Christians, your own Christian scholars agreed that the bible is full of errors. Remember these are your own people. There have been numerous Chritians in this R&S site that said it is inerrant. Look at the link below. So what do you have to say now?
http://www.probe.org/content/view/211/47/
2007-03-22 22:08:04 · 13 answers · asked by halo 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
RealArsenalfan: you are one of those i described above. You did not read it thoroughly. The scholars still believe in Christianity but they have the guts to admit that there are errors in the bible.
Who are you to discredit them? Are you an expert in bible studies?
2007-03-22 23:01:00 · update #1
DougLawrence, the one who pose this question is one your Christian believer, just a reminder.
2007-03-23 00:08:21 · update #2
Wow what a surprise...
2007-03-22 22:15:05 · answer #1 · answered by Beaverscanttalk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because they are christian scholars - that does not mean they are Bible believer (or even believers for that matter).
A true believer knows beyond any shadow of doubt that the Bible has God as its author and as a result is free from all form of error. Unfortunately, we don't have the original Scripts - and I'm not ignorant of the fact that translators are not the original writers. The only form of error that might exist (if it does) is in translation and that is almost negligible if we look at what most guys consider erroneous in scripture!
For the record, the Bible is inspired and as a result inerrant and infallible!
2007-03-23 05:52:03 · answer #2 · answered by RealArsenalFan 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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.
Grace and peace!
2007-03-23 05:40:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I must be an odd person, b/c I'm Christian and believe in God, but I don't believe in the bible. I may be the first Christian to say that the bible is man-made, with mans ideas being put in and taken out since the beginning. Times change, people change, the bible changes, simple as that. You can't believe what it says anymore b/c you don't know whats original (if anything) and whats been changed to fit someones way of thinking. Common sense and PERSONAL CHOICE should be all the "faith" someone needs.
2007-03-23 05:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by boo kitty 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I don't hold the view that the Bible is the inerrant word of God. I hold the view that the Bible is the inspired word of God. The Ierrant Word of God is Jesus Christ, not a book.
That being said, the Bible is the most important book in our world today. It's the closest thing to what we have to understand God. If you want to, you can pick around on it, but when the chips fall, you either have to be trusting God, or not. The not's are the ones that won't make the cut.
And no, being a Christian does not automatically put you in the Fundamentalist camp. FYI.
2007-03-23 05:15:47 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes, all translations of the Scriptures contain errors. But, the scriptures in their original manuscripts, are inerrant and without error. True, even some Greek scripts have errors. But, we can be assured that the truth exists. Do research, it should not be too hard to determine which scripts are correct.
Luk 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Thank you, Signed,
Jerrad (Spark) Johnson.
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2007-03-23 05:21:50 · answer #6 · answered by Jerrad Johnson 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You may choose thoise scholars that you respect, and I'll choose mine.
My scholars affirm the God inspired truthfullness and inerrancy of scripture, and I agree with them.
Now let's take a look at those "Satanic verses" that were removed from the Quran.
2007-03-23 06:17:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The errors in the Bible are errors in translation. As we find and learn more about ancint language and writings it clears up alot of the so called errors. The Bible is not full of errors at all.
2007-03-23 05:18:39 · answer #8 · answered by mark g 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the bible is the only book in the world whos prophisies are more true to date then any bookin the world. it is gods word written by a few choosen few. to write it inspoired by god but the original writtings was written in hebrew so its possible the american version could have been miss written from the hebrew version... but its still gods word. and gods basic laws to get to heaven.
2007-03-23 05:16:06 · answer #9 · answered by dianemelloniemarlenejerryginder 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
those blockheads couldn't find their way out of a 1 room house if it was on fire - they are not 'my people'
The Holy Bible is Inerrant Scripture.
One day, when they stand before Almighty God, He will say, "Depart from Me, I never knew you!"
nice try - but still wrong
2007-03-23 05:12:24 · answer #10 · answered by tomkat1528 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. The Bible is nothing more than a history book that with time evolved into mythology and fiction when crazed religious freaks altered it so it would reflect their idiotic beliefs.
2007-03-23 05:13:39 · answer #11 · answered by AL IS ON VACATION AND HAS NO PIC 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋