Bible Accuracy

Just how accurate is the Bible?

You have to realize that we are speaking about one of the largest books ever written, 66 separate books, all on various aspects and periods of history surrounding human existence in God's universe.

About 40 or so human authors received inspiration from God's Holy Spirit, writing in their own style and language.  These original manuscripts are guaranteed accurate by God.

Some of these original manuscripts have been lost over the ages (ie. human war, fires, sabotage by pagan unbelievers who wanted to hurt and destroy God's true believers, earthquakes, floods, etc.) have taken heir tolls over the centuries.  However, in these few cases of missing originals, we have many second and third copies of the original manuscript, which faithfully re-create and substitute for the original manuscript.

Archeological discoveries are still being made today, and there is hope that the original manuscripts are eventually found.  For example, the Dead Sea Scrolls, as old as 200 BC, were first discovered in 1947 (see here and here) scholars were astounded at how accurately the Bible of today compares with the Bible of 200 BC.  Similar validations occurred when the Nag Hammadi Scriptures dating as old as 250 AD were buried, then re-discovered in Egypt in 1945.

There are 2 major streams for the Holy Bible of today; one from Antioch, the other from Alexandria, Egypt.

Antioch was a Greek city founded around 300 BC on the eastern side of the Orontes River. Its ruins lie near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.  Antioch is where followers of Jesus Christ were first called "Christians".

Ancient Alexandria was similar to San Francisco California USA in the 1970's; it had at least one person from every cult.  Here is a flowchart showing the derivation of the various translations of today's Bibles.

Based on my studies, I have concluded that King James version of the Bible is the best.

Subsequent translations and reprinting of the original manuscripts into other human languages and dialects (eg. English, French, Mandarin, etc.) are the work of mere humans, and are therefore still being perfected.

The original manuscripts used no punctuation, and Hebrew is written as strings of 2, 3, or 4 consonants without vowels, and often without spaces between words.  It needs context to achieve full comprehension.  Where variant concepts and ambiguity existed (or to help children and others who are learning Hebrew), Hebrew vowel markings (Niqqud) were sometimes used.

Today, we have something similar to ancient Hebrew with disemvoweling on SMS text messaging such as Twitter (eg. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" becomes "Th qck brwn fx jmps vr th lzy dg").  Context helps achieve accurate comprehension.

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