A Lot of Christians are upset about this article...but this is no attack. This is well known truth in the theological community and it should be among believers. Unfortunately, as the author points out - were often more into what we THINK we know about God (traditions, what the pastor say, what your favorite preacher or song say) than what His Word actually says. We should all be studying His Word for ourselves and also knowing the sources of the material we use to study.....God tells us plainly My People are destroyed for lack of knowledge... its not because we cant know...but because too many of us are content with watered down, hand me down, sunday showtime church religion.....this might shake a few people up to study the bible more themselves. Note: some of what this writer says is twisted in the way it is presented, not every contradiction in the bible is actually a contradiction with a full understanding of the bible and all scriptures that apply. Specifically when the author speaks on women and the book of Timothy - you have to keep the versus in context if youre going to use any scripture. As reported by NEWSWEEK: So why study the Bible at all? Since it’s loaded with contradictions and translation errors and wasn’t written by witnesses and includes words added by unknown scribes to inject Church orthodoxy, should it just be abandoned? No. This examination is not an attack on the Bible or Christianity. Instead, Christians seeking greater understanding of their religion should view it as an attempt to save the Bible from the ignorance, hatred and bias that has been heaped upon it. If Christians truly want to treat the New Testament as the foundation of the religion, they have to know it. Too many of them seem to read John Grisham novels with greater care than they apply to the book they consider to be the most important document in the world. But the history, complexities and actual words of the Bible can’t be ignored just to line it up with what people want to believe, based simply on what friends and family and ministers tell them. Nowhere in the Gospels or Acts of Epistles or Apocalypses does the New Testament say it is the inerrant word of God. It couldn’t—the people who authored each section had no idea they were composing the Christian Bible, and they were long dead before what they wrote was voted by members of political and theological committees to be the New Testament. The Bible is a very human book. It was written, assembled, copied and translated by people. That explains the flaws, the contradictions, and the theological disagreements in its pages. Once that is understood, it is possible to find out which parts of the Bible were not in the earliest Greek manuscripts, which are the bad translations, and what one book says in comparison to another, and then try to discern the message for yourself. And embrace what modern Bible experts know to be the true sections of the New Testament. Jesus said, Don’t judge. He condemned those who pointed out the faults of others while ignoring their own. And he proclaimed, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” That’s a good place to start. Click link below to read the entire article.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 03:52:01 +0000
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