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What a muddle!!
You assumed Minor errors do not change the meaning of the text, or the spiritual message behind it
how can we go to the Bible for spiritual truth if there are errors in the Bible. If the Bible has errors, who is going to decide which words are true, and which are not?
If God can work through a sinful woman to give us the sinless, incarnate Word, he can surely work through fallible men to give us the inerrant, written Word.
You still believe christians claiming that the Bible is not the Exact word of God?
The Bible claims that it is 100% (including the so called insignificant parts)true and inspired,
Paul notes in 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 that the Holy Spirit (1) searched out the deep things of God, (2) revealed them to the prophets and apostles, (3) motivated these men to write them down, and (4) guided them as they wrote.
It is inconceivable that the Holy Spirit should go to such trouble and then abandon his work to the ravages of time and the vagaries of men.
2 Timothy 3:16 ... "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.
you believe christians but ignore What the Bible claims about itself!!
Once conceding there are errors in the Bible, you have opened a Pandora's Box. How do you know which parts are true if you admit some parts are false. As ICBI said: "... But this position (claiming truthfulness for those parts of the Bible where God, as opposed to men has spoken-ed). is unsound. People who think like this speak of Biblical authority, but at best they have partial Biblical authority since the parts containing errors obviously cannot be authoritative. What is worse, they cannot even tell us precisely what parts are from God and are therefore truthful and what parts are not from God and are in error. Usually they say that the "salvation parts" are from God, but they do not tell us how to separate these from the non-salvation parts." (Does Errancy Matter by James Boice, page 8)
The Biblical problems are not minor in nature dear ,the current Bible is contradicting in every manner...Aside the minor contradictions with your words, the teachings of New and Old testaments are contradicting.
If you wish we can talk about "major" errors, contradictions, and fallacies in the Bible that strikes at the root of the Christian faith either .
let's ignore your insignificant Bible copiests errors and talk about a fatal flaw in the most significant part of the Gospel (the resurrection of the savior of Humanity) ,the four inspired writers contradict each others in almost all narratives of the resurrection . my question to those who think that there are no inconsistencies in the important parts like the resurrection
narratives is a simple one:
If Mary Magdalene had been told by an angel that Jesus had risen and if she had even seen Jesus and touched him after leaving the tomb, Matthew 28:1.10
why did she go tell Peter that the body of Jesus had been stolen?John 20:1
Compare Matthew narrative with John:
Matthew 28:1-10
1After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
2There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
5The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."
8So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."
John 20:1.3
1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"
wish someone here try to clear up such gross contradiction.
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