How accurate is the Bible?

Modern archaeology has helped us realize that the Bible is historically accurate even in the smallest of details. There have been thousands of archaeological discoveries in the past century that support every book of the Bible.
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What percentage of accuracy is the Bible?

Virtually unchanged (99.5% accuracy rate) over the centuries, the New Testament can be deemed reliable and accurate.
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Is the Bible historically accurate?

One can extend biblical historicity to the evaluation of whether or not the Christian New Testament is an accurate record of the historical Jesus and of the Apostolic Age. This tends to vary depending upon the opinion of the scholar.
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Why the Bible is unreliable?

The Bible is an unreliable authority because it contains numerous contradictions. Logically, if two statements are contradictory, at least one of them is false. The biblical contradictions therefore prove that the book has many false statements and is not infallible.
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Can we trust the Bible?

1. The biblical manuscripts have been reliably transmitted from the authors to us today. What should a person look for when checking to see if an ancient text has been corrupted? The person should look for other surviving copies of that text to cross reference for variants.
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Is the Bible the true word of God?

The word of God came to him before any scriptures were written and before the bible was compiled. Therefore, neither the scriptures nor the bible can be the word of God. John says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
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What Bible is the true Bible?

The New American Standard Bible is a literal translation from the original texts, well suited to study because of its accurate rendering of the source texts.
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Who made the Bible?

Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don't know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
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What are the major contradictions in the Bible?

Biblical Contradictions
  • The Sabbath Day. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” — Exodus 20:8. ...
  • The Permanence of Earth. “… the earth abideth for ever.” — Ecclesiastes 1:4. ...
  • Seeing God. ...
  • Human Sacrifice. ...
  • The Power of God. ...
  • Personal Injury. ...
  • Circumcision. ...
  • Incest.
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What are the errors in the Bible?

Here are some of the more memorable (the Society of Bible Collectors furnished several of these examples).
  • 'Sin on more' ...
  • 'Let the children first be killed' ...
  • 'If the latter husband ate her' ...
  • 'To remain' ...
  • 'Owl husband' ...
  • 'Holy ghost' ...
  • 'Peace on Earth and good will toward men' ...
  • 'Out of thy lions'
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Does Archaeology disprove the Bible?

Instead, he continued: “As a matter of fact, however, it may be categorically stated that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference.” In other words, archaeology didn't have to prove the Bible's account of history, but it did prove it, or at least never disproved it—and he himself, he wrote ...
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Who wrote the first Bible?

About The Book

For thousands of years, the prophet Moses was regarded as the sole author of the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch.
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How did the Bible come about?

Scholars now believe that the stories that would become the Bible were disseminated by word of mouth across the centuries, in the form of oral tales and poetry – perhaps as a means of forging a collective identity among the tribes of Israel. Eventually, these stories were collated and written down.
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How accurate is the Dead Sea Scrolls?

One significance of the Dead Sea scrolls is that they demonstrate how accurately the Bible was transmitted over time by the Jewish scribes (there is better than a 95% agreement between the Hebrew words of the Great Isaiah Scroll and the Hebrew Masoretic Text, from which our Old Testament was translated).
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What do the Dead Sea Scrolls prove?

The Dead Sea Scrolls have been recognized for generations as one of the most convincing methods of proof of Jesus' existence, both historically and theologically. Because they date back so closely to the time of Christ, they are all the more solidified as honest records of the Hebrew Bible.
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What percent of the Bible is story?

Approximately 43% of the Bible is made up of narrative, from historical narrative to parables.
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How many inconsistencies are in the Bible?

And in 1860, William Henry Burr produced a list of 144 self-contradictions in the Bible. Biblical scholars have studied inconsistencies in and between texts and canons as a means to study the bible and the societies that created and influenced it.
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Has the Bible changed over time?

The Bible is the holy scripture of the Christian religion, purporting to tell the history of the Earth from its earliest creation to the spread of Christianity in the first century A.D. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament have undergone changes over the centuries, including the the publication of the King ...
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Is the Bible older than we thought?

A new study has revealed that literacy may have been higher than previously believed in Israel in the sixth century, suggesting that the first five books of the Bible may have been written earlier than some scholars believed.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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What are the 75 books removed from the Bible?

This book contains: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, The Book of Tobit, The Book of Susanna, Additions to Esther, The Book of Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, The Epistle of Jeremiah, The Prayer of Azariah, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Manasses, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, Gospel of ...
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What is a real name of Jesus?

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
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Is the Bible written by God?

The Bible's origin is both human and divine—not just from God and not just from humans. The Bible's narratives, poems, histories, letters, prophecies, and other writings come from a profound collaboration between humanity and God.
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Does the original Bible still exist?

The books of the Bible were initially written and copied by hand on papyrus scrolls. No originals survive, and the oldest currently existing scrolls, the Dead Sea Scrolls, are those discovered in the caves of Qumran in 1947.
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What is the original Bible called?

Hebrew Bible, also called Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament, or Tanakh, collection of writings that was first compiled and preserved as the sacred books of the Jewish people. It also constitutes a large portion of the Christian Bible, known as the Old Testament.
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