Would God try to decieve and or trick us with scriptures...?

Question

Who is to say that God didn't place false/contradictory doctrine in scriptures or have them corrupted in some way or another? Perhaps there is a Divine plan that the scriptures (Torah, Bible, Qur'an etc.) be fallible?

Maybe God allowed Satan to tamper with scriptures as a test?

Answer 1

Albert Einstein once said: "from a physics perspective, cold is merely the absence of heat, and darkness is only the absence of light. So by extrapolation, evil could simply be the absence of good."

Case in Point!

Answer 2

God is not a man that He should lie. As a matter of fact the Old Testament scriptures are faithfully transmitted to us in the Masoretic text. When the same writings are looked at 1000 years ago in the form of the Dead Sea Scrolls, every letter is still in place. There is only a stylistic difference with a letter or two.

When they were written, there was a count made of every letter and every word at the bottom of the page. If one letter was wrong, the whole text was torn up and the scribe started again. This is how merticulous they were. As a matter of fact, the Bible is textually the most accurate ancient document of all time. In the other "27 holy books of other faiths there are many errors. But Bible has none as far as Bible-code science is concerned.

In the New Testament, the textus receptus is the most accurate. Those that wrote them penned eyewitness accounts. This is better than 99 per cent of ancient manuscripts. As a matter of fact, William Allbright the greatest archaelolgist of all time said that he has never discovered anything that disproved or contradicted the Bible.

If you look at the book of Genesis in the original Hebrew, there is the name for God " Elohim" encoded150 times in the text. This is possible when you spread out the Hebrew letters of the alphabet equally (or each letter being equi-distant) over the page.

When the name "E - L - O -H - I - M" is seen there is also a 50 - letter interval between each of the Hebrew letters. If this is done 150 times repeadly, what is the possibility of this happening through random chance? Some astronimical figure to one.

The Bible in its entirely, is written in this manner, which proves that God is incredibly consistant and that He is its author!

Answer 3

GOD did NOT write anything - people did. No doubt people are fallible, and make mistakes all the time. Interpretations are just that - they are whatever that person understands and can relate it as - and no two people ever see the exact same thing at the same time.

IF any ancient writings of our reason for being here are at all to be closely correctly related to us, it would be those of the ancient Hebrew and American Indian beliefs. NEITHER of these belief systems claim the "average" human will EVER fully understand them, and they do NOT share everything they know with just anyone who asks.

The Bible has been "edited" so many times it isn't even funny. I KNOW things have been removed - but I doubt EVIL things have been added. The intent was to be a guide for living a righteous life. Deceit and trickery come from complete disregard and disrespect for other people - you make that choice. IF God created us, He (or she) would not make us hateful - there would be no good reason to do that.

Answer 4

God is not deceiving us. But He did write scripture in a advanced form of writing that mankind will be forced to reinterpret from religious back into science that will renew The Bible for all future generations yet to come.

Answer 5

No.
It has always been the case that humans try to graft on their traditions as equal to what is written that has caused what appear to be contradictions.
These traditions have led too several attempts to 'color' the Bible in later translations. Fortunately, it is quite simple to research the scriptures to identify weak or inaccurate word selections in modern translations.
Once a person has made the effort to study in depth this great 'pearl' and become willing to leave behind the false traditions and doctrines that humans have spent centuries grafting onto the truth, then they can see how simple, clear , and useful the Bible truly is as a source of life giving 'water'.

Answer 6

God is infinite, perfect, and unchangeable. Scriptures are written in books. Books are finite objects. Books are written in languages that change or the words can change in meaning. Books are not perfect. Translations can get screwed up, etc. The two have very little in common. If you accept that God can be defined by a book of scripture, you are calling God finite, imperfect, and changeable.

Answer 7

I don't think God would do such a thing, but knowing the homines as I do, they would change anything if they think that they could get away with it.

Then Ezra the Scribe re-wrote the Old Testament and how many times has this occurred since, especially when changing form one language to another. I know I am sceptical but that is me.

Answer 8

I know what you mean... somebody must have screwed the Bible/Qoran beyond recognition! It proves that God is not that powerfull after all... If you believe in God that is...

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Jeremiah 4:10 10 Then I said, "Ah, Sovereign LORD, how completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, 'You will have peace,' when the sword is at our throats."

Answer 9

It certainly seems to be the case. What kind of god would wait for several thousand years of recorded history before reviling himself and then another thousand or so before providing redemption? Why would miracles and events be recorded that there is no evidence for, especially when those events would have affected several civilizations or the entire world? Why would there be massive evidence against the recorded creation?

Sounds very shakey to me.

Answer 10

No God gave truth and thats all man put his tw cents in trying to distort scripture.