How can you trust the message of God (bible) to be untampered, after humans selected what was shown?
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If you have some sort of intelligence you will not trust the words/actions of men to be the words/actions of God. If you lack intelligence you will believe that those men (that you know nothing or very little about) was acting on the behalf or God. That's also the reason why spam works, people buy anything as long as they want to believe.
473166
Bible is a prop. Man created god to its own image. But don't tell them or question it, they'll get upset.
508496
Read the Bible for yourself and verify if what people tell you are true. Never ever take anyone's word for it... verify the facts then you will be able to discern those who are teaching the truth from those who mislead others.
918861
I guess they don't want people to notice the inconsistencies and nonsensical things that become blatantly obvious whenever you analyze organized religion, and particularly the Bible.\n\nIt's all fine as long as you accept every word in those "holy books" without thought. But as soon as you question just a little bit, the cards start to fall. You're eventually left with two choices: Decide that God in some way defies logic, or reject the book as false.
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The bible is 99% pure, however there still exist copyist errors which you most definitely have pointed out.  The first is a numbering copyist error and the second, one of the daughters is actually Merab.  However the christian faith does not rest on tiny pieces of data like these examples.  All of the questionable material of the bible has absolutely no impact on the doctrine of Christianity--they are all very minute details such as the ones you have pointed out.  The other 'supposed' contradictions out there commit several logical fallacies such as quoting out of context and juxtaposition, and do not look at hebrew or greek colloquialisms
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The thing is, the Bible is almost completely anonymous; and how can we be sure when a particualar bit was changed over the course of two thousand years of Roman Catholic possession of all the remaining documents, after they did their darndest to eradicate every scrap of parchment that was antithetical to their conspiracy. \n\nAs I recall, the Jesus Seminar was an attempt to winnow out of the New Testament all of Jesus's speech that has the highest probability of being actually from his mouth. I also seem to recall that only a small percentage was deemed to be worthy of having been spoken by Jesus.
421981
I never question the word of God. he said it, and i believe it. I may not understand everything in there, but that is when i pray and ask God to reveal it to me. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. Seek, and you will find it.  He has showed me many things. he can do the same for everybody.
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No....we are not bound to what we can/cannot read/see. Better we read and talk about it then say so without reading. Unless you rather not have such things in your head.  I have not read it, but my SIL has and she is a Christian.\nGod judges us by His Law not man made laws. His law is the Ten Commandments.  Nothing should/could persuade us otherwise.\nWhat unsaved people do not realize is we have no boundaries of what we can/cannot do. We have convictions that warn us of the consequences of doing what would be sinful in God's eyes. \nFar as I am concerned:  this book is just another way of trying to make a fool out of Christ.  I don't have to read/see it to know a devil when I hear of one.\nWe have been warned by Godly people.  Even if you do read/see it, mature Christians know the truth.   \nIt is SAD that people will be led down the wrong path that do not yet know the truth.\nNew Christians may just get confused as they are still in the learning stages of growing in Christ.  Better IF they see it to search for the truth as they read their Bible.\nSatan is the author of confusion.  So we already know who is behind it.
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The Bible was written by people and has a bias.  We read it to attempt to interpret what God means.  Since God lives within us, if we pay attention to our hearts we'll know what's right.
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No, The only absolute and SURE thing that God has revealed is his word. And I am pretty sure that isn't in there. Everything else we just ASSUME is from God, with no actual proof- only a guess, and that isn't the way God wants us to live, he wants us to be sure, which is why he revealed himself and we have the proof.\n\nAnd choosing our spouses is just that, a CHOICE we make- based on a variety of things, but still our choice. That is something we are responsible for-- so choose wisely!!!
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I'm not gonna look it up but we do know the Bible was penned by men, translated by men and retranslated by men,  is it not a miracle that though all that the message with regards to how you should behave (which is the message) is never corupted.  God does not ever give us the idea that those who penned the Bible were infallible buyt that they were inspired.  This is no doubt a trivial mistake or different battles, or different view points like two people who see the same accident.  What does it matter.  The Bible talks of evil people so they no doubt exist and some of them were no doubt scribs.  I know of two other inconsequencial errors but as I watch movies who do not have even 1/10 th script and many more editing tools I always see mistakes in continuity like these you ask about, so what these things do is make it all the more real.\n\ntry reading a court trial transcript one time and see what kind of continuity you get in there,  and those trials do not take 10000 years worth of testimony.
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Man has corrupted everything he has put his hands on. why would this book be any different? The Bible was not written in English. It has been translated many times before we got it printed in English. With mans ever growing struggle for power is to be able to control it's people. how better why then to make a book by our creator. Personally I do not know if this book is or isn't truthful. it has a lot of nice things in it but I can't allow myself to think that man has not altered it. I much rather trust my heart and know that I am trying to be the best me I can be.
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I don't think that people understand his message and they take it way out of proportion. I saw a show on TV that says everything in the bible isn't true because back then no one could read or write anyways. Personally, I don't believe in the whole crock of it.
1050239
Read the truth. It's found in the BIBLE. Gods holy word. Everything we will ever need in our lifetime is found in the BIBLE.
113162
Bible says it not the Church-Thats why bibles are not locked
615866
if you arent sure about somethign someone has told you then you need to check it out in an OLD bible, such as the KJV, because people change and have opinions that are their own feelings.. God doesnt change , we do and we have totally lost how things used to be and come so far from the truth... dont trust people only the bible
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Modern textual analysis of the Bible leaves little doubt that it is a human document produced by the work of many hands who have been editing, adding, and changing (and, plausibly, deleting) over the centuries.  The Book of Revelation was not intended to scare the crap out of people; it was written during a difficult time of persecution in the Roman Empire and was intended to bolster the faith of believers who, given the violence being done to Christians, were beginning to lose hope in the final victory of Christ's return.\n\nYour final question is the tough one.  It's tough because it requires one to know the mind of God in order to answer it correctly.  I, for one, don't presume to know the mind of God.  I DO believe, however, that God loves us; I also believe that faith in God saves us from the doom of which you speak.  So why the free will - why have we been given the power to reject God's love?  If I think about it from God's perspective, it makes sense - we all want to be loved because someone CHOSE to love us, not because that's the only way that person is programmed to think or to act.  Love is by definition an act of free will - we cannot truly love until we CHOOSE to love.  Choosing not to love God dooms us to an eternity without a relationship with God - perhaps not the fire-and-brimstone of popular myth, but an eternal emptiness, a void that can never be filled.  That is an eternity of our own choosing.  I hope this makes sense - I don't even know if it makes complete sense to me, because it is a tough subject.