What percentage of the Bible is outright myths, fabrications, distorted truth, and/or lies?

Answer 1

None if your reading the KJV.

Answer 2

It is amazing what passes for intellectual biblical criticism these days. We could discuss the fabrications of the Bible by mentioning specifically the reasons why we doubt. Instead all we can levy against the Bible is, "what do you think?" That's like the scientist who looks at the fossil record and asks his peers, "how should we design a tree graph so that it lookes like these fossils are traceable to a common anscestor?" Never mind the question of whether they actually are traceable. We think they are, and the alternative (holy God who says I have to live a holy life) is simply unacceptable. That is a very arbitrary way of dealing with the issue being discussed. But to say something like, "The contents of the Bible, from authors and events, to places and people, have been varified by a weighty amount of archaeological finds such as ancient chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea where the Bible says God drowned Pharoah's chariot army after Moses and Israel crossed." That is discussing an actual reason for a person's belief. Admittedly, arbitrarily dismissing the Bible would make the task of dealing with its contents much easier, no doubt because they proclaim the existence of a morally perfect being who demands that we live morally upright lives. But in the search for truth, we do not have that luxury. Someday, the chlidren have to become grown ups and realize the truth is what the truth is whether you like it or not. And we cannot shurk the responsibility of carefully examining the evidence (in full) and being willing to go where the truth leads.

Answer 3

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 4

None of it.
Over the years there have been many criticisms leveled against the Bible concerning its historical reliability. These criticisms are usually based on a lack of evidence from outside sources to confirm the Biblical record. Since the Bible is a religious book, many scholars take the position that it is biased and cannot be trusted unless we have corroborating evidence from extra-Biblical sources. In other words, the Bible is guilty until proven innocent, and a lack of outside evidence places the Biblical account in doubt.
This standard is far different from that applied to other ancient documents, even though many, if not most, have a religious element. They are considered to be accurate, unless there is evidence to show that they are not. Although it is not possible to verify every incident in the Bible, the discoveries of archaeology since the mid 1800s have demonstrated the reliability and plausibility of the Bible narrative. Here are some examples.
read more at this site.....

Answer 5

I'll be generous and say only 90%. Almost the entire new testament gets thrown out. Most of the OT gets thrown out.

Like it or not, a few isolated bits of it talk about well known historical events, like Daniel is a pseudo-prophetic text that was actually war protest propaganda against ... the Persians I think? Pretty sure it started with a P, but might not have been Persians.

Answer 6

I honestly believe about 1%,that's right.If you had asked this question in the 1800s I might have said 50%.They thought the Assyrians were made up people as were the Hittites,and Amorites.Now we know they were real.They thought Troy was made up(called Troas,in the bible),Henrick Schleiman uncovered that city,he also found the Behistan Rock engravings that list all the Assyrian Kings we read about .They have found Solomon's stables,he was supposed to be made up and an arch way that says"House of David"..he too was supposed to be a compilation of "sheppard kings".Every time the archeologist turns over his spade,the Bible becomes more and more real.Not too long ago they fond a paving stone with Pilates name,and an ostuary"bone box" with the name John Caiaphas on it ,he's the guy along with his father in law Annas,who tried Jesus in Jewish court.All you have to do is study alittle instead of trying to create your own little NonGod world.
Josephus a Jewish historian and contemporary of Paul metions Jesus in his" Antiqueties" as a" traveling Rabbi who went about doing good".So what's up? check it out yourself.

Answer 7

100% Well, maybe not. At least 70 to 80%

Answer 8

100% of what's between the covers

Answer 9

Pick up "101 Myths of the Bible" by Gary Greenberg or Google his name.

Answer 10

100%

Answer 11

A HUGE percentage.