The Bible is not God's Word

Round 4 May Jesus be glorified So once again my opponent wants to stick to his the video someone else made without doing the work for himself, and then when I attempt to refer him to one of the many book that speak about the alleged "contradictions" he comments that I should do my own study, "It would be better if you could actually use your own knowledge and logic to respond to the contradictions shown in the videos." So it is ok for you to use someone else"s work, the video, but you want me to respond to these misinterpretations of the Bible, as I have told you already there are several books out there that speak about these misinterpretations and correct them well over 800 of them, so if you want to play the game of you show something that you believe is a contradiction then I will respond with the proper interpretation, and we can go around in circles like that. I thought you really wanted to debate this not just look on some skeptic"s web site and type what they say. Next, I spoke of the fact that the entire Bible holds to one thought, your reply was of course it was written by Jewish people so they are all from the same culture, so I pointed to the lack of logic in your statement and you missed so I will try again. A king in any culture lives the good life, anything he wants is his from life to death, and he can do and say as he pleases. Then you have the poor man, like a Shepard, one of the lowest people in the Jewish culture, no one would listen to what they have to say much less give them any respect. Yet both of the groups have written parts of the Bible, the learned King and the uneducated Shepard, and they both hold to one thought, how can this be if they were not guided? You also replied that the apostles and as you put it "they were willing to stretch the truth to accomplish that goal." What goal, being killed, scorn, families murdered, loss of work, if you had actually read the Bible you would know that the followers were starting to break apart with some leaving the group and returning home, when Jesus returned. Then you attempt again to say that they would be willing to stand in front of the people who just crucified Jesus, and call them out on it, that they would start speaking with authority to these same people, they didn"t make up a lie, Jesus returned from the grave and gave the grace, mercy and strength to spread the good news. Next you posted this "Jesus was nothing more than random homeless preacher who had gained some really loyal followers. Not many people knew Jesus personally during his lifetime." Once again I believe you have never even read the Bible for if you had you would see events like this, Jesus feed 5000 men (plus women and children) who followed Him to hear Him teach. Or, how about the teaching that occurred in a home, that was so full inside and out that the men tore a hole in the roof to lower their friend down the Jesus, then you have the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem where peopled lined the streets to see and worship Him. Upon his resurrection Jesus appeared to more than 500 of his followers. Sorry not a small group at all. Also, as I have pointed out historians who where "hostile" to the teaching of Jesus still comment on Him, this as you put it homeless preacher. So, on to the debate if you commit a sin who is it against? God and only God, we harm each other with these acts but the sin is actually against God. So then who can forgive sin? Only God can forgive sin and yet Jesus did this many times, how? Many different religions believe Jesus lived a totally sin less life, for example in Islam, "that Jesus alone of those born on earth was exclusively born without being touched by the devil." (1) and many more comments like these, so if the Bible and the Quran both say that Jesus lived a sinless life, which is to say He could not lie. Why would Jesus then quote from the Old Testament as it was the truth and fact? Jesus believes it to be God"s word, and yet He lived a sinless life. If there ever was an authority it is Jesus. So if the Bible where Gods word it stand to reason that it would have facts and information that people do not have or do not know. Up to the 6th century BC it was believed that the earth was flat, even after that Socrates believed it as late as 400 BC (2), so then does the Bible say the earth is round if so when did that appear? The Bible does in fact call the earth round (3), now these are written in Job and Isaiah, Job is believed to have been written around 1500 BC and Isaiah written around 750 BC both well before we figured out that the Earth was round and both while the leading wise men of the age said the earth was flat. How about the flood of Noah that is recorded in the Bible surely there would be some data to back this up, and what we find all mountains have marine fossils on them how can this be unless all mountains did not exist until marine animals evolved or the mountains where covered with water from a worldwide flood. There are more but for the sake of room let"s move on. If the Bible where from God then it would be able to predict the future and events, we call these prophesies that would occur in the future, what do we see? In Jesus alone we see over 300 prophecies fulfilled like the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:1), that he would spend time in Egypt (Hosea 11:1) so the Bible successfully described over 300 things that would be true in one person, Jesus , hundreds of years prior. In fact the odds of Jesus fulfilling just 8 of these prophecies are 1:100,000,000,000,000,000 (4). What about other prophecies does the Bible speak of other things before they happened? For example the fact that Jericho would be rebuilt by one man (Joshua 6:26) the odds of this coming true 1:10,000,000 there are a great many more one more for good measure. The exact location and construction sequence of Jerusalem"s nine suburbs (Jeremiah31:38-40) fulfilled 2600 years later, odds of this happening 1:1,000,000,000,000,000,000.(5) So we see the commonality of Bible thru thousands of years, over many classes of people. We see the Jesus himself fulfill prophecies that where written about Him hundreds of years before He was born. We see that Jesus himself believed the Old Testament to be true and God"s word, Jesus who could not lie. We see hundreds of other prophecies fulfilled all given hundreds of years prior to the events. We see that the Bible has no contradictions and that the claims of such are always misinterpretations of the scripture. 1.http://www.farsinet.com... 2.Dick's, D.R. (1970). Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. pp. 72"198. ISBN 978-0-8014-0561-7. 3.http://www.answersingenesis.org... 4.http://christiananswers.net... 5.http://www.reasons.org...