How could everything in the bible be true?

Question

I am a christian and all, but there is no way that everything in the bible is complete truth.

For example. The stories in the bible were told to other people, whom told them to other people, so someone could write it down. And then other people took what they wrote, "proofed" it and then it became the book we have.

If I told everyone what I wanted in a book chapter. I told one person. They tell another person, but possibly get one thing wrong. That person tells another and possibly gets another thing wrong. Then the person that "Proofs" it possibly doesn't like everything I said, so chooses to change a few things.

Anyone agree, their is no logical way that everything in the bible is 100% what really happened?

Answer 1

I am a Christian too and I know how you feel.

I don't understand how people can deny the "humanity" of the Bible. Humans passed down the stories, humans wrote it, humans decided which books got "in" and "out" and humans translated it. How can it be perfect when it's been touched by humans in so many ways. I think it's better to stick to the themes of the Bible (love, acceptance, forgiveness, mercy) and not worry so much about the minute details. I get slammed by some Christians for thinking that but I don't care.

Answer 2

God desires to forgive all people, besides the shown fact that this is on God's words, no longer guy's. maximum individuals do no longer choose to be forgiven by way of God because of the fact then they might could admit that they have got been incorrect and God became actual all alongside. The gay existence style is damaging, subsequently God is against such practices. confident it has it rather is short-term pleasures, yet while is a healthful decision, why do gays die early and painfully? Is the Bible actual, exceptionally lots confident. Archeology has constantly backed up what the Bible noted.

Answer 3

Welcome to the stage of thinking, of awareness, of doubt.

You've realised that all the stories were written with an agenda.
The first point of the agenda was to keep the masses dumbed down so they could be easy to control.
The second point of the agenda was to take as much money from the masses as they could stand so they could be easy to control - do you ever see a poor church or preacher?
They do not exist.

Seneca (50 AD): Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

God did it - an easy way to explain the science behind things unknown without having to think.

Anonymous: Faith is what your preacher says you must have so that you’ll believe all the other stuff he wants to tell you.

Martin Luther: What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church...a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

Martin Luther: Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

Martin Luther: Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but... more frequently than not... struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Epicurus (341 – 270 BC): Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

God does not exist.
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Answer 4

Ninty nine percent ought to qualify as perfect, defined by webster as "perfect for the purpose intended." The Bible said God left some, I guess, insignificant errors for a purpose. Maybe to cause discussion and Christians not to be too rigid. I suppose were allowed to doubt other peoples accuracy from our own and others of today as only .01 precent of what they say is true, even Christians. Iin some ways we have gotten dumber, but the Word, the spirit and your spirit attest to the truth.
Doubt is good. Two views are good. Only one isn't. "I've looked at life from both sides now, and I really don't know life at all". "'Knowing' is knowing you don't know."
We have a left hemisphere of the brain that asks questions in words that the right side answers in pictures. We have a sixth sense, the rest of the brain. In pictures it handles all the truth and "Pictures don't lie." Your supposed to look at two sides of everything and "hold fast to what is fine". Just don't get stuck in the 'I know' left side of the brain. Science is getting into religion and straightening a few things out. In other words it's becoming clear that, yes it can be true. A paradox. Every word is not true to the left brain, "The letter killeth" and is true to the right brain, "but the spirit brings life" as it understands it.

Answer 5

I agree, and good thinking!
I found this in an article and I thought you might be interested in it:
Such lack of credence in the God-authored notion of sacred texts is widespread not only among scholars, but even in casual book-reviewing culture. Here, turning to the New Testament, consider the beginning of a review on Powells.com of another recent book, titled Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005), by Bart D. Ehrman.

"Those who call the King James Version of the Bible the unerring word of God," writes reviewer Doug Brown, "have a slight problem. The New Testament of the KJV (as the King James Version is usually referred) was translated into English from a version of the Greek New Testament that had been collected from 12th-century copies by Erasmus. Where Erasmus couldn't find Greek manuscripts, he translated to Greek from the Latin Vulgate (which itself had been translated from Greek back in the fourth century). Here the problem splits into two problems. First, Jesus spoke Aramaic — his actual words, never recorded, were only rendered in Greek in the original gospels. Thus, the KJV consists of Jesus's words twice refracted through the prism of translation. Second, Erasmus's Greek New Testament was based on handwritten copies of copies of copies of copies, etc., going back over a millennium, and today is considered one of the poorer Greek New Testaments."

Answer 6

You are absolutely correct, but why not go all the way and state the obvious, nothing in the bible is true. Genesis reveals the lack of knowledge of the authors so clearly it's a wonder that every intelligent person can't see it for what it is. The book of Job was actually an ancient novel.

Answer 7

Being a scholar of religions, and holding degrees, I can PROVE what you are saying to be TRUE. For one, it is said that the ORIGINAL works of the Torah were destroyed at Solomon's Temple, THEN it is said generations of the hebrew peoples past down their word of god vocally until AFTER the Babylonian captivity it is assumed Ezra and his Sons wrote down the hebrew word. This means they PASSED this word around for about 500 years generation to generation. How many people do you KNOW who gossip and gossip and in the END you whine up with the very SAME original story that was told to begin with. Universities have done this STUDY and FOUND "nobody" knew what the ORIGINAL story WAS, after weeks, just WEEKS of the study. And we are to BELIEVE the hebrews were able to KEEP their holy words as they ORIGINALLY were supposedly "given ?" Not only this, but one ERROR comes about when we are told that the FIRST copies of the Torah after the Babylonian captivity were written in HEBREW. It is a well known FACT, that THIS is the time that the hebrew people lost their LANGUAGE and began to speak the language of their captors, which happened to have been ARAMAIC.

LIES ? The hebrew word is full of them........

Answer 8

I wonder about it also. One part of the Bible says to stay away from Non-Christians...yet, another part of the Bible says to spread the gospel and try to convert Non-Christians. How are we supposed to convert them if we are not supposed to be around them??

Makes you stop and think doesn't it?? I'm a Christian too and I find the Bible confusing at times. Because of all the places in the Bible where it says to do one thing and then later says to do the opposite...I wonder if it's all true or not!?

Answer 9

The Bible wasn't written by people handing stories down to each other. It was written by men who were inspired by God, and it was for the purpose of establishing doctrine, for correcting us, and for instructing us in righteousness. The Truth of the Bible becomes evident not only when the Holy Spirit begins to confirm that to you, (He guides us into all truth) but when you begin to take into account it's historical accuracy, and the fulfillment of its prophecies. The Bible is a collection of writings from over a period of thousands of years. The books in your Bible (excluding catholic and jw bibles) were carefully selected by many scholars when the scriptures were translated into English. We still have the originally manuscripts, and every authorized version of the Bible is re-translated by scholars. There is much to know about this subject. As a Christian, I believe the Bible is 100% true. It is our authority. We base our beliefs upon it. It is the stick in which we measure ourselves against. We subject ourselves to its teachings, we don't subject it to our own beliefs.

Answer 10

Well... it can't be true... and it ISN'T true. The Old Testament is a combination or myth, superstition, pseudo-history and morality tales... with a LITTLE BIT of actual history and actual geography tossed in. The New Testament is entirely a fiction and a fraud.

Consider... christianity requires you to believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced, by a talking snake with legs, to eat a piece of fruit from a magical tree... (etc.)... and that there is something horribly wrong with people who ARE NOT so gullible and droolingly stupid as to believe such outrageously ridiculous codswallop.

News flash... anybody who believes that is insane.... and it's insane even before you GET to stuff like a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven, solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth), talking donkeys, shepherd staff turning into an asp, demons chased out of people and into pigs, woman turning into a pillar of salt, friendly spirits, evil spirits, walking on water, multiplying loaves and fishes, food falling from the sky, people raising from the dead, the sun stopping in its tracks, parting the sea, people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky), world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain, creating people from dust bunnies and ribs, magical tree of knowledge, and an invisible, magical sky-fairy (god) speaking from a burning bush

In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of that nonsense, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free pass.

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig



zenawarrior0421 wrote: "It's been around for a long. long, time. I can't believe that anyone would believe something for so many yrs. without any merit."

LOL.. that is a logical fallacy called the "Argument from Popularity." It has no evidentiary value whatsoever. The fact that there have been a lot of bible believers for a long, long time tells us only that stupid and gullible people have been around for a long, long time.


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