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To: brent13a

You obviously do not understand how the moder day bibles are put together.

Modern day bibles like the NKJV and NASV are the most accurate bibles on the planet.

They authors used the best original manuscripts available from Hebrew and Greek

You need to study and learn about what you know before you write what you think.


50 posted on 04/29/2013 10:13:02 AM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike
Modern day bibles like the NKJV and NASV are the most accurate bibles on the planet.

I'm sorry, but that is not true. There is so much historical record when it comes to the creation of the christian bible, the political influences to the religio-political influences that man had when man put the christian bible together......there is no "perfect" christian bible. The only "perfect" bible is the one Jesus used: the Hebrew Scriptures. That was Jesus' Proof-Text and it should be our Proof-text.
In the vacuum of faith only, where history and reason are forced out of the equation, then perhaps that might be true.
The christian doctrine of Fideism sounds to be one of the basis of the "Young Earth" theory.
What Jesus did and what the Judaism of his age did was exegetical reading of the Hebrew Scriptures Jesus TOOK OUT meaning from the scriptures
What happens now, after the supersession of christianity is that christianity uses eisegesis on scripture christianity FORCES IN meanings to the scripture
54 posted on 04/29/2013 10:29:24 AM PDT by brent13a
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To: OneVike
You need to study and learn about what you know before you write what you think.

I can assure you I know what I know because I know how to do independent theological research.
Faith does not have to be void of history, historic context, nor reason. Do you think Jesus made up stuff on the spot? No. He knew his history of Israel intimately and the Jewish peoples and his teachings drew from knowing that history and historic context.
In fact, true faith is knowing all history, the historic context of everything, and putting it all together using reason.
Since my faith includes such things I don't need to ignore historical facts or ignore huge gaping errors to try to just "make things work".
When you can use reason and all of history to understand something then finding the truth about that thing is generally really easy.

For instance, I know the agreed upon theories about the canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures in addition to the seedy dark history of how the christian bible was put together. I also know what Scriptures Jesus taught from, and I know all of this in historical context (just like Jesus knew his historical context) so I don't look like an idiot when I'm having a discussion with someone who isn't a theological homunculus.
56 posted on 04/29/2013 10:42:47 AM PDT by brent13a
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To: OneVike

“..day bibles like the NKJV and NASV are the most accurate bibles on the planet...”

I prefer KJV
it matches my Greek interlinear.


97 posted on 04/29/2013 12:15:07 PM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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