How can the bible be infallible, if the writers are fallible?

What is interesting is that there are multiple possible answers to this question. First off, let's take a look at the definition of infallible. When talking about a book, it means: When a statement, teaching, or book is called 'infallible', this can mean any of the following: 1.It is something that can't be proved false.

2. It is something that can be safely relied on.3.It is something completely trustworthy and sure. Next, we ahve to look at what the Bible is.

It is a book that is used as a guide to the religious people that follow it. Can we prove that this is not a guide? No.

We can also state that if a person follows the Bible's teachings, that person will be a better Christian as defined as what Christianity is by the Bible. Finally, a person who is religious can completely trust in the Bible. On the first flipside, we look at the fact that infallibility means nothing when talking about the Bible to non-Christians much in teh same way that Christians can argue against any non-Christian religious book.

Now, if we look at the useage of the word, "infallibility," we find that we can easily argue against the infallibility of the Bible. The useage is that if one thing is potentially wrong, then it cannot be infallible. At this point, we have to take in the interpretation of what the Bible is.

Many people believe that the Bible is the direct Word of God. Only a few of the Christian religions actually teach this. Most teach that the Bible was, "Inspired by God.

" If you wrap the teaching that the Bible is inspired by God, and that the Bible is a teaching tool for Christianity, it is infallible. If you look at the Bible as the actual Word of God straight from not only does it take out the argument of the Bible's infallility, it also takes out the argument that God is infallible. Remember...most talk that the Bible was inspired by God.

As it is said in, "The Divinci Code," man did not get the Bible by fax. Few believe that God was dictating. Instead, if you take human nature into account, the Bible would be part God, and part human retooling to make things sould better, give some power to parts, and take power away from some.

Note the fact that the current Bibles on the market vary in sections from the oldest versions that exist. Wording has changed, and thus, so have meanings. A perfect example is the fact that after well over a thousand years, we realized that the story of Mary Magdelane ends, and a story of a prostitute begins because somewhere, someone messed a paragraph break, and put in a comma.

This was settled by many back in the 1960s. Also, words translate differently. A perfect example would be in the First Letter to the Corinthians.St.

Paul talks about sins that we should avoid. He talks about the arsenokoitēs. The translation of the word can mean multiple things.

Litterally, it means, "abusers of themselves with mankind. " Some have taken this to mean homosexuals (there are alternate translations that could mean laying with mankind). Others have translated this as those that commit suicide.

On top of that, some scholars beleive that it refers to those taht give into peer pressure to fall away from religion. I once heard a very old priest say that, "the Bible was the Word of God as translated and understood by man." This has always been my thought on the topic, and probably always will be.

Briefly (rare for me I know), I believe that God is smart enough that He is able to transmit what He wanted every generation (past, present and future) to know through the agents He has chosen. The information in the Bible works, has worked, and continues to work in spite of everyone's attempt to discredit it. Bible prophecies aside, there is nothing contained within it's pages that is harmful to anyone else.

What people choose to do with that information or in the "name of", is a different matter entirely. The Bible has and will continue to stand the test of time. Challenges to its authority and other things we can expect are all written within.

I like knowing what's going to happen. Not with 80% accuracy or 99% accuracy but 100%. Find another "random work" with that track record and I'll use it too.

God works in spite of my fallibility. I don't need to be perfect for God to make use of me all I have to do is be willing.

I hold the exact same belief. Now there are translation errors (the English language was not even a dialect when most of the Bible was written down) and inaccurate interpretations are not hard to find, but the original texts maintain an internal integrity that would have been impossible to maintain for forty different men in different places growing up in different eras. Only a Supernatural Being privy to the past, future, and the hearts of men could have accomplished this remarkable Book.

I see the Bible as a love letter from God to man with Jesus Christ being the living epitome of God is clearly the author of the Bible, as in the one having the AUTHORity to say the words within. The persons He used to write were allowed to express their own words and styles, but the thoughts come directly from God Deac.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.