The bible is full of errors. So why do you trust it?

Question

http://www.probe.org/content/view/211/471/

Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article574768.ece

1001 Errors In The Christian Bible
http://hometown.aol.com/abdulreis/myhomepage/index.html

These statements and writings are from Christians not other religion.

If it is god's word or divinely inspired writings, should it not contain even one errors?

Even with a Christian Master in Theology(the one who pose this question who is still a Chrtistian)admits there are errors.

jb: go discuss with Michael Gleghorn(A Christian and Master in Theology).
He is the one who pose the above question.

Answer 1

that is true
Cz too many translations and too many versions mean too many errors
how God say different info(s) in different versions !!
is it the same God !?

Answer 2

You name an error in the Bible and I will discuss it with you. Some want so badly to be able to criticize the Bible that they generate there own logic to apply the Bible to. Their logic is wrong and they should be judging it by the Bible, not the other way around. You haven't even done that. You are willing to accept someone elses logic without learning a thing on your own... the blind leading the blind.

I read some of each of these that you listed and they are so full of incidental meaningless stuff I couldn't believe anyone would take them seriously. The only thing I noticed that had any qualified reference was the mention of the Dead Sea Scrolls and it was laughably missapplied. They had nothing to do with the New Testament. What they did do was show that the transcripts that have been used for the Old Testament for thousands of years were accurate and unchanged.

If you really want to test the Bible and the existance of God, check out some of the books by John W Montgomery. I have to warn you though, it is heavy reading and requires an intelligent mind to take it all in. Josh McDowell (if I spelled his name correctly) was a man that set out to prove that the Bible was wrong and had errors and that God didnt' really exist. His books may be a bit easier to read. Either of them are accurate and deal with the truth, things actually pertaining to the messages of the Bible.

Answer 3

The "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" (Vat. 11, Ch. 3.11) of the Catholic Church says that "all that the inspired, or sacred writers, affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, and without error, teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to be confided to the sacred Scriptures." This is the Church's teaching on the matter after twenty centuries of Christian discernment.

Biblical inerrancy, then, is the Bible's privilege of never teaching error. Does this mean that every statement in the Bible is divine teaching? Of course not. The Bible does not always teach. There are many statements in its various books that are there for historical, geographical, poetic or other reasons. However, whenever a biblical author intends to teach us something, then the Holy Spirit intends that too. Everything that the Bible teaches is without error, but everything in the Bible is not meant as teaching. Each author was left free by the Lord to express himself according to the ideas of his own day. It is the revelation contained in the Scriptures that is important.

There are many accounts in the Bible, which employ a literary device used by Jewish Old and New Testament writers called Midrash. Midrash is the substantive of the Hebrew word darash which means to search, to investigate, to study and, also, to expound on the fruits of the research. The aim of Midrash is to draw from Scripture a lesson for the present.

Midrash could also be defined as a "reflection on Scripture in the light of the actual situation of God's people and of the developments of God's action on its history." It proposes to explain the meaning of Scripture in the light of the later historical experience of God's people. This kind of interpretation often opened the door to embellishments of the sacred accounts, anachronisms, and a freedom in handling and maneuvering the data of tradition that were at times a little too candid and certainly very imaginative.

A good example is the Midrashic story of Noah and the flood. It is the divine message, which is important, (God saves his children from evil) not the literal account of the story.

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 4

I am well aware of that, this is why I am probably going to convert to Islam, or Sikhism where there are very few, if any errors in the Holy Text.

I suppose Christians trust it because either they are brainwashed since childhood to believe it (no offense meant here, but have you seen Jesus Camp?), or they are unaware, or they believe that the errors are only part of the interpretation, either because of translations from Hebrew or because of perceived symbolism that they still need to figure out.

Answer 5

halo: When Scientists launched the Hubble telescope into outer space and discovered that they were WRONG in their estimation about Pluto being a planet ( actually, a moon) and many other factual findings which undermined the previous held Scientific dogma, do we conclude that Science should never be regarded as containing any fact ? If you would think this is so, I would question your integrity. Then, why would you totally, disregard the Holy Bible and its many prophetic writings - soon to unravel in the closure of this age ?

Answer 6

This happens because most Christians as soon as they can speak and even before are indoctrinated into the fold, so to speak.

They have in essence been brainwashed. It matters not that how many errors you point out to them in the Bible, and rest assured there are numerous errors and illogical nonsense in that fetish book.

Of course Christians will say differently. Just make sure they remember Muslim terrorists are willing to blow themselves up and kill the innocent because of their very own kind of brainwashing.

It is a mad world indeed.

Edit: If we decided to messure faith by what the faithfull are willing to do then terroist Muslims win hands down. Of course they would be in competition with the Christians that have killed their own children because--as they claim--God told them to do it.

Answer 7

faith. and I don't like to obsess over small details, so who begat whom doesn't really matter to me. As long as it says Adam was created from dust, Eve was created from bone, and Jesus' soul came out of the Father, I'm happy.

honestly, I don't understand why there are lifeless people trying so hard to discredit the Bible!

and #3 is irrelevant. who cares if there are chapters put in? is order a bad thing now?....

and btw, science has been wrong for years (at one point the scientific belief was that creatures such as flies spontaneously generated), so why should I trust it now?

Answer 8

I don't actually. I dont believe in religion because all bibles are written by man. Man is human. Humans creative mistakes daily so why isn't the bible a mistake too.
I believe the bible is just another ancient story to tell.

Answer 9

That is an untrue statement. Why don't you people quit nitpicking at Gods word. Don't you know how you endanger your soul to nitpick and pick little things out of context and say they are errors. Don't you know if the eyes offend the you should pluck them out and cast them from the. Why don't I see more blind people going to heaven than all you nitpickers going to hell.

Answer 10

All errors and alleged contradictions are born from misunderstandings of the Scriptures. The Bible has been under fire from unbelievers ever since its conception and it continues to withstand criticism and silence the critics.

Answer 11

If you are referring to the fact that not all of the Bible is historically correct, like many fundamentalists claim, then you are correct. In Hebrew thought, narratives did not have to be historically correct to teach something that is correct, Who God is. We uneducated Americans, and other western societies, have gone brain-dead with our literature, especially our sacred literature, and have never learned how to properly read it.