Is the bible authoritive and truly inspired?

archaeologist writes:JAR keeps repeting the same thing over an dover AFTER being told repeatedly that he CANNOT claim there are errors in the mss. because he does not have the originals.

archaeologist writes:we have the originals, God has preserved them people need to learn to accept the reality that false teachers will write their own versions to fit their beliefs.

f you want evidence, then listen to it the FIRST TIME it is presented.

Deuteronomy 33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.Job 39:9-10 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?Psalms 22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.Psalms 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.Psalms 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.Numbers 24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.Isaiah 34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

we know that nothing is too hard for God thus putting His original words into english or any language to preserve them is not that difficult for Him especially when He wants all men to be saved.

jar writes:Again, you present nothing but unsupported assertions.
Where is the evidence that shows "The manuscripts we have are old enough to the originals to be near perfect. "?

Many of these variants simply involve a missing letter in a word; some involve reversing the order of two words (such as "Christ Jesus" instead of "Jesus Christ"); some may involve the absence of one or more insignificant words.Really, when all the facts are put on the table, only about 50 of the variants have any real significance - and even then, no doctrine of the Christian faith or any moral commandment is effected by them.

Buz writes:The quantity, literal compatibility and age of the manuscripts support authenticity.

archeologist writes:here is the gist of it: the Bible in 2 Tim. 3:16 tells us that 'all scripture is God beathed.

The meaning of 2 Tim 3:16 is ambiguous in the Greek because the "is" is not found in Greek.

16. All scripture Greek, Every Scripture, that is, Scripture in its
every part. However, English Version is sustained, though the Greek
article be wanting, by the technical use of the term Scripture being so
well known as not to need the article (compare Greek, Ephesians 3:15
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2:21). The Greek is never used of writings in general, but only of the
sacred Scriptures. The position of the two Greek adjectives closely united
by and, forbids our taking the one as an epithet, the other as predicated
and translated as ALFORD and ELLICOTT. Every Scripture given by
inspiration of God is also profitable. Vulgate and the best manuscripts,
favor English Version. Clearly the adjectives are so closely connected that
as surely as one is a predicate, the other must be so too. ALFORD admits
his translation to be harsh, though legitimate. It is better with English
Version to take it in a construction legitimate, and at the same time not
harsh. The Greek, God-inspired, is found nowhere else. Most of the
New Testament books were written when Paul wrote this his latest
Epistle: so he includes in the clause All Scripture is God-inspired, not
only the Old Testament, in which alone Timothy was taught when a child
(<550315>2 Timothy 3:15), but the New Testament books according as they were
recognized in the churches which had men gifted with discerning of
spirits, and so able to distinguish really inspired utterances, persons, and
so their writings from spurious. Paul means, All Scripture is Godinspired
and therefore useful; because we see no utility in any words or
portion of it, it does not follow it is not God-inspired. It is useful, because
God-inspired; not God-inspired, because useful. One reason for the article
not being before the Greek, Scripture, may be that, if it had, it might be
supposed that it limited the sense to the hiera grammata, Holy
Scriptures (<550315>2 Timothy 3:15) of the Old Testament, whereas here the
assertion is more general: all Scripture (compare Greek, <610120>2 Peter 1:20).
The translation, all Scripture that is God-inspired is also useful, would
imply that there is some Scripture which is not God-inspired. But this
would exclude the appropriated sense of the word Scripture; and who
would need to be told that all divine Scripture is useful (‘profitable’)?
<580413>Hebrews 4:13 would, in ALFORD’S view, have to be rendered, All
naked things are also open to the eyes of Him, etc.: so also <540404>1 Timothy
4:4, which would be absurd [TREGELLES, Remarks on the Prophetic
Visions of the Book of Daniel]. Knapp well defines inspiration, An
extraordinary divine agency upon teachers while giving instruction,
whether oral or written, by which they were taught how and what they
should speak or write (compare 2 Samuel 23:1 <440425>Acts 4:25 <610121>2 Peter
1:21). The inspiration gives the divine sanction to all the words of
Scripture, though those words be the utterances of the individual writer,
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and only in special cases revealed directly by God (<460213>1 Corinthians 2:13).
Inspiration is here predicated of the writings, all Scripture, not of the
persons. The question is not how God has done it; it is as to the word, not
the men who wrote it. What we must believe is that He has done it, and
that all the sacred writings are every where inspired, though not all alike
matter of special revelation: and that even the very words are stamped
with divine sanction, as Jesus used them (for example in the temptation
and <431034>John 10:34,35), for deciding all questions of doctrine and practice.
There are degrees of revelation in Scripture, but not of inspiration. The
sacred writers did not even always know the full significancy of their own
God-inspired words (<600110>1 Peter 1:10,11,12). Verbal inspiration does not
mean mechanical dictation, but all Scripture is (so) inspired by God, that
everything in it, its narratives, prophecies, citations, the whole ideas,
phrases, and words are such as He saw fit to be there. The present
condition of the text is no ground for concluding against the original text
being inspired, but is a reason why we should use all critical diligence to
restore the original inspired text. Again, inspiration may be accompanied
by revelation or not, but it is as much needed for writing known doctrines
or facts authoritatively, as for communicating new truths [TREGELLES].
The omission here of the substantive verb is,’ I think, designed to mark
that, not only the Scripture then existing, but what was still to be written
till the canon should be completed, is included as God-inspired.

Timothy was written in early-mid 2nd century (mid 1st according to Christian stories though) But the NT did not exist as a collection until 4th century...Timothy is a forged letter

They were not included in Marcion's canon of ten epistles assembled c. 140 CE. Against Wallace, there is no certain quotation of these epistles before Irenaeus c. 170 CE.

So which of the dozens of English translations is it that preserves these "original words?" And how are these "original words" the same in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and English as well as in Turkish, Tagalog, and Tahitian? Are you telling me that ALL of those "preserve" the precise same meaning of "emerod" or "unicorn?" And those two are just the easy nouns.......

archaeologist writes:yet where does the Bible teach that the 'unicorn' is a one horned horse? there were and are other one horned animals in existance.

In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.""Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

having studied ancient greek and knowing the rules of translation, i will refrain from answering this and let Jamison Faucett and Brown do the talking instead:

When some legitimate evidence is shown, I 'll look at it. As for listening, how can I listen to something that was said between 2000 & 5000 years ago?