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To: celmak; john in springfield

The *changes* that are asserted that the Bible has undergone, are changes in our understanding of some things. The original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic documents have not changed, even though our understanding of the languages has improved and allowed for more accurate translations.

Improving a translation is not *changing* the meaning of the Scripture and is not *changing* the original documents.

The kinds of *changes* that people like to try to tear down the veracity of Scripture with are insignificant to the kinds of changes anything scientific has undergone.

Scientific theories generally go and have gone major revisions, even to the point of being scrapped. The Genesis account in the Bible has been the same for thousands of years.


33 posted on 03/20/2010 12:14:11 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
The *changes* that are asserted that the Bible has undergone, are changes in our understanding of some things. The original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic documents have not changed, even though our understanding of the languages has improved and allowed for more accurate translations.

Yep.

Scientific theories generally go and have gone major revisions, even to the point of being scrapped. The Genesis account in the Bible has been the same for thousands of years.

True. However, the Bible was not intended to be a detailed scientific analysis of scientific processes. And, our understanding of that account has changed, at least for many of us.

Many of us now understand that account in a less literal, more allegorical way. Which, actually, I'm not sure isn't the way it was originally understood in the first place. People in the Middle East, to this day, do not necessarily speak quite as literally as we do in the west. It was and is a different culture from the European one we inherited.

It's not hard to imagine someone in the middle east threatening to swoop down on you with an army of ten million men, when what he really means is that whatever size army he does have, he's going to hit you with as hard as he can.

35 posted on 03/20/2010 12:50:54 PM PDT by john in springfield
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To: metmom; celmak; john in springfield
"For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven."

Psalm 119:89

FReegards!


52 posted on 03/21/2010 7:53:15 AM PDT by Agamemnon (Intelligent Design is to evolution what the Swift Boat Vets were to the Kerry campaign)
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