The infallible Word of God?

[Rico]

Originally Posted by clgustaveson

Forget to take your uranium out of the enricher?

You'll see.

[JN Anderson]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

For those interested in the answers to Timmy's questions please go to this site and check out questions 46-91 for a good review on infallibility, and how we came by the canon of scripture we use today. You can find out the answers to these questions and many more on this subject.

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/268theologyquestions


Questions about Authority and the Bible (Bibliology)


Who do we trust for Christian authority?
What is Tradition?
What are the five main view for Christian authority?
Is the Scripture all we need?
What are the arguments for Sola Ecclesia (the Roman Catholic view of authority in the Church)?
What are the arguments against Sola Ecclesia (the Roman Catholic view of authority in the Church)? Part 1
What are the arguments against Sola Ecclesia (the Roman Catholic view of authority in the Church)? Part 2
Is the Bible alone the only infallible source for authority (sola Scriptura)?
Has the text of Scripture changed since it was first written?
How was the text of Scripture transferred from one generation to the next? Part 1
How was the text of Scripture transferred from one generation to the next? Part 2
How was the text of Scripture transferred from one generation to the next? Part 3
How accurate are Scriptures?
Do we have the right books?
What are the facts concerning the canon?
What are the tests of canonicity?
What are the arguments for the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books of the Roman Catholic Bible?
What are the argumentsagainst the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books of the Roman Catholic Bible?
What is the Old Testament canon?
How were the New Testament books decided upon? Part 1
How were the New Testament books decided upon? Part 2
How were the New Testament books decided upon? Part 3
What is the doctrine of inspiration?
What is the biblical view of inspiration?
What are the different theories of inspiration?
How does inspiration occur?
What is the most common mistake that evangelicals make with regard to their understanding of the inspiration of the Scriptures?
How do we know the Bible is inspired?
What is the internal evidence for the inspiration of Scripture? Part 1
What is the internal evidence for the inspiration of Scripture? Part 2
What is the external evidence for the inspiration of Scripture? Part 1
What is the external evidence for the inspiration of Scripture? Part 2
Does the Bible err?
How is inerrancy different from infallibility?
Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy
What are the objections and responses to inerrancy?
What about all the "contradictions" in the Bible?
How have people historically interpreted Scripture?
How did the Rabbis interpret the Old Testament in Christ's day?
How did the Apostles interpret the Old Testament?
How did the early Church interpret Scripture?
How did people interpret Scripture during the medieval period?
How did the Reformers interpret Scripture?
What is the modern way of interpreting Scripture?
What are the basic principles of biblical interpretation?
What are some common interpretative fallacies?

This is an awesome link. Thanks for posting Mizpeh.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by 1Corinth2v4

2 Kings 8:26 says "Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign..."

2 Chronicles 22:2 says "Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign..."

Yeah, that would be one of the many "apparent" contradictions. I'm sure we could find the excuse ...er, explanation... for that one.

I've even heard it explained this way: God put the apparent contradictions in there on purpose, ya see. Yeah, so anyone reading it would have to have a whole bunch of faith, ya see, to believe that it's true anyway. Yeah. That way, the ones who believe it, despite the errors and contradictions, are gonna be extra special blessed, ya see. And here's the best part: that proves that the Bible was inspired!

Isn't that awesome?

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by 1Corinth2v4

2 Kings 8:26 says "Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign..."

2 Chronicles 22:2 says "Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign..."

Are these the same person, Maybe father & son? Because you would have to read all of the in between scriptures to say for certain I guess.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by cneasttx

Are these the same person, Maybe father & son? Because you would have to read all of the in between scriptures to say for certain I guess.

Same man. The contradiction is explained (among other places) here.

After explaining that God really meant what He said (in a nutshell, the man was 22 biologically, but "42 years old in the kingdom of Omri and Ahab, wicked kings of Israel, his maternal family" (oddly, the writer shows in a chart that Ahab reigned 20 years, citing "inspired history", but the KJV says it was 22), he tells us why there are contradictions in the Bible: "What looks like a contradiction in the KJV is a trap set by God to confuse and shame men who would rather question and criticize God’s word than believe and study it." Isn't that awesome?

In the section "For Further Study", we have a paper that shows us how "God righteously blinds men from seeing the truth, and that God wrote the Bible in such a way as to blind men from the truth as well." Isn't that wonderful?

[U376977]

This thread reminds me of an old SG song--I don't remember the title. It went something like, I doubted his healing, until I was healed. I doubted he could save every sinner, until I saw the worst saved. I doubted he could answer prayer, until he answered mine. etc. you get the indea...
Another old song is, "you can't make me doubt him, I know to much about him. You can't make me doubt him in my soul."

I believe the Word because I have tried it and it works. Can't change me. I will not compromise or will not relent. Every seeming contridiction is easily understood with study. For example, the differences in the gospels about the words Pilot wrote on the sign over the cross---They were in different languages.