What if all copies of the bible were destroyed?

Surely they would have the requisite passion. The question is what , if any, authority they would use, since any and all statements about christianity by the christian community are made by reference to the bible.

 

start collecting them in the correctional institutions..

 

Okay, let's take a look at what it would take to "eliminate" the Bible.
First, God would have to be eliminated, because he could just have it rewritten.
Next, as it has already been shown, the Bible can be rewritten from memory, so all those who are familiar with the Bible would also have to be eliminated.
Finally, that means that all those on the Earth will have been eliminated (this good news will be preached to the entire inhabited Earth) and so you will have a planet without humanity.

 

Why would all those on earth be eliminated?

I regret using the word 'eliminated' now, should have just asked if the bible text was lost from human memory somehow.

 

How else do you think you're going to accomplish what Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot couldn't do ?

 

The question has nothing whatsoever to do with accomplishing anything. Got it?

 

How about free bubble-up and rainbow stew as well?

 

What would happen? Nothing.

How would the religion and believers change? The religion would go underground, just like it was during its inception and so would the believers.

How would they change? They'd become secretive and subversive and I suppose they would resemble something like what we think of as "cult". Again, much like during the inception of Christianity.

Would there still be Christians? Yes, at least for a generation or two - or maybe indefinitely. Aside from being a religion, Christianity is also an idea, and idea's only gain strength when suppressed. That's just the way the human mind works.

Let's say Christian extremists managed to become so powerful that they were able to oppress atheists or muslims to the point of going underground. Do you think that Islam and Atheism would stop being practiced? Once an idea or belief is born it can't be taken back - it might evolve, but it won't cease to exist.

 

Doesn't your god frown on this kind of impudence? What happened to "meek and humble"?

 

Impudence? All your questions are being answered and you wont accept the answers and continue to add more and more conditions. Why don't you just tell us what you want to hear?

 

party!!!!!!!!

 

And did you answer my question just then? Hypocrisy is a sure sign you're dealing with a believer.

 

isn't nailing someone to a cross

a breach of health and safety these days???

 

In a round about way yes but it seems you want a more direct response, so okay.

No my God does not frown on this kind of impudence, mainly because it wasn't impudence, because it showed no lack of respect.

As for, what happened to "meek and humble"? Nothing, because I said or did nothing that wasn't meek or humble.

And Hypocrisy? I've showed no hypocrisy.

Now how about your impudence? All your questions are being answered and you wont accept the answers and continue to add more and more conditions. Talk about a lack of respect.

 

The printed the bible on a grain of rice and seeded outer space with it..
I should write that into my comic somehow..

 

someone should make a choose your own adventure bible...

 

Which I don't have the slightest problem with. I am not a christian so there is no need for me to follow your morality, which apparently seems to be universal. I am not required to 'turn the other cheek' - I can attack, retaliate, mock, bully, hate, insult. And I often do.

 

I loved these things - still do - more than I'd like to admit.

 

it is done..

 

Sorry, I'm not entirely sure what you mean but I think hypothetically the Christian community may for a time hold in reverence for those with eidetic memory but would ultimately use the words that were remembered from the Bible as their authority so there would be no difference. You could say their brains would act as a backup copy

But if no believer had photographic/eidetic memory then I guess they'd either die out or parts would remain and change. But even hypothetically, on second thought, I have a feeling they'd remember the gist of Christian principals and try to live by them.

I don't believe that would ever be possible obliviously because God is real and wouldn't allow such a thing to occur.