Can you be sure...?

Question

... that the Bible is acurate? I mean it was written by men, and everyone makes mistakes and get things wrong. Its only human to err.
Do you believe every word? Would God have somehow corrected something if it was written down wrong?

I am simply curious, I mean no offence, its just when people say its the Word of God, I wonder how they can be so sure with it being written so long ago by these men no-one (around today) has ever met.
Do you ever wonder or do you trust that it is true?

Answer 1

it's fiction

Answer 2

CHRISTIANS CONFESS

Dr. W. Graham Scroggie of the MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE, Chicago, one of the most prestigious Christian Evangelical Mission in the world, answering the question — "Is the Bible the Word of God?" (also the title of his book), under the heading: IT IS HUMAN, YET DIVINE. He says on page 17:

"Yes, the Bible is human, though some, out of zeal which is not according to knowledge, 1 have denied this. Those books2 have passed through the minds of men, are written in the language of men, were penned by the hands of men, and bear in their style the characteristics of men." (Emphasis added).

Another erudite Christian scholar, Kenneth Cragg, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, says on page 277 of his book, "The Call of the Minaret":

"Not so the New Testament3 . . . There is condensation and editing; 4 there is choice, reproduction and witness. The Gospels have come through the mind of the Church behind the authors. They represent experience and history." 5

If words have any meaning, do we need to add another word of comment to prove our case? No! But the professional propagandists, after letting the cat out of the bag, still have the face to try to make their readers believe that they have proved beyond the shadow of any doubt that the Bible is the "irrefragable 6 Word of God." Their semantic gymnastics — equivocating, and playing with words — is amazing!

1. Out of ignorance.

2. The Bible is not Just a Book. It is a selection and compilation of many books.

3. As opposed to the Qur’ân.

4. Another word for Interpolating.

5. Emphasis are mine.

6. Indisputable.

Both these Doctors of Religion are telling us in the clearest language humanly possible that the Bible is the handiwork of man, all the while pretending that the are proving to the contrary. An old Arab saying goes: "IF SUCH ARE THE PRIESTS, GOD BLESS THE CONGREGATION."

With this sort of drivel, the hot-gospeller and the Bible-thumper is "inspired" to harry the "heathen." 1 A theological student — a not-yet-qualified young evangelist — from the University of Witwatersrand, became a frequent visitor to the Newtown Mosque in Johannesburg, with the "noble" thought of "witnessing"2 to the members of its congregation. When I was introduced to him, (and having learnt his purpose), I invited him to lunch at my brother's residence — a stone's-throw from the Mosque. While discussing the authenticity of the Bible over the dinner table and sensing his stubborn dogmatism, I put out a feeler: "Your Professor Geyser, (The Head of the Department of Theology) does not believe the Bible to be the Word of God." Without the slightest surprise he answered, "I know." Now I personally had no knowledge of the Professor's conviction about the Bible. I had only assumed so from a controversy which raged around him about the "Divinity of Christ." 3 He had taken issue with the orthodox believers on this point some years ago. I continued further, saying, "Your lecturer does not believe the Bible as being God's Word." The young evangelist, responded again, "I know" but he continued this time-with the words, "but I believe that it is the Word of God!" There is no real remedy for such people. Even Jesus bewailed this sickness:

"... seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." (Matthew 13:13)


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Of course it is amended!!

Answer 3

I appreciate your sincerity.
To do the short version, I should point out that the reasoning is based on some assumptions:

a)lets assume there is a God
b)lets assume that this God did create the earth and people
c)lets assume this God is good

Given these assumptions, would a God who is able to do these things have trouble/problems keeping his words intact?

I say no! Similarly: If God can do the movie, he can write the book.

I hope that helps. Personally, I always wondered if the bible really was true and God really did exist, but I never wanted to sit down and read it--because I thought all it was going to do was make me feel guilty about the things I liked to do.

Now, I have done many other things and now I have found that I really want to find out how true this is:
Matthew 17:20
He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

Answer 4

If you read the responses to your question you will immediately notice a lot of people telling you to just believe because its God's word etc. This should give you an indication that there is something wrong with that kind of reaction to your honest and thoughtful question. Don't give into the narrow mindedness and keep thinking for yourself. Get used to the fact that some people are like sheep and they have a desire to surpress any independent thought.
And the answer to your question is, (in my opinion) the bible can be a tool to increase your own spiritual sense but like any work of literature it is written by people who had problems and made mistakes just like you and me. Some of it is inspired, or comes from a higher level of consciousness, and so we can learn from it, and some of it is really negative and false. When David prays that God will smash the heads of his enemies babies against the rocks for example, that is not spirituality no matter how many brainwashed true believers say it is.

Answer 5

Bible Fact: The Bible was never meant to be a collection of these chosen works. In fact the books of the bible each were written in order to stand alone from one another. Take for example the gospels. These were written by different people with different agendas at different times. They all address the same account, but they each have a unique approach to the order of the events and the details on which they choose to emphasis. Furthermore these books were not written by the apostles as many believe. They were written some 60 years after the Crucifixion of Jesus in Greek, not Aramaic. It is also known that these accounts were written one after another. It's clear that the writers of the later gospels used the previous ones as a reference.

The truth is the bible isn't the word of god. It is a collection of unrelated texts that were approved to constitute the cannon of holy scripture some hundreds of years later.

Answer 6

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to win now through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.

What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.

Answer 7

Bible predictions of things to happen in the future confirm the inspiration of Scripture as they come to pass. Notice the following examples of fulfilled Bible prophecies:

A. Four world empires to arise: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome (Daniel chapters 2, 7, 8).
B. Cyrus to be the warrior to capture Babylon (Isaiah 45:1-3).
C. After Babylon's destruction, it would never be inhabited again (Isaiah 13:19, 20; Jeremiah 51:37).
D. Egypt would never again have a commanding position among the nations (Ezekiel 29:14, 15; 30:12, 13).
E. Earth-shaking calamities and fear toward the end of time (Luke 21:25, 26).
F. Moral degeneracy and decline of spirituality in the last days (2 Timothy 3:1-5).

The 66 books of the Bible were written:
1. On three continents.
2. In three languages.
3. By about 40 different people (kings, shepherds, scientists, attorneys, an army general, fishermen, priests, and a physician).
4. Over a period of about 1,500 years.
5. On the most controversial subjects.
6. By people who, in most cases, had never met.
7. By authors whose education and background varied greatly.

Yet, though it seems totally inconceivable,
1. The 66 books maintain harmony with each other.
2. Often new concepts on a subject are expressed, but these concepts do not undermine what other Bible writers say on the same subject.

What evidence for Bible inspiration emerges when we compare Old Testament prophecies of the coming Messiah with New Testament happenings in the life of Jesus?

The Bible says, "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He [Jesus] expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." Luke 24:27. "For he [Apollos] vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ." Acts 18:28, NKJV.*

Answer: The Old Testament predictions of the Messiah to come were so specific and so clearly fulfilled by Jesus of Nazareth that both Jesus and Apollos used these prophecies to prove to the Jews that Jesus was, indeed, the Messiah. There are more than 125 of these prophecies. Let's review just 12 of them:

Answer 8

The bible was written by a few hundred people more than 100 years after Jesus died. It is not the word of god but the word of many twits with an attitude and quill pens.

Answer 9

The bible was written originally by men appointed by God Himself. If one goes in search of the original bible written in Hebrew and Aramaic(both old and new testaments) translated in to English it is the word of God. Our current bibles are in updated English and may have a few words that are different from the original meanings, but the bible is accurate and it is truth, GOD'S TRUTH

Answer 10

The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are accurate in that they fulfill their purpose. The books that make up the Bible are not treatises on science, or history, or astro-physics.

They were written so that you may believe on the Son of God, and believing, have life in His name.

Period.

Answer 11

proof positive that God preserved the Bible for us is that it is still the most published book in the world with the most translations. It speaks of good things for mankind and how to survive untill we get into paradise on earth once again.
It was written for our teaching and instruction.
And it is still here.