Atheists. If I was to show you evidence of creation would you change your mind? Are you open minded?
Have a look at the below book. Do you believe that a book like this could have been created from absolutely nothing? Can the pages, ink, colours, pictures, binding and cover all miraculously form out of pure chance? Being that the cover and pages miraculously formed themselves out of wood into paper of different compositions and then red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet ink fell from the sky and formed themselves into words and pictures on each of the pages?
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Absolutely not. Obviously, a book like that could only be created through the work of an intelligent designer.
Well then how much greater is the delusion that our DNA could have formed out of nothing. DNA acts as a blueprint or recipe for a living thing. A human’s genetic code contains 6 billion letters or 6,709 text only books or 511 high quality digital photos. When multiplied by 40 trillion cells, this is 60 zettabytes of information. That's 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
In the year 2020, all of the digital information contained in the entire world equated to about 40 zettabytes of information.. that's less information than what is contained in a single human body...
How could you argue that something as complex as life created itself by chance out of nothing? That is, unless you are wilfully ignorant because you are afraid of the truth and what it means for you...
...but there is hope. Our Creator is rich in mercy and forgiveness to those who believe the Gospel, repent of their sins, and put their faith in Jesus Christ.
I love you all and thank you for taking the time to read.
At the same time. How can you be so confident that the bible is correct.
Sure it has many truths in it, I even believe in some universal force, that we are all part of.
Calling it god, or giving it any human like quality's is just silly though, its more accurate to say that we are all a piece of god. Something the bible even says if I remember correctly.
I have a few problems though.
I find it hard to believe that god would create all of this, to give us one tiny little speck of it. I also find it hard to believe that when you die you either go to heaven or hell, basically on one thing.
Whether or not you "believe" in the one true god or not. Ive never seen angels, or heard god talk. Im really supposed to take all this on faith?
And finally, there are so many different religions through time, and the bible just seems to be another form of that. I really am seeking an idea that can unify all of those. I find it pretty smug to assume your religion is right and everyone else's is wrong. A mistake humans have made through time, over and over.
In regards to your first question about the Bible:
The Bible is God's inspired Word, inerrant in its original writing and the only authoritative and infallible rule of faith and conduct for humanity.
To date historians have roughly 25,000 manuscripts of New Testament books, far more than any other book from ancient history. This includes over 5800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, with an astounding 2.6 million pages of biblical text and an average size of 450 pages. Between these manuscripts there is an accuracy of 99.5%, making it the most accurate historical text that exists by orders of magnitude.
In regards to your question, none of the translations to other languages are perfect, only the original Greek version of the New Testament is, and the original Hebrew/Aramaic versions of the Old Testament are. However, some of the translations available to us are very good and accurate.