The Bible is God's Word

Whether the Bible contradicts itself or not doesn’t prove it's God’s word. There are books that write about subjects and don’t contradict, but if the authors said their book was divine, the fact that the book doesn’t contradict itself is no proof of this. Pro gives an extremely bad argument: “(After saying God's word must be perfect and mentioning contradictions) that this proves it is just a fairytale and shouldn't be trusted. Is this true, or is it not. I say there are none and to prove my point I will be presenting 2 popular "contradictions", and I will show why they are wrong. ” This is clearly the position he adopts (that there are no contradictions and the bible is perfect), and I will answer this claim, but he then says: “But even if there were many errors in the Bible, considering its background, wouldn't you expect hardly anything to agree in it. “ He goes on to give excuses about the Bible and how it could not be perfect. Pro contradicts himself in this argument, but I will answer nonetheless. I know several contradictions that go like this: MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. LUK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli. (2) Another one goes: "In “Matthew 28:1 states two women (Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary) came to the tomb; Mark 16:1 states it was three women (Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome);Luke 24:10 agrees it was three women but gives a different list of three than Mark (Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James); John 20:1 states it was only Mary Magdalene. ” (4) Suppose we take his first stance that the Bible is infallible and has no contradictions. If I show then that the Bible has contradictions and is not perfect, the only position Pro could possibly hold is that it is not perfect or intact, which goes against his logic and argument when he says: ”in order for it to be God's inspired word it must also be infallible. Since God is perfect, His Word must also be perfect, otherwise it was just written by men and everything Christians live for is for nothing. ” I think that gets rid of the argument. He also says: “The Hebrew word translated to mean formed in Gen. 2:19 is yatsar. But this word could also be translated to mean had formed, which makes this passage, not another creation story, but a more detailed account of day 6. ” Is Pro going to use the Hebrew bible or the King James Version as he specified in the beginning? Using one is not the same as using the other, and if Pro is going to argue from the King James Version he obviously cannot use other versions with different words. “In conclusion, it is simply impossible for the Bible to not be God's Word. It has been the most persecuted book in all history, yet we still have it with us today. So many attempts have been made to get rid of it but all have failed. How is it that a book that was written thousands of years ago can have such an impact on people today. People have died for their love of it, and people have killed others because of their hatred of it. ” Well, this is basically a criterion that allows for Hinduism and Islam to be God’s word also. Pro uses the Appeal to Accomplishment fallacy. Let's take Islam. Islam is 1400 years old, is still existing today, and has impact on more than 1.5 billion Muslims around the world. If you want to add the “it’s been persecuted throughout history”, CHRISTIANITY persecuted Muslims during the Crusades and they didn’t succeed in destroying it. Well, if the Qur’an survived Christianity, then it must be superior to the bible’s word, and therefore it is the true God’s word! You see how this is useless reasoning. Hindu texts are THOUSANDS of years older than the New Testament(1), but this doesn’t mean it is God’s true word. Killing for it? Does that give credibility? I give then two words: Allahu Akbar. (Muslim suicide bombers) As for what he says about the Bible being “ahead of it’s time”, Con makes a lot of mistakes. I’ll say firstly that my position is that the Bible says SOME correct things. Firstly, blood does give you life. Without it you would die. .. However, your stomach is also life, without it you would die. Without a BRAIN you would die INSTANTLY, you don’t even have time to bleed out. So saying that the Israelites mentioned blood being life and thus they are divinely guided is an error, because they only mentioned one aspect and you already fill in all the other spaces (vital organs). I further argue that even if the Bible has some true facts, it doesn’t make it all a truth. An example: let’s say that a PhD astronomy author wrote a book about astronomy and 150 other different subjects, those 150 all having fake facts. He darn well could have had multiple correct facts about astronomy, that doesn’t mean he is right about the rest besides proved astronomy. If the author claimed that he was perfect, we could have no reasonable excuse to give him the benefit of that position. The Bible got SOME things right. So what? That doesn’t mean it’s God’s word. The Bible also says the Earth is 6,000 years old, which was debunked with radiometric dating. We know we weren’t created and we are the product of evolution. We know that we cannot fit all the animals in the world into a space of 150 meters long by 25 wide. (Genesis 6:15) We know that all the animals on the ark that got to a height higher than Mount Everest’s would have died because of a lack of oxygen. (Genesis 7:20) We know grass can’t grow before the sun is created. (Genesis 1: 11) We know there are no giants (Genesis 6:4). We know that dragons don’t exist (Revelations 12: 3). We know human beings can’t live more than 900 years (Adam, Eve, Methuselah, Noah in Genesis 5) . And we know the Earth isn’t flat (Matthew 4: 8 “Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. ” You can’t see all the kingdoms in the world from any height because it’s round AND there is no mountain higher than Mount Everest, from which you cannot even see U31; of the Earth. ) (3) It is clear that the Bible holds numerous erroneous facts, which further convinces me that the Bible is not the word of God. Pro says: “But in order for it to be God's inspired word it must also be infallible. Since God is perfect, His Word must also be perfect, otherwise it was just written by men and everything Christians live for is for nothing. ” I have shown the Bible not to be infallible, therefore it’s not God’s word, according to Pro’s logic (which is still erroneous). I negate the resolution. Of course, Pro also has to prove that God exists in order for his claim to be complete, and the fact that the Bible says it’s the word of God does not prove this is true. He has not said this, but it is a common false claim. As the reader knows, the Qur’an also says this, the Vedas also say this, and numerous other religious texts do so too. I am sure that the Bible is not perfect, but let's imagine the Bible were to be perfectly written, and had modern medicine and science written on it, you could still get to a number of conclusions. Was it aliens that wrote it? Does this prove superpowers? Did the authors have the ability to read the future? Or maybe something else? How can we rule out that we aren't being joked with even if the author was a superior being? You see how even if the book was perfect you would still not have a reasonable excuse to say the Bible is God’s word because there are still many questions open to be answered. I finish my first rebuttal. 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