Anyone agree that the Bible is flawed...?

Question

im not being sacreligeous or anything, but through all the rewriting, and translation, there have bound to be things added, as well as taken away. So is it possible that some "sins" are the will of man and not of God?

Answer 1

The Bible God gave us is not flawed. I know the author personally, and His word will stand throughout eternity when all other books have faded into oblivion.

Answer 2

I have often wondered the same thing. The fact is the Hebew doesn't translate perfectly to English or most languages. Example Thour shall not suffer a "witch" to live. The word there isn't actually literally witch...its just a close aproximation. Its more like trickster, fraud type thing.
Its a 2000 year old book that man has manipulated and taken away from. Example? Song of Songs. Try finding that in a bible anymore. So if they have taken away it makes sense that they have added to it. All in all, I think ANYTHING man made has flaws. It might have been inspired by God, but it was written by man.

Answer 3

Not even close! The biggest lie perpetrated by the New Agers is that things have been lost or removed on purpose to hold down "the Masses".Hogwash! All one needs to do is study the ancient manuscripts such as Codex Alexandrina,Sinaiaticus,Vaticanus and the Dead Sea Scrolls to see that before Christ even (as in the scroll of Isaiah)The Scriptures were exactly the way they are now.The only way the church has held us down is by adding (not to the Bible) man made regulations and traditions.The Jews did it and the Catholics and Orthodox do it,and to a lot of extent,the Protestants.

Answer 4

You have touched uopn a few things. Yes, there are flaws in the Bible, it wasn't going to be perfect. It was to be as acurate a record as possible written by those inspired by God. Inspired by God is good enough for me. True tht translation, especially in English, removes some of the emphasis that certain words have that the semitic languages are able to carry.

Some sins were made up by man. That's one reason why I might listen to Black Sabbath and smoke cigarettes when my Christian bretheren are giving me the self righteous speech.

Answer 5

I've based my life on the holy scriptures. But I do agree that there are flaws in the Bible we use. I believe God inspired it but man has made minor mistakes over the years. and the flaws can be cleared up easily usually with common sense and study.

Answer 6

The only way you can consider the Bible as a factual text is by flipping off that switch on the back of your head that turns on your brain. A handful of the hundreds of sins in the Bible are common sense, the rest rubbish from the fertile minds of religious fanatics.

Answer 7

The Bible is not flawed. It is not a history of the world. It is salvation history. It is God revealing himself to man over the ages. It is about man's fall and man's redemption.

Answer 8

What do you mean by that question? I'd say the Bible isn't just one monolithic text, but the various canons (Ethiopian Orthodox, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant) and texts (Massoretic, Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls) all indicate that whatever the origin of the stories, it was definitely left in the hands of men.

Answer 9

With >25,000 extant manuscripts in agreement at 98.5% it seems unlikely. The other 1.5% are the "flaws" in grammar, transmission and translation.

Answer 10

Yes I do, for it goes against much of logic and reasoning, along with not being in it's original form. Not to mention in many cases the only thing saying it's true is the Bible itself.