The good Book?

Question

To all of you who thump your bibles and answer questions here with passages from the bible, are you people aware that the bible was written by unknown people as well as editted by those in the church for your viewing pleasure? Curious though bcuz if this IS the word of god as you describe it, why then are books left out and why even in the first place was the bible editted?

Hmm. Interesting how there are no REAL responses to this query. just a lot of pissing and moaning. what a surprise. was kind of hoping for a long winded explanation to my question but no such luck eh.

stpolycarp77 I could ask you the same questions to prove your belief in god's existence. try not to answer with a book and a prayer but give me actual facts on his existence. can ya? or are you going to give me some holy crap and assume it will good enough to suffice for an answer?

Answer 1

Just finished a book called 'misquoting jesus'. Where the author states that the New testament has more errors (and lets just call them "add ins") than there are words. I find it pretty intersting that a lot of words in Greek cannot be translated into english because no single word or phrase could capture it's meaning. Or the fact that if you leave out two dots on top of a character it changes the entire meaning as well. The bible was written over centuries and wasn't bound in leather as we know today. Rather the New testament was a series of letters written to specific groups of people I.E. Thessalonians or Corinthians. Romans. And unlike today most people were illiterate so one person was given the charge of reading a letter to a whole assembly of people. Jesus calls himself "the way the truth and the light" There only two commands Jesus gave us. "Love your God with all you heart mind body soul and stength. The second is to love your neighbor as yourself." If people lived by these two laws man the world world would be a better place.(ya think) If there is a God you would think he is smarter than us frail mortals. Maybe he could concieve to give us all the right information in as little a space as possible. It says he confuses the wise with simple things and brings low the strong by weak things. (paraphrased) Maybe just maybe God isn't bother by human intervention because he orders the steps of man.

Answer 2

the Dead Sea Scrolls proved tht the Old Testament (OT)transcriptions were accurate, remember before the printing press, the Bible was hand transcribed.The majority of the texts found did not differ. The Book of Isaiah chapter 53 is a prime example. These books were a lot older than the New Testament(NT). The Jewish tradition has a strict guideline for transcribing.

Also, there are about 5000 copies of the greek manuscripts of the NT. There is a certainty of 96-97% accuracy of the text w/ minor differences in either spelling or word placemnet, nothing that changes meaning (please note: in the original greek text).
The Greek NT is undisputed by the sheer number of copies in ancient manuscript. Outside the Bible, Homer for e.g. only has 647 ancient manuscripts in existence.

Answer 3

man under the influence of the devil got in the way! More and more is being revealed every day to Gods people, just because books have been left out doesn't mean that it isn't the Word of God, Why was it edited, again, the devil used man to strip away truths from Gods word, after all , if humankind has access to all the weapons given to us by God through the word, the devil would be in greater trouble. That is alright, we have a Holy and Mighty God, and He promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to teach us in all things, and the Holy Spirit doesn't need a Book, as man does, to know the depths of God, the promises, the mercy, the grace, the weapons of warfare against the devil. The Holy Spirit will teach us in all things, even those things that we have need of that was taken away from us by the editing of scripture by man.

Answer 4

The Gelasian Decree refers to religious works by church fathers Eusebius, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria as "apocrypha." Augustine defined the word as meaning simply "obscurity of origin," implying that any book of unknown authorship or questionable authenticity would be considered as apocrypha. On the other hand, Jerome (in Protogus Galeatus) declared that all books outside the Hebrew canon were apocryphal [5]. In practice, however, Jerome treated some books outside the Hebrew canon as if they were canonical, and the Western Church did not accept Jerome's definition of apocrypha, instead retaining the word's prior meaning (see: Deuterocanon). As a result, various church authorities labeled different books as apocrypha, and treated apocryphal books with varying levels of regard.

Many of the Greek fathers included some apocryphal books in the Septuagint with little distinction made between them and the rest of the Old Testament. Origen, Clement and others cited some apocryphal books as "scripture", "divine scripture", "inspired", and the like. On the other hand, teachers connected with Palestine and familiar with the Hebrew canon rigidly excluded all gospels not found there. This view is reflected in the canon of Melito of Sardis, and in the prefaces and letters of Jerome [6].

A third view was that the books were not as valuable as the canonical scriptures of the Hebrew collection, but were of value for moral uses and to be read in congregations. They were referred to as "ecclesiastical" works by Rufinus [7].

These three opinions regarding the apocryphal books prevailed until the Reformation, when the idea of what constitutes canon became a matter of primary concern for Catholics and Protestants alike.

In 1546 the Catholic Council of Trent adopted the canon of Augustine, declaring "He is also to be anathema who does not receive these entire books, with all their parts, as they have been accustomed to be read in the Catholic Church, and are found in the ancient editions of the Latin Vulgate, as sacred and canonical." The whole of the books in question, with the exception of 1st and 2nd Esdras and the Prayer of Manasses, were declared canonical at Trent[8].

The Protestants, in comparison, universally held the belief that only the books in the Hebrew collection were canonical. John Wycliffe, a 14th-century reformer, had declared in his Biblical translation that "whatever book is in the Old Testament besides these twenty-five shall be set among the apocrypha, that is, without authority or belief" [9].

The respect accorded to apocryphal books varied between Protestant denominations. In both the German (1537) and English (1535) translations of the Bible, the apocrypha are published in a separate section from the other books. In some editions, (like the Westminster), readers were warned that these books were not "to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings." A milder distinction was expressed elsewhere, such as in the "argument" introducing them in the Geneva Bible, and in the Sixth Article of the Church of England, where it is said that "the other books the church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners," though not to establish doctrine.

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Answer 5

When you drop a Bible into an empty trash can, it goes "thump". Is than an acceptable method of thumping Bibles?

Answer 6

Getting truth from a bible is like trying to squeeze custard out of a weasel's butt.

Answer 7

Where's your evidence for this? What do you base your theory on? Have you done the research yourself to understand the truth behind Biblical studies?

Answer 8

You and Charnelle_B need to learn to spell the word EDITED!! Other than that who gives a sh**it!!

Answer 9

cause maybe just maybe they editted the bible so that people like you can read it

Answer 10

An excellent question, indeed.