The Way, the Truth and the Life

Many of us believe or being made to believe that the Bible is the complete and inerrant word of God. As far as completeness is concerned, that is not what the Bible is saying in John 21:25 of the New Testament. It says that if all the works of the Son of God were written, even the world cannot contain all the writings. So, the Bible itself honestly admits its own incompleteness.

As far as the Bible's being inerrant, there are obvious errors in the English versions of today. The books in the Bible were originally written in Hebrew in ancient time. There have been a lot of changes in the Hebrew language at the time of the translation to Latin and Greek. That means the understanding of the translator could be affected by the culture of that time. For example, the Hebrew letters in ancient times were written in pictograph. The letter "hey" for example is drawn like a man with arms raised. The letter "yad" is drawn like a hand. The word "hayah" still means exist today as in ancient times. But in ancient times it is drawn as a man with arms raised, a hand, and a man with hands raised. There is strong reason to believe that the word has something more profound to say in ancient times. That is lost in the Hebrew language at the time of the translation. Another example is the use of "us" and "our" in God's statement in Genesis chapter one. Who was God talking to? This is due to the fact that the word God was translated from the Hebrew word Elohim which is plural. The singular is Eloha. It is very obvious that the translation was influenced by the preconceived one-god idea of the translator. That renders the texts seemingly inconsistent. Christian churches make their followers believe that their teachings and practices are consistent with what the Bible says. This is not true most of the time. Some even contradict the Bible.