Can you prove that the Bible is authentic? That there's truely no Contradictions, If there even 1 contradiction, the Bible is not authentic. Options

[illriginal]

Can you guys prove these contradictions to be false? Here's your challenge, prove to me and everyone else that the Bible is not false and misleading to the truth of God and his prophets.


Here's your big resource of Biblical contradictions:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

[sdingfelder]

Spirited Away,

Very good questions / points.

Circle =/= Sphere

Isaiah 40:22 does specifically say "circle" in the King James English. Please remember, though, that the English word you see is an interpretation of the Hebrew word, "chuwg" (pronounced "khoog" -- like a hocker sound in the beginning, though). This word means "circle, circuit, or compass". The "compass" is not for North / South, but rather to encompass / surround something. The word "sphere" does not appear in the KJV Bible because this same Hebrew word covers both "circle" and "sphere".

And while science advanced to call Earth a rotating, revolving sphere, the Bible's still stuck on a "hanged" and "suspended" Earth.

Once again, if you look at the original Hebrew, you'll see that the word "talah" (pronounced "taw-law") means "to suspend or hang / hang up". When you look at the verse in Job, notice that it says " and hangeth the earth upon nothing." If you hang something on nothing, you can use whatever modern word you'd like (including "free float"), but bottom line is that it's hanging on nothing.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you're describing the difference between translations and interpretations. We start with the originals -- the Hebrew & Aramaic of the Old Covenant and the Greek for the New Covenant. We have these documents and this is why, for any questions, this is what is referred to in order to get away from translation issues. These originals have been translated into other languages: English, Chinese, German, etc. Then you get into different interpretations from one English version to another English version. For example, if I were to be speaking in "1950's English", I might say that someone was very gay. But to the "2000's English" listener, they'd think I was saying someone was a homosexual. So, the KJV may say that someone was wearing "gay" clothing but the New KJV says "fine clothes" -- both correct translations based on the original Greek word and putting into the light of what people of the time understand. The original is unchanged.

The point that we shouldn't be overlooking, though, is that it is only the Bible that has described exactly what "science" has finally concluded to be true. It may not have used the exact words that you'd prefer to see, but it has been a true and correct account of something that man took thousands of years to confirm. The One who created all things wrote this down thousands of years earlier to show that He can document that which He created.

lanbexx,

if one has logic, one cannot have faith because faith is based upon trust about the unknown

Wow. That's really deep.

Consider this: A father has to leave his son in a room with a fire in the fireplace. The son has never experienced being burned and has never attempted to touch fire before. Before stepping out of the room, the father tells the son not to touch the fire or he'll be burned. While the father's gone, though, the son disobeys his father and reaches for the fire. He gets burned.

That boy has moved from the realm of untested faith and disbelief into the realm of tested faith and belief. His trust in his father's words is magnified. He now takes this experience into account the next time his father tells him that something's hot and that he shouldn't touch it. He now uses logic in order to exercise his new-found, tested faith.

Logical application of faith and experience lead to increased faith.

The Hitchhikers' Guide is a book that won't help anyone on the day they stand before the Lord in judgment. The Bible is compilation of 66 books written by 40 authors from very different stations in life over a period greater than a thousand years. In it are the words of life and death. Please take the time to consider your eternal destiny and how the Righteous and Holy Judge will look upon you on your Day of Judgment. No one can guarantee that they'll wake up the next day. Please consider what God's done -- in His Mercy and Grace -- so your fine (and mine) can be paid in full for breaking his Commandments.

yrrnotelekktric,

Yeah, well. Can some really part the Red Sea though?

You're right. There's no person that can part the Red Sea. That really wouldn't be a problem for the one who created the water in the first place, though.