Is the Bible incomplete?

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maxiphemmax wrote: 13 Jun 2020, 02:53 Absolutely, the bible is the perfect work of divine inspiration. No title or jot is non essential.
That maybe true, but how can anyone know that for sure?
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Regcros wrote: 13 Jun 2020, 16:18 The bible is not incomplete just hard to understand. People seem to speak the word in there own terms.
Speaking of the bible on there own terms is not good, but interpreting it in there own, yet correct ways is acceptable
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Sushan wrote: 13 Jun 2020, 20:25
anoushka_thakur wrote: 13 Jun 2020, 01:00
Sushan wrote: 11 Jun 2020, 12:22

There are phrases, chapters that you can read several times getting different meanings, each time understanding deeper
Each book has that kind of impact, it is up to a reader to decide on their perception whether they feel a book is complete or not. The same theory goes for The Bible! Perception.
A book can be incomplete, yet can impart a great impact, and the vice versa is possible as well
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I think the Bible just has the most important teachable lessons and doesn't have to complete the stories when the lesson of it has already been made apparent.
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The Bible is the way it should be. The added information is the author's, a product of his imagination. At the end of Revelation, the Bible warns against adding or subtracting even a word from the Bible.
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Leen282 wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 15:08 Since the book is presented as fiction, I don't think it is meant to be read as trying to complete the Bible. For me one has nothing to do with the other.
Agreed. The author wrote what he imagined life was like at the time, not how it actually was. The book and the Bible should not be compared
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Sushan wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 20:08
Zoe Luh wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 15:28
Leen282 wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 15:08 Since the book is presented as fiction, I don't think it is meant to be read as trying to complete the Bible. For me one has nothing to do with the other.
I agree! Because it was fictional then I think it would be considered complete
The book is fictional, that is true. But those fictional parts are pushed in between bible stories. So has not there been a gap, which is filled by this fictional work?
The Bible, in my opinion, only gives an account of the important information concerning the story of creation to the worldwide floods, that is why we don't see Cain after Abel's murder. We follow the lineage of Seth. The book cannot feel the information left out because the author has no way of knowing what really happened, unless he was inspired by The Holy Spirit.
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I believe that the bible is complete and shouldn't be questioned at all
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Yasmira_M wrote: 14 Jun 2020, 03:36 I think the Bible just has the most important teachable lessons and doesn't have to complete the stories when the lesson of it has already been made apparent.
That is true. If the intended message is given then the ccompleteness of the stories is insignificant
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BB Ombayo wrote: 14 Jun 2020, 08:09 The Bible is the way it should be. The added information is the author's, a product of his imagination. At the end of Revelation, the Bible warns against adding or subtracting even a word from the Bible.
It is not a good thing to add to or subtract from a religious book
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BB Ombayo wrote: 14 Jun 2020, 08:18
Leen282 wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 15:08 Since the book is presented as fiction, I don't think it is meant to be read as trying to complete the Bible. For me one has nothing to do with the other.
Agreed. The author wrote what he imagined life was like at the time, not how it actually was. The book and the Bible should not be compared
And there is no need of comparing them either. The point is the completeness of the stories
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BB Ombayo wrote: 14 Jun 2020, 08:33
Sushan wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 20:08
Zoe Luh wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 15:28

I agree! Because it was fictional then I think it would be considered complete
The book is fictional, that is true. But those fictional parts are pushed in between bible stories. So has not there been a gap, which is filled by this fictional work?
The Bible, in my opinion, only gives an account of the important information concerning the story of creation to the worldwide floods, that is why we don't see Cain after Abel's murder. We follow the lineage of Seth. The book cannot feel the information left out because the author has no way of knowing what really happened, unless he was inspired by The Holy Spirit.
It is nothing more than the author's imagination. But it feels like close to truth
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Bison_ wrote: 14 Jun 2020, 09:54 I believe that the bible is complete and shouldn't be questioned at all
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Leen282 wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 15:08 Since the book is presented as fiction, I don't think it is meant to be read as trying to complete the Bible. For me one has nothing to do with the other.
this is so true, the bible is complete and if its incomplete a fictional novel shouldn't try to complete it whatsoever, because it is somebody's imaginations and creativity
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Sushan wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 10:06 The author gives additional descriptions, which are not found in the original Bible, to the story from creating Adam and Eve, up to the worldwide flood. Most of who has studied the Bible must have had his/her own thoughts regarding these lacking parts. Does this mean that the Bible is incomplete? On the other hand, is it righteous to add after-notes to a religious book like the Bible?
It's possible some things happened during those times, which the Bible did not capture. That does not make the Bible incomplete. We have everything we need in the Bible. Therefore, the Bible is complete.
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