The Bible Contains Scientific Errors

Genesis Creation A look at the Bible can show that the Genesis creation story is meant to be taken literally. " *We must not change or teach differently from God's word. Matthew 15:9,13 - We must not teach man-made doctrine. Galatians 1:8,9 - We must not teach differently from the gospel of Christ. 1 Timothy 1:3; 2 Timothy 1:13 - We should hold fast the pattern of sound words and teach no other doctrine. *Jesus rebuked people who do not believe Moses' writings. John 5:46,47 - Believing Moses leads us to believe Jesus and His word. If we don't believe Moses' writings, we will not believe Jesus' words! Luke 24:25-27 - Failure to believe Moses' writings leads to failure to accept the truth of Jesus and His teachings. God has changed His commandments from the Old Testament to the New, but records of history do not change. In order to confirm the New Testament, we must accept Old Testament prophecy and history, especially miracles such as creation. Rejecting the accuracy of Moses' writings will lead us to reject New Testament truths! "[1] Still, believers might have to accept a figurative story. However: " *True believers must accept Bible records of miracles as literal, historic fact. The power of miracles as evidence rests entirely on their validity as historic fact. Unless they are contrary to natural law but nevertheless occurred as true, historic fact, then they prove nothing about God or His will. So to deny the literal, historic Bible descriptions of miracles - to claim that some supernatural aspects are legendary or symbolic - is to deny the accuracy of the Bible and to belittle the force of the miracle. This encourages rejection of the evidence for God, the Bible, and Jesus. And the more fundamental a miracle is to our faith, the greater are the consequences if we deny its historic validity. "[1] If that weren't enough, there's even more proof of the literal story: " *In particular, true believers must never compromise the supernatural time element in a miracle. ~The importance of the time element The time element is one supernatural aspect that demonstrates an event to be a true miracle. The length of time it takes is often stated as one reason to believe God must have done it. Specifically, many accounts of miracles specify that they happened suddenly. Given a much longer time period, one might suspect that the event could have occurred by nature. But the shortness of the time demonstrates that God must have done it. It follows that we must recognize the Biblical record of the time element of a miracle to be historic fact. To claim it is symbolic, figurative, or less than historic fact is to compromise the Bible account and defeat the purpose of the miracle as evidence. "[1] So, the Genesis story is supposed to be taken literally. Noah's Lineage A look at Jesus's genealogy can decipher this: Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,"the son of Matthat,. .. , the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. [Luke 3:23-38][2](A study on Noah's genealogy; please see figure 1 near the bottom. ) So are the sons of Adam and the ancestors of Jesus just ficticious characters? I think not, or the whole Bible is completely fake and Christianity is a baseless religion. Noah is meant to be taken literally. But what about the ark? The story itself is also meant to be taken literally because all the characters are real. That is most certainly literal. Want Biblical proof: "Biblical consistency is easy to find. Jesus and Peter both understood the Flood to be literal and historical and there are no passages in Scripture which even remotely suggest that the Ark was not a literal ship. "[3] The Other Stories Points IV-VI aren't stories - they are just passages that are meant to be taken literally as the word of God. They were calculated, deduced, or observed. These aren't ficticious. "Not only can we take the Bible literally, but we must take the Bible literally. This is the only way to determine what God really is trying to communicate to us. When we read any piece of literature, but especially the Bible, we must determine what the author intended to communicate. Many today will read a verse or passage of Scripture and then give their own definitions to the words, phrases, or paragraphs, ignoring the context and author"s intent. But this is not what God intended, which is why God tells us to correctly handle the Word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15). "[4] These stories aren't supposed to be taken with a grain of salt. Point VII might be a figurative story and I'll drop it to save time and space. Still, look above. Questioning A few questions. First, This begs the question - Who is to decide what is figurative and what is literal? Obviously the whole Bible can't be fiction in Christianity's eyes or even stories. Certain passages have to be taken literally. Second, even if they are figurative, they are still errors. Nothing can eliminate the fact that the errors I mentioned last round are there; its interpretation has no bearing or weight in this. Star Wars is figurative (fake) AND contains scientific errors. Third, how can an omnipotent God's word be taken by its believers to be figurative anyway? That basically undermines the point of religion. This is impossible. So, figurative or not, the Bible does contain scientific errors. Sources: All Bible verses from here except where quoted from another source: . http://www.biblegateway.com...: Version ESV. [1]: . http://www.gospelway.com... [2]: . http://www.bible-truth.org... [3]: . http://essays.mightymag.org... [4]: . http://www.gotquestions.org...