(=Note - This one legit got a chuckle out of me=)
The Bible has not been rewritten, edited or deleted, but it has been translated. Men wrote as God caused them to write over ~1500 years and the result is an inerrant consistent set of documents.
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The Bible codified by the Catholic church.
Unless someone's a Professor of Theology: who has studied the myriad writings in Latin, Greek & Aramaic, someone's wrong.
Oh really ? Then why do translations differ ? Why do Christians over the centuries feel the need to alter the Bible to fit their doctrines, despite warnings not to add or take away from it. The one verse that supports the Trinity is a forgery.
@Anon E Moose
I think you forgot Hebrew.
What do you read? The King James Version ? Or one of the hundreds of other versions ? There are other bits of ancient religious writings that didn't make it into the modern versions, and the writers had long debates about which they would include and which they would omit, so no, they're not just different translations.
Now you Christians get together and decide which one to use, and then you'll all agree with each other, right? Oh no, I forgot, there are over 30,000 flavors of Christianity, so there's no hope of agreement. Why should we believe that yours is best?
If god supervised the translations, the Adulterer's Bible must have a divine purpose.
Maybe THAT'S the way he's been TRYING to say it all this time!
Thou Shalt Commit Adultery!
The Bible has not been rewritten, edited or deleted
Learn Biblical Hebrew. It's not all that difficult. When you do and read the Old Testament in the original, you can easily recognize the editions, especially in Kings and the major Prophets. The language changes suddenly when certain ideas are introduced. The ancient scribes didn't even bother trying to mask their edits. And "consistent"? The classical style of Genesis, the very simplistic language of Kings, the poetry of the Psalms and the Song of Songs, the boring narrative of Wisdom and the near Aramaic dialect of Job are hardly "consistent".
Translation IS a form of editing. It's impossible to preserve 100% the same meaning when translating to a language that doesn't work exactly the same way. The translator always has to make careful compromise decisions to work out how too get as close as possible, but "as close as possible" is never so close as to be 100% the same.
If it's so inerrant and consistent, then why are there so many KJV-only Christians out there? And if it's never been rewritten or edited, then why did the Catholic church hold councils to determine which books should be included in the bible? And why is there now a different number of books in the Catholic bible vs. Protestant ones?
Sure, sonny, you keep telling yourself that. People who have studied that Book, even a little, have very different ideas on that.
Ahem.
The "Standing Fish" Bible.
Also, if it's so inerrant, then how did Judas die? What were Jesus' last words on the cross? Which were created first: humans or animals? Those are all inconsistent within the same version of the Bible.
Maybe if you actually read the thing, you'd know better.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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