Greg Koukl - Biblical Mistakes

Taken from our blog, Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason answers the question "Didn't people write the Bible, then how can it be reliable since men make mistakes?" For more information, visit http://www.str.org.

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[Armando7654]

Thank you Greg! Im learning a lot listening to you! God Bless you

[moonglow38]

I also say if an angel came with the bible and said God wrote this, people would still question it and say, how can we know an angel brought it..how can we know God wrote this? Where is the proof? It would just be the same old thing...no matter how it came it be. People that want to doubt will find ways to do so.

[WestonPDX100]

@JudiM No one knows who wrote the gospels. There is speculation, but no definitive answer. There is evidence that two of the gospels were written by the same person, or that one was copied from the other. Most, if not all human history from 2,000 years ago is 'sketchy' we can't be sure of even major events, much less the day to day activity of an individual. I would also point out that if you are being consistent, you'd have to believe all supernatural accounts if you believe one of them.

[JudiM]

@WestonPDX100 One more thing how do you know everything else in history is true since you were not there personally. After all just like the bible historian get the majority of their info from what was written by those who lived at the time. With your logic we could consider pretty much anything we did not witnessed out ourselves as hearsy.

[JudiM]

@WestonPDX100 The NT is not all 2nd hand accounts. Matthew & John were wriiten by 2 of Jesus disciple who knew him before he was crucified. Peter who is the author of 1st & 2nd Peter was also 1 of Jesus' disciples. We are all sinners it's thru accepting Jesus christ we are all saved Rom3:22-25 as was MaryMagd. Paul was converted by Jesus himself after crucifiction Act9:1-22. Saying all of this is irrelevant if you dont have FAITH-you either believe the writers were inspired by God or you don't.

[WestonPDX100]

@JudiM We are asked to take Christianity on faith based on countless levels of hearsay. The authors of the NT are asking us to trust their accounts of events they did not witness, and the characters in their stories are asking them to take the word of Mary Magdeline, a 'sinner'. Accepting any extraordinary claim under these circumstances is not rational.

[JudiM]

@WestonPDX100 this comment really examplifies what moonglow38 (above) said - and i don't mean that as an insult. But that's ok because, we are all entitled to our own opinions :)

[WestonPDX100]

@JudiM It's more likely that the actual authors of the bible were trying to sell their product to the common man, so they made the main characters poor and uneducated.

[JudiM]

@WestonPDX100 See that's the awesomeness of God. He can use any vessel to do his will, plus I imagine if God only used 'smart' men to write the Bible then there's the risk that they'd claim this work was a result of their own genius or future men would say that the bible was not divinely inspired & should be attributed to the intellect of these smart men. Now if you have a bunch of uneducated farmers & fishermen do the job you know they had to have looked to some divine source for such wisdom

[WestonPDX100]

If God wanted his 'word' to be written down. Why did he reveal himself to illiterates in a backwater part of the world?

[MrSB1274]

@captain2ahab: So you take a statement that they perceived the sun moving to believe that they thought the sun rotated around the earth? That's a logical fallacy, and you're reaching...If you look at the sky, the sun moves across the sky. If I say that the sun moves across the sky, it doesn't mean I'm saying that the sun rotates around the earth. To come to that conclusion is asinine, and it just proves that you're trying to reinforce your own presuppositions by believing your own false logic

[captain2ahab]

@MrSB1274

"So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies"

if i tell something to stop, it means it moved before. so the writers of the fairy tale book thought, that the sun moved (during that time everyone belived that) OOPS this is logical thinking, maybe not your core comptenece