is the bible the true word of God?

Question

Did God write the epistles, the four gospellers works, Moses' efforts as well as Daniels and Davids contributions?
What corruptions, if any, have crept in through the variety of translations.
Perhaps you will agree that it could be about 50% the 'word of God'

Answer 1

Fulfilled Prophecy: Evidence for the Reliability of the Bible
by Hugh Ross, Ph.D.
Unique among all books ever written, the Bible accurately foretells specific events-in detail-many years, sometimes centuries, before they occur. Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible, about 2000 of which already have been fulfilled to the letter—no errors. (The remaining 500 or so reach into the future and may be seen unfolding as days go by.) Since the probability for any one of these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance averages less than one in ten (figured very conservatively) and since the prophecies are for the most part independent of one another, the odds for all these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance without error is less than one in 10 to the 2000th power (that is 1 with 2000 zeros written after it)!

God is not the only one, however, who uses forecasts of future events to get people's attention. Satan does, too. Through clairvoyants (such as Jeanne Dixon and Edgar Cayce), mediums, spiritists, and others, come remarkable predictions, though rarely with more than about 60 percent accuracy, never with total accuracy. Messages from Satan, furthermore, fail to match the detail of Bible prophecies, nor do they include a call to repentance.

The acid test for identifying a prophet of God is recorded by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:21-22. According to this Bible passage (and others), God's prophets, as distinct from Satan's spokesmen, are 100 percent accurate in their predictions. There is no room for error.

As economy does not permit an explanation of all the Biblical prophecies that have been fulfilled, what follows in a discussion of a few that exemplify the high degree of specificity, the range of projection, and/or the "supernature" of the predicted events. Readers are encouraged to select others, as well, and to carefully examine their historicity.


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(1) Some time before 500 B.C. the prophet Daniel proclaimed that Israel's long-awaited Messiah would begin his public ministry 483 years after the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (Daniel 9:25-26). He further predicted that the Messiah would be "cut off," killed, and that this event would take place prior to a second destruction of Jerusalem. Abundant documentation shows that these prophecies were perfectly fulfilled in the life (and crucifixion) of Jesus Christ. The decree regarding the restoration of Jerusalem was issued by Persia's King Artaxerxes to the Hebrew priest Ezra in 458 B.C., 483 years later the ministry of Jesus Christ began in Galilee. (Remember that due to calendar changes, the date for the start of Christ's ministry is set by most historians at about 26 A.D. Also note that from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. is just one year.) Jesus' crucifixion occurred only a few years later, and about four decades later, in 70 A.D. came the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 5th power.)*


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(2) In approximately 700 B.C. the prophet Micah named the tiny village of Bethlehem as the birthplace of Israel's Messiah (Micah 5:2). The fulfillment of this prophecy in the birth of Christ is one of the most widely known and widely celebrated facts in history.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 5th power.)


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(3) In the fifth century B.C. a prophet named Zechariah declared that the Messiah would be betrayed for the price of a slave—thirty pieces of silver, according to Jewish law-and also that this money would be used to buy a burial ground for Jerusalem's poor foreigners (Zechariah 11:12-13). Bible writers and secular historians both record thirty pieces of silver as the sum paid to Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus, and they indicate that the money went to purchase a "potter's field," used—just as predicted—for the burial of poor aliens (Matthew 27:3-10).

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 11th power.)


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(4) Some 400 years before crucifixion was invented, both Israel's King David and the prophet Zechariah described the Messiah's death in words that perfectly depict that mode of execution. Further, they said that the body would be pierced and that none of the bones would be broken, contrary to customary procedure in cases of crucifixion (Psalm 22 and 34:20; Zechariah 12:10). Again, historians and New Testament writers confirm the fulfillment: Jesus of Nazareth died on a Roman cross, and his extraordinarily quick death eliminated the need for the usual breaking of bones. A spear was thrust into his side to verify that he was, indeed, dead.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 13th power.)


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(5) The prophet Isaiah foretold that a conqueror named Cyrus would destroy seemingly impregnable Babylon and subdue Egypt along with most of the rest of the known world. This same man, said Isaiah, would decide to let the Jewish exiles in his territory go free without any payment of ransom (Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; and 45:13). Isaiah made this prophecy 150 years before Cyrus was born, 180 years before Cyrus performed any of these feats (and he did, eventually, perform them all), and 80 years before the Jews were taken into exile.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 15th power.)


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(6) Mighty Babylon, 196 miles square, was enclosed not only by a moat, but also by a double wall 330 feet high, each part 90 feet thick. It was said by unanimous popular opinion to be indestructible, yet two Bible prophets declared its doom. These prophets further claimed that the ruins would be avoided by travelers, that the city would never again be inhabited, and that its stones would not even be moved for use as building material (Isaiah 13:17-22 and Jeremiah 51:26, 43). Their description is, in fact, the well-documented history of the famous citadel.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 9th power.)


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(7) The exact location and construction sequence of Jerusalem's nine suburbs was predicted by Jeremiah about 2600 years ago. He referred to the time of this building project as "the last days," that is, the time period of Israel's second rebirth as a nation in the land of Palestine (Jeremiah 31:38-40). This rebirth became history in 1948, and the construction of the nine suburbs has gone forward precisely in the locations and in the sequence predicted.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 18th power.)


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(8) The prophet Moses foretold (with some additions by Jeremiah and Jesus) that the ancient Jewish nation would be conquered twice and that the people would be carried off as slaves each time, first by the Babylonians (for a period of 70 years), and then by a fourth world kingdom (which we know as Rome). The second conqueror, Moses said, would take the Jews captive to Egypt in ships, selling them or giving them away as slaves to all parts of the world. Both of these predictions were fulfilled to the letter, the first in 607 B.C. and the second in 70 A.D. God's spokesmen said, further, that the Jews would remain scattered throughout the entire world for many generations, but without becoming assimilated by the peoples or of other nations, and that the Jews would one day return to the land of Palestine to re-establish for a second time their nation (Deuteronomy 29; Isaiah 11:11-13; Jeremiah 25:11; Hosea 3:4-5 and Luke 21:23-24).

This prophetic statement sweeps across 3500 years of history to its complete fulfillment—in our lifetime.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 20th power.)

Answer 2

Jesus is the true Word of God. The bible is a collection of very ancient and genuine books written over approximately a 2000 year period that describe how the same God related to people in different places and cultures.
In common with all ancient texts, the bible's books have suffered from some errors in transmission and in translation. However, this does not mean that the books of the bible are fake, just that there is scope for more scholarly effort to recover a better estimate of their original texts.
More intelligent Christians, (and Jews) who care about their scriptures should consider learning one or more biblical languages and some history and doing some work to recover more of the text. You don't need anyone's permission to do this, only some wits and commitment.

Answer 3

I'll agree that the Bible is inspired by the idea of god. However, there have been so many translations, and some of them differ quite a lot. Some have kept some earlier pagan rites, some have not. Some have been written to help bring Catholics and Protestants closer together, some have been written to keep them further apart. It's important to remember if nothing else, the Bible was written by men. Not even many women got a voice in there.

Answer 4

Dear C loma,

The Bible in the original languages of Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testamen) and Greek (New Testament) is the true word of God.
The Bible has been translated into many other languages but one must understand that there may be a word or words in the Original Hebrew-Aramaic-Greek that are not readily translateable into another language. Therefore, the translator attempts to make the most accurate rendition of the verse.

Answer 5

I believe that the Bible does not contain ANY of the words of God as neither God nor Jesus wrote any of the Bible. The Bible was written by Jesus' followers and those he had encounters with over the years.

I have read that there have been numerous corruptions of the original texts as they were rewritten to suit the needs of early Christians. Also, I read that when the Romans adopted Christianity as their primary religion and formed the first version of today's Bible, they omitted any chapters that made reference to Jesus' mortality i.e. that he was just a normal mortal man. They did this because they knew it would be easier to control people with a religion that had a supernatural being at its centre versus a regular guy like me or you.

Although modern practitioners of Christianity are for the most part good people with genuine beliefs, the early Christians were an awful bunch and they have committed some of the worst human atrocities ever known to man.

The Bible will not tell you anything that you can not figure out for yourself. I believe that most humans have the ability to tell the difference between right and wrong, between good and evil and sense and nonsense. I don't think we need the Bible to tell us how to live our lives as you can be a perfectly good person and have no religious beliefs. The Bible has good advice for the most part, but it's just a bunch of stories written by some guys who knew a guy who was really nice to people and said he was the son of God. I'm sorry, but the Bible has been totally corrupted over the centuries by human hands for human gains. It still has good advice, but it was not written by Jesus or God.

Answer 6

The Bible consistantly says that it IS the word of God. The church from the time the first "books" were written have held that it IS the word of God.

Those who disbelieve that only pick and choose what fits their fancy in the Bible and it does little good in getting to know the author.

Answer 7

Nope.

I believe ALL of it.

Look at it this way:

If it was a corrupted over the centuries, why is it STILL the best selling book OF ALL TIME?

Why is is so hated, & yet still changes lives every day?

Why has it changed MY life, if it is so corrupted?

No I believe this one fundemental truth above all else:

Isaiah 40:8 (New International Version)

8 The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God stands forever."

Answer 8

Is the Bible the word of God? Link below
http://www.geocities.com/ascendedmaster/Jesuswisdom16.html

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 9

There is a lot more to the bible that has been taken out by the Romans! and through translation!... But it is still the whole truth and nothing but the truth! =)

Answer 10

The bible is Gods word, The HOLY SPIRIT came into the people who wrote the bible and spoke to them through Him..

Answer 11

When speaking of itself, the Bible says that all scripture is "God Breathed." Prone to small errors in translation, sure, but God Breathed is pretty powerful, in my opinion.