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Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
When faced with unresolved questions about the Bible, approach them with humility, diligent study, and prayer. Focus on the core gospel message while seeking understanding through historical context, cultural differences, and the guidance of reputable sources.
Jesus Christ treated Scripture as God’s unbreakable, truthful, authoritative Word in every doctrine, detail, prophecy, and historical claim.
Sooner or later, every young Christian comes across passages in the Bible which are hard to understand and difficult to believe. To many young Christians, these difficulties become a serious hindrance in the development of their Christian life. For days and weeks and months, oftentimes, faith suffers partial or total eclipse.
What does it mean to be a skeptic? Are skeptics to be skeptical about all things or are they able to be skeptical about some things, while being a true believer about other things?
Scribal errors and textual variants do not overthrow Scripture; they show the need for careful manuscript comparison and sound exegesis.
Bible difficulties require reverent, contextual, grammatical, and historical study that trusts Scripture while examining the facts carefully.
Bible difficulties are not errors but questions requiring context, careful interpretation, manuscript awareness, and trust in Scripture.
In short, there are no contradictions, errors, or mistakes in the Bible, but there are Bible difficulties. Basically, Bible Difficulties are difficulties that arise because the Bible was written in Hebrew, some Aramaic, and Greek over 1,600 years by some forty+ authors, in dozens of different historical settings that require much Bible background knowledge. This above is not enough to satisfy a... Continue Reading →
IT SEEMS THAT the charge that the Bible contradicts itself has been made more and more in the last 30 years. Generally, those making such claims are merely repeating what they have heard because most have not even read the Bible, let alone done an in-depth study of it. However, we should not set aside all concerns as though they have no merit.
As we look over the ten classes of difficulties, we see they all arise from our imperfection in understanding, and not from the imperfection of the Bible. The Bible is perfect, but we, being imperfect, will have difficulties in understanding it. As we grow more and more in our understanding of God, our difficulties grow ever less and less, and so we are forced to conclude that when we dig deeper into God's Word, we shall have very few difficulties whatever with the Bible.
