"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." Psalm 119:105
Is the Bible in Error??
These are misinterpretations of the Bible. I have taken some from a pamphlet someone sent me over email, and some from websites I have seen. I have tried to put them in Biblical order, but I put all the Gospels together so they aren't in order. They have made some relevant, but misinformed points and those I have put in blue font. I have put the irrelevent in red font. What I say is in green font.
God created Adam, so he must have been perfect. How then, could he have sinned? Regardless of how much free will he had, if he chose to sin, he wasn't perfect.
Adam was tempted by Satan, who was the father of sin. Adam had a choice to do it or not. Adam was perfect, at first.
If God created everything, (Col. 1:16, Eph. 3:9, Rev. 4:11, John 1:3), then he did create the world's evil (Isa. 45:7, Lam. 3:38). Thus, he is responsible.
The verses say people do evil when they see him if they aren´t Christians. Satan was the one who created evil.
Why are we being punished for Adam's sin? After all, he ate the forbidden fruit, we didn't. It's his problem, not ours, especially in light of Deut. 24:16, which says children shall not be punished for the sins of their fathers.
Read the verse, it says if a father is going to die physically for a sin, the child will not die for him, or the other way around. Sin is inherited spiritually.
Rom. 3:23 says 'all have sinned.' Al means all. Yet, Gen. 6:9 says Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Job 1:1 & 1 :8 say Job was perfect. How could these men have been perfect if all have sinned?
As I said before, sin is inherited. If you read Romans 4, it talks about Abraham's faith being counted as righteousness. Abraham may not have been sinless, but since he believed God it was counted as sinlessness. The same goes for Noah.
How can Ex. 33:20, which says no man can see God's face and live, be squared with Gen. 32:30, which says a man saw God's face and his life was preserved?
Jesus was probably the part of the Trinity Jacob saw in Gen. 32:30, and as you can recall when Jesus was on Earth he "hid" his glory. So what was to stop him from doing this now?
How could Moses have written the first five books in the Bible (the Pentateuch) when his own death and burial are described in Deut. 34:5-6 ("So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab ... and he buried him in a valley. . . .")?
First of all, this is irrelevent because it is scholars that believe Moses wrote that book. Somebody else wrote that part after he died, obviously.
How can Num. 23:19, which says God doesn't repent, be reconciled with Ex. 32:14, which clearly says he does?
God had decided to ask Abraham about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He was going to let Abraham decide. Think, if Abraham had gone even lower, then those cities wouldn't have been destroyed!
How could we follow the 6th Commandment, even if we wanted to, when the authors of the various versions of the Bible can't agree on whether the key word is "kill" or “murder”? Surely they recognize the difference?
The "authors of the various versions" do not decide whether something is right. So what if there are different translations. It only matters what the Ten Commandments really said in Hebrew.
We are told the Bible has no scientific errors, yet it says the bat is a bird (Lev. 11:13,19), hares chew the cud (Lev. 11:5-6), and some fowl (Lev. 11:20-21) and insects (Lev. 11:22-23) have four legs.
Some great comments by someone who emailed me: 'The english word "cud" comes from the Hebrew word "garar" which simply means "to chew". The english word "fowl" comes from the Hebrew word "owph", which means "as covered with wings", hence anything that had wings, including bats. Also, it says it was ok to eat insects, not flying, creeping things with 4 legs-these were an abomination. Obviously something like this existed once. Yuk!'
According to the text there are 29 cities listed in Joshua 15:21-32 (RSV). One need only count them to see that biblical math is not to be trusted. The total is 36.
Use NIV!
Did Solomon have 40,000 stalls for his horses (1 Kings 4:26) or 4,000 (2 Chron. 9:25)? Did Solomon's house contain 2,000 baths (1 Kings 7:26) or 3,000 (2 Chron. 4:5)?
Read that verse in NIV.
If the Bible is our moral guide, then how can it make - statements such as: “...they may eat their own - and drink their own - with you" (2 Kings 18:27)? [His use of words, not the Bible's]Is that what you want your children reading on Sunday?
The Bible was saying what a commander said. And those words were not what he said. Read it in NIV.
How can 2 Kings 8:26, which says Ahaziah began to rule at age 22, be reconciled with 2 Chron. 22:2, which says he was 42?
Did you read that verse in NIV? It clearly says in both he was 22.
Was Jehoiachin 18 years old when he began to reign in Jerusalem and did he reign 3 months (2 Kings 24:8), or was he 8 years old and reigned 3 months and 10 days (2 Chron. 36: 9). Did Nebuzaradan come to Jerusalem on the 7th (2 Kings 25:8) or 10th (Jer. 52:12) day of the 5th month?
Read it in NIV.
In Psalm 139:7-11 we are told God is everywhere. If so, why would God need to come down to earth to see a city (Gen. 11:5) when he is already here? And how could Satan leave the presence of the Lord (Job 1: 12, 2:7)?
The psalm says God will guide David wherever he is.
Surely you don't believe Eccl. 1:9 RSV ("What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun")? How many cities had an atomic bomb dropped on them prior to 1945, and how many people walked on the moon before 1969?
It means we can't change the past. David (with God) will have always killed Goliath, Christ will have always died for our sins, nothing can change that.
If you must accept Jesus as your Savior in order to be saved (John 14:6), what about the billions of beings that die as fetuses, infants, and mentally deficient, etc.? For them to accept Jesus would be impossible. So they are condemned to hell because of conditions over which they had no control. Deut. 32:4 says God is just, but where is the justice?
Ever heard of the age of accountability? If you are below a certain age you are not held accountable for your sin because you don´t know about Jesus.
Matt. 27:9-10 quotes a prophecy made by Jeremy
the prophet. Yet, no Bible believer has ever been able to show me where it lies in the Book of Jeremiah.
Some more comments by the same guy: 'The exact prophecy for this is in Zecheriah ch.11: verses12 & 13. It is a re- enactment or parrallel to Jeremiah 19. Read the prophecy - it'll blow you away! Hope this helps. Also, I notice how the god-hater uses several different versions of the bible - pretty weak and deceptive! I love your no compromise approach. Keep it up. There are no contradictions in the bible- just a lack of understanding.'
-samboll@netzero.net
The Messiah must be a physical descendant of David (Rom. 1:3, Acts 2:30). Yet, how could Jesus meet this requirement since his genealogies in Matt. 1 and Luke 3 show he descended from David through Joseph, who was not his natural father (the Virgin Birth)?
We know that both Joseph and Mary were descended from David because they went to Bethlemhem for the census, which was David's home city.
Believers are told in Mark 16:17-18 that they can drink "any deadly thing" and "it shall not hurt” them. But I don't think you would be naive enough to drink any arsenic offered. Perhaps I'm wrong and you would be willing to test the Book's veracity-"lay it on the line" so to speak?
Jesus was talking to the disciples. Read it again.
We are told salvation is obtained by faith alone (John 3:18,36) " yet Jesus told a man to follow the Commandments-Matt. 19:16-18 (saving by works)-if he wanted eternal life.
If you follow all the commandments you WILL have eternal life. But so far, only God (Jesus) has done it.
For justice to exist, punishment must fit the crime. No matter how many bad deeds one commits in this world, there is a limit. Yet, hell's punishment is infinitely greater. It´s eternal.
If you do not accept Christ then you will go to hell because you have sinned. And don´t give examples of things on Earth, they are always different from heaven.
In Acts 20:35 Paul told people “to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.´” Since Jesus never made such a biblical statement, isn't Paul guilty of deception?
You don´t know Jesus didn´t say it. It might just have not been written down. The Gospel writers didn't follow Jesus around and write down every sentance that ever came out of his mouth: You've have a ten-million page book!
How could Jesus be our model of sinless perfection when he denies he is morally perfect in Matt. 19:17 ("And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God")?
He is God so he is the only good person. (God in three persons-God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.)
Jesus said, "whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire" (Matt. 5:22). Yet, he himself did so repeatedly, as Matt. 23:17, 19 and Luke 11:40 and 12:20 show. Shouldn't he be in danger of hell too?
Jesus said it because it was true. You don´t expect him to lie, do you? Also it said when saying to your brother. He wasn´t talking to Christians, He was talking to non-Christians. (Christians call other Christians 'brother' and 'sister' because Christians are all God's sons.)
Jesus told us to "Love your enemies; bless them that curse you,” but ignored his own advice by repeatedly denouncing his opposition. Matt. 23:17 ('Ye fools and blind"), Matt. 12:34 ("O generation of vipers"), and Matt. 23:27 (". . . hypocrites ... ye are like unto whited sepulchres...”) are excellent examples of hypocrisy.
I already answered that in the question before this.
In Mark 10:19 Jesus told a man to follow the Commandments. Yet one of those listed by Jesus was "defraud not," which isn't even an Old Testament commandment.
Defraud not is the same as do not lie. Also, read it in NIV.
In Matt. 16:28 Jesus said, “There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." Yet, they all died and he never came.
Jesus is equal to the Holy Spirit, who came later.
How could Jesus, whom the New Testament repeatedly refers to as the son of man, be our savior when this is clearly forestalled by Psalm 146:3 ("Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is no help") and Job 25:6 ("How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm")?
Jesus was hiding his power in a man. He was concieved by the Holy Spirit.
Except those of biased Christian writers, there isn't one writing outside the Bible in all of ancient history that clearly refers to Jesus of Nazareth.
Irrelevant. Does that prove the Bible is untrue? Also, except of biased non-Christians, is there one document that disproves the Bible?
In John 3:13 ("And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man...) Jesus erred because 2 Kings 2:11 (“. . . and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven") shows Elijah went up earlier.
Heaven is sometimes interperated as ‘sky´.
In Luke 12:4 Jesus told his followers to "Be not afraid of them that kill the body." But Matt. 12:14-16, John 7:1, 8:59, 10:39, 11:53-54, and Mark 1:45 show that he hid, escaped, and slunk around often.
Jesus time was not yet come to die. He had to die on the cross.
Even many of the staunchest defenders of Jesus admit that his comment in Matt. 10:34 ("I came not to send peace but a sword") contradicts verses such as Matt. 26:52 ("Put up again thy sword into his place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword").
Jesus came so that you would either accept him and go to heaven, or deny him and go to hell. That is the "sword" he was talking about. It's easier to understand that verse in NIV.
How can Jesus be God when he repeatedly said he was not God's equal, wasn't God? Obvious examples are: John 14:28 (“...for my Father is greater than I”), John 20:17 ("I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God"), and John 7:16 ("My doctrine is not mine but his that sent me").
Didn´t I tell you about God being three persons?
Jesus told us to "honor thy father and mother” (Matt. 15:4), but contradicted his own teaching in Luke 14:26 ("If any man comes to me and does not hate his father and mother ... he cannot be my disciple").
He is saying you must give up all to be a disciple of Jesus.
While an the Cross Jesus said, "Forgive them Father they know not what they do.” To whom was he speaking? They say, "God.” But I thought he was God. How can God speak to God if there is only one god? That's two gods.
Same as above.
Jesus' prophecy in John 13:38 (“The rooster shall not crow, till thou [Peter] hast denied me three times”) is false. Mark 14:66-68 shows the rooster crowed after the first denial, not the third.
It only says the rooster crowed. That doesn't mean it didn't crow two times before that verse.
While on the Cross Jesus said, "My God my God, why hast thou forsaken me" (Mark 15:34). How couid Jesus be our savior when he couldn't even save himself? Those aren't the words of a man voluntarily dying for our sins; those are the words of a man who can think of a hundred other places he would rather be.
Jesus sure could save himself. But then his purpose wouldn´t be fulfilled. He came to die on the cross for our sins. God could not look on sin. Jesus' whole purpose on Earth was to take the sin for us. Therefore, this was the first time God had been seperated from God spiritually (confused? The Trinity). That is why Jesus said that.
Jesus told a man in Mark 8:34 that "whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me." The obvious question is: What cross? He hadn't yet died on the cross. There was nothing to take up. That man would have had no idea what he was talking about.
A cross was a Roman torturing method for people like murderers and thieves. It wasn't just automatically invented for Jesus! The verse simply means that whoever follows Jesus will be punished.
Isn't Jesus a false prophet since he wrongly predicted in Matt. 12:40 that he would be buried three days and three nights as Jonah was in the whale three days and three nights? Friday afternoon to early Sunday morning is only one and a half days.
Another misinterpretation of the Bible. The Bible doesn't say- "Jesus was crucified on Friday...". Man just made that up; don't ask me why. He apparently was either crucified on a Thursday or rose on a Monday.
For Jesus to be executed for our sins makes about as much sense as my son telling a judge that he would accept execution for my crimes. Although a nice gesture, it has nothing to do with justice. What judge worthy of the title would agree?
Jesus died for our sins. What is confusing about it? And how is this a flaw?
In Luke 23:43 Jesus said to the thief on the cross, “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise." But how could they have been together in paradise that day if Jesus lay in the tomb for three days?
We've established about the Trinity, so you know that God the Father is on Earth and God the Son was on Earth. So, therefore, since God the Father is the same as God the Son, the thief was with God the Father in heaven.
In 1 Cor. 1: 1 7 ("For Christ sent me [Paul] not to baptize but to preach the gospel”) Paul said Jesus was wrong when he said in Matt. 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them....” So how could Jesus be the fountain of wisdom?
Baptizing doesn't mean only dipping your head in water, it can also mean to teach.
Paul says Christianity lives or dies on the Resurrection (1 Cor. 15:14,17). Yet, why would it be of any consequence since the Widow at Nain's son, Jairus's daughter, Lazarus, and many others rose before Jesus? By the time he rose this was a rather common occurrence. I would think it would have been met by a resounding yawn rather than surprise followed by: So what else can you do. Adam's act of coming into the world as a full grown adult is more spectacular.
That is irrelevent because it does not bring the Bible into question. Jesus resurrected some people. But did you ever realize that it is harder to resurrect yourself when you're dead!!??
Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Rev. 12:7). How can there be a war in a perfect place and if it happened before why couldn't it happen again? Why would I want to go to a place in which war can occur? That's exactly what I'm trying to escape, aren't you?
Heaven in the Bible is sometimes interperated as ‘sky´.
Back to Homepage
