Textually Accurate - 1 - Wednesday August 05, 2015
And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. Matthew 27: 5 ESV
Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wicked-ness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. Acts 1:18 ESV
The fifth evidence that the Bible is true is that it is accurate-textually, scientifically, and archeologically. Let's look at textual accuracy first, or unity. Skeptics will say the Bible is full of contradictions. In college my friend Bill the Atheist threw this in my face a few times! I got tired of hearing that, so I spent months studying through hundreds of supposed contradictions. I discovered there were logical explanations for most of them.
For example, compare today's verses about Judas after he betrayed Jesus. Did Judas hang himself or fall headlong and burst open? Both are correct. Each writer is emphasizing different aspects of the way Judas died. Here is a possible scenario. For Judas to hang himself, he would have climbed a tree, tied a rope around a branch and his neck. Then, jumping out of the tree, he hung himself which may have caused the branch to snap; as a result he tumbled to the ground, being ripped open in the process. Whether or not it happened precisely this way, nobody knows. But it's possible, and therefore not contradictory.
You see the Bible is made up of 66 individual books. These books were written by 40 different authors. These 66 books were written over a period of at least 1,500 years, in 3 different languages, and on 3 different continents. And instead of contradictions we see harmony or textual accuracy between these 66 books.
Submitted by:
Josh Whitney
Frontline 2014
Is the Whole Bible True?,
One-Year Reading Plan:
Ezra 1:1-2:70
1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5
Psalms 27:7-14
Proverbs 20:22-23
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