2007-02-26 15:02:20 · 17 answers · asked by bobo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The only reason that people think that there are "Bible errors" is because they want to believe it. If they studied the Bible in context, comparing scripture with scripture and allowing the Bible to answer itself from passage to passage and principle to principle they would find one complete, unified, whole with no errors or contradictions. But for people who insist on being blind and ignorant, well, that is what they will be.
2007-02-26 15:09:10 · answer #1 · answered by wd 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
As a Christian, I don't believe that the Bible contains any errors. Obviously, this is a faith commitment. Nevertheless, there are many things in the Bible I can't explain. For example, in Mark 2:24-27 the disciples are plucking heads of grain. The Pharisees accuse the disciples of doing what is unlawful on the sabbath. But what is unlawful about plucking heads of grain on the Sabbath? This is not an OT law, but a tradition that the Pharisees and other first century Jews had adopted. Jesus reply about David’s eating of the consecrated bread does relate to an OT law (Lev 24:9). But this law does not seem to specify that the bread may only be eaten by priests. Rather, it only specifies that the priests are to eat it. In this story in 1 Samuel 21, Abiathar does speak of stipulations on the eating of the bread. However, these stipulations do not include a qualification that those who eat of the bread must be priests. So what gives?
Ultimately, while I do not understand how to answer this question, my faith in God's Word is unshaken.
2007-02-26 15:20:35 · answer #2 · answered by Steve 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The original bible had no chapters, no verses and no vowels. it was just a big run on paragraph. translating it was sure to have errors. It was also edited by kings and queens later on.
Now if you want a list of contradictions that is another thing
2007-02-26 15:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only errors Im aware of come from unbelievers that try to read parts of the Bible or copy and paste them off atheist sites dedcuded from arguments that either make no sense and/or are born out of ignorance and misunderstanding, not to mention flase assumptions.
2007-02-26 15:23:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The fact that it's an obvious composite work of fiction, translations of transliterations of edits of written recensions of oral legends, historically inadmissable, philosophically self-contradictory, morally imbecile - etc etc, and yet "Christians" say things like "There are no errors in the bible."
2007-02-26 15:12:41 · answer #5 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are many hundreds, as well as scores of internal contradictions. The biblical account of the earth's creation, of the biota, and of the flood are all fiction. The story of the sun's stopping in its orbit around the earth (!) is nonsense. See references for much more on this.
2007-02-26 15:10:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Actually there is one I have noticed but in another part of the bible it explains the turn the other cheek. Yeah... don't let people control you...just don't let them hurt you and stuff. just ask why they do that and forgive them and yourself but yeah blah blah.
2007-02-26 15:08:44 · answer #7 · answered by Purple Frog 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It isn't so much as errors as inconsistencies. Man was created on the sixth day, then again on the eighth. etc. I suggest reading it, it is quite the uh...the uh...well, its quite a piece of work, and I'll leave it at that.
2007-02-26 15:11:53 · answer #8 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"Song of Songs". Someone posted it as being pornographic but only 2 Christians answered.
2007-02-26 15:09:52 · answer #9 · answered by Pope Piah 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians can explain everything. The explanation may be "You just don't have the faith to understand." But it works for them.
2007-02-26 15:12:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋