Red Pilling Bible Believers: The All or Nothing Proposition

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The Whole Bible is the Inspired Word of God.

Do you agree with this statement?

Do you think for yourself?

Do you accept any information which is presented to you?

If I told you there is an "angel" only I can see and hear and you can't see or hear them.

If I told you this "angel" gve me a book which only I can see and read, would that suprise you?

Haha - "I'm special and your not."

If I told you that within this book it is written, a book only I can see and read, that, "You must stand on your head and gargle peanut butter or you will go to hell!"

What would you think now?

Crazy. Loony. Psycho. Probably forgot to take his meds. Did he escape from a mental ward? Where is his psychiatrist?

Dealing with False Information:

So people do have limits to what they willingly believe or accept. What happens when the false information is less obvious? What if it requires special tools to compare the less obvious false information to facts?

These are the hurdles the average individual faces when confronted with information which may be false.

The Whole Bible is the Inspired Word of God.

This is a common teaching in Christianity. How common? Millions of Pastors in most denominations present the Bible this way.

One Website presents the discussion like this:

"How Do We Know the Bible is the Inspired Word of God? Maybe it's because the Bible is scientifically accurate, and it teaches amazing things.

The Bible itself makes claim to being the inspired Word of God, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16).

The Bible claims to be without error, authoritative, sufficient to meet all of our spiritual needs and it does not defend itself. It merely states truth asking us to examine ourselves with its message."

https://www.allabouttruth.org/how-do-we-know-the-bible-is-the-inspired-word-of-god-faq.htm

Well there you go, the Bible says in 2nd Timothy that All Scripture is the inspired Word of God. Therefore, we must accept All of the Bible or None of it.

The All or Nothing Proposition:

If you accept this position then you accept All of the Bible or None of the Bible.

The phrase "All or Nothing" is associated with success and failure.

The Cambridge Dictionary says this about the phrase:

All or nothing relates to doing something either completely or not at all.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/all-or-nothing

If you Accept All of the Bible completely then you will have success.

If you don't accept All of the Bible completely then you will have failure.

This is the Biblical version of the All or Nothing Proposition.

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The Whole Bible is the Inspired Word of God.

2 Timothy 3:16

"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness"

It can be said this scripture reference is a strong source which supports the position, the Whole Bible is the Inspired Word of God. But, what if 2 Timothy is not an authoritative source because it has been forged?

It is a fact that 2 Timothy is a forged document. 2 Timothy was not written by Paul.

The Authorship of the Pauline Epistles:

"The contested epistles – Ephesians, as well as the three others known as the Pastoral epistles (1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus) – have been labeled pseudepigraphical works by most critical scholars."

• Wikipedia

Pseudepigraphical means False Writing.

This means that 2 Timothy is not valid for use as scripture. 2 Timothy is a forged document, 2 Timothy is a falsified document.

As you follow the rabbit hole further, you will find scholars reviewing the linguistic structure of these contested documents date them to between 400 CE and 700 CE.

What was happening in the 400 CE era where individuals would incorporate falsified texts into scripture?

Our modern Bibles can be traced to time of Jerome, one of, if not the top Biblical scholar of his day.

Jerome Identifies Errors in the Septuagint:

Jerome affirms that the Hebrew Bible text in the fourth century read differently than the Septuagtint.

Two Examples:

Isaiah 11:1 as quoted in Matthew 2:23

Proverbs 18:4 as quoted in John 7:38

According to Jerome, texts quoted by the apostles were all missing in the Septuagint but were present in the Hebrew text. Jerome created the Latin Vulgate to ensure that errors and mistakes he could identify would not carry on into the future.

Due to the influence of Augustine, Jerome’s Latin Vulgate translation of 405 A.D. was evidently tampered with. Augustine vigorously dissented from Jerome’s efforts.

Jerome died in 419 A.D. and Augustine died in 430 A.D. Augustine won the battle.

It appears Augustine had the power to change the Vulgate to match the Septuagint. Roman Catholicism published the Latin Vulgate, a version of Jerome’s Latin Vulgate which had verses Jerome had vigorously disputed as corrupted in his letters.

Why Push the Septuagint At Odds With Hebrew Scripture?

Augustine's priority was to protect Paul even at the expense of Matthew and John’s credibility. The choice confronting Augustine was if the Septuagint was in error, Paul is uninspired. But, if you rely upon the Septuagint over the Hebrew canon, you can maintain Paul’s inspired nature but at the expense of making Matthew and John out to be liars.

http://www.jesuswordsonly.com/books/451-septuagint-errors-and-question-of-is-inspiration.html