Is the Bible a reliable source?

Question

Is there a non-bias and credible source on the reliability of the Bible?

Answer 1

The Bible's accuracy and reliability have been proved and verified over and over again by archaeological finds produced by both believing and no believing scholars and scientists. This included verification for numerous customs, places, names, and events mentioned in the Bible.
One among many examples is the fact that for many years the existence of the Hittites (a powerful people who lived during the time of Abraham) was questioned because no archaeological digs had uncovered anything about them. Critics claimed the Hittites were pure myth. But today the critics are silenced. Abundant archaeological evidence for the existence of the Hittites during the time of Abraham has been uncovered.
Bible scholar Donald J. Wiseman notes, "The geography of Bible lands and visible remains of antiquity were gradually recorded until today more than 23,000 sites within this region and dating to Old Testament times, in their broadest sense, have been located." Nelson Glueck, a specialist in ancient literature, did an exhaustive study and concluded: "It can be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverter a biblical reference." Well-known scholar William F. Albright, following a comprehensive studies, wrote: "Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy of innumerable details, and has brought increased recognition of the value of the Bible as a source of History."

There are more than 24,000 partial and complete manuscript copies of the New Testament. These manuscript copies are very ancient and they are available for inspection NOW. there are also some 86,000 quotations from the early church fathers and several thousand lectionaries (church-service books containing Scripture quotations used in the early centuries of Christianity). In fact, there are enough quotations from the early church fathers that even if we did not have a single copy of the Bible, scholars could still reconstruct all but 11 verses of the entire New Testament from material written within 150 to 200 years from the time of Christ. Bottom line: The New Testament has an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting its reliability.

Answer 2

If you don't believe the Bible, then no other source vouching for the reliability of the Bible will be credible to you either, because you will say that it is biased. No other book was written over as long a period of time by as many authors as the Bible was, so any verification of its reliability would be about specific books of the Bible, not the whole thing. I have a question for you that may help you think about your own biases about the Bible.

If God came down and hovered over New York City as a large human figure so that everyone could see Him, how long would it take before people would say that it was just a story, and that the reports were unreliable because "things like that don't happen any more"?

Answer 3

Think about it this way. Two years from now we find a book hidden in a cave. ITs written in a language that noone on earth has ever seen before. The most gifted scholars sit around for years trying to decipher it. They find common words so they can estimate mathematically that some common words must be this word. Its called deciphering. Some of the scholars agree and now they are getting excited because it is starting to make sense. Another group comes along and says well this makes more sense. So they change thier view again. Before long it is agreed upon that this is what it says. Is the source credible to begin with? Is it based solely on the fact that they are scholars. Who says they are the only ones who can decipher it anyway, experience, knowledge or power, you decide? It is only speculation and can never be more than that. black is black, grey can be black but it can also be white so consider this sentence YOIU ISNOB YOIU
Some people would decipher this as: take out all the I's and you get YOU SNOB YOU but it could very well be BLACK IS BLACK, would you know that and how could you? You can't, you didn't write it. I know what it is because I wrote it. It is neither. Code breakers would most likely choice the first option because that is thier bias. Others would choose black is black because I put it in thier head and that is thier bias, while others still would say neither because that is thier bias. No one is factually right in the translation yet we all must comply because someone said so?

Answer 4

Reliability? I've never heard the Bible discussed in those terms before.

It's an ancient text, written (often poorly) by many different people a long time ago. It has lots of allegorical stories, and some ancient historical information. But even the 'history' in it is mostly 'historical fiction', as none of it appears to be written by any first person, eyewitness accounting.

1. God did not write the Bible.
2. It's too poorly written.
3. There is no god.

Answer 5

I purely examine the first sentence because it particularly is all i necessary to ascertain. something else of your question is beside the point. with the exception of one Bible, it particularly is the JW Bible, each and each of the Bibles which are available in Bible e book shops are of very severe-high quality. at the same time as the King James Bible is of very severe-high quality, the fashionable translations are of even larger high quality. you'll want to grant some examples of your "glaring mistakes and logical contradictions". As interior the monetary international, the position human beings have outfitted empires on a starting up of valueless collateral, so that you have not purely outfitted a non secular international in accordance with valueless non secular collateral, although the only good starting up accessible to you, the Bible, you're attacking.

Answer 6

Other than the circular logic of "it say's it is right" then yes. It is actually just like the Iliad. A history book that was greatly embellished. I mean hell they scientifically showed that the exodus did happen, but that it was because of a volcano and some added flavor to make it lean towards god. Noah was a farmer who's world did "flood" and he prolly built a raft of some sort to save all his farm animals and his family. But it got forced into this "godly" manor. You can explain away much of the bible with our knowledge of the times and how they saw the world. So I guess that would still make it unreliable.

Answer 7

The Bible IS the Word of God. The writings contained within were inspired by the Holy Spirit manifested within the authors of these books.

Answer 8

In the twelveth century the Knights Templar's knew the bible was not historically accurate! The problem was the church controled knowledge and thought that there was little they could do to explose the lies being told!!!

Answer 9

Evidence for Christianity : Josh McDowell

Please don't ignore this based on the name. He actually uses many nonbiblical sources for his information and criteria. He has a huge section just on this one subject. I was given the book for my birthday and it was only about $15, i'm sure you can find it online for way cheaper.

Answer 10

www.stephen-knapp.com/articles_to_read. This is an unbiased, factual site giving the history of the bible and the roots of christianity,buddhism and islam.