The literal Bible has been rewritten a couple hundred times before the Catholics got ahold of it, and they probably rewrote various portions, and what you get is the left-over portion of the 1600s that the British decided to rewrite yet again. It may not burn out one’s enthusiasm but it causes you to be a little skeptic on phrases and just what got left in, and what got left out.
Bah.
You couldn’t be more wrong.
There is negligible difference between the many ancient copies which are extant and the Bible we have today.
The Book is amazingly, miraculously, intact.
Are you kidding? The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls proved virtually nothing has changed.
Scribes took making copies of the Bible very serious. If they made one mistake while making a copy, they would throw the entire thing away and start over again.
Pfiffle. The Bible is probably one of the most stable document over extremely long periods of time there ever was. And translations into English and other languages is not the same thing as “rewritten,” a very misleading way to put it. Translation is serious work, and there are challenges, but no essential teachings of Christianity are in doubt over the occasional translational puzzle. God told the prophets Messiah would come, and he did, and anyone who believes in him will find eternal life. No matter how many times we copy it, no matter how many thousands of languages we translate it into, the Gospel of Jesus always comes out the same. A wise person might take that as a hint that God means for us to know it, and believe it. Just sayin ...
Peace,
SR
#16 I am kinda bummed they left out the book of David. After looking it up I found the book they left out.....
David was not the sole author of any books of the Bible, but: He authored most (but not all) of the Psalms, a Jewish Humorbook that is the Largest book of the Bible.
The oldest manuscripts are all “copies”, that doesn’t mean they are rewritten. Israelites would count every letter after the copy and if one letter was missing it was tossed out. The dead sea scrolls prove that other Jewish texts were correct. Also, the Lamsa bible from the middle east also shows the manuscripts were correct. They were not available to the trascribers of the King James and say the same thing except for very few words. You can see the Lamsa bible online.