What is the bible?

The Truth about the Bible - Infallible book of no errors?

Written by Joseph Ho, 12th April, 2009

The bible contains errors, errors in chronological description and also errors of recording. Shocking indeed and its hard to believe what I have said isn't it. Before you judge my statement as heretics, I urge you to read on but pray for divine protection against any false teachings. But I speak the truth so I must produce the evidence of this statement you may say.  So then is this an accusation or blatant malicious attack on the work of a perfect God? God is my father and as a son there is much to be done to repair his work. The bible is not perfect, since it contains errors, because when something contains error it is imperfect, and that is the description of perfect in the English Dictionary. Perfect means no errors or mistakes, period.

So can a Christian then boast that they have the infallible book from God, no they can not even claim that. However, to be accurate and precise they can claim that the Word of God is perfect and infallible; that they can claim. But they can not claim they have the infallible error free book of the word of God. If the bible were to be the Holy Spirit inspired book, one would assume that there would be no error in it since the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. The Holy Spirit can not produce anything with error because it is the Spirit of Truth. Ascribing a book written with errors as inspired by the Holy Spirit is blasphemous. Certain portions of the bible were indeed inspired by the Holy Spirit but not everything in it, God gave men the honor to include their words in the bible and these are the ones that contain the errors.

A Spirit of Truth can not accept wrong or erroneous information since it is wise and all discerning, so which one is the right assumption here, men makes mistakes under the anointing? If that were to be the truth then the anointing in itself is not all too trustworthy. So what I am saying is that the bible is not completely written under the anointing from the Holy One and the complete text is written by 3 types of beings, the historian, God-inspired men and the Holy Spirit or God himself. It is the historian who makes these mistakes, but their words are in the bible so it makes the bible non-error free. That is a sad fact, but we must as righteous, honest, sincere, God fearing, humble and truthful people admit to this fact. If we try to allow and accept even a single error as truth we will have an opened door for the devil to come into our mind. This is the danger.

The bible contains the words of men and the Word of God. God does not make any mistakes, except one which God himself said he did in Genesis 6:6,

Genesis 6:6 (King James Version)

6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Genesis 6:6 (New International Version)

6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

I promised not to twist any scripture here to suit any preconceived ideas of what the bible is and is not saying. But I will only present the truth from within its self-written published words. No one needs to repent unless they did something wrong, that is my definition of making a mistake and God repented.

Definition of the Word of God

The word of God and the laws of God refer to God-spoken words in the bible and the Ten Commandments. Everything in the bible which is spoken directly from the mouth of God is the Word of God and anything that the Lord says as recorded is also the Word of God. All other words are the word of men, historian or scribe recording the events, and times.

Anything else written from the memory of men belongs to the word of men and their written account. Men being imperfect make mistakes, but God is our maker so in that sense we have been made this way for a reason, to glorify him. God did made men in his image, so if we were to say we are imperfect than since we are in the image of God, can we infer that God is also imperfect then? The errors of inferring can be disastrous so human ways can not be adequate in defining the book of infallibility. I was deeply disturbed when I first came across these errors and it took me a long time to come to peace within my soul that the bible is not perfect as most pastors would have you believe. No man made lies or mistaken truth spoken with sincerity and good intentions can be used to glorify our God, they are filthy rags in the eyes of the Lord our God.

And ever since I accepted this truth about the bible, God showed me more, but I will present two of them to you so that you may know the truth and let even that truth set you free. I can only share two such errors since this is an article not a book; so I hope the reader will not judge what they read by the limited proof. As all errors and lies are from the devil because God is light and has no lies in him so he does not sanction any wrong and misleading facts, none, zilch, zero, nana, whatever; he does not tolerate lies. God is not glorified in lies nor wrong glory ascribed to him. God is not greedy for any of these things which men speak untruth to his work.

"If God can work with imperfect men who sins why can't God use an imperfect book with errors in it. God certainly can."........ Joseph

If there were absolutely no errors in the bible, how can He expect us to exercise faith, we would have no need for faith. God will not share his glory with anything or anyone, God alone is perfect. In that reason, I am well comforted, that God is so wise and omnipotent, he can use anything to glorify himself without our help, none whatsoever. The Truth needs no defense; it can defend itself without any men's help.

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