I heard somebody say there were mistakes in the Bible, so I thought I”d better check it out. I was in for the shock of my life! I found hundreds of mistakes, and they started at the very beginning!
First, there was Adam and Eve. They ate the fruit, and Original Sin condemned all their future children. But that was just the start. Cain and the murder of Abel – what a horrible mistake! All the people who ignored Noah and perished in the flood – unbelievable! The Tower of Babel, Sodom, Lot – the whole book of Genesis was just one mistake after another. I jumped to Exodus, and there was Moses, committing murder. Then the so-called people of God made themselves a golden calf and worshiped it as if IT had any power. Page after page, book after book, mistake upon mistake. Was there no end?
Even in the New Testament, the mistakes kept coming. Herod and the murder of the infants of Bethlehem, Judas and the betrayal of Christ, Saul at the stoning of Stephen – errors so bad they could only be called SIN! The Bible is just full of them!
Oh wait, you thought I meant mistakes in the TEXT! Sorry, can't help you there. What I find when I search the text is reliability, miraculous consistency, life-changing truth. The “mistakes” in the Bible are all the record of sin and sinners, not the failure of an Almighty God. So don't fret, you can depend on what's there. It's good for what ails you! Oh, and by the way, those “mistakes” aren't the end of the story. The end was written in blood – the blood of Redemption, every failure willing, rescued. Every sin confessed, covered. The Rest of the Story? Good News, indeed!
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:14-17 ESV)
