SERIOUS QUESTION: Is it possible the Bible has been exaggerated and is wholly incorrect due to human flaw??

Question

Someone once told me that there is no way God would ever let the holy book become so misleading, but isn't it possible that God would be violated his "FREE WILL" promise if He were to change it? After all, He gave us all free will to have whatever thoughts and writings humans wanted, so isn't it possible God knows the Bible is full of problems but is bound by his own law not to intervene??

So if the Bible says non-believers go to Hell, but God's mind, He knows he would forgive them, He can't do anything about it?

So the flood may just have been only in the Middle East and not in the whole world and maybe Noah didn't take EVERY animal on, but God cannot fix the Bible?

So people exaggerated while passing the Bible on and mistranslated some tablets but God can't fix it?

PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE:
Do you think if one person did make a large mistake in the Bible that God WOULD violate the Free Will promise and somehow fix it? WOULD HE ACTUALLY DO THIS?

The Bible is not accurate??

Answer 1

The bible is a bedtime story book much like Alice in Wonderland or Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. I believe that the stories were put on paper so that the writer could pass it along from generation to generation.

Answer 2

Yes - look, Jesus did not dictate the Bible. It was written down by the apostles years after his death. They wrote from their own perspective and recollection. Throughout the years there have been various approved versions that differ from each other - some changes are drastic. Historically speaking, definitions for words have changed as well, such as Virgin used to mean someone who had only given birth a few times and was without a surviving child. The "world" at the time it was written was not the "world" that is known to exist today, so how can you expect someone to make geographic determinations that extend beyond what was known to exist at the time.

What is important is the teachings - how to exist, the way of life, not the determinations on how the grains are cut, or metes and boundaries. Look to the example Jesus set, love one another, honor your mother and father, take care of the children,, don't turn away from the sick and unfortunate, and do God's work.

Answer 3

I think the bible should not be taken literally, although some of the stories in the bible may be true I think their main purpose is to guide people in the right direction in how to live their lives. The bible is filled with stories which have morals like love your neighbor and be a good person. I dont think you can believe everything the bible says because no one really knows how God feels about everything. If there are things in the bible that are incorrect as to how God would feel on a certain issue I dont think he would correct them, its up to us to decide what is real and what is not.

Answer 4

I believe that absolutely the bible is full of many, many flaws and mistakes due to human error......that to me would be inevitable, after all the bible is a translation, of a translation, of a translation, of a translation, not to mention the __?___ how many languages it has been translated in to, this alone would lead to numerous errors. Then you factor in the translators, mere mortals, and men at that, all putting (perhaps) their own spin on what they were translating; this would be indicative of human nature wouldn't it? I've often wondered just how all of that women in subjection to men stuff got in there? Hmmmm; maybe some controlling / insecure scribe??
Also, another for instance; you and I spend the day together at the local art museum, and then at lunch, after wards we both set down and write a brief essay describing our day together, both essays may be accurate, but completely different.
Then finally toss in some spelling errors, and some punctuation errors; these can really make some big differences.
Certainly the bible is full of errors both mistakenly and purposefully.............now about God fixing it? Wow I don't know about that one, wouldn't that be a miracle? and does God still perform miracles in this day and age? Perhaps that is part of Christendoms challenge is to decipher the bibles message? Whose bible is most accurate? Which translation comes nearest to being the true translation?

Answer 5

The bible is fallible as human perception is flawed, besides it's based on older material by the sumerians and egyptians mainly. If there was a plagiarism law it would be censored. The king james version has so many inconsistencies it's not funny! Noah is based on a sumerian story also. The new testament is a fictious work as much as jesus is a combination of past messiahs and myths of saviors and gods, just reworked. I refuse to be a sheeple and give my choices and mind away to some strange "god".

Answer 6

There are early versions of the scriptures available in their native languages. Jewish people have been using them for thousands of years. Most Jewish people still learn Hebrew so that they can learn it in their own language. We can either 1. learn some Hebrew and get to studying or 2. read books written by people who already have. These are biased people. They're people looking for clarification just the same.

Would God fix an error in the Bible directly? Who knows. He's God. He's mysterious and can't be described in human terms. I'm guessing by now someone who's done enough study would have sent up some red flags if there were any huge, earth-shattering revelations that we've missed.

If you focus on the literal aspects of each event in the Bible you will often miss the point of what they're trying to teach you. Tht doesn't mean that I don't believe they're literal, but there are gray areas. I don't know Hebrew for one.

Answer 7

IMO every holy book has been edited in some way there is not one book that's not full of contradictions, and clearly no one can be sure if these books have been actually written/composed by gods or not. in the end the important thing is to do what you think is the right thing, and if god is truely forgiving and understanding which seems to be unanimous in all books, then he/she'll probably understand what we are going through.
besides when you come to think of it, there's no reason why god would create us and give us a rule book and then send us to hell or heaven, it just doesn't make sense, why would anyone create us to destroy us painfully??

Answer 8

Well, I am certainly no theology expert but here is my opinion...

I find it difficult to believe that through mans weakness, bad judgment, poor memory, self centeredness and hunger for power that the bible was not altered at least somewhat over time. What better way to control a society than to swear up and down that God told them to do something a certain way lest they burn in a fiery pit for all eternity. I think that initially, Christianity was based in some pretty sensible ideas, but that over time, a little something has been lost in translation. Furthermore, we must take into consideration the fact that the bible has been written, re-written, translated, edited and reprinted many many many times. Did you ever play that game "telephone" when you were a kid? Well, it's kinda like that.

Answer 9

Although your thought is clever...It is not possible...

God gave us free will, but he also predestined certain things.. Like Jesus Christ.. The Word of God is never changing. Whenever someone changes something in the bible, we call them fasle prophets,, which there are many false religions in the World.... God will always find ways to keep his word non-changing. He may use certain Christians.. Who knows but the point is that the Word of God, had always been the same..

The dead sea scrolls, and other anceint historical artifacts have been found, that have the same words, that the bible we have today has..

Answer 10

of course, the bible was writen so long ago that it could have accidentaly or purposly been distorted. the old testament in particular was translated, lost, retranslated over a great period. even the new testament was not put to paper untill 400 years after jesus died.
personaly I believe that all religion is just a way to control people and that the stories are either woorks of complete fiction, or enhanced to make the story better.