time to recononise it. The other books, which were exluded must also be considered and some currently in be excluded, so that we can have a balanced bible, with less controversies?
2007-02-07 06:31:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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.
2007-02-07 12:14:53 · answer #1 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny, I've read the Bible cover to cover, and never found one "contradiction."
Hint: Just because you don't immediately understand something doesn't make it a contradiction. The more I read it, the more I am amazed at its organization and accuracy.
The Bible was written by 40 different people over a period of over 1500 years, and in 3 different languages; yet it's a perfectly cross-referenced, coherent whole.
Not to mention the overwhelming physical archaeological evidence...
What are these "contradtictions" you claim? Have you actually read it? All of it? In context? Or are you just regurgitating what your college "religion" professor said? The only controversies are the ones created by people who have nothing better to do than to make outrageous claims about the Bible because they have issues with its message.
2007-02-07 14:42:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Controversies? Well, the Gospel truth is very confrontational, which becomes controversial. Contradictions? They are surface-level ones that are refuted when seeing them in the context of who God really is. The Bible does not and cannot contradict itself. God's perfect nature cannot contradict itself. If either could, the Christian faith would have died off centuries ago.
2007-02-07 14:36:59 · answer #3 · answered by Bob T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may do so as you wish. If this is your will. But let you not say when you are judged that you were not warned...
Rev 22:19 19 And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Takes away refers to changing as in adding or removing.
2007-02-07 14:36:03 · answer #4 · answered by Christian93 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no "controversies." You could not be any more vague. You refer to controversies, books in, books out, without one single example. Do some homework before you attack God, and then do so at your own peril.
2007-02-07 14:36:29 · answer #5 · answered by cmw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
while we're mucking about, lets change the order of creation in genesis so it more closely matches evolution. (in a few hundred years, who's really going to notice?)
2007-02-07 14:35:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God wrote it... Maybe He is protecting what was truly inspired by Him from being corrupted by the teachings that were not.
2007-02-07 14:34:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like the bit where he gave some laws in the old testament then said "oh, i changed my mind" and gave totally different ones in the new testament
I wonder if God is a blonde...
2007-02-07 14:35:48 · answer #8 · answered by Timmy Tard 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
who died and left you boss? No it is not..
its usually from lack of understanding
2007-02-07 14:35:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try here and read their book
will help
www.Lsm.org
2007-02-07 20:18:52 · answer #10 · answered by searching the life 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋