Hee Hee Crovax, knowing that was from you and knowing you as well as I do this makes me laugh. I hope you ask me this again when you are crashing at my place next month.
Point is, I want everyone to check into things themselves and find out the authenticity of the Bible - and I don't mean by asking some weirdo "scholar" his opinion. I mean by researching information about it - just like I did. I researched all the pro's and con's, for's and against's, read it, looked for discrepancies in the pro's and con's arguments. What I found out is the Bible over the centuries time and again has alway's been challenged and has alway's stood on it's own and never been toppled or proven incorrect. If it had been, well it would be dead now and the debate closed. Establishing whether the Bible is the Words of God, and establishing whether or not God is a liar or not, whether He exists - is something I think should be key to anyone that has ever considered the question.
If you don't check into what is true because you are not concerned about your eternity and the future - well God won't force you. He's laid it out for us, He's provided us with His word. He put's the questions to us to consider and provides evidences for us constantly. He promises in His word no man can die before deciding where he stands, with Him or rejecting Him. If you were on an island since birth, survived and never spoke a language or was in contact with anyone ever, the Bible say's even then He professes Himself to you. No man or woman can ever go to their deathbed and not be aware of God and the decision He requires of them. I believe that completely. Everyone I have met has alway's made a decision about where they stand and what they expect from their future and what is real or not. Some are fierce and angry over it, some are complacent.
The only reputable source we have for Satan, his doings, past, future, quotes, actions all come from the Bible, but evidence of evil (selfishness when it's boiled down) is evident around us no denying. Non-believers take solace in evolution, that this is just a natural event of selection - the strong will survive, the weak will become extinct, it's all a filtering mechanism as we continue to evolve into a greater species. They maintain we have no soul and when we die we are done. It's over. That is anti-God.
The Bible say's differently. God created a perfect earth and perfect man. There was war in heaven when Satan rebelled. He was going to set himself above God and reign. That's laughable because how can the created fight against the creator? Satan was cast out. Things were no longer perfect, yet earth was still pristine. Satan tricked Eve, Adam disobeyed God and went along with Eve. God told Adam he would no longer be perfect and we and the earth would begin to degenerate. Entropy sat in, a natural law that cannot be changed. Some animals and man became carnivores. Life is work to survive. Animals and plants have been going extinct since this happened. Events recorded in God's word like the Flood answer many questions as to why we have buried petroleum made up from buried vegetation and animal matter. There is great evidence and a site and the remains of the ark in Turkey. The Tower of Babel explains the many languages we have (a great foundation and ruins remains of this). Pangea (the name used by scientist's of the one great continent before the continents split apart), is called Peleg in the Bible. And the Bible say's clear as can be, that there was one great continent even before science declared what they considered to be great news and a fresh breakthrough not to far back that there was one great continent. The Bible has stated since written that the earth revolved around the sun, but all during the dark ages this was laughed over. It's been known for several centuries that this was true. Dinosaurs, "Behemoth" and "Leviathon" are discussed in great length in Job 40 and 41 and other dinosaurs mentioned in many other verses. In the Bible, Man lived at the same time. In museums, we have footprints of humans and Dinosaurs frozen in the same fossils.
Interesting note, no missing link has ever been found showing humans from lower forms during evolution although that would be the chief find many scientist have spent a career searching for. Further a study I read mentioned that we should be literally tripping over them at a rate of 4 thousand to 1 to each dinosaur skeleton found. This is because to evolutionist - man came many, many millions of years after the dinosaurs, very few dinosaurs bones have been able to survive the milleniums of their theory of time, and the fresher missing links should be very "recent" in comparison. Missing links should be an easier find as they populated more area of the earth than any of the different types of dinosaurs. Yet none have been found. Who's to say many of the primitive tools and paintings found in caves weren't done by kids out playing? Or w/ their Dad's on camping trips w/ them all just having fun? That's what I did when I was a kid and that's the kinda stuff me and my boy do now. There's a concrete drainage tunnel where me and my buds 25 years ago painted a snake and other stuff and it's still there and in good shape and pretty primitive looking.
As to accuracy of the Bible detailed information is available showing the Bible has stayed extremely accurate to the original author of any particular book in the Bible. We have information and records on how this was done - thanks to the Hebrew people in particular and later to Roman record keeping. All the figures of the Bible are known to exist, historical records for them is available outside of the Bible. There were 40 some authors that wrote books of the Bible over a span of around two thousand years - and all the prophecies and all their writings jibe with each other, no discrepancies, no backpedaling. Some had read other portions before they were compiled as a group, but some were contemporary with each other and writing at the same time and did not know the other, yet no discrepancy. There are prophecies that explained events now past, the coming of Jesus and His crucifixtion and resurrection, and the future. The last book of the Bible, Revelation tells us how the world will end. Roman records show the author of this book, John who was the youngest disciple and the only one that died of old age and wasn't martyred for his beliefs was put into the colliseum twice to be killed publicly as a great celebration. Once he was lowered into a vat of boiling oil. As the fire raged below, and the oil boiled in the large vat, he began singing hymns and lifted his arms and eyes to heaven and began praising God and praying aloud. The crowd went silent and many were converted! The Ceasar had him pulled out and rushed back to his cell. This isn't even mentioned in the Bible - this is from Roman historical documents. Many many Christians survived the colliseum's miraculously and we have historical records of it - and these things are not mentioned in the Bible. You can read the research in the FOXES BOOK OF MARTYR'S and other sources. The second time they poisoned John - nothing happened again. So they banished him to the isle of Patmos for a time, where God in a vision laid out the future and end of the earth as we know it. John is legit, he loved Jesus, he cared for Jesus' mother until her death. The miracle's of his not being able to be killed are documented in history by non-Christians that sought to prove the Bible wrong, ignore it and prove Jesus was not God.
I hope that helps.
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jk) , everyone here does...thats life, but thats not all there is to life.
Heck the bible its self is incomplete there are at least 7 books so fair left out of the King James version as well as how many uncompleted scrolls that are being piced to gather. I could go on about that but I'm just saying you have to research it a lot to make sure what you reading is right. Also the Roman Catholic church has a few books that they refuse to admit to and let people read.
Anyone with the IQ of .0001 could see there is a war of Good vs Bad happing inside each and everyone of us and its up to each and everyone of us to decide on whos side to be on. If you think I'm wrong then remember what I said why is it not one sided, why is there both good and bad in the world we live in 
(man im gonna get it for that one! 
