Is the entire Bible truly the word of GOD?
The Bible is a masterpiece of artistic works. All of the works are religiously inspired. I believe that all of it conforms to the scholarly experts rules of what is true as best as they know. The word of God cannot be destroyed or changed. So yes the Bible does contains the Word as sent by the prophets. The problem is that so many people are blinded by their desires of this world that they cannot see it. Satan, Ibis... was given the permission from God to lead man astray from Gods way for a period of time after he refused to obey Gods command to bow before Adam. He is always whispering little things into men's ears to lead him away from the true path of God. If you look at the Bible as being something you can learn and receive a scholarly degree for studying with the goal of being a rich professor of Christianity, you will not see the truth. You have to seek the truth with open eyes and no vain desires. The only desire you must have is the desire from the heart to follow the will of God.
No the original manuscripts do not exist. The original Bible was stored in the hearts of men wanting to tell future about the will of God generations the same as the Holy Quran. And there are many contradictions in things that do not matter. It even contradicts the Holy Quran, if you look at the words as a non-believer, which I believe to be accurate and I trust that Muhammad tried his best to deliver a message from Allah. The Quran says was Abraham was going to sacrifice Ishmael and the Bible says Isaac. I don't care about the name because that was not the message. I respect the message there that says Abraham loved and respected God so much that to do the will for God he was even willing to sacrifice his son. That message is true and clear in both books if you are not blinded by the desire to put someone else down.
Dr. W Graham Scroggie of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, a prestigious Christian evangelical mission, says:
"Yes, the Bible is human, although some out of zeal which is not according to knowledge, have denied this. Those books have passed through the minds of men, are written in the language of men, were penned by the hands of men and bear in their style the characteristics of men...."
"It is Human, Yet Divine," W Graham Scroggie, p. 17
Another Christian scholar, Kenneth Cragg, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, says:
".Not so the New testament...There is condensation and editing; there is choice reproduction and witness. The Gospels have come through the mind of the church behind the authors. They represent experience and history..."
"The Call of the Minaret," Kenneth Cragg, p 277
Not the entire Bible we have in most churches today is the words of God. They are religious people wanted to convey a message to other people of what they have learned are believed much as this book you are reading now. Who knows maybe some religious scholar some 1000 years from now will unearth my writings and say oh look what we found. It has to be a holy book because he used the words God in it or Allah.
For example, we read in the Bible the words of the author of "Luke":
Luke 1: 3 -4 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
This was a letter to Theophilus. I know if I write a letter to some one about Gods business that most likely it is not a time of inspiration. He had good intentions to lead the pagans to Christianity but this was not an inspired letter. It was letter of persuasion. It even says that he had full understanding of it, which means that he wrote it with his own human words and thoughts and not use those of GOD.