What do people base their faith on if most of the bible's most compelling stories aren't historically accurate

Question

When people argue with other people over the bible's historical and scientific credibility, the ones in favor of the bible always say something along the lines of "it all comes down to your faith". My question is, what are you supposed to back your faith on if the bible has been shown to be somewhat historically and scientifically inaccurate, and even so what would make your faith in the bible more compelling than someone's faith in another religion such as the koran?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe#History_of_the_Universe

Answer 1

You have it the other way around, most stories in the Bible ARE historically accurate. Here are a few examples: The Bible mentioned about Jesus being born in a city called Bethlehem just south of Jerusalem. Jesus casts out demons at Gergesa, just off the shore of the Sea of Galilee, now known as Lake Kinneret. Also Jesus raises a widow's son at Nain once located only a short distance from Shunem, a few miles around the western end of the Hill of Moreh. I challenge you to prove the Bible historically inaccurate, that's your homework.

Answer 2

I base my faith on what the Lord Jesus Christ did for me. He died for my sins. He was buried and took my sins away. He rose again on the third day for my justification. The Bible has never been show to be inaccurate. Only the people who try to prove it wrong say that is inaccurate. It is a scientific, historically, It has love stories, it has all the mysteries revealed that were hidden. It just sad to see people always trying to prove the Bible wrong. It will be the book that judges all non believers at the judgment day. Psalms 19: 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Psalms 14: 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Answer 3

I have been studying the Bible for 35 years, and when you get down to the Hebrew and Greek, it's all true. Everyone who says the BIble is not true always gets embarrassed a few years later.

Examples...

The Bible said that Pilate was tetriarch of Judea. No one believed it because there were no records of Pilate in Rome. Then they found the stone in Caesarea that confirmed it.

No records of a King David. They just unearthed a stone marker dedicated to him.

The BIble spoke of a people that dwelt within the rocks. No one beleived it until they discovered Petra.

Scholars have said that there wasn’t a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit’ to illustrate a point. Workers repairing a sewage-pipe break uncovered the Pool of Siloam in Old Jerusalem.

Modern archaeology has made numerous discoveries which confirm events recorded in The Bible, including bricks without straw at Pithon. Lower levels had good quality straw, middle levels had less (including much which was torn up by the roots, as someone in a rush to meet a quota would be inclined to do), and the top levels had no straw at all.

Bible critics had long sneered at references in the Bible to a people called the Hittites and that the Hittites were simply one of the many mythical peoples made up by Bible writers. Toward the end of the 19th century, Hittite monuments were uncovered at Carchemish on the Euphrates River in Syria, proving the Bible right. Later, in 1906, excavations at Boghazkoy in Turkey and uncovered thousands of Hittite documents, revealing a wealth of information about Hittite history and culture.

Critics claimed that the Babylonian captivity did not take place. The Bible gives specific details about the captivity of Judah by the armies of Babylon early in the 6th century B.C. Scholars have said it’s all just another Jewish myth. However, between 1935 and 1938, important discoveries were made 30 miles southwest of Jerusalem at a site thought to be ancient Lachish. Lachish was one of the cities recorded in the Bible as being besieged by the king of Babylon at the same time as the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 34:7). Twenty-one pottery fragments inscribed in the ancient Hebrew script were unearthed in the latest pre-exilic levels of the site. Called the Lachish Ostraca, they were written during the very time of the Babylonian siege.

Now I have not even gotten in to the science, or better than that, the prophecy of the Bible! Something no other book, or even science book can do! I would not bet my eternal soul that the Bible is wrong. Think twice.

Answer 4

I base my faith on my personal, spiritual experiences - and I have many. There is no doubt in my mind that there is something beyond this living, breathing world that has a plan for us all.

And it's not as if people didn't try to scare me into being a Christian. My dad's family did everything they could, but in the end, I was just too smart - my brain worked far too rationally and logically to be able to believe everything I was taught in Sunday School. Despite what anyone says - the bible is meant to be taken metaphorically not literally. It may be historically accurate in parts, but it's not 100% accurate. Do you really believe that we are all here because of one man and one woman? Puh-lease. And what about all those dinosaur bones? Where did they come from?

Nothing can waver my faith in the god that I know and love. Nothing. My faith is solid and I do not fear death. God has given me all the proof I need, I know god will always provide me with what I need and nothing anyone can say or do can sway me. God loves "his" creation, this Earth, and god loves all life on it - god does not discriminate. It doesn't matter if you're Christian or Jewish, Hindu or Muslim - god loves us all the same and is not the vengeful, wrathful god that people have made "him" out to be.

How do I know this?
God told me in a dream and has helped me find my way many, many, many times. :)

I've got lots of stories to tell and I love telling them to people who are interested so if you want more - you're gonna have to ask. :)

Answer 5

Innaccuracies include:
Christs birthdate
the date of his death
the great flood

These are 3 off the top of my head but they are important. Do you not think that if someone recognised at the time to be important, and creating such a fuss with the authrities would have had something written about him at the time?

At the time of his birth, authorities were taking a census, so birth details should have been recorded, and his death would have been a historical event. As such it would have been written about but it wasn't, except in the bible.

Answer 6

Back it up first with the Bible being historically and scientifically inaccurate. You can't do it. It's all been done and said before. Got new info? Let's have it.

Answer 7

the main precise readable translation is the Revised wide-spread version. I also have a MDiv and a PhD in non secular learn from Duke Divinity. I even have been a professor of early Ecclesiastical history, previous testomony learn and Latin. I also have a sturdy information of biblical languages and supervised a translation team for 2 years interior the middle East translating Koine Greek into present day Aramaic at the same time as working for Wycliffe Bible Translators. God bless! In Christ Fr. Joseph

Answer 8

Place God first in your life not man. Man will believe in rocks and metals and wood and things. God will lead, guide, and direct you in paths of righteousness for His name sake.

People should not argue over what man places on scientific fact, or historical credibility and put it up to the Word if God.

There is nothing a person can do about another's belief base. Let them be and pray for them.

the real Word shines like a bright light. You need to open your eyes to it.

Answer 9

Show me where the bible is historically or scientifically inaccurate, and don't just give, well so&so said this or that. I need cold hard indisputable, absolute proof.
The gauntlet has been thrown. Lets see what you got dude.
Put up or shut up.

Answer 10

Dude back up your argument. What story precisely is supposedly inaccurate? Seriously, point one out that has been proven inaccurate, because as far as I know, there isn't one. They're all historically accurate.