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If the Bible is true then it follows that it must be historically accurate too.
Many archaeologists have been digging in the Middle East for quite some time. At times they have said that certain things, people or places that were mentioned in the Bible didn't really exist because they had not found any evidence of them. However, in time many of these so called missing items have later been found to actually exist. If anything archaeology has stood by the Bible and confirmed it as a historical document.
William Albright went out to prove that the Bible was in error and was not written by those whom the church was claiming had written it. After his searching around he came to the conclusion that Luke (The author of the Gospel of Luke and Acts) was a foremost historian of his time. He even became a Christian because of the overwhelming evidence he had found.
Nelson Gleuk, another archaeologist, came to the conclusion that "no proven archaeological find has ever controverted a single Biblical reference". He at one point started to use the Bible to direct him where to find things.
Another important aspect of the historicity of the Bible is the Nation of Israel. The Bible talks a whole lot about this people. It talks about their dispersion and that they would come back to their land. This they have now done. If you believe that the Bible is not historical you have some question to answer here.
Those who don't want to listen to the demands of the Bible will certainly try to discredit it. They are only fooling themselves and those who are foolish enough to believe them.
There are so many interpretations
There are so many interpretations how can we know what is right? Well most people come to the Bible and take things out of context with little understanding of what was happening at the time of writing. To approach any literature like this will mean that you come to an erroneous conclusion.
The cults are a very good example of this but it happens in Christian churches too. Scripture is taken out of its context and allegorised so bringing out a totally different meaning to what was intended by the original author and indeed by God. Many people twist the Scripture in order to suit themselves. Honesty and careful study within the context is the best guard against those who would lead you astray. Just because what some one may say sounds great does not mean that it is correct.
While there are some passages that are open to different interpretations, the parts of the Bible that talk about salvation are all clear and speak for themselves.
People's false interpretations of the Bible are no reason to say that it is not the truth and that you cannot approach it honestly and find out about God for yourself.
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Where does the Bible come from?
The Bible was just written by men. It is the ideas of different men of the church.
This is not true. The church did not give us the Bible. The Church recognised the Bible for what it is - the Word of God.
It was written by many different men over a period of 1500 years. They were men in different positions of life. There were shepherds, slaves, rich men, kings, religious leaders, fishermen, traitors, etc. They all wrote as they were inspired by the Spirit of God. They did not write things that had their origin in their own minds but that had their origin in God. Of course if you don't believe in God you certainly won't believe that the Bible was written under the inspiration of God. But speculate for a moment, if there really was a God, would it be impossible for him to do this?
In all these writings by all these different men over such a long time span they all flow together. Some people say that there are contradictions in the Bible and so it could not have been inspired by God. What some people call contradictions are just things that they don't understand. In fact most people who say this have no idea of a single apparent contradiction.
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Surely a text this old is unreliable
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