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Re: Is The Bible Complete? by yemmydavid(m): 8:30pm On Feb 08, 2008
sorry o mr knw all, y then did jesus promise us d HOLY-SPIRIT if all we need to knw is in d bible??
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by stimulus(m): 8:41pm On Feb 08, 2008
yemmydavid:

sorry o mr knw all, y then did jesus promise us d HOLY-SPIRIT if all we need to knw is in d bible??

Sorry O, mr know-dot! Does a lack of the promise establish the completeness of any book? grin
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by yemmydavid(m): 8:57pm On Feb 08, 2008
pls can u xplain to me d effect of the Holy spirit then.

its like saying the CHEMISTRY textbook is complete.
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by stimulus(m): 9:08pm On Feb 08, 2008
yemmydavid:

please can u explain to me d effect of the Holy spirit then.

its like saying the CHEMISTRY textbook is complete.


It is not like saying "the CHEMISTRY textbook is complete" just because you had hoped there would be no promise of the Holy Spirit in the Bible. That which makes the Bible incomplete is what you had hoped would make it complete. Has you own idea suddenly become difficult for you again? grin

If I'm going to help you here, then I'd need to ask you a pointed question:

How does the Bible become an incomplete Book on account of having the promise of the Holy Spirit recorded in it?

The effect is not what you had proposed; and until you deal with the above question, you're not making a sense at all.

There are threads already on the experiences people have tried to enunciate in their relating to the Holy Spirit; but your worry here is that the promise of the Holy Spirit being found in the Bible therefore renders it an incomplete Book. That is what I would first ask you to deal with - and failing to focus on that would mean that you're not seeking to get to grips with your own thots in the first place. Yes? cheesy
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by yemmydavid(m): 9:19pm On Feb 08, 2008
in ur view how complete is d bible and y?


ur village name DEY BIBLE?
if its complete, it shld be dere
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by stimulus(m): 9:35pm On Feb 08, 2008
yemmydavid:

in your view how complete is d bible and y?

It all depends on what you mean by 'complete'. There are so many arguements that have been advanced as to why people feel that the Bible is not complete - and yours here is one of them (reason: because Jesus made a promise of the Holy Spirit).

A few other allegations have been put forward in this allegation which are different from yours - some saying that some "books" mentioned in the Bible are not found today, like the book of Jasher (2 Sam. 1:18 ), the book of Jehu (2 Chron. 20:34), and the books of Nathan the prophet and Gad the seer (1Chron. 29:29) among a few others.

Ordinarily, I don't try to waste my time answering such allegations for the sake of endless arguments! But once I had to take up the challenge and discuss it in another thread (here) because that is what Mus.lim apologists have often used in derogatory attacks against the Bible.

Yet again, while browsing some other sites in my spare time, I came across other allegations that are entirely different from the ones highlighted above. I registered in one of this fora to discuss the issue - but I didn't get anywhere because it became pretty much obvious before long that the debator was just seeking an opportunity to let lose his blasphemous venom rather than discuss his allegations.

I could point out so many such allegations and the types of accusations that have been advanced for them: but I've learnt never to pre-empt issues and rather let a discussant demonstrate the ability to reason thoughfully and sanely, before entering into dialogue with them.

Now to answer your question, I've come to hold the Bible has having coherent and satisfying answers to the deepest questions of my own heart. I don't know about you or anyone else; but when I begin to seek answers to the deepest questions of my own heart, I have found the most satisfying and most coherent answers to my spiritual hunger in the Bible.

yemmydavid:

your village name DEY BIBLE?
if its complete, it shld be dere

That again is an example of what I just discussed above - it shows me where you're leading your discussion: whether you really want to discuss and find answers to any genuine queries, or you typically want to reduce your thinking to a mere match of ribald arguments.

If you can give me the names of every single village in the world, perhaps I'll be willing to show you the answer to your question in the Bible. But you'd need to first priduce a list of every single village in the entire world. Care to do that? smiley
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by yemmydavid(m): 9:41pm On Feb 08, 2008
u ar e more confused than u are.
ignorance is a disease. d fact that u do not want to accept that u dont knw makes ur case even worse.


keep basking in ur thot of d bible being a complete book. u are ON YOUR OWN
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by stimulus(m): 9:45pm On Feb 08, 2008
@yemmydavid,

yemmydavid:

u ar e more confused than u are.

Many thanks. cheesy

yemmydavid:

ignorance is a disease.

May God bless you. grin

yemmydavid:

d fact that u do not want to accept that u don't knw makes your case even worse.

How have you demonstrated that you do know? cheesy

yemmydavid:

keep basking in your thot of d bible being a complete book.

Have you sought to reason things through - or you had to wait this long to convince me you were leading your argument to a brickwall? grin

yemmydavid:

u are ON YOUR OWN

May God lead you. Amen, blessings! cheesy
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by vassilli(m): 4:08pm On Feb 09, 2008
Make all of una no worry cos
I'll lead u all in Penance cos u'v all Blasphemed

[b]My Prayer;[/b]

"Oh God/Allah Forgive them all for they dont knw wat they av all said"
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by IDINRETE: 5:41pm On Feb 09, 2008
yemmydavid:

in your view how complete is d bible and y?


your village name DEY BIBLE?
if its complete, it shld be dere


grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by stimulus(m): 5:43pm On Feb 09, 2008
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by therationa(m): 5:16pm On Feb 10, 2008
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by stimulus(m): 5:23pm On Feb 10, 2008
therationa:

I would encourage you guys to examine the work of the biblical textual scholar Bart Erhman.

We'd examine them - and look forward to you discussing them afterward where you have concerns. Fair enough? smiley
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by Horus(m): 2:39pm On Nov 11, 2009
Yes the Bible is complete. A complete Fraud !!
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by Abuzola(m): 5:28pm On Nov 11, 2009
The bible in incomplete, what happen to the additional scripture of the protestant
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by AYODEJI4LOVE(m): 11:38pm On Mar 27, 2010
god please arise in your jealousy and fight for yourself'remove the veil trav cover the face of this people so that they can known the truth
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by AYODEJI4LOVE(m): 11:48pm On Mar 27, 2010
see nairaland people we are turning this thing to another argument.please lets watch what we say.i hate argument on religious mattery:it really scared me.pls let not turn it to religious conflict.is unfair
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by agathamari(f): 11:23am On Mar 28, 2010
books/acts have been removed and some later readded by the catholic church durring the roman empire to aid in the spread of the religion. it was recently estimated that the king james version contains only 40-50% of the original text. there are other versions of the bible that contain some of these missing sections
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by johnblaze1: 11:30am On Mar 28, 2010
I dont think the bible is complete!!
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by joe4christ(m): 3:47pm On Mar 28, 2010
[color=#990000][/color] I'M REALY SUPRISE TO HEAR EVEN SOME CHILDREN OF GOD SAYING ''THE WORD OF GOD IS INCOMPLETE'' MAY GOD OPEN THE EYES OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING! HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THIS SCRIPTURES?     {2 Timothy 3:16 Titus 1:9-10 Revelation 2:18} THE LORD SAID ''HE HONOURS HIS WORD MORE THAN HIS NAME AND HE ALSO SAID HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL SURELY PASS AWAY BUT NOT ONE SINGLE WORD OF HIS WILL EVER CHANGE'' SO WHY DO U SAY HIS WORD IS INCOMPLETE?

Re: Is The Bible Complete? by karo93: 4:19pm On Mar 28, 2010
MY OPINION

of MANY records,revelations,historical events and letters,a person[jerome] or group[holysee] voted to put together the ones they deemed IMPORTANT to serve as a guide and inspiration to christians and a basis for teaching the good news.this book became the bible.

there was no bible before this so any book not added to this is not part of the[their] bible. and any bible not containing what they compiled is incomplete.

there was no standard as to what books the bible should contain so whatever was compiled is the COMPLETE bible.
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by viperman: 9:11pm On Mar 28, 2010
hmmm,
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by nopuqeater: 1:38am On Apr 10, 2010
@Pilgrim.1: « #52 on: May 05, 2007, 11:53 AM »
Quote from: ishmael on May 05, 2007, 11:27 AM
Some books are missing in KJV an NIV which are found in the Catholic Bible. The Catholic Bible has more than 66 books.

The books in the Catholic Bible which you do not find in the KJV, NIV and several other versions are known as the apocrypha, and are not part of the canon of Scripture. Evangelical Christians and Jews have never recognized them to be part of the canonical sacred Scripture.
ou need to know that the "Jews" hav never recognized any of the "Gospels", the "Acts" the "Epistles", the "Revelations". Anything after wha the Christians call the "Old Testament (Torah and Psalm)", you will have to be lying to yourself and the rest of mankind to postulate that the "Jews" believe it, in the same Bible.
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by nopuqeater: 2:05am On Apr 10, 2010
@REVEREND: « #140 on: May 26, 2007, 10:43 PM »
Typical words from a brainwashed religious robot.

Why not show us your invisible God, maybe he will appear the next time a tsunami decides to wipe out 500,000 innocent people or when a few hundred children are murdered in Dafur

That also goes for Allah the Merciful Murderer, Big Fat Buddah and all the rest of the pretend Gods that live above the clouds

Give us all a break

The Bible is utter crap

So is the Koran
Typical words from a brainless anti-religion dunce. I know you dont believe anything that you dont see with your own eyes. Your idea of seeing and believing is utter crap. Many a people have been killed by irreligious people, so wats your point? But then, has anyone seen your brain? No. This is a proof that you have no brain. If you have any, show it to us, and we will judge if it is sufficient to qualify you as a living being. It will take a humongous amount of brain before you csn be called a human being. So show us what you got. Fool.
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by Enigma(m): 9:36am On Apr 10, 2010
Interesting thread! Also interesting regarding nairaland IDs such as stimulus, shahan, syrup etc etc!
Re: Is The Bible Complete? by oladmayji(f): 5:17pm On Apr 10, 2010
grin i am quite new i saw ur post well i av used quite a lot of versions i think u are using the good news bible . yes the good news bi le included some other versions . now on the topic the bible is ever complete it is his word and the bible we use that is quite different is written by inspiration from the almighty God so i think it is complete . thank you. grin

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