The Truth about the Bible - Infallible Book of No Errors?

The Truth about the Bible - Infallible book of no errors?

Written by Joseph Ho, 12th April, 2009

The bible contains errors, errors in chronological description and also errors of recording. Shocking indeed and its hard to believe what I have said isn't it. Before you judge my statement as heretics, I urge you to read on but pray for divine protection against any false teachings. But I speak the truth so I must produce the evidence of this statement you may say.  So then is this an accusation or blatant malicious attack on the work of a perfect God? God is my father and as a son there is much to be done to repair his work. The bible is not perfect, since it contains errors, because when something contains error it is imperfect, and that is the description of perfect in the English Dictionary. Perfect means no errors or mistakes, period.

So can a Christian then boast that they have the infallible book from God, no they can not even claim that. However, to be accurate and precise they can claim that the Word of God is perfect and infallible; that they can claim. But they can not claim they have the infallible error free book of the word of God. If the bible were to be the Holy Spirit inspired book, one would assume that there would be no error in it since the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. The Holy Spirit can not produce anything with error because it is the Spirit of Truth. Ascribing a book written with errors as inspired by the Holy Spirit is blasphemous. Certain portions of the bible were indeed inspired by the Holy Spirit but not everything in it, God gave men the honor to include their words in the bible and these are the ones that contain the errors.

A Spirit of Truth can not accept wrong or erroneous information since it is wise and all discerning, so which one is the right assumption here, men makes mistakes under the anointing? If that were to be the truth then the anointing in itself is not all too trustworthy. So what I am saying is that the bible is not completely written under the anointing from the Holy One and the complete text is written by 3 types of beings, the historian, God-inspired men and the Holy Spirit or God himself. It is the historian who makes these mistakes, but their words are in the bible so it makes the bible non-error free. That is a sad fact, but we must as righteous, honest, sincere, God fearing, humble and truthful people admit to this fact. If we try to allow and accept even a single error as truth we will have an opened door for the devil to come into our mind. This is the danger.

The bible contains the words of men and the Word of God. God does not make any mistakes, except one which God himself said he did in Genesis 6:6,

Genesis 6:6 (King James Version)

6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Genesis 6:6 (New International Version)

6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

I promised not to twist any scripture here to suit any preconceived ideas of what the bible is and is not saying. But I will only present the truth from within its self-written published words. No one needs to repent unless they did something wrong, that is my definition of making a mistake and God repented.

Definition of the Word of God

The word of God and the laws of God refer to God-spoken words in the bible and the Ten Commandments. Everything in the bible which is spoken directly from the mouth of God is the Word of God and anything that the Lord says as recorded is also the Word of God. All other words are the word of men, historian or scribe recording the events, and times.

Anything else written from the memory of men belongs to the word of men and their written account. Men being imperfect make mistakes, but God is our maker so in that sense we have been made this way for a reason, to glorify him. God did made men in his image, so if we were to say we are imperfect than since we are in the image of God, can we infer that God is also imperfect then? The errors of inferring can be disastrous so human ways can not be adequate in defining the book of infallibility. I was deeply disturbed when I first came across these errors and it took me a long time to come to peace within my soul that the bible is not perfect as most pastors would have you believe. No man made lies or mistaken truth spoken with sincerity and good intentions can be used to glorify our God, they are filthy rags in the eyes of the Lord our God.

And ever since I accepted this truth about the bible, God showed me more, but I will present two of them to you so that you may know the truth and let even that truth set you free. I can only share two such errors since this is an article not a book; so I hope the reader will not judge what they read by the limited proof. As all errors and lies are from the devil because God is light and has no lies in him so he does not sanction any wrong and misleading facts, none, zilch, zero, nana, whatever; he does not tolerate lies. God is not glorified in lies nor wrong glory ascribed to him. God is not greedy for any of these things which men speak untruth to his work.

"If God can work with imperfect men who sins why can't God use an imperfect book with errors in it. God certainly can."........ Joseph

If there were absolutely no errors in the bible, how can He expect us to exercise faith, we would have no need for faith. God will not share his glory with anything or anyone, God alone is perfect. In that reason, I am well comforted, that God is so wise and omnipotent, he can use anything to glorify himself without our help, none whatsoever. The Truth needs no defense; it can defend itself without any men's help.

Biblical Errors of Numerical Figures

To proof this point let us go into the bible to seek the answers, let's look at 2 verses which describe the same event with wrong figures. The Holy Spirit should be able to do simple math, yet a numerical mistake was found in the bible.

1 Chronicles 21:24-25 (New International Version)

24 But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing."

25 So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site.

2 Samuel 24:24-25 (New International Version)

24 But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing."
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. 25 David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the LORD answered prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.

The recording for the site was 600 shekels of gold in Chronicles and 50 shekels of silver in Samuel. This is truly and error, so I say the bible has an error, there was a recording of wrong price being paid. It's the same mistakes in the King James Version as well. But worst the King James being the older version contains errors in the name as well; Ornan and Araunah.

1 Chronicles 21:24-25 (King James Version)

24And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

25So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

2 Samuel 24:24-25 (King James Version)

24And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

25And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

Now lets go on to the Book of Matthew and Luke, here you will see 2 entirely different account of Jesus after he was born, I am much sorry as you are when I saw two different version of the accounts of this events, but I must report the truth as written by Holy Spirit inspired men of God.

Biblical Errors of Chronological Events

One Gospel account given after Jesus was born mentioned fleeing to Egypt in earnest while the other account is a peaceful on with Jesus and family returning to Nazareth. How could such an important account be not recorded by Luke if Jesus and family had to escape to Egypt to avoid being killed by Herod? Can the Holy Spirit have forgotten such a thing? I suspect it was the historian's own misgivings that had produced two different account of what happened after Jesus was born. So this is sufficient proof that the Bible is written by historian who constantly made mistakes and don't do their own fact checking but wrote from their memory. Below are the bible verses that show this inconsistency in the chronological events after the birth of Christ as written by "Holy Spirit" inspired man of God.

Matthew 2:13-15 (New International Version)

The Escape to Egypt

13When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." 14So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."

Luke 2:21-22 (New International Version)

Jesus Presented in the Temple

21On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived.

22When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

Luke 2:39 (New International Version)

39When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.

Will you as righteous people now say that the bible is perfect, inspired word of God or the bible is the works of historian man, inspired man of God and God, himself. I would favor the latter description of our Bible; at least that sits perfectly at peace within my soul. I will only boast of the bible by saying only that its "The Word of God" be it written or comes from his mouth, those words are infallible, even words from his true appointed servants, the Prophets. In that, I am very confident to say the Word of God is infallible but not the entire bible.

What is the Rhema Word of God?

The rhema word of God is not the same rhema word that Kenneth Hagin follower teaches. The true rhema word of God is not the word of human positive confession, this seasonal positive confession is man's word spoken to bring prosperity with human understanding and its inherent idolatry. The positive confession of man is self serving in nature with no regard for sin within the confessing person. God-given words on the other hand as spoken by the prophets are words in its season as in Isaiah,

Isaiah 50:4 (New International Version)

4 The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue,
to know the word that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.

Isaiah was one of the many prophets who could give a word from the Lord and it would manifest itself to sustain the weary heart, to give hope, chastisement, rebuke or call them to repent of their sin and find favor with God again. Only the words sent by God can accomplish and prosper for which it was sent. Words of men and presumed prophets not authenticated by God will accomplish nothing. That is why some positive confession by irate preachers and false Christians can not work at all; they were not approved by God. God is law and order and not chaos. So how is it possible for sinful unrepentant man to decree anything and God has to honor them, it's ridiculous and heretics at best; charismatic witchcraft.

Isaiah 55:11 (New International Version)

11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Isaiah 44:25-26 (New International Version)

25 who foils the signs of false prophets
and makes fools of diviners,
who overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense,

26 who carries out the words of his servants
and fulfills the predictions of his messengers,

God will only fulfill the words of his servants, the ones he has chosen to do his works, and also his sons whoever they may be will speak from the father like Jesus. God did not fulfill the words of the Sons of Sheba nor when they use the name of Jesus to cast out demons, for they had no authority been assigned to them. Although the name of Jesus is powerful, it has no power when confessed by false Christians. Those who have no relationship with Jesus are all false Christians. These are deaf sheep that could not hear the master's voice. My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me says the Lord our Shepherd. The Holy Spirit is given only to all his sons and daughters and they can hear his voice. The Holy Spirit is the seal guaranteeing the eternal salvation, the white garments or robes worn by the overcomers.

John 5:39-40 (New International Version)

39You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, 40yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

Anyone who made a commitment to study scripture and to follow its teachings are highly commended, for it contains wisdom and principles for Godly living, however, that is only one part of a Christian life. What about hearing from the Shepherd Jesus himself and moving in the Spirit with him, which one is more profitable? You have to do both. We are reminded to move in Spirit and Truth because the letter is a static command and people who move only with the letter will find their lives incomplete with occasional victory but mostly in a state of confusion. Sometimes God comes and other times he doesn't and that makes these sheep half trusting God not moving in complete obedience. When God don't come, they come themselves with their own solutions which bring much grief, why? In life we all have deadlines like monthly bills, and so if God don't supply our needs we have to do something to supply that need, that is why I say when God don't come, we come ourselves under the pressure of real life situation, we bear no fruit.

2 Corinthians 3:6
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant-not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

John 4:23-24 (New International Version)

23Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

Jeremiah 9:24
but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.

Colossians 1:16 (New International Version)

16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.

Psalm 12:6
And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.

Proverbs 30:5 (New International Version)

5 "Every word of God is flawless;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Matthew 13:23
But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."

Luke 1:20
And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their proper time."

Deuteronomy 8:3 (New International Version)

3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Matthew 4:4 (New International Version)

4Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

There are plenty of proofs that God wants us to communicate with him and not just reading from a book. Don't just read the bible; God wants you to hear his voice and the words from his own mouth. The bible is not the be-it-all and end-it-all; it's only a guide to show you the true Almighty God. It can not replace the position of God.

Although he has given us steadfast principles, statutes, decrees and commandments, he still wants us to abide in Him not in just a book written about him and an imperfect book at that. This book again becomes an idol in the eyes of men who can not move with the Spirit of God; these people have now claimed a perfect book as God. And they have made it to become their God so they do not need God, just his words they say.

A book of letters without the Spirit is still a dead thing. What a pity these people have idols after idols even an epoch which Gideon made after he won the war became an idol for worship, now they worship a book of words and not even desire to try to communicate with a living God. They love idols all the time, they love the created things and not the creator whom they can not see and trust.

Then they say that the book is complete and they need no new revelation or words from God. How silly they are? But are they silly, no they are not, what are they actually saying, they are saying that they have found the way to God and its in the bible alone, so they are in effect being righteous because since they are expert in the book, they want everyone to submit to that book so they can be the only teacher with the right stuff and way to God. It's again another monopoly type of control, this time using their own terms and condition on God and they  being the ones who knows how to live for God because they have trusted in the Divinity of a book of static words. They forgot that the manna from heaven is fresh every morning and should they keep the manna for another day it will rot, that is similar to taking scripture anyhow and anywhere and using it for their current present life situation, it will produce maggots and not victory. The manna from heaven is the absolute rhema word from the mouth of God and it changes everyday with the Spirit speaking into our lives.

Truth without Spirit will never bring victory to the soul, its about God, it was written to describe God, so read it, memorized it and go to God, come to Jesus, and Jesus only, ........ Don't stop with the bible and scriptures it will not free your soul.............. God is alive and he wants to talk to you. It's the shepherd that can lead you to green pastures...........God bless you all, if you want to know more about deeper walk with God and pruning all kinds of weed check out my website or send and email to me.