Is the Bible reliable?
- HouseFire
- Jul 14, 2023
- 6 min read
Updated: Jul 17, 2023
There are many people who make many different claims and opinions as to the "Authenticy" and "Reliability" of the books/scrolls inside the Bible. In this post, I will take some time to share a variety of links that might help to jog your mind and help you research for yourself.
Anything and everything man says must be evaluated before taking it as truth. Just because someone says Bible is true doesn't make it true, only thru self research can you learn to trust in the Bible and the age of the Bible and all the scrolls within. For many people, God allows them to do no research and believe blindly which isn't a bad thing on face value cause many people for example followed Jesus without much researching who Jesus was. Many people follow blindly other people for variety of reasons, but why do we follow the Bible?
The Bible is the most translated book on Earth, but there was no "Bible" in the 1st century, only scrolls and copies on various materials like wood or papyrus or leather etc etc, and majority didn't survive that long either due to persecution and how the devil tried to destroy any and all material. We can see this action for example thru war, how many people have little regard to historical documents or artifacts and structures etc, or how we see much destruction today in the Middle East regions where almost everything is getting blown up, or the coal mines (or lithium slave mines) where we dig up the Earth and who's to say what might been there and now destroyed?
Anyways, here's some links to help jog the brain as you also should use this "Luxury" we have called the internet before the internet is taken down, which I believe will happen soon.
Talking about the original is hard when we only have pieces of manuscripts and not whole books. The early church of Jesus were mer followers with not much money to write everything on leather, that was time consuming and costly for a bunch of persecuted people by all surrounding regions.
But how do we know what Jesus taught or anything written in NT today was from the original Jesus followers?
Dead Sea scrolls are almost exact to original manuscripts. (Different topic)
J Wallace has done alot of work on trying to figure out the possible dates of the NT writings.
(Chain of Custody picture is a link to YouTube of J Wallace).
The anonymous theory is IMPRACTICAL
Justin Martyr (AD 150, Palestine) stated that the early Christians would read from “the memoirs of the apostles” (First Apology 67), which, to be clear, he also called “gospels” (66). But think about this: When these churches read from these multiples gospels, it would have become practically necessary to have names for each in order to distinguish one from another.[6] Are we honestly to believe that Christian communities read from various gospels for a full century without assigning them titles? Furthermore, the titles presuppose that other Gospels existed; otherwise, they wouldn’t have the title “according to _________.”[7]
Even an introductory look into the manuscript background of the New Testament gives a convincing picture of the reliablity of the New Testament's transmission over a span of almost two millenia. Not only does the New Testament stand above the crowd of other ancient manuscripts in terms of manuscript amount, but the New Testament also has copies of manuscripts that are very close in time to the original composition. Virtually unchanged (99.5% accuracy rate) over the centuries, the New Testament can be deemed reliable and accurate. The next logical step would be to study the content: the claims that the New Testament makes.
J Wallace has also done alot of research on the New Testament ages and reliablity of the scrolls they wrote.
There are many people talking about the Historical facts found inside the Bible as a whole, but what about the Old Testament specifically?
Every time I do any research, I always find links like this one. Each year/generation of explorers and archeologists etc, more and more new things are uncovered and shared and exposed as the debate on History and Bible is not over yet and won't be over until NWO destroys all knowledge and forces everyone to obey blindly without question. Until that day comes, we have the ability and opportunity to research and learn for ourselves what many people have done when they go out there and risk thier lives to uncover facts, ... truth.
Answers In Genesis has also done alot of research as well into Genesis evidence, Old Testament evidence to which I encourage people to also review and investigate. Note: Each organization has an agenda. A Secular Humanist or Atheist or whatever other Religion they might be in also have an agenda. Everyone has an agenda, but as a researcher, we are to discern the truth from lies, wheat from tares, and only way to do this is thru investigation. Just because I believe in Answers in Genesis doesn't mean they are telling the truth correct? Just because you might believe in Aron Ra (Example) doesn't mean Aron is telling the truth correct?
The goal is facts.
The goal is evidence.
The goal is "Truth".
Like Frank Turek says it: "Science doesn't say anything, Scientists do".
And so I should be able to quote Chris Tucker?
Follow the rich white man sounds plausible doesn't it? Follow the money for each person and organization and colleges and bankers and Gov't an politicians etc etc. Even churches.
Find out what is the motive and what do they have to gain from it?
Not every church is of God, ... sad but true statement. This goes on the topic of Religion definition and all associated words around it which can be explored here in my post:
Atheism is a Religion by definition and this Religion has many Denominations including Secular Humanist etc etc. With this mindset, this Religion also has churches altho not exactly the traditional kind which we observe today.
And so this church is not of God, and not just this Religion but many other Religions as well. But fear not, for what Satan meant for evil, God brought good.
Genesis 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
And so in conclusion, I can say yes, the Bible is Historically Accurate upon further investigation where there is no motivation to deceive others but motivation to do good and share knowledge to those who need it. This post isn't exactly going into alot of details but more to help you jog your brain and research for yourselves and compare information and judge the evidence provided.
Example:
If someone says King David never existed and yet we have archeology to prove he did, ... who do you believe?
If someone says Jesus never existed, and yet we have so much evidence of a man in the 1st century named Jesus and did live and a whole entire Jesus following movement (Christian means followers of Jesus) after He died and was Resurrected, ... who are you gonna believe?
If someone says Bible is not historically accurate and written down hundreds of years later and yet when we do little research and find out the scrolls were written at such a time, ... who are you gonna believe?
I can go further into this but you get the point I hope. The Bible is true and accurate and the prophesies within hold true. Especially the book of Daniel.
The Bible has gone thru more "Scrutiny" than any other Religion or Religious book on Earth, because it's true and there's no denying how true the Bible is. 🤯🤯🤯 If that doesn't blow your mind, ... I don't know what will.
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