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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 11, 2011 at 3:56 pm
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Well I wouldn't believe it if there weren't evidence for it. At least that's what my psychic says to do. 
Oh and I love how in his answer, Zacharias claims that one scholar says that the New Testament is 99.6% accurate. If it's the word of God, shouldn't it be 100.00% accurate?
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 11, 2011 at 6:39 pm
(May 11, 2011 at 3:56 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Well I wouldn't believe it if there weren't evidence for it. At least that's what my psychic says to do.
Oh and I love how in his answer, Zacharias claims that one scholar says that the New Testament is 99.6% accurate. If it's the word of God, shouldn't it be 100.00% accurate?
And why should we believe that scholar. If he's spent his life studying the BuyBull there's little likelihood that he'll ever admit it is total bullshit.
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 11, 2011 at 9:17 pm
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Actually, what Zacharius said was that this scholar took all the lines from the New Testament and found that they're 99.6% accurate. How he can make this claim after reading the drug trip of Revelation, which supposedly describes stuff that hasn't happened yet, I have no idea. Even the four gospels don't agree with each other 100%. So it's just another baseless claim from a bible believer who has spent a lot of time studying a book he's based his life on.
But again, my claim was that if the bible is the word of an omnipotent god, then it should be 100% accurate, not 99.6%.
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 11, 2011 at 9:27 pm
(May 11, 2011 at 9:17 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Actually, what Zacharius said was that this scholar took all the lines from the New Testament and found that they're 99.6% accurate. How he can make this claim after reading the drug trip of Revelation, which supposedly describes stuff that hasn't happened yet, I have no idea. Even the four gospels don't agree with each other 100%. So it's just another baseless claim from a bible believer who has spent a lot of time studying a book he's based his life on.
But again, my claim was that if the bible is the word of an omnipotent god, then it should be 100% accurate, not 99.6%.
Just another in the endless things that debunk God.
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 12, 2011 at 4:02 am
(May 11, 2011 at 10:44 am)everythingafter Wrote: Ravi Zacharias clears it up for us: http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=DZ6ZYPNX
Seriously outside certain circles, who takes Ravi Zacharias seriously?
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 12, 2011 at 5:07 pm
(May 11, 2011 at 9:17 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: But again, my claim was that if the bible is the word of an omnipotent god, then it should be 100% accurate, not 99.6%.
This is the thing that I can't wrap my head around. First, it's nowhere near 99.6 percent accurate. Second, how can believers live their lives knowing that there just might be some in accuracies or inconsistencies? As you say, shouldn't the Bible be 100 percent perfect coming from an all-knowing, all-powerful god who presumably could have made sure that it passed through the centuries untouched?
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 12, 2011 at 5:12 pm
(May 11, 2011 at 3:56 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Well I wouldn't believe it if there weren't evidence for it. At least that's what my psychic says to do.
Oh and I love how in his answer, Zacharias claims that one scholar says that the New Testament is 99.6% accurate. If it's the word of God, shouldn't it be 100.00% accurate?
Creationist say abiogenesis is without basis because no one was around to observe it as it happened. Who exactly was around to observe the events in the bible as it happened so as to confirm what was written down was 99.6% accurate?
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 12, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Quote:Who exactly was around to observe the events in the bible as it happened so as to confirm what was written down was 99.6% accurate?
Oh, they hate it when you catch them in those little traps!
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 13, 2011 at 2:12 pm
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(May 12, 2011 at 5:07 pm)everythingafter Wrote: This is the thing that I can't wrap my head around. First, it's nowhere near 99.6 percent accurate.
Well you can't claim that Revelation is accurate, because it's supposed to be a revelation of things to come, things that haven't happened yet. How can you say a prophecy is true if it's not supposed to come true yet? I guess it's that old "it's true because it's in the bible" claim.
Quote:Second, how can believers live their lives knowing that there just might be some in accuracies or inconsistencies? As you say, shouldn't the Bible be 100 percent perfect coming from an all-knowing, all-powerful god who presumably could have made sure that it passed through the centuries untouched?
I think that's why so many of them are so damn desperate to cling to biblical inerrancy. They claim that the bible was written by God, so if one part is wrong, then that claim is busted. I think it's quite fun to watch Christians jump through incredible mental hoops to explain how there are no factual errors, inconsistencies, or false prophecy in the bible.
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RE: Why the Bible is true
May 13, 2011 at 2:33 pm
(May 13, 2011 at 2:12 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Well you can't claim that Revelation is accurate, because it's supposed to be a revelation of things to come, things that haven't happened yet.
Oh, I was just talking about the Bible in general, not just Revelation. But point well taken.
(May 13, 2011 at 2:12 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I think that's why so many of them are so damn desperate to cling to biblical inerrancy. They claim that the bible was written by God, so if one part is wrong, then that claim is busted.
Different dates for Christ's birth, different people who witnessed the Christ's reappearance after his death, no mention of the virgin birth in two gospels, different events during the crucifixion, different people at the tomb, NT errors in references to certain OT prophecies. Where to begin?
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