My wife wants me to ready the bible thinking I may find some truths in there. The problem is that I’m reading parts of the bible with an un-believer’s eyes and I’m taking it literally. If this is God’s book, then he should be able to protect it’s translations through the years. Karen told me this. But even she doesn’t believe that because she’s taking a class that literally translates the original hebrew text. So when I showed her of an obvious mistake in the bible she told me that it was a mis-translation.
I’ve argued that you couldn’t trust the bible when I was a believer because of the mistranslations.
This is an easy one for you. Go to Wikipedia and look up bat. You know, that little flying creature. Now open your bible to Deuteronomy 14 and read from 14:11 to 14:18.
Did you catch that? The bible is referring to a bat as a bird. That’s a pretty big mistake for God to make in his own book.
I found this awesome bible online that has some stuff annotated for the reader. http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
The more I read the bible, the more it proves to me that it was written by men that believed the earth was flat (Isaiah 11:12)(Mathew 4:8) and the center of the universe.
