If the Bible has no flaws, doesn't that set it against God, who also is said to have no flaws?
Since language shifts through the centuries, how is it that something as fluid as language can convey anything without flaws? (E.g., the word "nice" used to mean "stupid." Now it means "pleasant and personable.")
Why, then, is the doctrine of "biblical inerrancy" not the same thing as "Bible Worship?"
2007-02-14 07:10:21 · 12 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you read the first chapter of John, you will have your answer. The Word is God.
2007-02-14 07:14:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, and this entire question/statement has flaws. There are mistranslations in the Bible, yes. Some are errors, some are verses that have been tampered with. If you study via the manuscripts, these mistranslated verses stand out like a sore thumb. It just depends on the level of Bible study you are at.
As far as the Bible being worshipped - Jesus Christ IS that Word. He is the Living Word of God.
John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God.
I would say that you just made a mistake, and that you mean well, but you don't.
2007-02-14 07:17:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since God is perfect is follows that He would be able to write an inerrant Bible.
Updated versions is the answer to your second question. Changing a word like nice to stupid would not change the Bible's inerrancy or inspiration.
Biblical inerrancy is not idolatry because our salvation does not come from the Bible, it comes from faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ.
2007-02-14 07:20:59 · answer #3 · answered by cnm 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem with the notion of "biblical inerrancy" is that any written text - even a STOP sign - has to be interpreted or it means nothing. Interpretation is the mental process whereby little black marks on a piece of paper are translated into mental concepts. The Bible may be inerrant, but obviously the interpretational skills of people reading the Bible are not inerrant. Hence, thousands of conflicting churches and sects, all claiming to teach the truth, and all claiming to have gotten that truth straight out of the Bible, yet disagreeing with one another on every possible point of doctrine. An inerrant book in the hands of fallible interpreters is a quick and sure road to heresy.
2007-02-14 07:26:02 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry, who has a problem with Bible worship?
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
If the Bible is the Word, and The Word is God... Not the BOOKS, the Truths within them, every word is what Jesus personified.
I do not bow before a book, but I do at the Word within it.
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
Let the word be glorified? Because it is Christ and He is the scriptures.
Psalm 138:2
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Magnified above all thy name?
Jesus and Scripture are one and the same, hand in hand. You cannot worship the word without worshipping Jesus. It is all or nothing. So when you get this, then you will be a Christian.
2007-02-14 07:25:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was none other than Jesus who said that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. So, according to your logic, Jesus taught Bible worship and idolatry.
If the Bible truly is the word of God, then your logic seems to be a bit inconsistent. If God wanted us to know how to live, and what he expected of us, then why give us a document full of commands that he really didn't mean? Was God playing a joke on us?
Besides, if the Bible isn't the word of God, or if it contained major errors, then exactly how would you know which commands really came from God, and which were errors, unless God himself told you?
2007-02-14 07:21:46 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
such a foundation doesnont exist, interior the Bible the be conscious "be attentive to God" pertains to the Christ. The "scripture on my own" doctrine has been outfitted on sixteenth century via Melanchton, (inspired via the works of St Athanasius and St Jerom*)
2016-09-29 02:57:50 · answer #7 · answered by fogleman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's a promise FROM GOD to preserve His Word. I trust that He has.
The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalm 12:6-7
2007-02-14 07:17:22 · answer #8 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is the Word of God. You can't set Him against His own Word.
2007-02-14 07:15:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
why do people have to nitpick. Followers of Christ dive into the Bible because we are told to. It is our daily bread, we get answers from God through it among other things. How can something from God be against God? (accept for some of his children, of course) As believers we do not woship the Bible we follow it for it is from the Lord. The Lord's word never changes as He never changes.
2007-02-14 07:17:06 · answer #10 · answered by sammyw1024 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The bible is not an idol! its the work of god!
2007-02-14 07:19:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋