[Iscool]

The HUGE mistake that many people make is to take an English version of the Hebrew Bible and accept it (no pun intended) as gospel. No, it isn’t. It was written in Hebrew, which is a very complex language with many subtleties that get lost when translating it to other languages. Then it was translated into Greek; then to Latin and then to old English, and finally to the English that we speak, read and write today. MUCH understanding has been lost by the vast majority of the world, which doesn’t read or understand Hebrew (and doesn’t care to, for that matter).

And the people who speak and read Hebrew are lost as well...There is no original Hebrew scripture to compare it to...

And the Greek??? The Greek has been a dead language for centuries...And there certainly aren't any original Greek manuscripts to compare anything to....All we have are copies of copies and translations of those copies...

So why do you suppose God would have had his scriptures written in a language that he knew would vanish away for the most part and his original written words would vanish as well??? What did God epect his children generations down the line to do???

God said he would preserve his words forever...You figure he lied about that??? If he didn't, where are they???

[Ancesthntr]

With all due respect, you are incorrect regarding the Hebrew Scriptures. The five Books of Moses, commonly called the Torah, have been faithfully transcribed by hand without any changes for millennia. There is even a specific commandment that not one letter is to be added, and not one letter is to be taken away.

My brother is a scribe, and he has gone over the process with me on many occasions in great depth. There are so many safeguards, most involving other scribes, rabbis and learned members of the community comparing newly written versions with older versions that are known to be correct, that it would be virtually impossible for a changed text to emerge.

Thus, the fact that there are no existing original Torahs that are 3300 or so years old is of no consequence.