Can we trust the Bible? (2) A matter of fact - is the Bible an inaccurate history book?
We know that the text of the Bible has been faithfully preserved across the centuries — that was the conclusion of Part 1 in this series. But having the original words is one thing. What if those words are simply wrong? What if the Bible’s teaching on morality and faith is fine, but its claims about history, geography, and numbers are riddled with errors? That is the charge that has echoed since the nineteenth century, when scholars in England and Germany began to argue that the Bible was, at best, a “very inaccurate history book.”