A Problem in The Bible No One Talks About

All Christians believe in the Bible. Some of them hold the Bible as the only source of knowledge of God. When theologians dispute, the Bible is their reference and their holding ground. You can say that most of the churches that separated from others have done that because of differences in interpreting the Bible.

                But what is it actually? The Bible is a compilation of books which have been written in a time frame of approximately 1500 years. Its writers were Hebrews with exception of Luke who wrote one of the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.

                Most of the Christians believe that the Bible is inspired in a way that God influenced minds of writers in a manner that He used their vocabulary, expressions, knowledge, emotions and put His ideas into the mix. That is how Christians explain errors in the Scripture - grammatical roughness and conflicting data. This means that God didn't use dictation(like in the case of Quran), He left a human element in it instead.

                Christians also believe that all parts of the Bible are inspired, but they do disagree about which books should be in it although this difference doesn't concern most of the books - and all of the pivotal ones.

                The church that I belonged to believes that they oppose all faulty human traditions and hold the Bible as their only guide. But the question is why are Christians so sure about the Bible? Why is there no doubt that the Bible had its political and social background but there is no doubt that its content is holy and pure? Christians say two things: The Bible's fulfilled prophecies and information that are ahead of its time vindicate its divine perfection, and there are some things you just have to believe.

                I can't dispute that the Bible contains ideas and information that are almost impossible to be there: prophecies, medical advice, even scientific facts that put the Scripture well ahead of its time. But if I believe that the origin of these information is of a divine nature, what does that tell me about the rest of the Scripture? For example, if the prophet Ezekiel wrote an accurate prophecy of the future, what does that say about divine origin of the Book of Job? Or to go even deeper - what does it say about the rest of his book? Is everything he says afterwards a perfect description of God and His will?

                Sometimes my father dreams something that he feels is different from his other dreams. It troubles him deeply and few days later the event he saw in a dream happens in real life. If I say that his dream is of divine origin, can I say that everything my father says about God should be studied for thousands of years by all generations of Christians?

                We must take in account another fact. The writers of the Bible were faulty men - people that were humans and had flaws and weaknesses - no sane Christian will deny it. Let's take apostle Peter for example. He is a rough man, he gets carried away too easily, he is sometimes selfish, maybe he is rude to his wife now and than, he has imperfect ideas of God(like any person striving to „change“ God to justify his weaknesses), but when he sits down to write his epistle, he is writing a material that should be worshiped for generations to come? And when he is done with writing, we're back to real Peter? It takes a lot of faith to believe this.

                And concerning the faith, if you say that only by faith you believe the Bible is a word of God, you must have in mind that the questions „What is the Bible,“ Who wrote it“ an „What will be in it“ were answered for the first time by kings, governments, conventions and councils . And finally the question is: Do you have enough faith to say that all of them got it right?