[muawiyah]

Did you take a good look at Kings II 22 ~ they had to put the Bible back together with what they could only hope was a complete copy, and they had only one copy.

One does hope they were fully inspired.

Bet you thought it's still exactly the way Moses handed it down.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Bet you thought it's still exactly the way Moses handed it down.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=12&chapter=22&version=31

8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD."

(Hilkiah is a liar, according to muawiyah.)

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

If anyone's interested.

[muawiyah]

http://www.christianlibrary.org/authors/John_L_Kachelman_Jr/people-ot/hilkiah.htm provides some information others here don't care to read.

I'm passing this along because the language is simple enough that probably anybody can understand it.

It's quite easy to find information about this break in the chain of Bible custody, it's just that few people have ever paid too much attention to it before. Archaeology actually helps us understand what happened.

BTW, when you get to the part about breaking bones, that's exactly what was done to the false prophets ~ Josiah's army killed them and literally roasted them on their own sacrificial altars.