I mean if there was a guy today raising the dead, walking on water, born of a virgin, and performing miracles we would write down every word, as he spoke it (we'd probably record it and transcribe it later, but same idea).
Why did it take hundreds of years to compile the bible? Even if you worship Jesus, don't you think some things may have been lost or mistranslated (like his wife Mary?)
And even then , the originals are lost, only translations of translation remain. Why do you worship each mistranslated word?
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2006-10-12 14:06:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A lot of thing were changed to fit different agendas
2006-10-12 14:08:47 · answer #1 · answered by nicole 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It didnt take a hundred years to write it down... Just look at it.... The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in Israel in the 1940's and 50's, also provide phenomenal evidence for the reliability of the ancient transmission of the Jewish Scriptures (Old Testament) before the arrival of Jesus Christ.
In addition, these texts agree with the Septuagint version of the Old Testament, which was translated from Hebrew to Greek some time during the 3rd century BC.
The manuscript evidence for the New Testament is also dramatic, with over 5,300 known copies and fragments in the original Greek, nearly 800 of which were copied before 1000 AD. Some manuscript texts date to the early second and third centuries, with the time between the original autographs and our earliest existing copies being a remarkably short 60 years.
2006-10-12 14:14:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Much of what is in the Bible was written down well after His death, you are right.
What you say is a good reason NOT to be a fundamentalist. The basic accounts are accurate, and many are documented through other ancient records (Roman and Greek writings).
I KNOW that anything touched by the hand of Man may be corrupted, so take the main ideas, the main feelings of what happened, and you can tell what direction Christ wanted us to go. Forget the tiny details. You will be the one to benefit if you have faith that Christ lived, Christ died for you, and Christ will come again. It's ALL for your benefit, not His. And you don't have to give money to a church to believe that.
2006-10-12 14:15:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I worship God and his Son Jesus Christ. I am able to commune with him through his word which has been perserved over the centuries inspite of human weakness.
The whole idea of lost translations etc is a crock
It did not take hundreds years to write it down. There is reliable proof that most of the New Testament was written within the first century. For example, John wrote Revelation before the destruction of Jerusalem.
What we forget is that his word is preserved by his Spirit. Nothing is left to accident.
Jesus said, that "He that heareth my Word and believeth on him that sent me, that everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is assed from death unto life. (John 4
2006-10-12 14:28:53 · answer #4 · answered by perrin556 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We must first of all know that the entire Bible is corrupted and unreliable and is mostly filled with man-made laws and corruption! "`How can you say, "We [the Jews] are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?' (From the NIV Bible, Jeremiah 8:8)"
The Revised Standard Version makes it even clearer: "How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it (i.e., the bible) into a LIE. (From the RSV Bible, Jeremiah 8:8)"
In either translation, we clearly see that the Jews had so much corrupted the Bible with their man-made cultural laws, that they had turned the Bible into a lie!
See Also Deuteronomy 31:25-29 where Moses peace be upon him predicted the corruption/tampering of the Law (Bible) after his death.
The Book of Moses predicted that the Law (Bible) will get corrupted. The Book of Jeremiah which came approximately 826 years after did indeed confirm this corruption.
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2006-10-12 15:56:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are talking about 2 things as if they happened at once. That is incorrect. Books of the New Testament were written within that first centuary. They were passed around and recognised until 325 AD then it was canonized into a complete bible
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"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:9-10
2006-10-12 14:20:40 · answer #6 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is it so important to you to trash Christianity?
I noticed all of your questions have to do with religion, and don't you think it strange for an atheist such as yourself to invest so much time disproving something you don't believe?
You have a spiritual problem you are trying to resolve by marginalizing the faith you know nothing about.
If someone rose from the dead to speak to you about God you still would not believe.
2006-10-12 14:16:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gospels were biographies of Jesus Christ. they were written form 50a.d-90 a.d. the earliest was written within 20 years since Jesus ascended to heaven. We have proof of the gosples dating to 120 a.d. and when compared to today's gospels they match 99.5% of the time! The gospels copies from 120 a.d. are the closest we have to the originals compared anyother ancient document, such as letters of caesar, aristotle, etc. (Socrates never wrote down anything either, his pupils did)
2006-10-12 14:10:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus didnt have a wife...just because Leonardo said he had a wife doesnt mean He did.
To answer your main question...thats where faith comes in. You have to believe God knows what he's doing...He does. If He wasnt so longsuffering and withdrew His hand from us...can you only imagine? Satan would have us dead and in hell already.
2006-10-12 14:10:46 · answer #9 · answered by candi k 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first Gospel was written around 50 AD. Stop reading your stupid Islamic apologetic books and get to the library.
2006-10-12 14:09:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
jesus is not a god, he is a person chosen by god 2 be a prophet
he has mercales like born without father u should viset that site www.sultan.org
2006-10-12 14:10:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋