I want to know something about the bible and religions?

Question

this answer was given to me by a user -
"Statistically, the New Testament is 99.5% textually pure. That means that there is only 1/2 of 1% of of all the copies that do not agree with each other perfectly. But, if you take that 1/2 of 1% and examine it, you find that the majority of the "problems" are nothing more than spelling errors and very minor word alterations. "
How was the conclution that the bible was 99.5% accurate made. was it a scientific procedure used in making this conclusion, if so why does religion deny science but when it helps in making religion look good they accept it?

So what if i am bias, doesn't your religion teach you to love your enemy too.

Answer 1

The whole statement was bogus. Sounds 99% made up to me. There are so many different versions in different languages that were copied from each other and none of them are all them same. Not the least bit pure at all.

Answer 2

Yeah it didn't say it's 99.5% accurate, means that all the different manuscripts are 99.5% the same, meaning the whole story about it being changed over and over again is wrong. The statistic does nothing to prove whether it's true or false, but it should mean something to those who think they can just blow off the bible because they heard somewhere it had been changed like a million times.
And right, religion denies science sometimes, but science denies science all the time. The church is far older than the scientific community, they've seen it go through hundreds of fads and seen hundreds of theories come into fashion then get discarded. The sensible thing to do is not get too worked up if the scientists come running up with a theory that says people are worth no more than animals. They just continue to assert what they always asserted, and if the scientists decide to say the same thing for a while, no use stopping them.

Answer 3

The conclusion appears to be made from an erroneous reading of Bruce Metzger's work in comparing different texts of the book in his "Chapters In The History Of New Testament Textual Criticism." Metzger reaches no such conclusion.

His research was on how "accurate" the texts were in agreeing with each other by an analysis of the Alexandrian ("Neutral" or "Egyptian"), Western, Caesarean and Byzantine ("Majority" or "Syrian") versions of the New Testament. The goal of the study was to attempt to reconstruct the original text, which, given the many thousands of disagreements and errors is impossible, let alone the work of editors getting into the mix.

The only conclusion I can reach is that, yet again, some Christian has latched onto a lie created by others in an attempt to bolster their own belief.

Answer 4

Religion, Christians do not deny science-that has never been the case (leave out the old catholic problems). What we are against is someone telling a lie and calling it science. When Leaky or some other grandstander finds a few bones from different animals scattered over a mile or two, and puts bones together from humans and chimps and calls it a "humanoid", and dates it many thousands of years in the past with no real proof of what he presents-that's the kind of stuff we are against. Remember 'Lucy"., well she was blended. As it finally turned out after a deeper investigation she was just a chimp. But we still have her and the whole family in the text books. This is the kind of garbage we are against. There are too many competent scientist who do not believe this evolution hoax.

Answer 5

Religion DOES NOT deny science!!
I'm a scientist and it validates my faith.....totally. It's my understanding of science that makes me believe even more!!

There are scientific facts in the Bible before scientists even discovered them. I have many examples.
In Isaiah 40:22 it says the earth is a sphere....science then said the earth was flat....hello? have you ever heard of Christopher Columbus? He trusted the word of God when he set off on his voyage!
In Job 26:7 it says that God "suspends the earth over nothing", but scientists believed that the earth sat on a large animal.
Hebrews 11:3 says that creation was made of invisible elements. Science couldn't fathom atoms & molecules.
The book of Job also says that light moves (38:19-20) and air has weight (28:25) and the ocean contains springs, but science believed that light was fixed in place, air was weightless, and the ocean was fed only by rivers & rain.
Since I'm in the medical field, the thing that amazes me is that in Leviticus 15:13, God tells the Levites to wash hands under runnig water when dealing with disease, where science said to wash in still water. Leviticus also says that blood is the source of life & health, the doctors believed that sick people must be bled.
The most amazing thing is the day when God told the Jews when to circumcise, is the day when the clotting factors in a new born are at their highest, then they start dropping off.

I guess my point is, is that religion doesn't deny science. Most scientists have made scientific discoveries because of what the Bible said...they believed it. Someday they'll be saying: scientists used to believe that man evolved from monkeys!

Answer 6

Well, first of all, this was taken from the following site.

http://www.carm.org/evidence/rewritten.htm

Now, if said Christian answerer didn't list his source, he has effectually committed a crime. :)

Anyway... look at the site.

The thing is, no matter how close to the original the NT is... it doesn't make it any more true. It just makes it the original fiction rather than the copied one.

Answer 7

99.5% accurate by comparison with the earliest texts.
All religion does not deny science. That statement you made is way to broad as to make it bias

Answer 8

The God of the Bible, YHWH, is the master scientist. Science proves creation, and the bible supports science.

It is EVOLUTION, the birth of matter and life, without a creator, that the bible does not support.

Answer 9

This question is as much hooey as the Bible. We both know it, and you are just stirring it up...good for you! At least I will come back and look at the answers...hope there are a lot of outraged people on this one..but couldn't you have worded it a little more confrontationally???

Answer 10

I subscribed to the "Big Bang Theory", till it broke down, then I thought maybe the "String Theory" is the answer, till it gave way.
Then there is the "Theory of Parallel Universes", "Evolution".........and so on.

There seems to be only one unchanging truth, JESUS IS LORD!