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Should God re-write the Bible?
There's been a lot of confusion with the Bible with it's verses and mistranslated texts. People debate on whether it should be taken literally, figuratively, or just cherry picking certain parts.
Like for example, I know the Story of Noah's Ark isn't possible at that time nor if it was true, not moral because of God killing everything that didn't make the ark (other animals, dinosaurs, families, trees, aquatic life which only survive in certain solubility conditions etc.). Did Noah really take 2 of each animal? Well He needed to sacrifice them for God and for each animal's food on the boat. And After the Flood, all the herbivores would be screwed because plant life would be dead, and carnivores would be struggling to find herbivores that survive that.
The Law of Moses have a bunch of laws and punishments that we all should live by and what the punishments are but obviously there are Christians don't follow all of them nor punish those who do! I thought Jesus didn't come to abolish the rules in Matthew 5:17, so we must live by them. I also thought when Jesus died for my sins, why do I still have to work for my redemption like he didn't?
9 Answers
- ?Lv 46 years ago
There are some bad translations, but we have plenty of tools to weed those out. Misinterpretation is another issue, like how many animals Noah took on the ark. He took two each of the unclean animals and seven each of the clean animals. God is the moral authority, so how can you question His morals. I don't know why you think you have to work for your redemption, or even that you could be redeemed by your works. The bible is clear that we are redeemed by grace through faith.
- Tony RLv 76 years ago
The last major revision was in the 1880's, when several books were yanked out of the bible. The bible always goes threw some major changes every couple of hundred years, so yeah, seems like it's about due for another overhaul.
- MoonWomanLv 76 years ago
Ever hear of DNA? Jesus is never mentioned in the Old Testament. No man, person or being can die for another person's sin so God Almighty told Moses. Only the God; YHVH can forgive sin.
- PaulCypLv 76 years ago
If God rerwrote the Bible with His own hand, there would still be widespread confusion in Protestantism about the meaning of every verse. And the original and true Christian Church, to which Jesus Christ promised the fullness of truth, would still be able to authoritatively and accurately interpret His word, just as it does now. Protestantism would still fragment into thousands of unauthorized conflicting manmade denominations, while the one Church Jesus Christ founded would remain one in belief, one in teaching, one in biblical understanding, one in worship throughout the world, as it has been more than for 2,000 years.
- ?Lv 56 years ago
No, it is perfect as it is:
1 Tim 3: 16 and 17 states: "ALL Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, so that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work."
- PukkaLv 66 years ago
All scripture was written by superstitious people, superstition has NO rules..need I say more?
