False Teaching - The Bible is Unreliable

False Teaching #1 – The Bible is unreliable and full of contradictions.

This seemed to be a good beginning point since God’s word is the foundation upon which all truth is based. When the enemy is able to get someone to doubt that God’s word is the truth and without contradiction, it lays the foundation for many other false teachings. Either God is Who He says He is as revealed to us in His word, or our faith is worth nothing.

Deuteronomy 32:4 “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”

Psalms 33:4 “For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.”

Psalms 119:89 “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.”

Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I change not….”

James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

If God has lied to us about anything, there is no solid foundation for our faith. Though Paul was talking about the resurrection, this is basically what Paul was saying in his letter to the Corinthians.

1 Corinthians 15:13–19 “But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.”

It is true that there are “apparent” contradictions in scripture, but that is not due to the original inspiration and revelation of that truth to man through the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”

These “seeming” contradictions are a result of many different factors—translations produced by men, differences in the meanings of words from language to language, an understanding of the culture of the time in which it was written, taking passages out of context, etc.

If you choose to believe that scripture is unreliable and contains contradictions, it makes no sense for you to believe any part of it. Your belief is either predicated on truth or it is not. If not, why choose to believe any part of it? I do believe that God is Who He says He is and that scripture is the only valid authority for determining truth.