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To: celmak
Has the Bible ever changed?

Yes, certainly.

It started with a few books, several thousand years ago, and kept changing, book by book, until a bunch of people got together and declared it was finished and done changing.

And then later on, another bunch of people got together and declared the earlier bunch of people didn't have it quite right, and they removed some bits the earlier bunch of people had included.

Or didn't you know this?

It took many centuries from its earliest writings for the Bible to be finalized in its current form. Forms, actually, since Jews, Catholics, Protestants (and also Mormons) all disagree on which books are included. By comparison, the theory of evolution only originated around 150 years ago. So it's had much less time to assume its final form than the Bible has had to assume its final forms.

29 posted on 03/19/2010 11:40:49 PM PDT by john in springfield
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To: john in springfield; metmom
” Yes, certainly.” And, ”Or didn't you know this?”

Let me be more specific. I realize that the whole Bible added books and subtracted books to what we have today, there were times when men decided which books were inspired and which were not. So let me be more specific; did they ever change the meaning of any individual book (or chapter, verse, or sentence for that matter)? I am not asking about trivial translations either; i.e., the translation from the original Hebrew or Greek, such as the difference between “thee” and “thou.” And I am not asking about a simple sentence change, such as, “As Jesus started on His way…,” vs., “And as He was setting out on the journey…;” THE MEANING IS THE SAME. I am asking if there has been any changes in the meaning of any book of the Bible.

As to the Old Testament books; has the meaning of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and all through Malachi changed? And for those who have the not divinely inspired books (Apocrypha); i.e., the books of Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, etc, has their meaning been changed? Has the content of the books of the New Testament; i.e., Mathew through Revelation, been changed? If any meaning of these books has changed, what meaning changed?

32 posted on 03/20/2010 9:32:56 AM PDT by celmak
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To: john in springfield; celmak

Nothing like changing the subject because the TOE and scientific credibility (rapidly becoming an oxymoron) is taking a beating.......


39 posted on 03/20/2010 3:33:32 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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