Why do people follow the bible blindly when no-one can truly attest its validity?

Question

The bible was written many years after the fact, by uneducated fishermen & has been manipulated by the various interpretations using our words for their words.

Answer 1

Religion and tradition. How many real christians are there really?

Answer 2

The bible is scientifically the most validated publication of all time. The accounts in the bible were all written within 50 years of their occurrence, not hundreds like you're implying. You say by uneducated men? Almost all of the new testament was written by one of the most notable scholars of the time. You are right about interpretations, some are better than others. But just because someone perverts something doesn't mean the original isn't perfect.

Answer 3

No one can attest to its validity? What planet are you on? Let me tell you something that you apparently don't know.

First, I doubt you would be able to say that the following people "blindly" followed the Bible.

John Harvard, the primary benefactor to the college that bears his name, was a Puritan preacher. He bequeathed his library to the college in Cambridge "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches." He didn't want an uneducated clergy or laity. He attested to the Bible's validity.

C.S. Lewis, an Oxford professor, was an agnostic for most of his early life. Came to Christ as an adult, and was a rather prolific writer of apologetics (the subject of defending the faith, or according to your question, attesting to its validity). Even today, his books are considered classics.

Josh McDowell, was another professor, who set out to debunk Christianity. After doing 700 hours of research, he concluded that the evidence demanded a verdict. He became a Christian, and then penned a book with the title, "Evidence that Demands a Verdict." Josh runs a ministry whose sole existence is attesting to the validity of the Bible and its contents.

Simon Greenleaf was a lawyer, and a founder of the Harvard Law School. He set out to evaluate the biblical accounts hoping to refute their claims. After exhaustive research, he determined that the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ was overwhelming, and would stand scrutiny in a court of law. Because he used the Bible as eyewitness accounts, he obviously attested to their validity.

Now I will go to the history of the Bible, which you say was written many years after the fact (funny you should say "fact" there, but I digress...) We have a manuscript fragment of John 18 that is dated to a generation of the events. For the time, that is practically a news flash. Further, we have the Old Testament in the same form that Jesus Himself would've had.

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 a thousand years apart. Further, the Septuagint (the Greek language translation of the Hebrew Bible) was also compared. With all of these references, we are assured that the texts have not been manipulated, or misinterpreted.

As far as the New Testament goes, 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.

Your argument is baseless.

Answer 4

Can you TRULY attest to the validity of the "THEORY" of Evolution. Do you understand the meaning of the word (theory)? There is not even ONE single scientist or scholar that has ever proved this theory. Don't be so stupid as to disbelieve what we believe when your own ideas sound so ludacrous and have not been proven. And thank you Samantha. You have put your finger exactly on the truth of the matter.

Answer 5

Your question at the same time as phrased quite is unrealistic. social gathering: - you have not any issues turning on your television set and making use of it without understand service wave propogation by area, modulation or demodulation or perhaps how electric powered alerts are became into video and stereo sound. do you need to be said as to the carpet for no longer understanding all the intricacies of telecommunications engineering? for sure no longer - you need to be loose to take exhilaration on your television programming. in an identical way: requing that everybody have a Theological degree and gazing for them to apply that Theological understanding to "%. and choose" from the bible what they trust and do not trust (or basically what they prefer or don't like) is untenable at many stages. ___ Christians trust that God inspired the Holy Scriptures and Holy Traditions of Church! i.e. it does no longer have a man made foundation, yet a Divine foundation. For us to verify on what we adore or don't like (buffet type) we are putting our human reasoning adversarial to that Divine understanding and understanding.

Answer 6

Children are programmed that if they dare think differently than from what the bible says, they will be tortured eternally with fire. That old fear flares up in them as adults, like a PTSD flashback effect. It's child abuse to do that to kids.

Answer 7

Why do people believe evolution and the big bang blindly when no one can truly attest its vailidity?

Do your research. There's plenty of evidence for the validity of the Bible.

God bless!

Answer 8

A question and answer from http://www.christian-thinktank.com:

What makes you so confident that the Bible is true? It has so many authors, so many translations, and was written over so many years--there MUST be some mistakes!

"At first blush, you would certainly EXPECT there to be mistakes--there certainly seems to be mistakes in all OTHER such literature. But, we have to keep coming back to the question of God--IF the God described in the Bible DOES exist, and IF He cares enough about us to get a message to us of His love and efforts for us in the person of Jesus Christ, THEN it is CERTAINLY POSSIBLE that He COULD produce such a book that WAS completely trustworthy. So, we are probably not entitled to ASSUME it is untrustworthy--we will have to TEST IT to see if it does measure up to a very high standard of reliability.

"We actually DO have indications that there is something 'supernatural' about this book--in the area of fulfilled predictions of the future. In that portion of the Bible written before the times of Jesus Christ--the Old Testament--there are numerous situations where men and women of God made detailed predictions about the future. To the best of our historical knowledge, ALL of these came true--a VERY 'odd' success rate for foretelling the future! These cases of accurate (and detailed) predictions of the future support the claim that a supernatural influence is involved in this Book.

"As far as modern historical methods, the curious thing about this book is that the farther away in history we get from the actual events it portrays, the higher our confidence grows that the record is correct! In other words, in generations past, scholars would have a list of passages in the Bible that they thought contained errors. But as time went by, and we learned more about ancient civilizations and cultures, and as we did more archeological excavations, the more those passages were found to be true. For example, for the longest time we believed that camels were not domesticated in the times of Abraham. But in the early 20th century, we discovered archeological remains that clearly demonstrated that the Bible record was historically accurate. So, as we learn more about history, the more our confidence in the historical accuracy of the Bible increases.

" Your question about the translations is a natural one, for if the bible we had today was a translation of a translation of a translation (and so on), we COULD have a problem. Fortunately for us, archeology works FOR us again. Each year we find more and more copies of the original manuscripts, from earlier and earlier dates. We even have manuscript fragments that date to the time of the apostles' deaths--LONG before we got into the 'translation business'! So each year provides us with better data about what the original authors wrote (and a way to check the modern translations for accuracy).

"And, even though this is going to sound strange, the very WEIRDNESS and DIFFICULTY of the Bible's content is a witness to the reliability and trustworthiness of the record. Let me explain. There are many passages in the Bible that are difficult to understand, easy to be offended at, or an embarrassment to the early church leaders. But these passages were NOT altered, omitted, or diluted! The emphasis on faithful recording and reporting was ETHICALLY HIGH, with the result that the Bible that we end up with is a trustworthy account.

"In fact, academic historians point out that, compared to the OTHER historical documents of the times, the Bible is incredibly more reliable, non-mythological, and historically testable.

So, by all the modern historical standards, we are justified in placing our confidence in the Bible."

And this from http://www.everystudent.com/features/isthere.html:

"God's thoughts, personality, and attitudes can only be known if God chooses to reveal them. All else would be human speculation. We are at a loss if God does not wish to be known. But God wants us to know Him and has told us in the Bible all we need to know about His character and how to relate to Him. This makes the reliability of the Bible an important consideration.

Archaeological findings continue to confirm rather than refute the accuracy of the Bible. For example, an archeological find in northern Israel in August 1993 confirmed the existence of King David, author of many of the Psalms in the Bible.10 The Dead Sea Scrolls and other archaeological discoveries continue to substantiate the historical accuracy of the Bible.

proof of God The Bible was written over a 1500-year span, by 40 different authors, in different locations and on separate continents, written in three different languages, covering diverse subject matters at different points in history.11 Yet there is an astounding consistency in its message. Throughout the entire Bible the same message appears:

1. God created the world we live in, and created us specifically to have a relationship with Him.
2. He deeply loves us.
3. We have sinned and are under God's judgment, in need of His forgiveness.
4. God provided a way for our sins to be forgiven.
5. He asks us to receive His forgiveness and have a relationship with Him that will last eternally.

Along with this central script, the Bible specifically reveals God's character. Psalm 145 is a typical summary of God's personality, thoughts and feelings toward us. If you want to know God, here He is."

Fact: The whole New Testament was completed by the end of the first century.
Fact: Even the most liberal New Testament scholars agree that all the Gospels were done by 90 AD, with the earliest written (Matthew) being completed within 15 years of the resurrection.
Fact: The authors of the New Testament ranged from fishermen, to a doctor(Luke) to a tax collector(Matthew) to a highly educated former Pharisee (Paul)

Answer 9

Because it's a socially accepted way of carrying over their childhood need to believe in Santa Claus.

Answer 10

You studied this yourself personally. You've been to the exhibitions of the Dead Sea Scrolls etc and declared them invalid.

Have you published your work in a scientific journal on this I would like to read it.

Answer 11

Brush up on your Bible history Guy.