Why You Can Trust the Bible: Part 2

History and Science

The historical accuracy of the Bible was once widely doubted. Is still widely doubted. Critics, for example, questioned the existence of such Bible characters as King Sargon of Assyria, Belshazzar of Babylon, and the Roman governor PontiusPilate. But recent discoveries have verified one Bible account after another. Thus historian Moshe Pearlman wrote: “Suddenly, skeptics who had doubted the authenticity even of the historical parts of the Old Testament began to revise their views.” Presumably they didn’t begin to revise their views on biblical claims like:

·         Creationism

·         The Resurrection

·         Joshua Stops the Sun

·         Jesus Raises Lazarusfrom the Dead

·         Jesus Feeds FiveThousand

·         Parting/Crossing the RedSea

·         Balaam and His TalkingDonkey

·         Jesus Walks on Water

·         Ten Plagues of Egypt

·         Jesus Exorcises Legion

If we are to trust the Bible, it must also be accurate in matters of science. Is it? Judging by the examples above, absolutely not. Not long ago scientists, in contradiction of the Bible, asserted that the universe had no beginning. However, astronomer Robert Jastrow recently pointed to newer information that refutes this, explaining: “Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details (where the Devil is said to reside) differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same.” – Genesis 1:1.

Origin of the Universe: Stephen Hawking

(Before any Christians try, Hawking’s use of God at the end of the speech is clearly figurative and rhetorical.)

Men have also changed their views relative to the shape of the earth. “Voyages of Discovery,” explains The World Book Encyclopedia, “showed that the world was round, not flat as most people had believed.” But the Bible was correct all along! More than 2,000 years before those voyages, the Bible said at Isaiah 40:22: “There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth,” or as the other translations say, “the globe of the earth” (Douay), “the round earth.” (Moffatt) Circle, doesn’t mean not flat, and to quote more recent translations to assert globe and round is just silly and an obvious attempt to sway the argument. I encourage anyone who is interested in actually reading the bible to discard any sort of NIV (New International Version) and go straight to the King James Version or earlier. Newer translations of the bible are clear propaganda for the indoctrination of impressionable youth.

Thus the more humans learn, the greater the evidence is that the Bible can be trusted. A former director of the British Museum, Sir Frederic Kenyon, wrote: “The results already achieved confirm what faith would suggest, that the Bible can do nothing but gain from an increase of knowledge.” The bible simply cannot gain from an increase of knowledge. The people who adhere to its tenets could gain from an increase of knowledge for sure, and that increase is precisely why Christians now tend to ignore such bible verses as:

(Deuteronomy 23:1) “If a man’s testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.”

(Deuteronomy 22:20,21) “But if … evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones…” 

(Deuteronomy 23:2)  “One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the congregation of the Lord.”

(Matthew 5:32)  NASB   Whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

(Luke 14:26)  NASB    If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters… he cannot be My disciple.

(Luke 14:33)  NASB     So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

(Deuteronomy 21:18-21)  ”If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”