50,000+ errors in the bible.. and Christians are upset when this is pointed out? why?

Question

If there are over 50,000 DOCUMENTED errors in the bible, how can Christians still believe that it is the literal word of God. And if God is a perfect being, how would he allow so many errors to occur. Perhaps he PLANNED for them to occur so the bible would change to speak differently to different generations? Of course this beg the question of why a perfect being couldn't make it straightforward enough to being with.

http://jamaat.net/bible/awakearticle(195...

Answer 1

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Ironic? I don't think so!

All of the Bible is the truth. God used human beings to physically pen the biblical text. But remember God is the author, they are His words. The Bible is inspired by God. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew. The New Testament was originally written in Greek (with a few portions in aramaic). Learn those languages so you can read it for yourself in it's original. Check out some good commentaries (NIV Application commentary, Anchor Bible Commentary, New International Commentary on the New Testament (also one on OT), New International Greek Testament Commentary). You will see there are no contradictions.

The Bible is inerrant and infallible. Inerrant means it is incapable of having errors, and infallible means incapable of being false. So this means that God protected the Bible while it was being translated to other languages and other translations.

When scribes were copying the biblical text they would count how many words were in each book, in each page, and in each sentence. They knew which word would be exactly the middle of the book/page/sentence. If their text did not match up they threw it away and started over. So they were extremely careful and meticulous in their work.

Answer 2

Having been a solid Christian for 26 yrs now i would have heard of 50,000 + errors and come across a lot of them myself from studying the Bible. Your web link is not working and even if it was I know there are no such kind of errors. Don't believe everything you read. There are some translation differences with some words here or there but the doctrines taught from the Bible are not affected. 98% of the Bible is verified from historical scrolls and early church leader's writtings. The other 2% is the difference is grammar or wording mostly from translating into other non biblical languages. The Bible bears the supernatural quality of historical and prophetic accuracy unlike any other book.
It can be trusted.

Answer 3

Here we go again, find fault with Christianity. I'm not Christian myself, but I'm annoyed by Muslims forever trying to find fault with the beliefs of others.
Just exactly what do you get out of it ? If you're a Muslim, what do you care what's in the Christian bible, or what's not in the bible. How does that have any bearing on what you believe ?
If you want to find fault with "holy" books, look at your own. Doesn't it say to kill anyone who refuses to convert to Islam ? If I found that in a book, I would throw it in the grabage.
And while you're in the comparing mood. tell us about the time that Mohammad found this little nine year old kid. He had two choices. He could invite her into his home and raise her as his own grandaughter, which a nobel person would do, or he could "marry" her and throw her into the harem as a sex slave, which a horny lustful pig would do. You tell us which choice he made. What a great guy, what a great religion.
All of the other world religions stack up very favorably against Islam. The newest of the bunch. I'll make a bargain with you. Stop knocking others and we'll say nothing nasty about you. Is that a bargain ?

Answer 4

the bible has been translated so many times and by the wrong people. this is why there are so many errors. some errors more important then others like the statis of Jesus(pbuh). God sent his word to the people and over the course of years they changed it to fit there need. but no religion can say that tere practices are the same. I am a muslim and i Know the Quran has not been changed but man still changes things to fit his own ideals. I.E terrorist. The Quran does not say kill innocent poeple or even harm people but a select few have chosen to interpret the Quran in there own way to justify there wrong doings. though the book stays the same people don't. Same applies for Christians, book changed so the people changed with it.

Answer 5

If you're going to make claims like this please cite your sources. More than likely you got it off some Christian hate site that twists words around in the Bible to make it say something it doesn't. The old "out of context" argument is a serious one. The Bible is not a strait forward written text. It's beautifully complicated requiring years of intense study. I think you're problem might be that when you read the Bible and you come up to an apparent contradiction or "mistake"., instead of digging deeper and trying to resolve the conflict or find the meaning behind it, you flag it as proof the Bible is flawed and shut your mind out to any other possibility. 10 out of 10 times this is what is happening when people raise questions of contradictions in the Bible.

Answer 6

Really? I thought it was only 49,999 errors. Haha, just kidding.

Can you prove or link to these 50,000 errors? A lot of time people think the Bible contradicts itself, when really they might not know the context that what each writing is refferring to.

If one thinks of God as a perfect being and sees how He can become man with out sin (in Jesus) you can see that He can express Himself through human language without error. ^_^

Answer 7

Greetings,
I notice you sart off with "IF". There's the first problem you have no idea what you are talking about and as usual when people don't know what they are talking they can give no examples or references to back up their absurd claims. You're so full of baloney I'm surpised that you haven't been mistaken for a walking pink Oscar Mayer!!!!!!! Idiots like your self make people like myself sick that God would create something that is about as useful as a bump on a log!!!!!!! Or maybe you were supposed to be a doormat and He made an error!!!!!!HA,Ha,HA!!!!!!

Answer 8

err umm...do you have a link or something that has a few of them documented? Every time I turn on the History channel they have another documentary about another archaeological find that proves another bit of the Bible right as history... You seem like you're scared that it might indeed be the word of God and that if you protest loudly enough you can make it just go away.

Answer 9

If these come from that SkepticsBible on the web, that thing is silly. It is like hiring a bunch of third graders to be editors at a publishing company. Just deal with issues as they arise and don't make things up. If a reasonably educated Christian is bothered by this, they need to read a little more about their faith.

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

Answer 10

Because they think it's God Sent, it has hundreds of errors, and it was not the first Bible printed in English, it just happen to have King James backing.
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People in the English-speaking world use and accept the King James or Authorized Version more than any other single Bible translation. In fact, so highly esteemed is this translation that many persons venerate it as the only true Bible. This raises some questions.

Do these countless persons who use the King James Version know why, despite objections from churchmen, modern translations keep rolling off the presses? Do they know why the King James Version itself was once opposed by the people? Do they know why, despite vigorous protest and opposition, the King James Version entered into the very blood and marrow of English thought and speech? Do they know what illuminating document is probably missing from their own copies? In short, do they really know the King James Version?

The purpose of Bible translation, then, is to take these thoughts of God, originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and put them into the common languages of today. Bible translation makes God’s Book a living Book. So true Christians read the Bible, not to be entertained by clever turns of expression, unusual words, excellency of style, striking rhetorical devices or felicities of rhythm, but to learn the will of God. It was for this reason that the King James Version came into existence. That was in 1611.
From almost every quarter the King James Bible met opposition. Criticism was often severe. Broughton, a Hebrew scholar of the day, wrote to King James that he “should rather be torn asunder by wild horses than allow such a version to be imposed on the church.”

The translators, not unaware that people preferred to keep what had grown familiar, knew that their work had unleashed a storm. They tried to calm the people down. They wrote a “Preface of the Translators” to explain why the King James Version was made. This preface is called by the Encyclopedia Americana “a most illuminating preface describing the aims of the translators which unhappily is omitted from the usual printings of the Bible.” Thus most Authorized Versions today, though they contain a lengthy dedication to King James, omit the preface. Its presence would clear up many misunderstandings about the purpose of the revision. The reader would learn that strong opposition was expected.

The reader would learn that the King James Version was a revision of earlier works made with a modest hope of improvement and no thought of finality, In time the clamor died down, and the King James Version prevailed over the Geneva Bible. For more than two and a half centuries no other so-called authorized translation of the Bible into English was made. Little wonder that many people began to feel that the King James Bible was the only true Bible. Like many people who once objected to any change in the Geneva Bible, many persons today object to any change in the King James Bible. They oppose modern translations perhaps as vigorously as the King James Version itself was once opposed.

King James Bible has been changed; today no one reads the King James Version in its original form. Explaining why this is so the book The Bible in Its Ancient and English Versions says: “Almost every edition, from the very beginning, introduced corrections and unauthorized changes and additions, often adding new errors in the process. The edition of 1613 shows over three hundred differences from 1611. . . . It was in the eighteenth century, however, that the main changes were made. . . . The marginal references were checked and verified, over 30,000 new marginal references were added, the chapter summaries and running headnotes were thoroughly revised, the punctuation was altered and made uniform in accordance with modern practice, textual errors were removed, the use of capitals was considerably modified and reduced, and a thorough revision made in the form of certain kinds of words.”

So many changes have been made, many of them in the readings of passages, that the Committee on Versions (1851-56) of the American Bible Society found 24,000 variations in six different editions of the King James Version!

What, then, of the objections raised by persons who say they do not want the King James Bible changed? Since the King James Version has already been changed, they lie on a crumbled foundation. If these persons do not want it changed, then why do they use, instead of a copy of an edition of 1611, an edition that has been changed?

They appreciate, perhaps unknowingly, the improvements the later editions have made. They do not like the odd spelling and punctuation of the 1611 edition; they do not want to read “fet” for “fetched,” “sith” for “since” or “moe” for “more,” as the edition of 1611 had it. Thus improvement, when needed, is appreciated, even by those who say they object to any changing of the King James translation.

One of the major reasons the Authorized Version is so widely accepted is its kingly authority. There seems little doubt that, had not a king authorized this version, it would not today be venerated as though it had come direct from God