If God appeared to you and told you something in the Bible was wrong, how would you react?

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honestly, expected. the Bible was written by men, and despite the warning in the Bible that anybody who changes its words will be cursed forever etc., I believe it's dubious at best that the full spirit of the original text has been handed down through the ages fully intact. for example, the NIV breaks with the KJV in a couple of notable places, and the NIV is probably the version that most churchgoers are taught from today. that sort of thing compounds every time the text is reinterpreted. ask any epistemologist, there are hundreds of little gray areas where this passage may have meant this or that but the culture that wrote it has been dead for millennia and we can only distantly infer specifics from the crumbs of historical knowledge we've been left with. if God showed up and started pointing out errors in the text, I'd just throw it away and ask for the whole story straight from the horse's mouth, as it were.

skykiii said:
It doesn't even have to be something major, it can be a small detail like "the burning bush was actually a tree."
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I have seen the face of God, and it was saying "[extremely New York Jewish voice] ackchyually, it was moah of a burnin sapling!"
 
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I'd question God why with my Bible in hand. At the end of the day, He is the Creator.
 
I'd consider that it would be Satan in front of me, trying to fool me. God does not sin, so God does not lie.

However, if God would be referring to something minor, then I would interpret that as him referring to a mistranslation in a specific version of the Bible. Like how ESV right now is almost perfect but for whatever reason translates "slave" as "servant". After all, the statement is unclear - the Bible as God's word, or the Bible as a book that I currently have which was translated first from Greek then from Latin and then from an older version of English and so on?
 
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According to the Talmud, this happened, more or less.

The rabbis were having a dispute about some trifling Jew thing. It was all of them against one rabbi who was absolutely convinced he was right.

God himself spoke from heaven in a booming voice, saying the one rabbi was right. The other rabbis complained and defied God, saying hey, you said it was up to us to work out what you meant when you gave us the book! You don't get to tell us how to interpret things! And God said, okay you crafty kikes, you got me there, you win.

Following this incident the rabbi who God himself said was right was ostracized from the community for stirring up trouble regarding the trifling Jew thing and died in misery and despair.

This is canonical Jewish history.
 
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I'm Retarded? said:
I believe it's dubious at best that the full spirit of the original text has been handed down through the ages fully intact.
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Isn't the whole point that divine providence has handed down the message faithfully? If you don't believe that the Bible is the word of God and could be deceiving you, it feels like the whole thing necessarily falls apart.
 
Not A Cat Person said:
According to the Talmud, this happened.

The rabbis were having a dispute about some trifling Jew thing. It was all of them against one rabbi who was absolutely convinced he was right.

God himself spoke from heaven in a booming voice, saying the one rabbi was right. The other rabbis complained and defied God, saying hey, you said it was up to us to work out what you meant when you gave us the book! You don't get to tell us how to interpret things! And God said, okay you crafty kikes, you got me there, you win.

Following this incident the rabbi who God himself said was right was ostracized from the community for stirring up trouble regarding the trifling Jew thing and died in misery and despair.

This is canonical Jewish history.
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Or the less jew-tilted version of the story: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/arrest...ll-secret-tunnel.180132/page-27#post-17497655
 
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