The bible as an accurate historical document - is it all true, a portion true, or none of it?

What do people think of the bible as an accurate historical document?





Certain people within the bible have been identified with other figures in history, basically confirming their existance... so where does the historical document end, and the fiction (if any) begin?





It has been translated through numerous languages, and interpreted by so many religious figures through the ages that some things are not the same as they were. Add to this that the books were all written by humans and it all seems difficult to belive, at least 100%.





What do others think? What rational arguments do you have for and against the accuracy and believability of the bible?The bible as an accurate historical document - is it all true, a portion true, or none of it?
Studying the bible from a historical perpective is extremely complicated.





Portions of the Bible are true. It references real places and real people.





Portions of the Bible are not literally true. All available evidence says the world did not appear in 6 days, for example.





Portions of the Bible may or may not be true as we have little to no corroberating evidence. Did Jesus exist? A lot of historians say yes. Was his life like the Bible describes? Not always. For example, King Herod died before the census in Judea that supposedly happened at the same time Mary gave birth.





It may also be that the Bible stories do not accurately portray events but are still based on something historical. Many Moses didn't lead thousands of Hebrews out of Egypt, but perhaps there was a smaller group of Hebrews who journeyed from Egypt to Israel, and oral myth built up around the journey over the centuries.





Some stuff simply isn't up for historical debate. Did Jesus perform miracles? Depends whether you believe in miracles. no amount of archeology is going to prove that one way or the other.





Be careful when blaming Biblical accuracy issues on ';translations.'; There are a wide variety of Bibles today that were translated only once from very old Hebrew and Greek texts. The issue of texts being repeatedly translated is often a non-issue today.The bible as an accurate historical document - is it all true, a portion true, or none of it?
All true!!! Critics and nay sayers will of course object to that statement but it is accurate. The bible is historically accurate. In fact, it's so accurate that if there is a dispute between the bible and bible critics who say historical facts don't fit the bible's narrative, I'd choose the bible.





Let me, please, give you an important and relatively recent example. Critics of the bible used the fact that no reference to Pontius Pilate ... no evidence of his existence ... could be found outside the pages of the bible to smear it's authenticity. Well, guess what, those critics were definitively silenced when, in 1961, Italian archaeologists found evidence supporting THE BIBLE.
The OT is a book that shows what the Hebrews saw as their history circa 500 BC, in other words the stories and traditions they had at that time.





The NT was put together in Constantine's time, including some books and excluding others from it (especially the Gnostic books), many of which we have only recently rediscovered. So it can be considered a chosen set of books, but chosen by the leaders of the Church in that time.
The Bible is 100% true, but that does not mean that all of it is a history text. It is revelation from God about Himself and about our nature, inspired by God but written through human beings. Some of it is historical fact, but other parts are poetry, diaries, personal correspondence, law and didactic treatises. Thanks for asking.
The Bible is completely true in it's history, it's science, and its theology. It is not a history or science textbook, and it does not use complicated terms only specialists in those fields would understand, but where it does touch on history and science it is correct.





There are those who say that the Bible contains errors but can still be trusted. How can this be true? If it is incorrect in one thing, it can be incorrect on other things. If it is incorrect in one little thing that does matter, what keeps it from being incorrect on the big things that do matter, like the promise for salvation?
it is all fiction it takes a very big leaps to bring it to identify any one with other history written of the time periods . Roman history was very well written but has no account of the birth or the tax at the time of jesus only one small note about it was ever found and was thought to be written about 200 years after the fact so accuracy is in question and believability is always a factor when no one can live in the belly of a fish or any other animal edited translated and reedited and told over and over. will never prove anything you have to accept it on faith alone
An author I read frequently uses the surrounding areas of his residence as points of interest as well as backdrops for his stories. Does this make his books historical documents in the times to come?





No. It simply uses real life places in his fictional stories.





Just. Like. The. Bible.
Ma'am; there is a dfference between scripture and Bible currently. The Bible defines the old testament as Genesis-Malachi, but the scriptures define it as the law of Moses; put another way; Genesis is not scripturalold testament!!!! (A Source of much misunderstanding %26amp; division in Christianity at present).
The Bible is infallible in Faith, Practice of Faith, History, and science. There is no other source we need to live our life as a Christian, its all in the Bible.
Since it contradicts itself, it's not 100 percent true. I think some of the historical stuff has been confirmed, so it's not 100 percent false. So it's somewhere in between.
It doesn't even state the pharaoh's name, and not a single biblical event is ever mentioned in the contemporary accounts in Egypt or Babylon...





Most of it is plain BS...
All true!





its historically accurate





do the research yourselfe