[trisham]

With all due respect, WRITTEN words are also VERY capable of being corrupted. How many transcripts do we have of Scripture? How many "versions" do we have today, often saying things quite differently when discussing the same verse?

*****************

Good point. Not only that, but we have different interpretations of those versions. Which reminds me of the parables, for which interpretations also exist.

[Conservative til I die]

Good point. Not only that, but we have different interpretations of those versions. Which reminds me of the parables, for which interpretations also exist.

Or just look at differing translations of the Bible. Sure, there are ones we obviously know are a joke, like these new inclusive translations that eliminate gender differences and are soft on homosexuality, but there are also Bibles like the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation which change a few words here and there and manage to create an entirely new, non-Christian theology out of it.

[Blessed]

>Good point. Not only that, but we have different interpretations of those versions.<

This brings us back after 200+ posts to the origional subject of a Christian World View.If you don't believe God"s word is inspired of the Holy Spirit and protected in it's origional form from corruption you don't have the same world view as Orthodox Christianity has held for the last 1600 years.With the exception of the JW's the Bibles used by Christians today are not in error when it comes to the essentials of Christianity(this should in no way be seen as an endorsement of the living Bible or the Women's Bible etc.)

This heresy that has been taught in a lot of college freshmen religion courses that we can't be sure we have an accurate translation of origional manuscripts is patently absurd.Their are many more contemporaneous copies of scripture available today than their are any other document from that time period including the writings of Socrates and Aristotle.

[jo kus]

"Not only that, but we have different interpretations of those versions."

Another thing that I forgot to mention. The Hebrew version of the OT, the one which Protestants use, is based on the Masoretic text. This text is based on an 800 year old TRADITION! Young men would be trained on writing the Hebrew WITHOUT the vowels. So for 800 years or so, there was an UNWRITTEN tradition of which vowels went where. What is interesting also is that after looking at the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars have found that the Greek Septuagint that the Catholics use for their OT is more accurate with these Dead Sea Scrolls, written 200 BC, compared to the Masoretic text, written 600-800 AD (with the vowels added in).

To get an idea of the 'tradition', interpret this:

THLRDSMSHPHRDSHLLNTWNT
HMKSMLDWNNGRNPSTRS
HLDSMBSDSTLLWTRS


THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WANT
HE MAKES ME LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES;
HE LEADS ME BSIDE STILL WATERS.

(PSALM 23: 1-2)

One can see how a word could become misinterpreted. I find it ironic that those who refuse tradition rely incredibly on this tradition...

Regards