What if all copies of the bible were destroyed?

Let's say a fanatical, atheist version of the Nazi party took over the world an succeeded in their plans to eliminate all copies of the bible. Now, leaving aside whether this would ever occur, what would happen?

Would there still be christians, the idea of god? How would the religion and believers themselves change?

 

Biblically speaking, humans were made to worship, so they will always find something to worship. If not God, then clothes or nature or money.

And Faith would still live on. Just because you don't have the book doesn't mean the stories aren't told, the values aren't kept, the tradition isn't handed down.

 

History is full of religions being banned, they tend to adapt

A good example is the pre-christian pagan/nature worship religions in Europe which were outlawed by Christians but left a big mark on western Christianity. Christmas trees, holly, Easter eggs, and even the dates we celebrate on have nothing to do with the bible.

I'd guess that we'd just have the same festivals with different names

 

we would just rewrite it and leave out the parts we dont like...maybe fudge in some new things

 

I'm interested in how Christians would view that potential situation.

 

No matter if they burned all the copies the faith part would still be there

 

This already happened in Eastern Europe when it was communist. Most people gave up their religion, some practiced in secret. But, the communists had to butcher a lot of people for things to get to that point.

 

Been going on for centuries already :cheers2:
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html

 

yep...and it works so well we might as well stick with it.

 

In concentration camps, where the Nazi actually took away all Bibles from a large group of Christians. Those Christians began writing down all the scriptures they could remember and ended up with a fairly complete bible that they could study and read from.

 

The Catholic Church would immediately take to task writing a new Bible. They would start pumping them out within a year and they would change whatever they wanted to suit their own political gain.

 

That is absolutely right. I thought when I read this initially that between just our memories and other hand-written pieces of paper...me and my family could well put together a lot...a large group of Christians, even meeting secretly, would be able to put together the whole of it, in my opinion.

 

Christians would have to air-thump the bible

 

No. This is not what I'm talking about - I'm asking what would happen if the scriptures were eliminated. So I don't want to hear we will rewrite, or rebuild, or persevere.

 

Except that is exactly what would happen, whether you want to hear it or not.

You see the big problem with your whole premise is you would have to eliminate God as well, because God will not allow his word to be eliminated or even suppressed. History is fulled with attempts to suppress or eliminate the Bible, nothing has worked so far.

 

Like I said before, it's been tried already.

And the effects have proven to be temporary, despite the number of people that were exterminated in the attempt.

 

If you eliminated the Bible from the entire human race, you would essentially have a dystopian society; a society in which a huge portion of the population is forbidden from practicing religion freely.

If a religion was forcefully eliminated from the earth, the loss of religion would not be as tragic as the loss of the most basic of human rights.

 

I'm not interested in whether it will be rewritten, forgotten, etc. Didn't you read my post? Obviously if it is temporary, then it doesn't not fall under the category of 'elimination'.

 

Hasn't worked for any other book at book burnings and some have tried, definitely would not work for the Bible.

But hypothetically, if that actually were possible in another world, a world with no God or the Bible, then I guess the people would forget and the faith would disappear. But I guess it depends on whether or not the believers have enough passion for their faith to preserve it.

 

Isn't the Bible destroyed?