How has the Bible been proven accurate?

Answer 1

This depends on which peices of information you are referring to.

Historical information such as the existence of similarly named persons and locations may be correlated by anthropological investigation, but miracles by definition are unprovable as is the very existence of supernatural forces like god, angels, demons, and devils. Additionally there is much which may be subjective, such as morality.

Answer 2

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No, not even Mythbusters could prove it wrong.

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The Bible was first in spoken form, then in Aramaic, then in Greek and other translations according to the political churches of the times. There are many things that are absolutely provable and others that are not. My belief is that faith and the lessons are the most important and to allow a little "give" in the dates, times, people and places because of the long history of translations and the distance of the years since many of the events happened.

Answer 3

One should approach the Bible as the story of our search for God and God's search for us. It was not written as a scientific or historical document. In other words, all of the Bible is true and some of it actually happened.

Answer 4

Many parts of the Bible can certainly be disproven. Taking a random example, the Book of Genesis says that Abraham travelled through Palestine to the land of the Philistines, somewhere around 2000 BCE. However, the Philistines only arrived by sea about 1200 BCE. Abraham, if indeed he existed, could never have visited the Philistines. The existence of God can not be conclusively disproven, but neither can it be proven, and the Bible does not assist either way.

Answer 5

The Bible has very often been proven wrong. Take just one passage at random: one of the several references to Abraham and the Philistines, Genesis 21:34 says, "And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days."

Abraham supposedly lived around 2000 BCE, but the Philistines were sea people who did not arrive in the Near Eastern mainland until approximately 1200 BCE, many centuries later.

Answer 6

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The Bible cannot be dis-proven since only God knows what happened back then.