What do you think have been deleted from the bible?

Question

If so why? Just wanna know, cuz many books states that many things have been removed from the bible...

Answer 1

Only those works that were not authoritative, lacking inspiration, were not considered canonical, in both the Old and New Testaments. These texts are called either the Apocrypha or the Pseudepigrapha.

Let me discuss the history and accuracy of the Old Testament manuscripts. When the translators of the King James Bible wrote the Old Testament, the oldest available manuscript for them to use, was known as the Masoretic Text. This had been written in the 9th century A.D. It was this text that the translators based their work on the Old Testament. In 1947, a shepherd boy discovered some pottery in caves in the area called Qumran, near the Dead Sea. In these jars, he discovered scrolls, which archaeologists and Bible scholars have researched ever since. Every book of the Old Testament (except Esther) was discovered. Most of these scrolls are dated to 150 B.C. After comparing these Dead Sea Scrolls to the Masoretic Text, the scholars discovered an amazing degree of unanimity between the two, although they were written a thousand years apart. Further, the Septuagint (the Greek language translation of the Hebrew Bible) was also compared. With all of these references, there is plenty of evidence that no biblical doctrine has been tampered with.

Naturally, the next object to be lied about is the New Testament. However, there is no larger ancient body of manuscript evidence in the history of mankind, than the papyri and parchment manuscripts of the New Testament. With over five thousand actual Greek manuscripts, and numerous other manuscripts in four other languages, there are about twenty-four thousand available manuscript texts for the New Testament.

Even if we didn't have these documents, we could almost have a complete New Testament from extra-biblical sources, such as ancient lectionaries, church fathers' records/sermons/writings, etc.

No other body of ancient work comes close. No one really disputes Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars (10 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 1,000 years after the original autograph). No one really disputes Pliny the Younger's Natural History (7 manuscripts; 750 years elapsed). Or Thucydides' History (8 manuscripts; 1,300 years elapsed). No one disputes Herodotus' History (8 manuscripts; 1,350 years elapsed). No one really disputes Plato (7 manuscripts; 1,300 years elapsed). No one really disputes Tacitus' Annals (20 manuscripts; 1,000 years elapsed.) Homer's Iliad, the most renowned book of ancient Greece, is the second best-preserved literary work of all antiquity, with 643 copies of manuscript support discovered to date. In those copies, there are 764 disputed lines of text, as compared to 40 lines in all the New Testament manuscripts.

But we have ancient manuscripts of the New Testament that are written within a generation of Christ's resurrection, and people have the audacity to say it's been tampered with!

Answer 2

Many books states, Heh, I like that. No Specificity.

The books that were discounted when the Bible was put together were discounted because they were books of history in a time when God was not revealing anything to man. God was silent for 400 years before Christ.

What happened during that time could not have God as it's authority.

Then there were the Gnostic gospels that were written over 50 years after the last book of the Bible, and they do not agree with the things that are in the Bible. Gnostics prided themselves on knowledge, wisdom, and intellectual thought, somewhat like a few that are on this forum.

I remember a line from the wizard of OZ. When scarecrow asked the wizard for a brain, the wizard said these words:
There are men in institutes of higher learning, that do nothing but think deep thoughts every day, and they have no more brain than you have.

Answer 3

Martin Luther at one post removed Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation from the 27 NT text.

He also removed the Deuterocanical Books 7 Books from the Greek OT text. The Early Christian Church had always use these books since its infancy. It was not until Martin Luther remove the books.

That is why the Catholic Bible have more text than the Protestant Bible. They Protestants have their King James Bible, the Catholics have their Douy Rheim Bible which predates King James Bible

Answer 4

It comforts pagans to suggest that the modern versions we have of the Bible are merely the result of editions from power-hungry fascists later in church history. If these religious fascists edited the genuine Word of God to a significant degree, then modern readers are logically and morally free from the implications of its teachings.

However, if the versions of the Bible we have today really do reflect the very words that God intended to communicate to people today, then pagans would be responsible for their knowledge of those teachings and their resultant behavior.

Pagans don't want to submit to helpful dictates of a universal morality graciously given by their Creator, so their bodies and world will function at its optimum level. They'd rather be selfish despite the long-term ramifications.

Answer 5

Most likely to have a condensed version that wasn't so contradictory. In many ways religion has been something guided by political correctness or current politics to control the masses. It's a shame that many books have been lost, destroyed or mistranslated.If you look at the bible as a whole throughout history and how it has evolved is really interesting regardless.Don't judge a book and the people by what's missing but what your missing from it's evolutionary teachings throughout history about humanity and it's logic concerning higher life forms and other possibilities.

Answer 6

To many things to list. Mainly the true Inner Teachings of Christ.
Those teaching which he shared with his inner circle. The apostles, both male and female. As you probably know the books of the new testament as we know it, were not written by the proverbal Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but by nameless followers, and or those who lived so far after the teachings of Christ, that the limitation of human memory has played a part in major ommissions. That coupled with the fact, that the church played a major part in manipulating the content of that which was to be written and perseved for posterity.

IIf you research some of the major Council's (Trent, Nicean etc.) held prior and after the Inquisition, you will find that the agenda of the church took precident over all the true teachings. HIstorically science is beginning to prove that which is the TRUTH . Which in the end is a more direct path to the Godhead

The |TRUTH is to be found in so called MYTH and symbolism. WE have but to search and be open.

Answer 7

God's personal name has been removed from many translations of His Bible. Originally, it was recorded some 7,000 times. That's a lot of deletion, wouldn't you say?

Some people say God's name is not important. I think that's a fairly presumptuous statement to make. Particularly, when one considers what God himself said at Exodus 9:16. Seems to me, his name is pretty important to Him.

Hannah

Answer 8

People think only things they would RATHER the Bible say, was deleted. Things that would say they only need to be a decent person to go to heaven and half the things the Bible says is sin really isnt.

Answer 9

Jesus taught the guru deciple relationship of siddha yoga, vedanta plilosophy, the vedas and hinduism. See romans 8-29, this discribes the guru relationship. jesus taught reincarnation, see matthew 11-14/15, matthew 17-10/13 & matthew 22-32 jesus tell his deciples john the baptist is Isais reincarnate. Meditation on God. A misquote? or mis interpetation, Jesus is NOT the only way to know God for there are many alive on earth now that have the power to baptize in spirit. See this site for unbiased facts about many religions, the roots of christianity and islam are in the vedas, siddha yoga, vedanta philosophy and hinduism.

Answer 10

opponents of the bible make claims that the bible has been changed. No one has made any proof of what, when and by whom it was changed. The first copy of the bible is still the same as today's.