Literal Interpretation of Scripture Removing all Danger of Human Error

Literal Interpretation of Scripture Removing all Danger of Human Error

All world religions have their own sacred scriptures. They all teach

that the world and the universe was created, that the universe is not

meaningless and that it has a purpose as do humans. This is explained

in the bible and all sacred literature. Often people ask 'is the bible

reliable' and 'was it just made up'.

Many Christians believe that the bible is the direct word of God and

believe every word of the bible. However, to me this seems hard to

accept, since the bible is made up of 66 books and was written over a

period of 3000 years by many different authors who believed that God

communicated with them, but how do we come to believe the word of

these different authors. The Bible is said to be God's Word to man. In

this book, God discloses everything He desires man to know concerning

Himself, His workings in the past, and His plans for the future.

Nothing in the Bible is extraneous to divine revelation. The whole of

it comes from God.

On the other hand, it could be said that inspiration does not mean

that God merely assisted man in the writing process. He actively

caused and inspired those men to write what He willed them to write.

What was written in scripture is there because God wanted it there.

Second, God did not "approve" the work of the inspired writers of

Scripture after they were finished. In other words, God didn't review

what St. Paul had written and decide that He would approve it because

it was correct. Third, the human authors of Scripture were not mere

scribes, passive recipients of revelation. They did not engage in

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.... Some argue that certain stories of the Bible, like the

creation story, or Noah and the flood, taken from Genesis chapters

1-11, are not inspired, but merely popular narration's borrowed from

ancient cultures.

Most liberal theologians, the Bible is not inerrant. They believe that

its books were obviously written and edited by human authors: with

limited scientific knowledge, who promoted their own specific belief

systems, who attributed statements to God that are immoral by today's

standards, who freely disagreed with other Biblical authors, etc.

If scriptures contain human error, then who is qualified to declare

it? As man is fallible, who should be trusted too make such a decision

as to which parts are of error. If God allowed confusion to be written

in His work, does this not in effects make God full of errors?