Bible Discussion Thread

More on factual accuracy.

Since this is a place focusing on study of the scriptures; I don't want to deviate with a lengthy diatribe on any other issue. Nonetheless; we should all agree that we CAN trust the accuracy of the scriptures in KJV (and I would simply say in some other translations as well despite the vehement disagreements of a few).

Anything else has to be seen as at least partially tainted with fallen man's assumptions; presumptions; bias; or genuine lack of knowledge as to well researched data that is utilized. There are those; for instance that have wildly exaggerated numbers as to those killed in the Inquisitions as well as ignoring some equally horrid things done by Protestants at the time. On the other hand the countless millions killed especially in the Asiatic regions by Muslims is something almost unknown today; I only found out relatively recently. We can extend this concept to deaths in wars; where we seem obsessed on just a few countries and ignore much of the continent of Africa in particular where things especially in the Congo have no interest in the mainstream news outlets in the USA.

As Christians we need to be "wise as serpents; innocent as doves." ( Matt. 10:16) When we see something like a war in the world especially now we tend to take sides based on what we are told without doing research with say independent media; or checking with those who are actually on the ground. This is how videos of so called atrocities blamed on one group or country wasn't screened carefully; and especially during the Syrian conflict 10 or so years ago the perpetrators would use video shot in other countries some years before. We see the same idea now with the "official" casualties in Palestine reported by those tied in with Hamas; just as the "Syrian Observatory" group was one lone person that the British would claim represented absolute truth during the Syrian conflict.