In Apologetics for the Bible.(In Replacement of Former Article)

I have not read Sandra Flake's article that John Nelson responded to in Helium. But I read the article by John Nelson in respond to Sandra Flake with some interest. Being a pagan, as he claimed himself, he does know some things about the Bible. But what I read in the article is only his knowledge of half right and half wrong.

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Fact number one, the fundamentalist never believe that the Bible is literal or immutable word of God. Fundamentalist believe that the Bible is the true word of God but not literal or immutable.

Fact number two, it is true that the version mostly read are translation copies over years. But he forgets to mention that God is behind every translation.

Fact number three, people dismiss the Bible with all kind of excuses including what they like to say "the apparent contradiction in the Bible", etc. Again, fundamentalists never see Bible as a literal text.

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Biblical fact number one, it is true that Bible was not written by one author but God inspired every author in writing.

Biblical fact number two, the text that makes up the Bible were not written over 600 years but 1600 years.

Biblical fact number three, although the arrangement of the text is not chronologically, amazingly, the contents flow smoothly since only one editor God put them up together.

The list goes on.

Anyway, Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918) is a 19^th century influential Christian critic, not a theologian as wrongly quoted. Wellhausen's attack on the Bible are groundless and quoting from his work to attack the Bible is misleading. Also, the writer misunderstood greatly of what Wellhausen presented in his writing. There are many miss spelling words in the whole paragraph from Pentateuch (Not Pentatuach) to YHWH (not Yahweh).

I could write a tome just on YHWH but I won't. To make a long story short, the Bible is God's written revelation of His will to men. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." Mt. 24:35

There is no time for me to lecture on Jesus parable here. But the comments that Jesus spoke in parables and his followers didn't always know what he was on about is again half true and half fault. It is fallacious.

The text on the Hebrew is again insignificant and irrelevant. Bara is "created" alright but only in verse 1. In verse 7 and 16, God created (Asha) not Bara. And when God created man in Gn. 2:7, the creation word is Yatzer, not Bara or Asha. And certainly they are different kind of creations from Bara, Asha to Yatza.

Basically, God wrote Genesis as a story just like God allows Shakespeare to write a play. I do not see the point in writing 2 long paragraphs to tell the world that Genesis is a story, a fact we all know. Yes, Genesis is a story.

So are the big Mesopotamia deluge and the Gilgamesh epic. Any history student in school knows that. But perhaps, what the writer does not know is there are at least another dozen or so flood stories around the world that is almost 90 % similar to the Noah flood. This means the flood was real. Noah's descendants spread out the world and the true story dispersed to the whole world too.

To conclude, I have two things to say, first, if any one want to comment on the Bible, please DO YOUR HOMEWORK with respect of all things Biblical. Second, I want to remind here again that what we know is really nothing. We may know Hebrew, Greek and even the whole world, and yet, we still know nothing. "Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 1 Corinthians 1:20 When we humble down, repent and we will see God and his words - BIBLE.