Can some parts of the bible be shown to be demonstrably false?

Question

Or is it completely inerrant?

Answer 1

The original Hebrew and Greek are inerrant. The translations are weak attempts, but several get it pretty close.

The Smithsonian uses the Bible as a reference book to find archealogical sites.

The Bible said that Pilate was tetriarch of Judea. No one believed it because there were no records of Pilate in Rome. Then they found the stone in Caesarea that confirmed it.

No records of a King David. They just unearthed a stone marker dedicated to him. Just recently they found a seal that confirmed it as well.

The BIble spoke of a people that dwelt within the rocks. No one beleived it until they discovered Petra.

Scholars have said that there wasn’t a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious concept to illustrate a point. Workers repairing a sewage-pipe break uncovered the Pool of Siloam in Old Jerusalem.

Modern archaeology has made numerous discoveries which confirm events recorded in The Bible, including bricks without straw at Pithon. Lower levels had good quality straw, middle levels had less (including much which was torn up by the roots, as someone in a rush to meet a quota would be inclined to do), and the top levels had no straw at all.

Bible critics had long sneered at references in the Bible to a people called the Hittites and that the Hittites were simply one of the many mythical peoples made up by Bible writers. Toward the end of the 19th century, Hittite monuments were uncovered at Carchemish on the Euphrates River in Syria, proving the Bible right. Later, in 1906, excavations at Boghazkoy in Turkey and uncovered thousands of Hittite documents, revealing a wealth of information about Hittite history and culture.

Critics claimed that the Babylonian captivity did not take place. The Bible gives specific details about the captivity of Judah by the armies of Babylon early in the 6th century B.C. Scholars have said it’s all just another Jewish myth. However, between 1935 and 1938, important discoveries were made 30 miles southwest of Jerusalem at a site thought to be ancient Lachish. Lachish was one of the cities recorded in the Bible as being besieged by the king of Babylon at the same time as the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 34:7). Twenty-one pottery fragments inscribed in the ancient Hebrew script were unearthed in the latest pre-exilic levels of the site. Called the Lachish Ostraca, they were written during the very time of the Babylonian siege.

I have studied the Bible for 35 years and I have found not a one constradiction. Most who come up with these contradictions have just passed them on via a simple cut and paste and have zero concept that they were even originally written in another language. How much Hebrew have they studied? Do they even know the Dead Sea Scrolls exist? Or the Septuagint? Have they cross referenced? Do they know what meticulous copying a scribe used to transfer the text from scroll to scroll? Or the idea that they could be killed for purposely altering it?

Don't hang your faith on man and his puny attempts to discredit God's Word. They do not know what they are doing. Now, consider it from their point-of-view. If the Bible is true, then there is a God who will judge on their last day. They assume, "destroy the message, you destroy God and eternal consequences. This is wishful thinking toward their own destruction.

Isaiah 34:16
"Search from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them."

1 Corinthians 1:21
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Note that in the Bible, God repeats things quite often. This, in the area of computing, is called parity. When a hard drive writes information, it does so reduntantly. This is to confirm that what is written is correct through error correction techniques. In the Bible there is parity to compare for innacuracies of the text. Remember this. When they found the Dead Sea scrolls, there were very few errors found in the Isaiah scroll. And this after 2,000 years of meticulous copying. If you want to bet your eternal soul that the Bible is wrong. That is your choice. Me? I'll bet my life on its accuracy.

Answer 2

There are mis-translations in the Bible; some because it may have been difficult to translate the particular idea over into the next language;
some because it was just an error, and others because of purposful tampering; with whatever the case may be, if you are properly studied in the manuscripts, these pop out at you like a sore thumb.
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever in seeing a problem verse if I come upon one;
But I have lots of years of study, including the Biblical languages, so the average person may have a harder time with it.
What I suggest is that if you come across something that appears to contradict, or seems unfair of God, or seems not to make common sense, look deeper - theres obviously something you've missed somewhere along the line - and in fact, it may just simply be a mis-translated verse.
God inspired every word of Scripture, but people wrote it down, translated it to several languages, etc. Man makes mistakes, thats why I chose to study in the originals.

PS; See your answer from "abdul hasson"?
The word "rib" was translated in error; the manuscripts says "curve", not rib. Ever hear of a dna curve?? hhmm......

Answer 3

on this site you will find that the accounts of the city of ai were wrong and the war with the moabites. the bible is a mythical account of the history of the hebrew people. places and characters may be real but the narrative made up. in the same way the rig veda is real as it describes the historical story of the aryan people and this is true of every holy text that documents the mythology of a people. you might as well say the story of king arthur is real because of the way it accurately describes the conflict between the romano-celts and the saxons. also pontius pilate is well recorded in roman texts by josephus, philo of alexander and tacitus, the only thing the stone cleared up was the fact that he was the prefect not the procurator.

http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/1998/2/982front.html

Answer 4

There is no inerrant original text of The Bible existant today...all that we have are copies of copies of copies of translations of copies of translations... But... The Word and Will of God can still be found in the text we do have if one is open to the leading of God through The Holy Spirit... only those open to the leading of The Holy Soirit will find what God have for them in The Bible.... The Salvation Message is the only Message that a nonbeliever can know as God originaly gave it...because the Salvation Message is kept preserved in the hearts of the believers by divine inspiration.... The Bible of The True Christian Faith is not for non believers... and they will find nothing in it for them unless they open themselves to The Holy Spirit.

Answer 5

Parts of the Bible are symbolic or representational...stories passed down over the campfires from generation to generation. This does NOT make the demonstrably false son. This is the common way that history has also been passed down. The Bible is NOT completely inerrant (my fellow Christians, please do not persecute me for that answer).
The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 6

Incorrect yes. False no. The King James version made several mistakes in the translation at that time. They have a revised KJ version which corrected some of these.

Some perceived contradictions are not contradictions at all. They are perceived so by those who do not fully speak "God's" language of the bible. Many see the word adultery and think of a man and wife. God often uses the analogy of adultery to express his feelings about ones actions.

Answer 7

The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct (2 Timothy 3:15-17; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Peter 1:21).

Answer 8

The whole book is true every word of it and remember don,t add anything to it and don,t take anything away form it if there are some things that you don,t under stand then you will have to ask God to revel it to you and study the time in which the statement was made

Answer 9

Bible isn't false, mans interpretation of all he sees is what is false. Clear evidence of this is the fact every text book in schools and science books world wide are updated.

Yet the Bible never is, it remains, solid, fact, truth.

Answer 10

Loads. The Bible says bats are birds, that women were formed from a man's rib, that the Jews were slaves in Egypt. None of it's true.

Answer 11

The Bible says that bats are birds...

Obviously biologist and zoologist are wrong :-)