Is it wrong not to to believe in the Christian bible when man could of changed some facts in it over time?

Question

I wonder if man could of changed some important facts in the bible to push more onto its religon.....I wonder whats everyone's oppinion on this

Answer 1

No, the Bible is very reliable. We have so many copies from the original Bible so there is a lot of proof that the Bible in your hands is God talking to you. : )

Answer 2

Yes, it's wrong. Not because of any religious reason, but because of the fact that the Dead Sea Scrolls proved that the Bible HAD been passed down with very little error. Even after that discovery, the Bible has still been proven to be 98.9% accurate overall, and 99% accurate in the New Testament.
Not only that, but the scribes were under VERY strict rules. They could not print even ONE character without glancing first at the scroll they were copying from. If even ONE character was in error, the entire scroll that they had written had to be thrown out and restarted. In this way, we can guarantee that the Bible we have now is the EXACT same one they had by 95 A.D., even if it's in a different language.

Answer 3

--No It is Not Wrong!--COULD HAVE is not DID HAVE!
--THE FACTS are that indeed the Bible is in tact from the original writings:

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Note the evaluation that the former director and librarian of the British Museum, Sir Frederic Kenyon, put on this matter:

29 “The interval then between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the GENERAL INTEGRITY(my caps) of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established. General integrity, however, is one thing, and certainty as to details is another.”

--FURTHER ON THIS MATTER:

31 Of further interest are the comments of Sir Frederic Kenyon in his book Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts, 1962, on page 249: “We must be content to know that the general authenticity of the New Testament text has been remarkably supported by the modern discoveries which have so greatly reduced the interval between the original autographs and our earliest extant manuscripts, and that the differences of reading, interesting as they are, do not affect the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith.”

*** w98 4/1 pp. 11-12 pars. 7-9 A Book for All People ***

7 The Bible writers evidently recorded their words with ink on papyrus (made from the Egyptian plant of the same name) and parchment (made from the skins of animals). (Job 8:11) Such writing materials, however, have natural enemies. Explains scholar Oscar Paret: “Both of these writing mediums are in the same strong measure endangered by humidity, by mold, and by various maggots. We know from daily experience how easily paper, and even strong leather, deteriorates in the open air or in a damp room.” So it is not surprising that none of the originals are known to exist; they probably disintegrated long ago. But if the originals succumbed to natural foes, how did the Bible survive?

8 Soon after the originals were written, handwritten copies began to be produced. In fact, copying the Law and other portions of the Holy Scriptures became a profession in ancient Israel. The priest Ezra, for example, is described as “a skilled copyist in the law of Moses.” (Ezra 7:6, 11; compare Psalm 45:1.) But the copies produced were also perishable; eventually they had to be replaced by still other handwritten copies. This process of copying the copies went on for centuries. Since humans are not perfect, did copyists’ mistakes substantially change the Bible text? The overwhelming evidence says no!

9 Not only were the copyists very skilled but they also had a deep respect for the words they copied. The Hebrew word for “copyist” has reference to counting and recording. To illustrate the extreme care and accuracy of the copyists, consider the Masoretes, copyists of the Hebrew Scriptures who lived between the sixth and the tenth centuries C.E. According to scholar Thomas Hartwell Horne, they reckoned “how many times each letter of the [Hebrew] alphabet occurs in all the Hebrew Scriptures.” Think what that means! To avoid omitting even a single letter, these devoted copyists counted not just the words they copied but the letters as well. Why, according to one scholar’s count, they reportedly kept track of 815,140 individual letters in the Hebrew Scriptures! Such diligent effort ensured a high degree of accuracy."

10 There is, in fact, compelling evidence that the Hebrew and Greek texts on which modern translations are based represent with remarkable fidelity the words of the original writers. The evidence consists of thousands of handwritten copies of Bible manuscripts—an estimated 6,000 of all or portions of the Hebrew Scriptures and some 5,000 of the Christian Scriptures in Greek—that have survived to our day. A careful, comparative analysis of the many existing manuscripts has enabled textual scholars to detect any copyists’ errors and determine the original reading. Commenting on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, scholar William H. Green could thus state: “It may be safely said that no other work of antiquity has been so accurately transmitted.” Similar confidence can be placed in the text of the Christian Greek Scriptures."

Answer 4

If you dont believe in the KJV, you can always get the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Bible and translate it yourself.

Plenty of resources out there to help you do that. Then you can decide for yourself whether man has changed it or not.

Answer 5

Having access to all the Vatican archives and libraries, I can tell you that according to the oldest papyri they possess, any changes made over the centuries have had NOTHING to do with changing the unchanging truths recorded in Scripture.

Its vital messages remain intact.

A) There is only one God.
B) He is triune in persons, but one in nature.
C) He created all there is and He did it out of love.
D) He at some point in time, created mankind as an immortal soul.
E) Man blew it.
F) Jesus solved the problem that created.
G) God will clean up the mess in His own time.
H) Our responsibility is to do the best we can for ourselves, for each other, for this world He made and to become the best person we can become, with His help.

Or, in romantic terms, Boy meets girl, boy falls in love. Boy loses girl because she runs away. Boy goes out, goes through hell, gets girl back, marries her and brings her home to Papa.

Answer 6

!Look we have to believe in something . I can't speak for everyone but I feel that society has to be held together by something and if religion is that something then its better than total caos. Ok I know that it was written by man and probably self serving at the time for power but what else do we have ?

Answer 7

This is where faith comes in. The bible says the word is "God breathed", meaning that God created it. If you have faith, then you believe. When you have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, reading the bible is like being fed with living waters.

If you aren't a believer it is hard to see.

Answer 8

You are wrong men could have not changed any facts in it. There wasn't any facts in it in the beginning.

Answer 9

Not at all. It is quite reasonable actually.

Answer 10

it is not wrong not to believe in that fairy tale it is a con