Biblical Errancies: How serious can it get?!

I'm not the right person to evaluate the Bible and authenticity, but I asked about the Concept of God to my Christian friends and in forums, I get different different answers and no conclusion and still Christians want to believe in ONE God. I have seen some problems with Bible, but I don't know how much it is acceptable to a Christian. The doubts in Bible may be less, but all of them are on the basic concepts like God, Trinity, method of following OT etc. As an ex-seminarian, whether anywhere Bible say about Trinity, the basic concept of Major Christian sects? And still there are Christians believe they are different entities, only one God, but they believe in Son of God. And yet few other Christians who believe only in One God Father(YHWH) and Jesus as the messenger. There are others who do not believe the current day Bible and believe in Gnostic Gospels. The Catholic Bible has additional chapters than Protestant and Orthodox Bible. Catholics get trinity from Bible, and non-trinitarians get no trinity from Bible. The new covenant of Jesus Changed the Concept of God itself, the God until Moses and the Christian God is so different. How all these could be? Just my confusions or views, No offense meant.

Hi meekoh! I can understand your feelings ... I have met one more people like you, and I met one here in MyLot itself, a filipino, he wanted to be a religious person, but he felt Christian beliefs are not for him. And he then on reading Quran has found his way, and he found real 'One God' and the right path. If you are really a truth seeker, I recommend you to read Quran, Before reading you have to understand what is Quran. Quran is the words of God revealed to Prophet Mohammad in different occasions based on events and the progress of that new society. It's not a man made Book, only the wordings of God. I know many Filipinos think Islam is an evil religion, but it's not. It's Peace and submission to the God, worship him and do good deeds. You can read Quran translation from:- ## Online Reading:- http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display.php?chapter=1&translator=5 http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/ ^The above are just translations, it don't have chapter introductions and explanations. ## To Read Online with Introductions & Details, you can read http://www.tafheem.net/ ## To Download Quran Software, with Chapter Indroduction, Translation and Transliteration Quran Viewer 2.9 (Windows) http://www.soft32.com/download_4097.html ##To Download only Chapter Comments (the events and situations of revealing the Chapter) as .chm file http://www.islamicdata.info/downloads/ChIntro.chm The more you read, the more you get truth. May the Almighty God Help you to find the right path.

Well the bible only contain what the so called scolars wanted it to contain in the 1500s - they just sat down and decided what they wanted in there ... Personally I think the stories are nice, but I don't think the book itself should be the source of faith.

Such questions are common to all believers, it's part of growing up in the Christian faith. In my early years, I also have difficulties with at least over a dozen seeming contradictions. Having now reread the Bible more than a dozen times, there are now less than a handful which do not bother me at all. The trinity is one example, a great mystery which no human mind can fully comprehend. Our attitude can only be, I do not understand, and not, I do not believe. Take note also that faith does not come from doctrinal understanding but from personal subjective experience. Ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find. "Is the Bible Inspired by God?" by Chang Yu Lan greatly help me and hopefully to you too. I recommend you browse a few chapters that might interest you. I posted the entire booklet on www.geocities.com/timothy_ah/ChangYuLan.html