There are some that will insist that we must accept the Bible as 100% correct in order to be saved. If one error is found then the entire manuscript must be scrapped, after all, God can’t make mistakes – right? While there are some basic truths about the Bible, my concern is pastors would like to have their congregations believe that the Bible we hold in our hands today and the scrolls that Jesus read from in his day are one and the same. After much prayer and deliberation, I don’t think that’s the case, I don’t think everything is cut and dried as some would have us believe.
I believe in the traditional teachings that Jesus was the “Word Incarnate” and the law fulfilled. However, after doing some research, the Jews spoke Aramaic and the first gospel account of the New Testament would have been Luke written in Greek around 63 AD (www.biblestudytools.com). The early writers drew from an Aramaic oral tradition and some scholars suggest translation problems by these early writers who may have not been fluent in both languages.
While Jesus did quote from scriptures, what we actually have is a New Testament account of Jesus quoting from the Old. Thus, a paradox occurs as Jesus couldn’t have quoted from the New as these weren’t in existence at the time he was alive; yet scholars tend to universally extend infallibility to all of scripture both New and Old alike.
Finally, a point of illustration. If one were to compare the table of contents of the New American Bible Revised, regarded as the Catholic Bible, to an NIV version regarded as the Protestant Bible, you would find markedly different books. Now comes the 64 million dollar question, which one would lead me to Jesus? I can only pray to God that they both would. If I were to take the hard line approach, one would be wrong and the other canon correct. The conclusion that I arrived at is that the Bible is true enough to believe. Remember that all wisdom come not from our own understanding but from God. I sometimes wonder of those that take the hard line approach have discounted the Spirit at work in conjunction with reading the Bible.
Trinity Doctrine, A Closer Look 