Can't God's spirit in a person, work with a person's free will, clarify the truth, and bring him to freely write the truth without error? ( as with the Bible)
2007-10-30 01:37:33 · 22 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We have more handwritten copies of the Bible than any other book in history. Because we have so many copies it makes it easy to see where the errors occurred and most are misspellings. I believe we have 5700 copies of the Old Testament and 30,000 copies of the New Testament. We have some that have certain portions missing but the church fathers were not that far separated from the original writers.
These missing portions are so few that even without them they make no change in the Word of God, the Holy Bible.
God knows how to protect His Word a lot better than you know. If you believe it has many errors, God will make you dig up the Dead Sea Scrolls out of a cave in the desert just to prove you wrong. What a wonderful God I serve. Praise His Holy Name, Yeshua!
2007-10-30 01:50:37 · answer #1 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely! Because when a person is "in the spirit" meaning the Holy Spirit is at work in him, he will not use his free will but he will be doing the will of God. This is how the Bible was written. Note in Revelation how John, exiled on the Isle of Patmos, said "I was in the Spirit". This is why the Bible is without error. It is literally the Word of God.
2007-10-30 09:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by missingora 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GOD ALREADY HAS.
CAUSE ALL HUMANS AE OF FREE-WILL.
HAVE U COME ACCROSS 2 TIM. 3:16; ALL SCRIPTURES ARE INSPIRED OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND IT'S PROFITABLE FOR...
COME TO THINK OF ERROR, AS JOB DIDN'T ERR WHEN IN TRIAL AND THE APOSTLE PERSISTED IN PERSECUTION JUST FOR GOD'S SAKE SO IS IT IMPOSSILE FOR ERROR TO..
THIS CAN ONLY BE WITH THE SINCERE AT HEART, SOUL WITH GOD.
SORRY FOR THOSE WHO SAYS KJV IS WRONG- TI'S A STATEMENT FOR THE WEAK AT HEART
WHY? ENGLISH LANGUSGE IS UNSTABLE
WHAT DO I MEAN? HAVE YOU COME ACCROSS SYNONIMOUS WORDS? IT MEANS RELATED WORDS BUT STUDY CLOSELY THERE IS MUCH DIFF.
SO, BIBLE TRANSLATOR USE SIMILAR WORDS TRYING TO INTERPRET THE ORIGINAL HEBREW WORD BASED ON THIER UNDERSTANDING.
SO ALL SCPRIPTURES ARE CORRECT, EXACT. ALL U NEED IS THE RHEMA-SPIRITUAL INTERPRETATION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT(THE ORIGINAL WRITER OF THE SCPRIPTURES.
2007-10-31 13:47:56 · answer #3 · answered by augstigen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll leave the sermon out of this. If you believe in God then you would believe that GOD can do whatever he desires to do in any manner or way that he wants to do it. He said that everything is for his pleasure so if that means truth then truth is what he gets. It is when we decide to inject our own views into the subject matter that God's truth is left out.
2007-10-31 13:30:52 · answer #4 · answered by . 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First off let me state that it is easy to separate man's writing from GOD's inspired Word. NOT ONE PROPHECY in the BIBLE has EVER failed. Now, man's prophecies, whether inspired by self, or satan, fail, Nostradamus, for example. As far as GOD using man to do his will? It is written: Luke 12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. 1Cor. 2:7-8 But we speak the wisdom of GOD in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which GOD had ordained before the world unto our glory. Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. So we see that GOD, in his OMNISCIENCE, OMNIPOTENCE, and OMNIPRESENCE. is able to use whom he wishes to accomplish HIS WILL. That is why Romans 8:28 clearly shouts: And we know that ALL things work together for good to them that love GOD, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Amen Thank you for your question.
2007-10-30 23:06:50 · answer #5 · answered by xboxfanatic32 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't the fact that God would be working with a person and "clarifying the truth" negating free will? God either intervenes in our lives or we have complete free will to do what we choose. You can't have it both ways.
2007-10-30 08:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by The Oracle of Delphi 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If He can't, then what can He do? Isn't He all powerful?
God has definitely put the thoughts in my mind as I wrote a sermon. Even when I had no idea how I was going to build the message, He put the thoughts together in my mind.
Maybe it was my words, but I know it was His thoughts; because they were not there, and then they were there.
For those who bring up the issue of free will, it is my will to do what God wants me to do, and I am sure that was the will of everyone from Moses to John who wrote the scriptures.
If it is your will to please God, then writing God's words on paper is not a violation of free will.
I think many of you believe that free will is the freedom to act against the will of God, but that is only half of it.
grace2u
2007-10-30 08:45:53 · answer #7 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The KJV has over 12,000 errors in it... just an FYI.
He DID have someone write something without error. It was the original Hebrew and Aramaic texts.
When you look at these, both old and new testament, there is no error or contradiction.
Learn Hebrew.
2007-10-30 11:31:05 · answer #8 · answered by dreamgyrl360 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. But the problem comes with that "work with a person's free will" part.
Lots of stuff in the bible is right and clear and free of error. That's because the person(s) who wrote it already had a right heart with God, so His truth came through clearly.
If a person isn't already that "right with God" then it will take time for God to "work with" that person's free will. For God to do it all in one ZAP would be a violation of that person's free will, if that person wasn't already closely in tune with God's will and truth.
2007-10-30 08:40:24 · answer #9 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
We are all short of the glory of God, Jesus went to the cross for us, we can be forgiven but we have not essentially died on this earth yet, to be resurrected, we don't have a perfect body yet, we have The Holy Spirit to guide us, in right from wrong, in our actions, mind thoughts, etc, I do not think whether we spell right is going to be on the top of that list, and if we were all perfect then we wouldn't be here.
2007-10-30 08:41:17 · answer #10 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋