Posted on 05/06/2006 7:04:47 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
Bump!
(munching popcorn)
Typical moron journalism.
Thousands of minor copying errors do exist, which we would expect with people manually copying the text over many years. No doctrine comes into question because the agreement is about 99% and the copying errors are easily spotted.
The tradition of copying the Old Testament in Hebrew includes counting every letter to make sure it is letter perfect.
The Bible is the most precise ancient book with the earliest manuscripts of all.
Tektonics.org - For the clueless.
bttt
The Bible said there would be people like Ehrman.
From what I've heard, there was NO contemporary account of Christ's words - the earliest New Testament Gospel was written about 100 years after his death (presumably passed down orally until then - and we all know the problem about passing stories ...)
Yes? No?
Look's to me like another non-believer telling the faithfull what the bible really says. Like she knows the mind of the Lord.
Just don't pick up the Living 'bible' or "The Message" "bible".
Neither of those are true Bibles. They are unreliable and inacurrate.
a huge lot more bible texts survived from ancient days than say, the plays of Sophlocles or Euripides or most of the other ancient texts, but we hold the Bible up to outrageously high scholastic standards, higher than any other major ancient text.
And there is a lot less variation in texts than people feel. None of them are key salvation truths.
If you don't understand making standardized texts, then why they do this might bother you. There are some philosophies involving this that lead to the texts. One decides to use the oldest manuscripts available, thinking that these are closer to the original - might be, but they might have survived because someone tucked them into storage cause they didn't think they were as reliable.
One approach uses the majority readings, on the concept that this is what the church deemed to be the most realiable. There is a growing movement towards this approach.
I'm not sure what philosophy Erasmus used when he put together the Textus receptus, but he didn't have the oldest manuscripts around (as they hadn't had come out of storage yet), and some books he didn't have many texts to compare with.
Nonetheless, as God says, his Word does not go out from him in vain, and you can most certainly come to the truth of Jesus being the messiah and Lord using any of them.
And the variants still aren't that many compared to the text as a whole.
Just a typical anti-Christ piece. Take away the sacredness of the text, take awake the sacredness of the Lord, freedom to be as decadent as you want - without that little voice of your prayerful mother or grandmother haunting you in the back of your head.
This explains WJC carrying one, and "ministering" to Monica.
From what I've learned on Free Republic, if it was there in 1616 then that is all that matters.
And they don't claim to be 'true Bibles'. they make it very clear that they are paraphrases.
He he. Well put! Bears repeating...
Ho-hum. Really boring stuff, these error-prone journalists write.
Can we not find thousands, of errors--made up or inadvertent--in our very our contemporary journalism regarding the drinking and sins of, say, Teddy Kennedy? And yet, there are a few truthful and reliable reports?
Then the media gobbles up the erroneous reports and perpetuates them because they fit their template of what truth is? And then the really bad stories pop into the tabloid press?
Well, in the past, the truthful and reliable reports were the books of the Old and New Testament. The tabloid journals were the gnostic gospels and writings. The Weekly World News of all of that was the Gospel of Judas et al.
Ho-hum. Really boring stuff these error-prone journalists write.
Typical moron journalism.
I laughed out loud when I read this, and said "this came from a "journalist?"
I agree!
Orange County Community Tech NC ping!! Wonder why those fine folks in Chapel Hill never spend this much time helping us 'understand' the Koran...
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