How can you even trust the new testament?

Question

This is not by any means an antagonistic question.

The Bible has umpteen different versions, and some have been deleted by the "church", and they are still discovering others,e.g.,Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Thomas, etc.

There are even Books accepted by some Christians that are not acknowledged by other Christians (apocrypha), and still some faiths have added to the Bible.

Meanwhile, The Holy Qur'an has not changed since its inception. So, with so many revisions, how can one accept the new testament as the true Word of Allah (SWT), let alone as divinely inspired?

1. I am Muslim
2. I am inquisitive
3. Had you read the entire question, I stated that this question was not to incite, but rather to understand.

Has this site gotten to a point where EVERYONE is paranoid?


RELLLAAAAAXXXXXX, people....

and WHERE in this question did you see me telling you WHAT to believe???

Answer 1

I know your question and I am not antagonized at all. I worked in Saudi Arabia for 10 years as an Architect and oftentimes I was asked with the same question by my Muslim friends. My answer was always like this. "I believed that there is God since when I was child. When I grew up and read the New Testament again and again. I discovered a lot of inconsistencies among the writngs of the Apostles. I questioned our priest, in fact, I asked a lot of priests and received a common reply...."That each of the apostles wrote their messages in a different times, in a different places, for different audience." Ain't that a lot of crap? However, whatever confuses me did not make me change my religious choice, I still am a Catholic because it means "universal" from the Greek word Katolos. Since Allah is the same God you claim to be because it has the the first five Books that are written in the Old Testament which was in agreement with the Book of Jewish Torah which was were Qu'ran also agree, so, I remain loyal to my firm belief that wherever I am, Your God, My God, their God is one. Talking about Trust? My faith is my trust. Call me infidel? I just couldn't careless. But you Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikh and others, I have no problem with you. I believe you are my brothers whether you agree or not. I respect you for what you are and what you believe in because in the end we will all know our destiny will be the same, each of us just happen to choose a different a road along the way. Would it not be peaceful if we learn not to judge one another?

Answer 2

The Catholic Church -- the one founded by Jesus in Matthew 16 -- has never deleted anything from the Bible. Nor has it ever added anything to it.

The fact that some Christians don't recognize the authority of the Catholic Church -- and don't recognize the inspiration of some of the Bible's books -- does not detract from the fact that both the Church and the Bible are real and valid.

Even if it's true that "some faiths have added to the Bible," it doesn't matter because Christ's established Church -- the Roman Catholic Church -- has not.

Bottom line: You can trust the New Testament, as long as you're reading from a version of the Bible that is approved for use by the Catholic Church.

"What you bind on earth is bound in Heaven," Jesus told the first bishops of the Church -- the apostles. With Jesus' full vested authority, the Church has propagated His Truth for 2,000 years.

That Truth is embodied in the words of Sacred Scripture and in the teaching authority of the Church.

That's why you can trust it.

Answer 3

The Bible is the inspired Word of God. It is logical fallacy to say that we believe that the Word of God is true because the Bible says so.

To answer your question: The New Testament has been proven to be historically accurate.

The New Testament (the 27 books of the New Testament that are accepted by all Christians) is 99.9% without error. What I mean by that is that there is likely to be something that is lost in translating anything from one language to another. The very few instances where the Bible may have a genuine inaccuracy are in places that do not change the meaning of the Bible.

There are many different translations, but that does not mean that they say different things. It only means that they say the same thing in different words.

Answer 4

The apocrypha are Old Testament books found in the Septuagint, but not the Massoretic text.

If you wanted something troubling about the New Testament you could have mentioned either:

(1) The Freer Logion

(2) Morton Smith's Secret Gospel of Mark.

Answer 5

the recent testomony has no longer something to do with Constantine, extra contemporary variations such as a results of fact the NIV AND NASV are translated from orginal archives going returned to 35-70 advert. God is totally waiting to maintain his Holy word in spite of ways wicked a guy is in cost. Even the King James varies little or no and that i'd have confidence it purely as lots as a results of fact the extra contemporary ones, the generic transformations are minimum. Constantine became into no longer a Christian you're spectacular in that lots and neither have been any of the murdering scum pretending to be Christians all down during the a while. genuine Christian's died for Christ, like Paul and James and Stephen and many 1000's of others.

Answer 6

This and the mis-representation of Muslims about our Holy trinity are two of the most used statements.

God can keep his word in meaning through the Holy spirit.

There were editions of the Quran edited and destroyed after they were compiled, a goat even ate some passages, how is that not corrupted?

If the New Testament is Corrupted, and the Quran is not, I would say that they did a very good job corrupting the NT.

Live in Peace, Love your neighbor, Pray for your enemies, those are NOT words from the Devil.

Peace and good luck to ya!

Answer 7

Its not about trust its about faith my friend.

I personally am a mormon, this is a denomination of christiany, and we use the King James bible, but we also have another book , this is called the Book or Mormon and is a third Testiment of christ. we also have a book called the Doctrine and Covenant which has been written by several profits (the leader of our church) over recent years (200 years or so recent compared to the bible) and the D&C states that "we (as mormans) belive the bible to be the word of god as long as it has been translated corecty." You see it has been translated so many times its not even funny.

However a couple 100 years back the Profit Jospef Smith corrected a few errors in the bible through divine insperation, and there havent been any more since, so i belive that the Current bible we (mormons) use it the word of god, as otherwise more profits would of made admendments. or so i belive

Answer 8

stcutter1 ,



This may come to a shock to you, but the Quaran is altered, and has been altered.

http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Uthman_ibn_Affan

"Perhaps the one action which caused the most controversy for Uthman during his reign was his attempt to develop a definitive text of the Qur'an at the expense of all others. His aim was simply to establish one true text of the revelation, in order for all Muslims to know what the Qur'an consisted of, what order it should be in, and how it should be written. Despite the controversy, Uthman was able to complete this task, which has since been recognised as a significant achievement in Islamic history. It reduced the number and frequency of disagreements over dogma, but many devout believers at the time accused Uthman of tampering with the sacred book.'

Such a curse on the Earth would have to be a lie.

Answer 9

Because the true Word of God Jehovah Jirah El Shaddai to whom even the Allah demon must bow is not a written Word but a spoken one. The Bible is a recording of it by inspired people, and though the Word remain the same the inspiration does transcend the ages and does transcend the languages and is lot limited to but one as is the Koran in it's deceptions.

Answer 10

The New Testament hasn't changed. The world's view of the New Testament has. The world added The Gospel of Judas and so on. That wasn't written in the new testament and doesn't belong.

How can I trust it? How can I NOT? It's the root of my faith. The one that's under attack the most is the one that's right. How often has the Qu'ran been under attack? I rest my case.