Holy Scriptures

[evilbaronatreides]

This has been bugging me for awhile, so i leave the question open: What is the role of the holy writings in every relgion?

[TMA_1]

Well they mean something different to each religion. Some are histories of the past that have to do with supernatural forces. Other books are more for thought and philosphy on the religion. Others are collections of notes. All of them confirm and uphold ideals and beliefs of that certain religion.

[quoudam72]

The writings are guidance for the followers of the particular religion that they belong.

[Timsvs]

basically u can be skeptic about holy writing, but basically they r a set of rules..or more importantly Morols which everyone should live by....they teach stories which u might not beleive in, however they always have a morol to the story..which teach us about life...each relegion is the same. :P

[quoudam72]

How is each religion the same and what religions are we comparing to each other?

[Edric O]

Holy Scriptures are there to prevent the truth from getting distorted... word of mouth is very unreliable.

[TMA_1]

Word of mouth is not unreliable. In fact I could make a good argument that Bards do a better job then words of a book. Oral traditions are very accurate to the past.

[nemafakei]

"Holy Scriptures are there to prevent the truth from getting distorted"

I'd have put that in a different way - the last word would certainly change.

[evilbaronatreides]

The Bible is filled with considerbly "distorted" things that God probably wouldnt allow.

[ordos45]

Things don't get distorted when passed by mouth?  Try the game where a dozen or two dozen people sit in a circle and whisper something only once to the next person.  lol, one time the starter was "Cheese is smelly" and it ended as "Please, take me to the keys".

[nemafakei]

The memories and word of mout was better. For example, even well after the first Dark Age (900-750BC), most Greeks could go to a play and come home and recite most of it off the tops of their heads.

[alejandro]

"Holy Scriptures are there to prevent peolple think by themselves"

[TMA_1]

yeah you just trade the bible with other peoples ideas. lol  and also word of mouth is much better then word. Oral history is proven to work very very well. You chose something wrong when you said that its like the game when you say something to somebody else and they say it to another and so on. It doesnt work that way. Bards lives are strictly for retaining knowledge. They trained all their life and their only jobs were being bards. Speaking and singing the ancient histories. Many of the famous greek legends you read were passed down for centuries by bards. and provento be accurate to documents written before teh bards existed.:)

[UsulSK]

And dont forgot all the translation mistakes in the bible.  For example "virgin Maria" which correctly should be translated in "young women Maria", if translated from the hebraic.

[nemafakei]

The NT was never in hebrew.

'H KOYPH MAPIA

means either the girl Mary OR the virgin Mary, in Greek.

But there are still lots of mistranslation errors (The word was possibly the most weird.)

[evilbaronatreides]

Like the Red Sea in the old testament. Its not the red sea that moses parted, but the "Sea of Reeds". Common misconception. (and they based several movies on this misconception)

[BOUNTYHUNTER296]

so anyone here  buddhist because i dont know and cant read my own languages religion stuff and crap

(vietnamese)

[quoudam72]

So I take it that you are not a Buddhist but you would like to understand your native culture better?