What is the bible?

Millions of Christian living around the world have an unshaken faith in the Bible.  For them it is the greatest and the only absolute standard for determining matters related to creed and conduct.  But there is no shortage of critics against the Bible who would like to tell these people that their belief in the Bible  is foolish because of on reason or other.  There are numerous sociological and anthropological reasons for man's apposition to the Bible, but that is not the topic for consideration in this article.  It will be enough to note that  according to the Bible, people will continue to oppose it as long as they are dominated by their sin natures.

The attacks against the Bible have come  from the simple as will as the learned, in all generations of mankind, but the mode has changed from time to time.  In this generation, the attacks are done in the name of science.  They reason that if the Bible contains scientific errors in its statements, then it is nor a reliable book.  The more the number of these errors, the less is the reliability of the book as a whole.  We must surely grant to the critic that if the narratives in the Bible are erroneous about this world, then its statements about the spiritual world are also suspect.

In the past two hundred years a flood  of anti-Bible  material has been published in the form of articles, books and even learned treatises.  However, with the passage of time many of these writings were exposed to be shallow or biased, so that the information presented in these books against the Bible are more of fiction and less of fact.  One of the reasons that has been exposed time and against the existence of Bias and Cheating in the world of science.

The common notion which people have of scientist is that of men who passionately try to discover the secrets of nature; men who are not influenced by any type of biases or prejudices, whether it be religious, political, racial, or any other type which we can think of.  If this view of the scientists is correct, then science, the product  of their  research also ought to be fully true, objective, and unbiased.  However this is not the truth.  Scientists are men affected by all kinds of biases and prejudices, and their work does contain things which are biased or dishonest.  Many times these wrong conclusions are picked up by the critics who use them to attack the Bible.  For example, in the area of evolution a good number of proof produced to attack the concept of creation come in this category.

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