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meloakey
12-04-2005, 12:27 PM
I have questions that have formed not only by me but the people around me. I don't mean to upset anyone, I just want reasonable answers to questions. Someone tried to answer a few once but the answers I got weren't that well explained.

If the books of the bible were written over so many years by so many people, how did they all come together and who chose what went where?
If a Christian is suppose to follow the bible, then why does it have so many contradictions? An eye for an eye, turn the other check.
Why was it that only the middle east got access to Jesus and God?
If the only way to heaven is thru Christ and God loves everyone then why is it that the people in North America, South America, Africa, Australia were all forgotten? The reason I ask is because there have been people in each place but yet no evidence of God trying to show them Jesus or his love before the age of exploration came.
Why is it where Christianity was suppose to be founded, hardly anyone there believes it? Why is the Islamic and Jewish faith much more dominate?

If someone can actually fully explain reasonably all this questions I will be most grateful.

Jarlaxle
12-04-2005, 12:29 PM
IIRC, Emperor Constantine coallated what is now the Bible around 325AD.

meloakey
12-04-2005, 01:27 PM
Thank you Jarlaxle. But what about all the other questions.

Malone1234
12-05-2005, 12:49 AM
Why is it where Christianity was suppose to be founded, hardly anyone there believes it? Why is the Islamic and Jewish faith much more dominate?

Part of the answer to this question is that over the centuries after the death of Jesus, the center of the Christian world migrated westward, to Constantinople and Rome. When Constantine declared Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire, a lot of effort was made to convert all the people within the Roman Empire. If you look at a map of the Roman Empire in those days, it did not extend very far into the Middle East.

Any Christian stragglers left over in the Middle East would largely have been wiped out (or converted) a few centuries later by the Muslims, who, as a rule, tended to wipe out those who refused to convert.

meloakey
12-05-2005, 02:30 AM
Thank you but still there are a few more answers I am looking for.