get followers on blog spot anyways? I mean its so hard to just fall on someone page, its kinda ridiculous haha.

Ive always wanted to start a YouTube channel but I'm not very funny, and not super good at anything in particular, oh well. Maybe in the future some time haha.

well that's all the rambling I've got for right now;

peace&love

One Day by David Nicholls * warning; reveals basically the whole book *

I just red the book "One Day" by David Nicholls, and i don't even know how to feel about it :( it made me soooo sad and unsatisfied that i had to blog it out. I bought the book because the lady told me that is was a great love story but not like the normal ones that u see in movies, but a love story that is told over 20 years, which i thought was a cool concept. BUUUT, they didn't even get together after 3/4ths of the book, and then she dies two chapters later !!!!!!!!!!!! I was so mad!!!!! They finally admit that they have always loved each other, and are super happy and get married, and then she just gets hit by a car.... it was so depressing :( and then the man she fell in love with just is so depressed, but the author just tries to make u feel all better inside by showing the first day they met in better detail and shows that they were meant to be together just made me more mad...
The couple, Emma and Dexter, only got to spend like 4 years together, after 20 years of just pretending to be friends, and other marriages and boyfriends/girlfriends ( basically the whole book btw) OHH and they always have this HUGE sexual tension that is soo hard to bare as a reader haha. When they finally get together in Paris the author didn't even go into detail about how in love they were, but maybe that wasn't the intention of the author... it was a completely different type of love story, but idk, it was why too sad for my tastes, well maybe i just wanted to read a corny love novel. I do miss my boyfriend haha.

All in all i guess it was a good book, I'm still mad, but it was a good book.

people that get bible verse tatoos

This blog is about people that get tattoos that are not their religion or lifestyle, but mostly about this one girl that i know. So i will tell u guys about this girl first, she has never once said she believes in God, or lived a life without worldly things. She smokes, drinks, does drugs, has sex with her boyfriend, party's a lot. Which i honestly don't care about, she can so whatever she wants. But this girl gets a tattoo that has the bible verse, "trust in the lord with all your heart, in all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your paths". So naturally i asked her if she believes in God, and shes like " obviously, or else this tattoo would be pointless."

I was just confused... like who does that or acts like that. Its the exact same if some non-Asian person gets a Chinese tattoo, or any other culture that is not your own. I think that's lame and pointless, it makes you look stupid because you don't even know what ur talking about

Brittany Spears apparently got an Chinese tattoo that was supposed to mean "mystical" but i meant weird instead LOOOL, i thought that was hilarious. It just proves people don't think about what they're putting on their bodies.

In the new testament, Moses does say to not tattoo your body. But back i the mosaic times that was just to set yourself apart, like circumcision etc. But still i bet that chick didn't even know that either.

Stupid people.

Propaganda in criminal minds

Criminal Minds is one of my favorite shows, and almost 100% of the time they always have to do a press release or whatever to see if they can get a reaction out of the killer. But a lot of the time they lie to the public to get that reaction. From what I can remember from social class, the media in the US is aloud to lie to the pubic. But from watching Criminal Minds I completely agreed with lying to everyone to catch the killer; whats a small lie if your saving people, right? But honestly, lying to people about having a killer on the loose in your neighbourhood, or lying about pedophiles being released from jail, or telling people nothing it going on when there is actually something HUGE that they're hiding, its just wrong. That's not saving us.

But on the other hand, alerting the public about serial killers, pedophiles, etc can cause unnecessary panic, and some people are extremely paranoid so that's probably not a good idea. But I'd rather be told the truth no matter how scary it might be.

Just watching that show is crazy propaganda! Its teaching people that its okay to be lied to by your government and the police that are supposed to be protecting you. Whats more powerful then knowledge? I cant believe I never made that connection before, when it was so plain in front my face.

Here's an awesome music video that kinda made me start thinking about all this.
Words I Never Said - Lupe Fiasco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22l1sf5JZD0

some verses

Luke 15:7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance


Matthew 25:40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 9:10 Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples. 

Matthew 9:12-13 But when Jesus heard this, He said, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

extremist views

So me and my friend where having a deep conversation about religions and how people tend to think that Islam's religion is to blow up buildings and kill themselves in the process. And also other stereotypes like that, but in reality its not the religion that is telling them to do these things, its taking what the bible says to a whole new level; an extremist level. Christianity back in the day used to force its religion upon the native Americans, and also going to up to people that they don't even know and saying they're going to hell. Which in some way is true, but its way to extreme to go up to someone and say that. Nazism isn't a religion but is it probably the most extreme view known to man. To think that a person that has blond hair and blue is better then a person with brown hair and brown eyes, even though they're the same colour.

I honestly don't know any other examples LOL, but having and any extremist view in any religion or political standing is veery bad. People need to look at they're religion's and realise what they're bible/Koran etc is saying and not taking it to a whole new level. It is never right to kill any human being. It is completely wrong to kill innocent people even if your just trying to prove a point (which doesn't prove shit by the way) by bombing a subway station or something, and it is inhuman to kill a person because they are not the ideal human (blond,blue eyed,smart,no special needs, heterosexual, etc ) because there is not one person on this planet that is perfect, and it is never right to make a person change every aspect of their identity to go to heaven.