Wow. So because one book says this, you just agree? What if every religious text out there claimed to be the ONLY path, as I know some do?
To "prove" something in science, multiple independent studies must be done that corroborate and support the same conclusion.
Quoting the Bible is like quoting someone at the end of a really long "pass it down the alley" game, after orally passing a long story through hundreds of people before it reaches you... Then you stake your life, your "eternal soul," to heresay and twisted words of men from ages past.
Trust one book?
I think not. I have read many more books in all paths, and come to the conclusion they ALL contain truths, but none have it all.
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Foolish mortal. It is not just one book. The word Bible means "library". It is a collection of 66 different documents written over a period of 2000+ years by 44 different authors. All conveniently collected together. If there were any other such documents that were deemed authentic, they would have been included in the library.
If someone said to you I have 66 documents preserved from antiquity, you would take them seriously, but bundle them together in one volume and they suddenly become a single source.
Conveniently collected together and put together in one book by the Council of Nicea, where they picked and chose from many other books.
The apocrypha contain more truth and true intention of the authors of the time than any version of the Bible ever has.
We are all a part of something eternal, at least from the evidence I have been able to glean over my 42 years here...
Fools, we ALL are.
I'm afraid not. That's more Dan Brown Fiction from the DaVinci Code novel.
Seven church councils were held over hundreds of years and they debated many things. Those who compiled the canon (list of books in the Bible) were church leaders throughout those ages. The simple test for inclusion in the canon were "does this document have a clear audit trail back to an apostle?" This is called due diligence What would you substitute as a process for deciding which of many candidates were real?
The apocrypha did not have such an audit trail back to an apostle, as hundreds of church leaders agreed each time it was discussed. So it got left out in every meeting of church leaders until the counter reformation when the Catholic church added to answer the Protestant claims that they were making up teachings not found in the Bible as accepted for 1500 years by that time.
And that's just the New Testament. The Old Testament dates back another 2000 years and was substantially complete by 400 BC. It was placed in a cave time capsule around 200 BC and discovered in 1947 proving that it had not changed in over 2000 years.