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Christian churches tell us the bible came from God though divine inspiration of the various authors. This is the same proof all religions give us that their scriptures are true. Mohammad claims his teachings in the Koran are from divine inspiration of Ala, the one true God. Mohammad says Jesus never died. How can this be if the Christians say he did and they both have divine inspiration from the one true God? Someone is not divining properly. Of course the two religions will claim the other is wrong and that is why we have so many religious based wars.

The fact that man is highly flawed means that even if God was dictating scripture to man, he probably wrote it down wrong. Take Genesis for example. Unless God breaks his own laws, there is no other way to explain the population of the world except through incest, which is said to be sinful in the laws of Leviticus. Noah's ark is another example of God breaking his own laws (of physics). It is impossible to fit the entire world species into the size of ship described in the bible. Some people use the justification that God miracled it to happen. The bible never claims any miracle to this event, so that would be a flaw, and why go to all the trouble to build an ark that is too small just so you can miracle all the animals in there?

Is the bible trustworthy? Absolutely not, anything man touches he taints. The bible did not come to man all at once from God in a finished form, but it was established over many years by discussion and judgment of various early church bishops. The current form of the protestant bible (King James and alike) is not the same as the original version or at least the closest thing we have to it which is the Catholic Vulgate bible. It is true that most of the bible is the same, but any variation is proof of manipulation by man and therefore makes the bible untrustworthy.

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