Is it possible the people who wrote the Bible made a mistake?

Answer 1

is it possible your mother was really a man?

Answer 2

The bible has been translated so many times throught the ages. A lot of the stories in the bible are pariables. When people ask "is what the bible teaches true" or "do you have faith in the bible", you can say yes if you agree with the morals in there, not the stories which are only meant to teach you the morals. AS FOR YOUR QUESTION: Yes there are mistakes in the bible, only because of mistranslations. Try the King James version. It's the most correct and the most untranslated bible.

Answer 3

I beieve the people that wrote the Bible, did so by the utterance of the Holy Spirit which is the Helper that Jesus left here on earth after he was resurcted. To open up yourself to say they made mistakes, would call the Bible a big mistake and thus the foundation of Christanity full of mistakes...basically a lie. Nope. Not true. Sorry.

Answer 4

GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness.
GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.

GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.
GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.

GE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created.
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.

GE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created.
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.

GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time.
GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.

GE 1:28 God encourages reproduction.
LE 12:1-8 God requires purification rites following childbirth which, in effect, makes childbirth a sin. (Note: The period for purification following the birth of a daughter is twice that for a son.)

GE 1:31 God was pleased with his creation.
GE 6:5-6 God was not pleased with his creation.
(Note: That God should be displeased is inconsistent with the concept of omniscience.)

GE 2:4, 4:26, 12:8, 22:14-16, 26:25 God was already known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) much earlier than the time of Moses.
EX 6:2-3 God was first known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) at the time of the Egyptian Bondage, during the life of Moses.

GE 2:17 Adam was to die the very day that he ate the forbidden fruit.
GE 5:5 Adam lived 930 years.

GE 2:15-17, 3:4-6 It is wrong to want to be able to tell good from evil.
HE 5:13-14 It is immature to be unable to tell good from evil.

GE 4:4-5 God prefers Abel's offering and has no regard for Cain's.
2CH 19:7, AC 10:34, RO 2:11 God shows no partiality. He treats all alike.

GE 4:9 God asks Cain where his brother Able is.
PR 15:3, JE 16:17, 23:24-25, HE 4:13 God is everywhere. He sees everything. Nothing is hidden from his view.




Just an avant-gout of how the bible contradicts itself, no need to contradict it ourselves. click on the source below to get the whole compilation according to Donald Morgan.

Answer 5

Hundreds of prophecies of future events were recorded in the Bible -- some of them centuries before fulfillment -- and not one detail of any of them has ever failed!
No other "religious book" foretells the future.
No one can refute the Bible's accurate prediction of future events with facts. All they can do is try to get you to ignore these marvelous facts.
Could man -- especially dozens of men, writing in different countries and different times -- foretell the future so accurately? Never! Only God could do such a tremendous thing.
No one but God could reveal the future in such detail, often hundreds of years before the events occurred. Not only the future of cities, nations, and the world, but also concerning the future birth, ministry, death, and resurrection of Christ.
Contrary To Human Thinking
The Bible is completely unlike a book which humans would write. The Bible condemns all mankind -- including the writers -- and teaches there is no way they can be saved except by accepting a gift -- the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible teaches salvation through grace and not works, self-exaltation through self-abasement, finding your life by losing your life, the way to become great is by being a servant of all -- and other things opposite to human thought. People would not have written such things contrary to their nature, on their own.
The Bible deals frankly with the sins of its characters. People making things up try to make themselves look good. The Bible tells their stories realistically, with all their shortcomings.

Answer 6

Yes it is possible and very probably. That is why we have so many things that don't make sense. The religious leaders at the time most likely rewrote the Bible to suit their own needs. Its sad but its true the Bible is flawed. That doesn't mean that the meaning behind it is wrong though. The stories may be incorrect but the message is still true.

Answer 7

Have you ever played the game were one person wispers somthing into anothers ear and that person tries to wisper word for word the same thing and that continues on through 10 people and then the last person has to say outloud what was said? Well its pretty funny whats said and how for of from the original saying was. The original authors of the books in the Bible most who are Prophets of God were writing down thoughts and experinces in a jornal and that jornal was somtimes passed from father to son or Prophet to Prophet who had authority to acted in Gods name.Gods will to his Prophets would be perfect but mortal man isnt perfect.

Answer 8

To believe in God and the Bible, faith is required. Even the Bible says so. If you believe what the Bible says at 2 Timothy 3:16, you'll realize that God wouldn't allow anything in the Bible that's false or for our detrement.

Answer 9

what's the authority of the Bible. actuality and God. Literalism aside, the adventure in human background of what it is. considered, no longer for the period of the eyes of a skeptic, yet with the eyes of a believer. in spite of everything the Bible's authority won't be a topic for those devoid of such eyes, eh? with the help of ways, we've made errors with reference to the Bible, yet none so great as to call the entire factor into question. with the help of experiencing and correcting errors self belief in in line with it will boost. A mistake is possibly no longer a great one. genuinely our disagreements with one yet another will divulge errors. we don't conspire with one yet another to cover historic errors or misunderstandings.

Answer 10

No!...since the Bible was written by the "Inspiration" of the "Holy Spirit" and not man!.....(2 Tim. 3:16).......ps. now I ask you the same question, "is it possible the people who wrote their carnal theories, views, opinions, & philosophies etc. etc. etc. made a "mistake" which would include your agnostic views?.......

Answer 11

The Bible is not telling you all the truth,not till you learn how to read it in spirit not through your physical eyes,but with your spiritual eyes.Then you will see the light within her,until then your in darkness and know not the truth.It is a mystery before you all.