If God, Jesus, the devil, angels, and demons were all real, we still couldn’t rely on the Christian Bible as gospal (pun intended) — it was written by humans, specifically men, who could have misunderstood or invented things. Think of it like the Snyderverse in Man of Steel: Superman is portrayed as a brooding, violent character — but that’s not his true nature. In Batman v Superman, Batman is straight-up killing people — also not his normal characterization.
So even if much of the Bible reflects real events or real beings, parts of it could still be distorted, exaggerated, or entirely made up by the people who wrote it down.
This is a silly post. The Christian doctrine is that the Bible is the inspired word of God. So if Christianity is true, then yes, the Bible is reliable. Most of the doctrine in the Bible is by God (Jesus is God) or a guy Jesus appeared to in front of two other people and also prophesied to someone else that he should do missionary work. Also gave him His holy spirit to the point he raised dead people to life.
Inventing stuff is quite tricky when a lot of Jesus’ preaching was in crowds which carry numerous written testimonies
“Inspired word of God” differs by denomination though right?
I could be wrong, but I thought some viewed it as the exact word of God, others as the word of God as interpreted by the prophets
But when you look at things like canonization and other religions adding on (like Mormonism) it gets fuzzy. Yes, Christians believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God, but can you really be certain that each step of the process was 100% correct? You don’t think there’s any room for human error in canonization or translation?