If the bible is the infallible word of God?

Question

Then why is there so much room for speculation? Why wouldn't it be more black and white? Why would God try to confuse the people? Is Jesus God; is there a such thing as a trinity; is the "us" God and angels; or the trinity; was the messiah only supposed to be born of a young girl or a virgin?
Does anyone have knowledge of hebrew, and greek and know the slang of the language, and the correct translations?

In 2k years, if I wrote, He was a butt. Will they think then, that a person was just a big ol' butt walking around, or will they understand and know how to translate it properly? (he was a pig, you are a firecracker, she was a couch potato)

Answer 1

ive thought about that quite a bit, also think about this, metaphors dont translate from one language to another either, like if i said some one took the cat out of the bag in spanish, even today, they would think there litterally was a cat in a bag and some 1 let it out

Answer 2

God can do anything. His powers are unlimited. So, do you think that you couldn't have taken care that there will always be a right translation? It's true that there are a few differences. For example I saw in a orthodox Bible a few added books which are not canonical.
Sincere people understand the right meaning of the Bible. As the Bible says those who do are not many. "Whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it." - Matthew 7:14
There is no such thing as trinity. God is the Creator, our Father. Jesus is his son, his first creation. The Holy Spirit is God's active force. Nowhere in the Bible it says about the existence of the trinity. The pagan religions say about it. For more details go to www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_04.htm where is an article about how trinity became a Christian teaching.

Answer 3

The Bible tells us what God wants us to know, if it answered all your questions, it would not be a book, it would be a gigantic library of books.

We can tell from the Hebrew that the God of creation is Elohim.
Elohim is a plural of God.
That would rule out 'God and angels' for 'us' in Genesis.

So he really did tell us, in the description of the creation of all things, that everything was created by more than one God.
We find out later that the plural God is three persons, Father, Son and Spirit.

That makes sense of verse two that says His Spirit hovered over the waters.

In verse 3 we read that God spoke ['amar] and his word created.
We find out in John 1:1 that the word [logos] was Jesus the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ.
Then we are told that the word [logos] existed before anything was created.
He was the Son of God, before He became the son of man.

The prophesy of the Messiah specifically said He would be born of a virgin.
He also described the method of the death of the Messiah, a practice that did not even exist when it was prophesied.

Yes, I do have access to the Hebrew and the Greek.

I occasionally post the Hebrew or Greek word and its definition.

grace2u

Answer 4

I think there's a lot of speculation because there are so many people interpreting the bible this way and that and at the same time not knowing how to correctly approach the bible.

Yes, Jesus is God, the second person of the Holy Trinity. He was born of a virgin; her name was Mary. Yes, angels do exist.

When you read the bible, you must do so prayerfully. You must also do so with the understanding that the entire book from cover to cover is about Jesus Christ. This will help to make more sense of things.

Answer 5

God doesn't try to confuse us, our puny little brains just can't comprehend, lol.
Seriously. If we went to a planet where there was this highly developed civilization, and we talked to them and they looked at us and said, "Oh, dear. You humans certainly are primitive. We have fifty words for every word of every language you know. However shall we communicate effectively?" That's kind of how we have to view the Bible...but not really. No, we don't understand it all, and we can't in this lifetime. Part of it is, there are many mysteries of God that no one can unravel, and it's not because God wants us to be out of the loop. We just don't understand. If we understood, our heads would probably literally explode. It would be too much, because God is infinite, and we are not. Like my math professor says, "Infinity isn't something you can go up to and grab hold of, but -1 is!" We're like the -1. We "get" us, most of the time =P.
Also, becuse there are so many translations, and many languages have several different words for each of ours (for example, love: Agape, romantic, familial, (I think), etc.) there's no way we can have it without it being slightly different from the original. The languages are just too different.
However, there are clear-cut things in the Bible. The ten commandments are pretty obvious, you know? Jesus IS God. The Trinity exists. "Us" is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit. The Messiah's birth? I don't know. I don't read as much of the Old Testament as I should. I'm guessing if you look in Isaiah you'll find something about that.

I answered another one of your questions; they are very thought-provoking. You really seem to be searching, and I'll pray you find what you need. =)
God Bless!

Answer 6

Several of those questions I can help you answer. But I think you are not seeking answers to those specific question but want a rebuttal to your arguement.

The truth is the Bible is written by man but inspired by God. God was limited by culture and language to reveal his Will or who he was. The Bible is actually pretty black and white. The Bible has been rated to be on an elementary level of reading. Now are there some confusing or difficult to understand passages? Of course there is.

One of the greatest difficulties is a seperation of language and culture. The Bible was in fact written over thousands of years and in a few cases that seperation leads to difficulty in translation. However, when you do study the language and the culture you can have contextual interpetation that helps you with the difficult passages.

But to help you out a bit. The Bible clearly states that the fullness of the deity lived in bodily form in Jesus. (Col. 2:9)

The "trinity" is a man made term after the Bible had been written. Therefore do not expect the term to appear in the Bible. There are a few passages that seem to create a unity between God, His Son, and His Spirit. Which when you understand what each of these are, you begin to see a clearer unity of the three.

The annoited one was born of a "young woman" according to Isaiah in Hebrew. I am not sure what the Greek translation of the text has in Isaiah. However, the author of Matthew saw this prophecy reach its greatest fullfillment in the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

The "us" refers most likely just to God, himself. When you understand the Hebrew culture along with the theology found in the text you will see that God is King. So the "us" is a royal we. The Queen of england still uses the royal we on occasion. When she will speak about herself and say..."Let us retreat to the Hall."

Answer 7

Exactly. I'm not sure how anyone can take the Bible literally and try to apply to their life. I view the Bible as man's attempt to define something that really can't be defined. Just like all of the Pagan writings about Gods and Goddess'... merely their attempt to define something that is beyond us.

Bobby - Why would God hide? You claim one needs the Spirit in order to understand what other men wrote. So obviously God is hiding even within his own words? Yet he wants to reveal himself to the world thru his words? This is starting to look like the "Great Delusion" the New Test claims God will send, so that many will believe a lie. This certainly isn't the Narrow Gate.......

Answer 8

I learned Greek but still have yet to learn Hebrew. The most important thing is to look at the Bible in context, just like any other historical document. Try to see what the author meant, and you can tell this by the kinds of words he used, how he arranged them in the sentence, and his overall style. There are some mysterious things in the Bible, like who the "let us make man" was..... but those kinds of things should not hinder us from faith, it is those things that we say, "God I don't know everything, but help me to follow you and trust in you" or whatever.

Answer 9

The Bible is the Word of God. It not hard to read, it is just hard to believe. Since people don't like what it says, they try to make it say what they like. We don't have to know Greek and Hebrew we have the scriptures translated into English by men who knew Greek and Hebrew. If you have learned the Bible by what your parents, or church have taught you through the years then you take what they have taught you instead of studying for yourself. The Bible tells us that we should study and rightly divide the Word of truth. All the Bible is written for our learning but the whole Bible is not written to us. 2 Timothy 2: 15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. We are livening after the cross and before the tribulation period. God is dealing with all people alike and salvation is based on what the Lord Jesus Christ did on the cross. He died for our sins. He was buried and took our sins away and He rose again the third day for our justification. All we have to do is believe and trust in that. 1 Corinthians 15: 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1 Corinthians 15: 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Answer 10

no, infaliible in addition ability ideal and the historical past of the international proves that the bible has been altered, translated and retranslated because of the fact the inerrent translation formerly became judged in blunders. those that lead us reason us to err. it has constantly been a similar. whereever devil is, there will be a servant of devil best the sheep as though a real prophet. one blunders in bible translation comes from the undeniable fact that christians all believe God is invisible. (for all time) yet adult males of holiness have constantly seen God. yet another blunders in historical past is the undeniable fact that the verse in john concerning the trinity, became further unto the bible till at last the 365 days one thousand! see bart erhman "jesus interupted" or take a Seminary degree.

Answer 11

That's why there is so much confusion today as it is, if it was in Black and White, and right to the point, we wouldn't have 10,000 other religions floating around and every single follower arguing with the followers of other religions saying that their religion is the right one, I personally think it was to keep the people from doing wrong, plain and simple, and all the added details was simple man trying to make it better, kind of like a remake to a movie

1334 - Satan didn't write the Bible idiot!