how accurate is the most published book on the planet i guess we will have to find out
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god squad video we look at faith q and a kate has a couple of videos offering her limited and quite
honestly incorrect understanding of how the world works with belief and evolution
so i thought it would be great to take a look at her content to see where she's getting it wrong
is the bible accurate how can we know in the last two episodes we looked at the unbelievably precise
measurements of our planet for life and then the likelihood of a cell being created on accident
firstly isn't the saying by accident sorry already getting off topic i think we can all agree that
our planet and the fact that we even exist is astounding but maybe you still aren't convinced
that that necessarily means we have a creator who has purposefully designed us in our world correct
the coincidences and random chance that led to the development of life is incredible and the
scientific explanations for how it all happened are fascinating and no i see no evidence of a
creator so i really want to tell you that you are not an accident you are not the result of
cells bumping together randomly you were designed on purpose by a god who adores you why whoa whoa
that is a bold assertion can you back that up with evidence let's keep building on these findings and
move on to the most important controversial book of all time the bible hang on didn't
you just say that we were all made by a creator you didn't offer anything to back up that claim
just saying it doesn't make it so does it if so you were created by a tiny seahorse named jeff
moving on by a vast measure the bible is the most printed book of all time but does the amount of
times a collection of stories is printed make it true does that mean if harry potter and the
philosopher's stone becomes the most printed book of all time it becomes true is the bible true
one factor that sets the bible apart from any other world religious writing
is that it's remarkable consistency the bible is composed of 66 books written by 40 authors
in three languages in three continents over 1500 years and yet its themes and story remain unified
i'm not entirely sure what any of this information proves if anything the longer something has been
around the more chance it has of being embellished for instance that fish she once caught that was
this big however let's compare your stats to doctor who the bible is 66 books whereas there
are 862 episodes of doctor who at the time of this recording the bible has 40 authors
there are over 100 doctor who writers three languages for the bible doctor
who is translated into multiple languages the bible is widely available in three continents
doctor who is popular in over six continents and although it's not 1500 years old like the bible
doctor who has been around for almost 60 years and guess what both have one theme so
again i failed to see your point it was written by farmers and shepherds and kings prophets tax
collectors so not actual writers that doesn't sound reliable to me would you read about tax
advice from a firefighter all who agree on the two subjects notorious for war and discord you know a
religion and politics how could all 66 books written in prisons palaces wilderness deliver
one message it's the same message the message of god's eternal plan and how he will save his people
can i get a witness the gospels were written in a time when other eyewitnesses were still alive in
fact there were at least 300 eyewitnesses of the resurrection still alive when first corinthians
was written however first corinthians was written by paul who was not listed as one of the witnesses
so it just becomes a story and can't be proven i can tell a story and say that hundreds of people
who were alive at the time were witnesses however you can't go back in time and get their accounts
so all this becomes is a claim without evidence to back it up you can find that in first corinthians
15 3 through 8. writings would quickly be disregarded if false testimony was given with
so many witnesses still present but since those witnesses aren't present we can only discount this
sorry but that's just how it is the gospels those are the books of matthew mark luke and john
offer four accounts of jesus's time on earth and unfortunately for the bible all four accounts
contradict each other what's noteworthy is that each of these books seem to be written
in complete independence of one another yes and therefore have multiple discrepancies they
speak from various points of view and it's just not what you expect to find from four different
accounts like if you and i were going to do a coordinated collaboration and we wanted it to be
believable but but it's still a made-up story wouldn't we sit down and go over exactly what
we would say to ensure that it was consistent it's just not what we find in the gospels no we
definitely won't some mention details that others leave out hang on so the accounts aren't the same
one might tell the first part of the story and the other might tell the second and it all depends
on the author's point of emphasis wow that's convenient isn't it kate then goes on to explain
what the four storytellers speak about further confirming that they don't say the same thing
it's more that the theme is the same it's like you asking four friends to tell a story about
dinosaurs there may be similar parts of the stories and the theme would essentially be the
same but that doesn't tell you anything about how true they are let's talk about the misfit
heroes of the bible now if i were going to write the bible i might have conveniently left out that
moses committed murder or that david killed a man because david got his wife pregnant or maybe that
paul relentlessly persecuted christians but these and hundreds of other sins and details and stories
did not get left out there they sit in print for us to read thousands of years later why
instead of only representing one side perfectionism these misfit heroes of the bible
can give us hope for our own lives spider-man had a dark side it doesn't mean that spider-man's real
though the story of spider-man can also give us hope for our own lives
we are not perfect we do terrible things as well but god can still use us as he used them
prophecy is another topic to consider there are 1230 prophecies in the old testament and 578
prophecies in the new testament that's according to j barton payne's encyclopedia of biblical
prophecy lists that's a total of 1817 biblical prophecies many of which have been fulfilled many
but not all prophecies have a knack of being vague on specifics which allows for confirmation bias to
confirm them but even so if some things in the bible had come true how is that proof of a god no
other book has dared be so laden with telling the future can you offer one example but what about
the harder to believe stories i've heard people say something like yeah i believe the bible except
for jonah being swallowed by a fish and living that's too much well why why wouldn't be jesus
rising from the dead or even the whole earth flooding i'm just not sure i don't accept any
of the stories in the bible are true as there's no evidence to back up any of them so this to me
is just waffle it's important to say that god is not constrained by the natural laws he created
can you prove that and honestly i don't think that humans would be happy with or without the miracles
for example if he had never done anything supernatural outside the laws of physics
we would question if he was really there or if he was truly powerful i'm questioning that anyway
kate continues to waffle on accepting things without evidence offering websites that give
biased confirmation of what theists are looking for but then but then she comes up with one more
question that i once heard a great answer to and perhaps you'll like it too does archaeology
support the bible the bible is not a collection of cleverly invented stories according to 2nd peter 1
16. it is full of names people places stories that can be verified thousands of ancient writings
from hundreds of sites have been excavated confirming the bible's accuracy and if in
millions of years new york was dug up would that then confirm the existence of spider-man
i think we'll leave it there it's actually getting painful listening to the same mindless
acceptance with no real evidence to back up any claim so is the bible accurate accurate to what
the question should be is the bible proof of any god for that i would have to say no
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