Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Is the holy-book(s) literally true?”, Leave a Reply below!
Not only aren’t they literally true, they are generally not even vaguely true.
If you consider the “holy-book(s)” the same as planet Earth, you may see boundaries of countries; you may see cultures; governance, economies, etc: in time, all overlap in similaries, change frequently and differ vastly in many ways but each person on this planet is influenced by its surroundings, experience and thoughts. Therefore the “books” will be true depending on where they are; what is understood by them, etc, but none are eternal or infinite. They are simply recordings compiled by a collective thought system that judge the philosophy to be of immense value.
There are many holy books, and every one of them was written by a human.
Excepting perhaps sometimes in a vaguely aphoristic sense when they deliver certain proverb-like statements regarding the way human beings generally might behave under one condition or another, they’re not true at all.
I haven’t read every holy book so I can’t say.
The bible is almost certainly false however because it seems to internally logically inconsistent. Furthermore, observable implications derived from the bible often fail even basic scrutiny.
There are a number of people in the world who truly believe their holy book(s) are literally true, much to the detriment of the species. Such magical thinking must be outgrown.
For me, holy scriptures are true. It’s because when you study the deeper meanings of it, you will see the history of the world from the beginning unto the end. And you will prove it when the time has come…..
None of the holy scriptures are literally true. They are logical. So they have pre-conditions and set of rules and procedures. Those are facts and their affinity will cahange from person to person.
They are literally fantasy myths.
“Holy books” are mythical attempts to explain existence. As such, there is no way they could be literally true. In fact, they tell us more about ourselves than they do about existing reality.
junk meant to manipulate the masses, confuse, and accomplish prophecies.
that is the definition of holy scripture