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bíblia eletrônica The Bible is not an ordinary book in circulation.In fact, because of its ordinary features, the Bible has been in question and had been greatly criticized for many years. desenhos biblícos It was not only the atheists and the liberals who were the greatest of its critics but the list also includes the religious non-Christian community.It is not however the responsibility of the Christian community to defend the Bible against its critics.This is because the Bible itself can prove its integrity and reliability.It is for this reason that the Bible is held extraordinary, inspired and reliable book.The Christians’ responsibility is to believe.
In this paper, this writer aims to provide several but essential points that will prove the integrity of the Bible.This writer also explored several writings by respected and reliable theologians, archeologists and writers who worked on finding the answers to the questions and criticisms which aimed to disprove the truth of the Bible’s reliability.
TEXTUAL QUESTIONS ON THE BIBLE
Critics have been consistently claiming that there is a great possibility that the Bible passages have been copied and transmitted from generation to generation (C.Blomberg).Critics therefore point to the question whether the Bible has been accurately translated and transmitted.Craig Blomberg referred to this as the Bible’s textual question.The textual questions include the occurrence of textual variations and the claims that the Bible has lost some truths.
There are several evidences available to us that prove these claims wrong.First, there are evidences that the Bible can be reconstructed from the original texts.Rabbi Glenn Harris, in his article entitled, Why the Bible is the Word of God: Can I Trust the Bible?” made a good comparison of Homer’s “Iliad” and the Bible’s New Testament in order to stress the textual integrity of the Bible.Of the 20,000 lines content of the New Testament, only 40 lines are said to be in question and that is about just a half percent.As with Iliad, which is said to be the second ancient Greek/Latin literature having the most number of manuscript testimony, have 764 lines in question out of its 15,600 lines.IN comparison, the lines in question account for five percent.It is still to be noted that the textual criticisms of the New Testament will sum up to a matter of missing letters and misspellings that are too insignificant to alter the essence of the
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