what do you think of this articleon discrepincies in the bible?

Question

http://www.jamaat.net/bible/AwakeArticle(1957).html

If it is Gods word how could there be descrepencies? God is infallible.
Do you think God would allow his word to be put to the world full of discrepencies.

No!
But its ok. leave it to the scholars of today to repare the mistakes made by God in the past.

Answer 1

There is no god. The bible was written by man. Get used to it.

Answer 2

First, consider the source. The article is published in an addition of the magizine "Awake", which is published by the Jehovah's Witnesses. Every article I have ever read from that group attempts to destroy people's fact in current Christian theology.

While the article gives "facts" like 50,000 errors, and statements like "all modern scholars", it does not quote any sources for the information. Nor list the names, credentials, etc of the scholars. This makes the excepting of the claims questionable.

Having read the New Testament in its original language, and compared the different manuscripts that exist, I am unable to find anything that approaches the "50,000" error level. As there are only 7,959 verses in the whole New Testament, that would mean that there would have to be an average of over 6 errors in each verse. Or that roughly 1 in every 3 words is wrong.

According to scholars such as the late FF Bruce, the accuratcy of the New Testament text is about 99.5 to 99.7%, depending on whether you count a different spelling of the same word as a variation. Of the nearly 8,000 verses of the New Testament, least the 40 of them are "in question". Compare that to Homer's the Illiad, where over 700 lines (or about 15%) of the manuscript is in dispute.

Keep in mind that until the 1400's, there were no printing presses. So all books were copied by hand. Many precautions were taken to prevent error. Often a scribe would begin by writing the first and last word of each line on a ruled page. This prevented the accidental dropping of a line. Then he numbered the words in each line so he could check them at the end. But even with precautions, an occasional error would creep in. You will find manuscripts with corrections in them, where the scribe caught his error. You will also find some where he did not.

But lets say a acribe makes an error. He missing word - or even a whole line. If you have 7,300 copies of a book, and you place them all side by side. 7,299 of the books say the same thing, and one of them has a word missing, would you probably be able to deduce the correct reading? So it is with the New Testament scriptures. When all the manuscripts are compared, it is easy to spot the occasional scribe error that makes it into a manuscript.

Also when comparing the manuscripts, importance has to be given to the age of the manuscript. For example, if every manuscript from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th century have the last 10 verses of the book of Mark. Two manuscripts (written by the scribe) in the 8th century are missing those verses, and then every manuscript form the 9th through 13th century has those verse, what would you conclude? Were the 10 verses in the original or not? If they were added after the 8th century, how could they be in 2nd through 7th century manuscripts? The logical conclusion is that somehow the 8th century scribe dropped them from his manuscript. The error was caught, and corrected in all later manuscripts.

When the existing manuscripts of the New Testament are compared, it becomes obvious that the text from which currentl Bibles are translated is accurate and reliable.

Answer 3

God is infallible. There are no discrepencies in His Word. "Scholars" have been trying since the beginning of Christianity to deny God's Word and Power. They can say what they want. When the time comes, the entire world will know the truth.

Answer 4

Gods' word is infallible.

Mans' translation of that word is not.

The current KJ Bible is the most accurate but it too has been translated from different languages so many times over the years that mans translations & interpretations are what have created discrepancies not Gods Word.

Answer 5

The New World Translation by Jehovah Witnesses is not accurate. The JW's said they brought in Greek and Hebrew scholars to retranslate the Bible but this is just another false doctrine in the world today. To say the KJV version has 50,000 errors is pure heresy and false doctrine. Do not listen to people who all of a sudden know better than God. Apostle Paul tried to tell us how he eventually handled this heresy problem of false doctrine. "Let God be true and every man a liar."

Answer 6

God had nothing to do with it -- indeed, there is no evidence that god even exists, let alone wrote anything. The vast majority of the errors alleged in that article are translation problems, but there are hundreds of real errors, as well as dozens of self-contradictions.

Answer 7

Proverbs...Chapter 30 vs. 5 &6 Revelation Chapter 22 vs18 and 19.

Answer 8

It shows that they didn't study anything out. There are times when you need to read another scripture to tie the so called contradictions together. Other times we need to understand what the cultures were like when the Bible was scribed! There are not any contradictions, just misinterpretations.

Answer 9

God does not change. Man changes and often and unfortunately, man tries to change God. In otherwords, if it appears to be a discrepency, then one of them is incorrectly interpreted or translated. The only way to know for sure is to know GOD. I do...do you?

Answer 10

There are none. There is a lack of understanding on peoples part to where it might seem there are. But there isen't. I challenge anyone to come up with even 1.