Showing posts with label Bible stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bible stories. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

True/False Bible Trivia Questions For Kids

This is not just a Bible question for kids, adults also often raise these kind of questions online: "How do Christians know that the Christian Bible is actually their god's word?". I picked a few answers from Yahoo and I'll leave it all to you. How would you answer that question?

One person wrote, "I have read the bible day and night when I was a kid. It was a compulsory reading by my grand parents. Thank god I finished it before I learned my roman numerals and I know the story by heart. In fact I have several favorite characters in the Bible, like Moses the great leader of Israel, Samson- the long-haired strong man/ Jonah, famous for being swallowed by the whale and Satan, a good angel named Lucifer who turned evil by wanting to make himself into God. Of course the infamous character the mastermind of the killings and slaughtering people with a pseudonym "God" or "Lord" in the Old Testament."
True or False Bible Questions For Kids -  Trivia Questions

Here is a random answer from someone: "We don't. In fact, I have become quite suspicious of the Bible recently. Actually, I first had issues with the Bible when I read a passage in the old testament as a teen on the issue of rape. It made me mad at God. I went through years of not even owning a Bible, because I never read it anyway. But I kept on with my prayers, and through many hard times could tell that God was with me. So now, I don't blame God, I put the blame on the humans where it belongs. There are some extremely crazy and hateful things in that book, and those hateful words are not the word of God. I do like the words in red. The man they say spoke those words was definitely a very wise and loving man."

Monday, July 8, 2013

Brief Bible Study: Who Wrote the Holy Bible? Not who you may think!

Here's a quick Bible study on who wrote the Holy Bible - and it's not who you may think.

In my younger days I spent 12 years in a "Bible believing" church. I finally rejected those beliefs when I started doing my own research on the Bible and reading numerous books by Bible scholars. This research has continued for the past 16 years. One thing I quickly realized is that there's a huge gap between what real Bible scholars know about the book and what many Christians believe about it.

Even the most elementary facts known to scholars for centuries are unknown to many Christians. For example, very few (if any!) of the books in the Bible were actually written by the men whose names are attached to the books today. This goes for both Old and New Testament books. While many Christians are shocked when they first hear this, it has been common knowledge among scholars for a very long time.

Sorry, but the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were not written by those men. How then did the gospels get those names attached? And who actually wrote the gospels?