The Bible
Questions connected to the reliability of the Book of books
The Bible, God's revealed will for mankind, is generally known as the Book of books. No other book is more well-known. No other book has sold as many copies or been translated into as many different languages as the Bible. Even after hundreds of years, it inspires artists, provokes sceptics, and gives hope to those who understand the transience of a person's life. For the believer, it represents an irreplaceable support throughout life. Of course for others, it is a stumbling stone/block. It is made light of and doubted. It is stripped of every claim of authority to speak into their lives. The Bible has faced uncountable attacks on its authority and reliability, in the last century especially. However, these attacks not only come from the ranks of the sceptics, but also more and more from the ranks of those who consider themselves to be Christians.
Many people judge the Bible without really knowing anything about it (at one time, I was the same). When you ask such a person why he doesn't accept it, you often hear pat, memorized answers or phrases with a bias and a context lacking reasoning. In better cases, you will hear critiques written by people whose interest it is to undermine the Bible or to cause Bible stories to be misunderstood. 'The Bible is full of mistakes, historical inaccuracies, contradictory statements, manipulated by greedy priests. Reincarnation has been removed from it. . .' and so on. These statements are just a fraction of those which people in our Christian country direct at the Bible. Nevertheless, when you ask politely if they can show three of these supposed contradictions, inaccuracies, or mistakes, they are often not able to give even one. This only shows that there is a deep-rooted, unsubstantiated prejudice and anti-Christian ideology in the subconsciousness of our society. I am not stating that there are not any difficult places or seeming contradictions (and we will get to those) in the Bible, but I am pointing out the reality that people reject something which they don't know anything about, and which they don't want to honestly examine/study.
In the following series of questions, I would like to focus on explaining the most important problems connected to the Bible. Even here, I must emphasize that this is an extensive subject about which innumerable books have been written. Therefore, take these answers more as a subject for further study and investigation of the Truth.
