To begin looking at some stuff, I feel an appropriate start is with the Bible, the physical Word of God that we get to read. Christianity puts a lot of emphasis on the Bible and what it says, so we need to be sure that the Bible is historically reliable. What are things that you have issues with? Want to know more about? Have a hard time accepting? Here are some things for me...feel free to add to my list.
-How can we trust the Bible since we don't have any original manuscripts?
-What if the manuscripts that we do have aren't exact copies of the original?
-What if the manuscripts don't match each other?
-Are the authors of each book who they say they are?
-What if the books were written a long time after the events written in it occurred?
-What about events for which the purported author was not around (or alive)? (e.g. Creation, private conversations, etc.)
-What if multiple accounts of the same thing don't align? (e.g. The Gospels, Samuel vs. Chronicles, etc.)
-Did historical events in the Bible actually happen?
-How does the inability of another language to express exactly the original language hinder the message? (e.g. Jesus spoke in Aramaic mostly, but the NT is in Greek, and then we read it in English)
-How did books get selected to be in the Bible?
-To what extent do books not selected to be in the Bible reflect biblical truth?
Obviously, addressing these things isn't going to be the most expedient thing. Feel free to join me in searching. We all need to be searching for truth.
Monday, October 31, 2011
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