is bible is in the same form as it was revealed ?

Answer 1

No
Excellent essay by Richard Carrier
Take the time to read it

Answer 2

No, the Bible is a series of books, all of which have been revised numerous times. Few of the original documents remain, the more recent ones found, The Dead Sea Scrolls, caused many revisions.
Best to take the Bible for what it means rather that totally literally; also there are SO many translations and each of those are different. The Bible was complied over hundreds of years; ALL of the New Testment wasn't even begun until well after Christ's death.

Answer 3

No. the older parts of the book were an oral tradition handed down prior to the use of written language. Some of the prophetic books are pretty much as they were written but translated into different languages. On the other hand the present form is quite old with most parts over two thousand years old.

Answer 4

Because Christianity and Bible were modified right after Jesus Christ(PBUH) was taken to the heavens. He did not die(as Christians believe) he'll return on earth before the Dooms day. The same Jew(JOHN) who planned to hang and kill Jesus(PBUH) later converted to Christianity was the first modifier of Allah's(GOD) message revealed on Jesus'(PBUH). The Bible of today is not in the exact shape as it was at the time it was revealed on Jesus(PBUH). It was being modified. Today you can see so many versions of the Bible. Qurran is the only Holy book which is in the same form as it was revealed on Prophet Muhammad(PBUH). As it is the last message from Allah He Almaighty Himself took the responsibility of its protection and prevention from modification till dooms day that is why Qurran is in the same form and has only one version not many like Bible. Its no wonder Christianity has so many divisions. Jesus(PBUH) was the Prophet of God not son. Adam is the first Prophet and Muhammad is the last Prophet. Every Prophet God sent before Muhammad(PBUH) informed his followers that there would be another Prophet after him and another message from God but those orders were removed and modified. As Islam is the continuation of Gods messages Allah already informed us in the Holy Qurran that there would be no other Prophet after Muhammad(PBUH). Qurran is the last message form God. Sunnis and shias both believe in the same book .You need to study and learn about Islam before judging it.

Answer 5

Yes. The two tablets, we are referring to the proper bible, right, the old testament. The tablets were hidden when the temple was segued. They have never been seen since then and will only be found as well as many other holy Jewish artefacts when Messiah comes.

Answer 6

For the New Testament, it is as close to the original form as it is possible to get when the "autographs" (meaning the very first manuscript actually written by hand by the author) no longer exist. Over the years, the New Testament as been translated, and debated, and paraphrased, and edited (for instance by Thomas Jefferson who cut nearly 2/3), etc. But none of that chances the original writings. They can do anything they want to modern translations, and the early manuscripts still exist to show us what the original writings said.

Due to the fragile nature of the material (papyrus) used by the original authors, none of the original manuscripts survive. Papyrus has a life expectancy of about 50 years. But it was the best thing they had back then. It was not until about 250-300AD that vellum became available, increasing the life span of manuscripts dramatically and making it possbile to sew them into books rather than scrolls. So the majority of the manuscripts we have today date from that time period on.

But we do have fragmented manuscripts from before that time. Such as a manuscript of the letters of Paul copied in the early 100's (they were written between 48 and 67 AD). Arranging the fragments, it is possbile to construct about 72% of the verses. Tha manuscripts contains the same 13 books we know today. And all the verse that can be reconstructed match word for word the Greek text we use now. There is no reason to assume that the damaged 28% that can not be reconstructed would not also match.

Same with other writings such as a gospel of John that dates from the early to mid 100s (John was written between 90-100 AD). They can reconstruct about 80% of the manuscript, and again, it matches the Greek text from which translators work today. Similar manuscripts can be reconstructed for the rest of the NT books.

But, even if we have NO manuscripts at all, we have other material that survives from the early years of Christianity. This includes letters, commentaries on the NT, prayer books that quote the NT, inscriptions on artifacts, catacomb walls, etc., translation of the NT into other languages, and more. Using nothing but these external sources, it is possbile to recontruction all but 11 of the 7,958 verses of the NT.

While there are been a lot of claims recently (thanks to Dan Brown and the DiVinci Code) that in the early 300s a catholic group knows as the Council of Nicene (under the authority of Emporer Constantine) rewrote the NT, there is no factual basis for the claim.

There still exist over 2,300 manuscripts of the NT that predate the Council, many by as much as 200 years, that are identical to the Greek text uses today by Bible translators. Over 1,700 of these contain the four Gospel, almost 800 manuscipts that have the letters of Paul. Over 200 copies of the book of Acts, etc. All that "predate" the councils alleged rewritting of the NT. This does not include the letters, commentaries, prayer books, etc. mentioned early. For the Council in the 300s to have altered all these thousands of manuscripts is impossible. So we can be confident that the NT was not changed by the Council of Nicene.

Many of the oldest existing manuscripts were NOT preserved by the catholic church and the council of Nicene. Many were also know even known to exist, or where already in ruins before the council ever meet. Some come from Egypt, where they were perserved by the Copts, a group of Jewish Christians who fleed Israel in 70 AD when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem. These people had no contact with the Catholic church for several centuries, but their manuscripts are indentical. Fighting between to the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire led to two separate branches of the church (before the Council) - the Roman and the Bryzantine churches. Yet the manuscripts preserved by the Western Bryzantine church are identical to the catholic manuscripts. Three rivals groups - but all in agreement on the text of the NT.

There still exist today over 5,300 early manuscripts of the Greek text of the New Testament. Compare this to other early works.
Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars - 10 copies.
Plato's Republic - 200 copies.
Tactitus' Annals - 20 copies.
Herodotus' History - 8 copies.
Thucydides' History - 8 copies.
Homer's Illiad - 643 copies.
Yet all these others books are accepted by historians and scholars as reliable and accurate in their content. The NT has far more proof of its original content then any of these others.

Is the Greek text from which Bibles are translated 100% accurate and reliable? Is there any variation at all in the early manuscripts? As they were hand copied, yes there are variations. If you place the 5,300 manuscripts side by side, you will find places were a word is spelled differently in 1 manuscript then in the other 5,299. Or where a word is different (they have "your" instead of "our" - but is that a different word, or a spelling error?). Or manuscripts in which an entire line is missing (oops - somebody lost their place while copying). These things happen when you hand copy. But with 5,300 manuscripts to compare, it is relatively easy to spot the mistakes made like that and correct them.

When all the manuscripts are compared, of the 7,958 verse of the NT, there are about 40 verses where there is still debate over the exact wording. Often the debate comes down to one word in the verse. None of those difference would affect a single major doctrine or belief of the Christian faith. Compare these to the Illiad, where over 700 lines are debated (And it is far smaller than the NT). Or even the writings of Shakespeare where whole sections of speeches and acts have been filled in by scholrs because they are missing from the original manuscripts. Again, the NT is the mosr accurately preserved doucment in history.

Do we have the NT in its original form? There is every reason to accept the Greek text from which we translate Bibles today as being an accurate and reliable text of the original manuscripts.

Answer 7

Yes , just as the Koran with the exception that the Bible is an older document and more specific than the Koran which is written in poem like and it verses are not written in sequence..

Answer 8

would say not as there are so many different versions as well as variations in the language used in Ancient Times and Modern times discrepancies are bound to have taken place. all we can do is use common sense and do the best we can with what we have at the present time.

Answer 9

No. It's been translated, canonized and redacted. And if we could get to the original, we still couldn't understand it, because we don't speak those languages any more.

Answer 10

no