Is the Bible the inerrant Word of God, or is it riddled with mistakes and contradictions?

Answer 1

For those too ignorant to realize the bible it riddled with mistakes and contradictions................

God good to all, or just a few?
PSA 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

JER 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
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War or Peace?
EXO 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

ROM 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
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Who is the father of Joseph?
MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

LUK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.
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Who was at the Empty Tomb? Is it:
MAT 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

MAR 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

JOH 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
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Is Jesus equal to or lesser than?
JOH 10:30 I and my Father are one.

JOH 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
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The number of beasts in the ark
GEN 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

GEN 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, GEN 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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Human vs. ghostly impregnation
ACT 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

MAT 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
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The bat is not a bird
LEV 11:13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
LEV 11:14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
LEV 11:15 Every raven after his kind;
LEV 11:16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
LEV 11:17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
LEV 11:18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
LEV 11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

DEU 14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
DEU 14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
DEU 14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
DEU 14:14 And every raven after his kind,
DEU 14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
DEU 14:16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
DEU 14:17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
DEU 14:18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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Insects do NOT have four feet
LEV 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
LEV 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
LEV 11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
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Jesus' last words
Matt.27:46,50: "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to say, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" ...Jesus, when he cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost."

Luke23:46: "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, "Father, unto thy hands I commend my spirit:" and having said thus, he gave up the ghost."

John19:30: "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished:" and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."
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God be seen?
Exod. 24:9,10; Amos 9:1; Gen. 26:2; and John 14:9
God CAN be seen:
"And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my backparts." (Ex. 33:23)
"And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend." (Ex. 33:11)
"For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." (Gen. 32:30)

God CANNOT be seen:
"No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18)
"And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and live." (Ex. 33:20)
"Whom no man hath seen nor can see." (1 Tim. 6:16)
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CRUEL, UNMERCIFUL, DESTRUCTIVE, and FEROCIOUS or KIND, MERCIFUL, and GOOD:
"I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy." (Jer. 13:14) "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling."

"The Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy." (James 5:11)
"For his mercy endureth forever." (1 Chron. 16:34)
"The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works." (Ps. 145:9)
"God is love." (1 John 4:16)

Answer 2

As re: The New Testament, the Bible is truly a work of homilies passed around in the original home-type church till organization bec. nec. due to expansion, and need of cohesion. Thus, not all "authors" are the actual authors, but many had lived at that time or had the stories passed down to them. Then, they were recorded.

As for the Old Testament, again, oral tradition and stories, many backed up by Archaeology; see History/Discovery Channels.
I dislike some parts bec. of the incest, genocide, etc. but I believe it is meant to show all sides of human nature.

True, it leaves out women, until a deeper look is taken. There is Esther; and Deborah; and many many African American Women--I didn't know till I became a Catholic.

There is Jesus' Mother: say what one will about the Church taking over the Goddess; but excet for Kwan Yin I can find no one more compassionate and loving a figure.

The New Testament "homilies" (sermons) were written to different communities; thus taking on a different tone--And the Word was with God, and God was the Word.
This was written to the Greek Community bec. Logic meant so much to them; thus, Logos, the Word.

So contradictions seem apparent, but, not always so.

A good Study Bible will show you many things along this line plus Maps, latest Archaeology Findings, etc. Very helpful.

It too, for those who believe, can bec. "a living word." Phrases that strike you & you like will come to your memory at the oddest times and be of great comfort and/or help.

So too are other prophetic works; but, the Bible acts a little different--from my experience. And, I have not always been a church goer.

Institutionalizing the Church has hurt it in many ways; I bet Jesus would say what he said in his day -- Today. I believe he was real;see 'the Historical Jesus.' And, I believe His Spirit can! help us; if we choose him as my Russian Shaman Acquaintance once said, as our Shaman. I believe he is/was the Greatest Shaman and the most Direct Way to God;but, that isn't what you asked; just what I feel/felt in or out of Church.

Personally: I think Non StudyBibles ought to come w/a Warning and a HowTo Read this confusing and difficult book.
It also focuses on a Desert People, which most of us (at least USA, Europe) are not !!! They have a unique culture and much is MisInterpreted bec. of this difference alone !!

And, yes -- Gnostic Books were left out; but some I don't believe contradict what is now considered non-Gnostic; then they didn't believe the world was good nor the flesh and Jesus couldn't be God in Flesh.
See Phylippa & (?) from Lost Gospels; amazing.

Answer 3

The bible is a collection of important stories for understanding the basic philosophy of christianity. It is not the end all and be all of Christian thought as many religious sects would lead to believe. The most definitive bibles are based on a greek text. In fact the greeks through the neo-platonists (plotinus) by way of St. Augustine shaped much of the thought that eventually became known as Christian. Check out the Enneads the Mackenna translation is a good read and most people familiar with biblical and religious teachings will recognize some striking similarities.

Answer 4

The Bible is riddled with contradictions.

Context is important. The Bible was written by a smattering of desert men over two thousand years ago and pieced together in the Late Roman Empire to consolidate early Christian groups.

So of course it's faulty. As expected, it presents no understanding of science, gender equality, or individual liberties. It advocades prejudice, murder, and misogyny, all perpetuated by an angry deity.

Those who believe that the Bible is completely inerrant must not think much of their god. That kind of religious view masques how grand the universe and human beings actually are.

Here's a reality check: We evolved on a small blue planet on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy among billions of galaxies, in a universe nearly 14 billion years old. And humans have the brains to understand our place in the world. If there's a god, then it's much bigger and grander than the one from the Bible!

Answer 5

Inerrant Word of God

Answer 6

pondering the shown fact that particular incidents variety from one gospel to a distinctive, the Bible can not be the inerrant observe of God. as an occasion, the synoptic gospels place the fashionable scene the place Christ removes the moneychangers from the temple on the tip of His ministry - in fact the final act ultimate to the crucifixion. The Gospel of John has the incident going on close to the beginning up of Christ's ministry. In Luke between the criminals who's crucified with Christ chastises the different for insulting Christ (asserting that they have got been getting the punishment that they deserved), mutually as different gospels make no point out of this confession of ethical experience. you apart from mght make point out of 2d Timothy 3, which replaced right into a letter from Paul to Timothy. some people evaluate this to be scripture, yet there is not any reason to have self assurance that Paul seen his correspondence with Timothy (or all and sundry else) to be scripture. He replaced into writing letters of exhortation to fledgling church homes, no longer writing a gospel or turning in prophecy. there is reason to have self assurance that maximum - if no longer all - of the texts in the recent testomony date from the 1st or early 2d centuries. They have been appreciably utilized by Christians of many distinctive sects and denominations. the recent testomony as all of us comprehend it - extra than a number of 27 texts - can in basic terms be reliably traced back as some distance because of the fact the thirty 9th Festal letter of Athanasius (367 A.D.). As guy or woman texts they show eyewitness debts of Christ and the apostles, and subsequently submit to occasional discrepancies (as eyewitness debts frequently do). seen as a collection, those discrepancies replace into contradictions and forestall the series from being the "inerrant observe of God".

Answer 7

The bible is just one long mistake, filled with contradictions. If the word of god cannot even get the history of the world right, how are we to believe the "truth" that it's supposed to contain.

If you don't believe that there are contradictions, read genesis, and tell me why Adam didn't die when he ate the fruit like god said (and please, don't rationalize that it was "spiritual" death, or that Adam was to be immortal. Spiritual death isn't mentioned AT ALL, and the immortal arguement is shot down by the Tree of Life...)

Also, just because something is #1 doesn't make it good...take the song Candle in the Wind for instance...its the #1 selling song of all time...

Answer 8

Never found any yet. Nor has anyone else that couldn't be cleared up with more study. There may be some errors in the translations (NONE THAT PERTAIN TO DOCTRINE) but with all the available references the truth can always be discovered.
So, I encourage you to get a good version, and read it for yourself...better yet, join a bible study group in a good teaching church.
Funny, a person can read that their whole life and still not get out of it all that it has in it.

Answer 9

Essentially, I have found the word of God to be inerrant. I have found the paradox of the Bible resolved in my own experience and that God is Love.

Answer 10

God's Word is Truth with a capital T lol. I see a lot of other answers think it's riddled with mistakes, but as another answer stated, I have yet to see a real contradiction.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that those who answered on the "mistakes and contradictions" side have never actually applied one of the Bible's principles to their lives to see what the result is. If they did, they'd see Truth.

Answer 11

The original texts are the inerrant word of God.

The subsequent translations and copies may vary a bit.

It's not difficult to reconcile the two.

To know the difference between biblical truth and error, one must first of all, know the truths of the Chistian faith, and not all of those truths are included in scripture.

That's why Jesus founded, empowered, and authorized the church ... where the fullness of his truth can always be found ... and where apparent biblical contradictions can usually be quickly and properly resolved.