If god spoke thru the bible, all is written and nothing is to be added, how god is still speaking?

Question

I know that beside the words from bible there are a lot of interpretations, and i mean A LOT. Are those interpretations another words from god? Look at Jews, when they read the Torah, they just read it without any interpretation. Why can't christians do the same?
And about bible "accuracy", there cannot be any accuracy in bible since it was written, rewritten, translated, retranslated, interpreted and reinterpreted. You never get the accuracy in any translation from a language to another.

Answer 1

Well, for starters, the writer to the Hebrews tells us, "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12)

Secondly, you place a caveat on the subject that is incorrect. The Bible IS accurate, and I'll show you why.

When the translators of the King James Bible wrote the Old Testament, the oldest available manuscript for them to use was known as the Masoretic Text. This had been written in the 9th century A.D. It was this text that the translators based their work on the Old Testament. In 1947, a shepherd boy discovered some pottery in caves in the area called Qumran, near the Dead Sea. In these jars, he discovered scrolls, which archaeologists and Bible scholars have researched ever since. Every book of the Old Testament (except Esther) was discovered. Most of these scrolls are dated to 150 B.C. After comparing these Dead Sea Scrolls to the Masoretic Text, the scholars discovered an amazing degree of unanimity between the two, although they were written 1000 years apart. Further, the Septuagint (the Greek language translation of the Hebrew Bible) was also compared. With all of these references, there is plenty of evidence that no biblical doctrine has been tampered with.

Next, let's look at the New Testament. There is no larger ancient body of manuscript evidence in the history of mankind, than the papyri and parchment manuscripts of the New Testament. With over five thousand actual Greek manuscripts, and numerous other manuscripts in four other languages, there are about twenty-four thousand available manuscript texts for the New Testament.

Even if we didn't have these documents, we could almost have a complete New Testament from extra-biblical sources, such as ancient lectionaries, church fathers' records/sermons/writings, etc.

No other body of ancient work comes close. No one really disputes Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars (10 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 1,000 years after the original autograph). No one really disputes Pliny the Younger's Natural History (7 manuscripts; 750 years elapsed). Or Thucydides' History (8 manuscripts; 1,300 years elapsed). No one disputes Herodotus' History (8 manuscripts; 1,350 years elapsed). No one really disputes Plato (7 manuscripts; 1,300 years elapsed). No one really disputes Tacitus' Annals (20 manuscripts; 1,000 years elapsed.) Homer's Iliad, the most renowned book of ancient Greece, is the second best-preserved literary work of all antiquity, with 643 copies of manuscript support discovered to date. In those copies, there are 764 disputed lines of text, as compared to 40 lines in all the New Testament manuscripts.

But we have ancient manuscripts of the New Testament that are written within a generation of Christ's resurrection, therefore, we can say with certainty that the Bible hasn't been tampered with.

As to the way it has been translated, you must understand that translators have choices. They can be literal, which doesn't always translate well, or have dynamic equivalence, where it may require three English words to convey the idea of one Greek or Hebrew word. There are various translations available today in English, that have varying degrees of both.

In my own life, the Bible has managed to guide me along unknown paths. As the psalmist states, "Your Word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path." (Psalm 119:105)

Answer 2

When the Scribes wrote down the words in the Bible, they actually counted the individual letters, and they had to match or they did not publish their work. They were meticulous. We have many of the original texts at this time, and when you compare them with each other, there are only minor differences, but the words are true. Jesus had to fulfill over 200 prophesies when He was on the Earth even to where he would be born, his bones would not be broken (It was commonplace in those days to break the legs of those on torture stakes so that they would die faster. They didn't break His legs because He was already dead.

You can get accuracy when you translate something if you are meticulous enough and the next person to write it down makes sure everything is correct. This is what the Scribes did. It was their work, and they were good at it.

New Scrolls will be opened after Armageddon containing new things God wants us to know. What they are, we don't know yet.

I would suggest that you have a Bible study with some people who know, and they are the Jehovah's Witnesses. I had plenty of things against them in the beginning, but they did teach the truth right out of the Bible. You shouldn't say that we NEVER have accuracy.

At the web site below, you have access to the Bible right online. After you get to the main page, look over at the right side of the page and you will see a link to the online Bible. You can read it from cover to cover there, find out many things at the site and even request a home Bible study.

When Phillip came across a man in a carriage, and he asked him if he knew what Other Sheep are, and the man was a well educated man, but he said how could I know without someone to teach me? So Phillip helped him to learn the truth. Likewise, we can't learn properly without someone who knows to teach us.

The Bible comes to us today with only minor differences in punctuation and nothing that undermines the Bible's purpose. We have the whole text to learn from. The Jews don't believe the whole Bible because most of them didn't accept Jesus as the Messiah, the Saviour, so they are still waiting. Check it out, and you will see. It takes a lot of study. I studied for over 26 years, and I could have never learned without someone to explain it to me.

Answer 3

Jews interpret things plenty.

God speaks through His word in many different ways using His Spirit of truth. Certain scripture may mean nothing to you one day, but the world the next.

And about the accuracy of the Bible (Summary of notes I took on a few sermons by Adam Robinson about the Bible itself)...

Q: Don't you know that the Bible is man-made? Man, fallible people, they get things wrong all the time!
A: "The Bible is the most unique book that has ever been written." It took over 1500 years to write the Bible. It is written by over 40 authors covering 40 generations. It was written on three separate continents, and has three separate languages: Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Furthermore, it speaks on hundreds of controversial topics with unity. Now, let us think about this. Over 40 different people from all walks of life: peasants, prophets, kings, shepherds, fisherman, doctors. They are writing different styles of literature: poetry, history, law, letters, biographies. Totally different types of literature. When you put it all together, on those hundreds of controversial topics, the Bible speaks in unity. How in the world could you ever do that? How could you concoct that? You can’t, but God can!

Q: We don’t even have the real Bible, it’s just a copy of a copy of a copy. How do you know that was even what was written?
A: “Part of that is true. Let me explain. We do not have, somewhere, the original copy of The Bible…It is lost to the sands of time.” Today we have manuscripts, over 5,000 of just the New Testament, and that is just in Greek. If we include all of the languages, we have over 20,000 manuscripts. The earliest manuscript we have is within 60 years of the original. Now, there are errors in some of those manuscripts, but when you have 300 manuscripts of the same passage, and 298 of them say the same thing and in two of them a word is misspelled, I think you can figure out what that word is supposed to be.

It is true that between languages it can get a little messy. For example, in Greek there are many words for different kinds of love (brotherly love, Godly love, etc.), whereas in English, we only have one word for love. But this is why we use things like Strong's Concordance and things like that to help us study the Word.

I'm sorry this is so long, I don't like writing particularly long answers usually!

Answer 4

You are wrong about Jewish interpretation. This is done every Sabbath service. You want to find a reason NOT to believe, and discount Christianity, when the truth is you know fully well that translations are done to the best accuracy possible. If you doubt a translation, you could always research it yourself. How do you think different denominations came about!?

Answer 5

hello, yes God speak through the bible. that is the manual that our Creator gave us His creation how to live in this earth, what we is our purpose, how to live to avoid problem and what to prevent, and everything you need to live in this earth till you enter eternity. The truth God gave through His servant, man of God to jot down all the words. God surely is a responsible God, He will not abandons us. all things in this earth will change but God never change, so is His word, in the bible say "heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away" God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, that's why you can trust Him and His word and His promise. interpretation and explaining the word is different, u can be sure that all christian that interpreting the word is depending on God to do the job, because it is said in the bible if you add or cut anything from His word it will be a horrible judgment. therefore the judgment is on God not on human, we are not the law maker, we are the law follower. God does still speak through prophesy, vision and dreams etc., but if any of these has contradiction with His word, we can be sure it is not from God, as God never change, bible say God is faithful and truth and never changing. therefore we don't have to worry as we have the basic yet complete guidance which is the bible.

Answer 6

God didn't write the Bible--I agree. God INSPIRED the Bible--every last iota of it. If you pray for the Holy Spirit to guide you as you read it, you will not have any problems. God will let you get out of it what you need to know without getting anything wrong. But the key is to listen not to think that you can interpret it using your human knowledge--that is just plain silly!

Answer 7

Jesus sacrificed his life so that you and I could have a straight connection to him and not need a middle man. He speaks to everyone of us, you just need to slow down and listen to what he say's! If you listen and do what he asks you'll hear his voice a lot louder every day! The bible is always critized and that will never change as long as satan is here on earth. Live by what God says in the bible and you can't go wrong, don't get cuaght up in the technical ?'s of the world!

Answer 8

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

It the Word reaches to those areas, it will take effect.

As far as "re'interpreted, the KJV was only corrected due to spelling errors. Remember, there was no printing presses like we have today.

Answer 9

Ask your self if God would let there be that many different interpretations with out showing his true word and meaning. He has had someone through all ages of the bible to preach the word why not now? Even if the people rejected them he still sent a prophet. I testify to you that he has sent a prophet to teach and guide in this time also and if the people chose not to listen its their problem, not his. He will not interfere with our free choice. that is why he has sent us down here to learn free choice and how to choose good from evil.

Answer 10

The Holy Spirit of God was cast upon the original writers and loads of Translators worked very hard to get the translations to be accurate.

God would not let his word die out ever.