How can the Bible be infallible if it is written by fallible humans?

Answer 1

Its fallible

Answer 2

what's it concerning the Bible being fallible or infallible? can't a fallible human write some thing infallible? A fallible human would properly be in a temper to place in writing approximately infallible issues. examine any large or genuine logician and you will understand what I recommend. examine working example "Ethics" via Baruch de Spinoza. it is a fallible human writing approximately infallible issues. If it is fallible what's written interior the Bible, it is says the two of the author or of our fallibility to behold.

Answer 3

It could be, if the evidence showed it to be infallible - but it doesn't. Or it could be, if one accepted the idea of the papacy - that some people when speaking or writing on behalf of the church can make infallible pronouncements - but most proponents of Biblical infallibility are Protestants who find such an idea ridiculous. And presumably if it is infallible then the manuscripts will have been preserved infallibly, since what is the point of inspiring an infallible Bible and then having it copied by errant humans. But there are copying errors...

I think your question implies its own answer, doesn't it? :-)

Answer 4

the bible is the inspired word of God, although it was literally written by men, the words and thoughts were inspired to them by God's active force, or holy spirit.

(2 Timothy 3:16-17) . . .All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.


p.s. that ? you asked the other day about religions being done away with. The book of Revelation discusses that and discusses how Babylon the Great (the world empire of false religion) will be destoryed. At some point in the future, and prob not too far off, God will put it into the hearts of the governments on earth to put an end to (destroy) all religion. I didnt see that answer anywhere in the comments for that one but wanted to comment on what I've learned from my Bible Studies.

Answer 5

Tom Browning among others, threw a "perfect" game in baseball, but was a "fallible human". I agree that even those who wrote what we know as the Bible were fallible, that is why God inspired them with His words and not their words.

Answer 6

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 also 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 7

By faith alone!

What is placed before us in written form can only be analyzed
through "Wisdom".

How can fallible humans begin to perceive anything without
first acquiring "Wisdom", let alone something that took place
2000 years in the past?

Seek and acquire "Wisdom" and all the questions of life will be placed at mans feet...............

Answer 8

It helps to understand what Christians mean by the Word of God. The Word contains the words of saints and sinners, of men and devils. Although it quotes sinners and devils, it is the Word of God simply because God wanted those words preserved for us to read.

The words in the Bible are words God had men read. He chose the words, but let the writers' personalities show through. Here is one way to see God's hand in the Bible. Imagine giving a quiz to forty students in one university class. Have them write down what they think about the meaning of life, about death and the afterlife, heaven and hell, punishment, spirituality, God, and love. You would get a wide range of opinions, just like you do on this board.

But the Bible is consistent in its view of these very contentious subjects. It was written by about forty men over a period of over a thousand years, in several languages and countries and cultures. Yet they are united in their views of God, life and death, heaven and hell, and other biblical doctrines. This is one of the most important aspects that point to the Bible's authorship of God.

Answer 9

The Bible is God's written Word to us.
It was written by human authors, under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit.

“Above all you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” 2 Peter 1:20-21. (New International Version)

Breakdown of the Bible
36 human authors inspired entirely by God over 1600 years.
66 separate books

39 Old Testament
Genesis- The creation of the world, sin, flood and birth of Israel
Exodus to Esther- History of the nation of Israel
Job to Proverbs- the books of poetry and wisdom
Isaiah to Malachi- Prophecy or foretelling of the future events to come.

27 New Testament
Matthew to John - Four Gospels representing the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ now with all authority in Heaven and earth.
Acts- Birth of the Church (The Bride of Christ)
Romans to Jude - Letters to the Churches
Revelations - The ultimate future plans for: The Church, Heaven, Hell, a New Heaven and a New Earth.

Here are some Bible Study Resources for anything you may want to look up:
http://www.Biblegateway.com
http://www.Ntgateway.com
http://www.Bible.org
http://www.bible-history.com
http://www.answersingenesis.org/

Answer 10

the religious truths such as those of the truth of god etc are infallible. god gave the fallible authors the ability to provide infallible truth.