But if we can find mistakes in the books, would it not render the religion invalid? Look and ye shall find horrendous wrong teachings in the books, supposedly words of "god".
2006-08-12 17:24:48 · 17 answers · asked by dhammaisfree 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it was all written by human beings. dont expect it to really be true, its a set of stories and rules to make society work out , never has worked though.
2006-08-12 17:28:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Torah, Bible and The Dead Sea Scrolls quote the actual words that are coming right out of the God Yahweh's mouth as He's talking to Moses and other prophets. Some of these quoted words are written in The Laws of Moses. How can I prove that these are the actual words of God? By the fact that whoever wrote this had a advanced working knowledge of microbiology and all the fields of science that evolved through the microscope 3500 years before mankind invented the microscope and even more time learning about the microscopic world, (the germ theory for one example). The Quran and all other religion's religious books do not contain any written proof of their god or gods advanced scientific knowledge. Proving that the God Yahweh is the one and only God.
2016-03-26 23:44:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is the words of a lot of different tales about the most popular messiahs of the time put together by a council appointed by the Roman emperor Constintine and edited to all be the same messiah. The Koran is the words of a man named Muhammed much in the same way that the Book of Morman is the words of a man named Joe Smith. The Illiad and the Odyssey are stories that were told orally until Homer wrote them down. Etc...
All written by humans.
2006-08-12 17:42:27 · answer #3 · answered by matt_thehat1759 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course they can be wrong, but not because of a "mistake" on god's part but on the "translator's" part.
Take (John 1:1) for an example: in the Kings James Bible it says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
However, another Bible "more correctly" translates it, "In the beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god."
"the Word" here referring to Christ Jesus in his pre-heavenly existence. Since the Bible does not actually TEACH the Trinity as it IS of pagan origin and was brought into the church around the 3rd century A.D., it can only mean that Christ was "a god" and was god's son and lived with him in Heaven. However, this is the Main scriptural reference they use when spouting the Trinity, and if you go back to the ORIGINAL GREEK and ARAMAIC you'd see that this is TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.
2006-08-12 17:34:27 · answer #4 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those people who claim there are no errors in the Bible are blind. My college textbook in Bible History listed many contradictions in the Bible, and a book Billy Graham gave me lists more. I find more without trying, e.g. when my kid sister divorced, Dad said it'd be a sin for her to remarry. I looked in a concordance to see if he was correct. It quotes verses that show Jesus said it is a sin, but Moses said it isn't. Why should God's laws change so radically in 1400 years? No good reason for it exists. The earliest account of David's census says God inspired it, but later ones say the Satan did. What happened? During the Persian Captivity, Hebrew priests copied Zoroaster's war between good Ahuramazda and evil Ahriman and changed the names to Yahweh or God and Lucifer the Satan. Before this, God sent both good and evil, e.g. hardening a pharoah's heart in Exodus. If that had been rewritten after the Persian Captivity, as David's census was, Lucifer would be blamed again. I could write a book about flaws in the Bible. The author(s) of Revelation should've learned astronomy from the Greeks, for example.
2006-08-12 17:47:29 · answer #5 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original scriptures were God breathed. They were given by God. They are the basis for the books of the quran, bible etc. However, over the years men have translated them and put their own meanings in. The original scriptures had no punctutaion, chapters or verses. Man added them. Man changed the truth of god into a lie. God is not responsible for the wrong doings of man. Man is responsible. That is why when we read and study the bible we need to rightly divide it. Not only to find out where the man made errors are, but also to correctly apply the truths we discover when we rightly divide it.
All religion is man made. They are the doctrines and commandments of men and not the truth of God. God is not into religion because religion pays lip service to things and God judges the heart. It is not how much religion we have that cuts the ice with God, it is how much we trust and believe God and his truth. That is why we need to rightly divide the truth,so we can stand approved of God as workmen who are not ashamed before him by our mishandling and misuse of his truths.
2006-08-12 18:18:55 · answer #6 · answered by ManoGod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These books were written by men. Several origonal books of the Bible were thrown out because they were written by women.
The King James Version of the Bible is one interpretation poorly done. The origonal works were specific when speaking of women,wives,virgins,daughters etc. But the King James version confuses people with its lumping the different women all together.
Example where a verse is speaking about a married women, KJV omits the married part and writes it as all women.
2006-08-12 17:41:01 · answer #7 · answered by MoonWoman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These books have all been subject to the translations and interpretations of men. There are mistakes, there are chapters and even whole books that are missing and intentionally left out because they didn't represent what the translators wanted or needed at the time.
But the principles and basic teaching should not be ignored and you should seek other books and references that are true. They're out there.
2006-08-12 17:42:10 · answer #8 · answered by camille s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree, if we find even one wrong doctrine, scientific of mathematical error, we throw that book out of the window.
I believe that God has created nature so word of God should not go against nature.
I will be more than happy to answer any questions that you have about Quran, I normal person may find many "so called" contradictions but this usually happens when one tries to judge the word of God to with his/her rules.
2006-08-12 17:53:37 · answer #9 · answered by Mesum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Koran was spoken by Mohammed and written down by others because of his inability. It was revised several times because of it's contradictions.
The Bible makes it very clear that there would be false prophets and teachers that would arise to deceive the nations, Mohammed was one of those.
2006-08-12 17:32:41 · answer #10 · answered by foxray43 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the Bible is the word of God. It is divinely inspired and it is inerrant. There are no "wrong teachings" in the Bible.
2006-08-12 17:28:13 · answer #11 · answered by Geoff C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋