A priest recently published a book about how he spent ten years researching ancient 'biblical' texts from all over the world, including texts just recently found. He discovered that over 80% of the modern King James Bible is false and made up by translators and scribes over 1800 years. This is not fiction folks, these are real manuscripts found that WAY predate the King James Bible.
The book is called Misquoting Jesus and that priest is now agnostic.
How can you brainwashed Christians continue to believe in the bible when this kind of evidence is laid out before you? The bible is false folks. Its made up. Besides that, isn't it odd that the 'story' of Jesus perfectly matches the story of Mithros, a 'god' that supposedly existed hundreds of years before Jesus?
Free you mind folks. Free your minds from the religious prison.
2006-12-27 10:49:17 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
because a lot of these people are clearly delusional. Look at their answers, it's insane. there no point in trying to get these people to use their brain, they're so delusional and brainwashed that's it actually is pretty funny.
2006-12-27 10:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
To call the Bible fake is a little extreme don't you think?
Let's start with the first half or the Old Testament. It has been faithfully copied and passed on for centuries. There is a scroll in Jerusalem that is referred to as the Jerusalem Bible. The oldest known copy of the old testament and it has been pr oven that to days Bibles have been faithfully passed down and accurately recorded. To call it a fake would also be telling Jews and Muslims that their bible is fake, because they also claim the Old Testament as part their religious heritage.
As for the New Testament. (The Christian Bible) The story may seem incredible and hard to believe. Even faked if you would like to view it that way. That is why the Christians believe with faith. You see, faith is believing in something even though their is no proof of its existence. Faith is driving home from work every day, not knowing if the house didn't just burn down, but believing that it didn't. Faith is getting into an automobile and driving on the freeway. At any moment, you could become goo spread all over the place. Get the idea?
Take Pascal's wager..."To believe in God and pr oven wrong loses nothing. To believe in God and pr oven right, wins everything." If all people ran around this planet without any belief in a higher authority, there would be mayhem and murder galore.
Let the Christians have their Bible, The Muslims the Koran and the Jews the Torah. Believe the way you want to believe.
2006-12-27 11:12:03 · answer #2 · answered by Mike R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is silly. The agnostic gospels like the gospel of Thomas and Judas were created hundreds of years after these folks were dead. Unlike the disciples Mathew, Mark, Luke and John who actually walked with Christ. And there writings occurred within 60 to 75 years of Christ death and yes we all know Paul didn't write all of his letters to the churches but rather dictated them only occasionally writing portions of them.
This disillusioned priest is not the first nor will he be the last. I am not sure one mans struggles with his faith, would be called evidence.
There are over 500 scrolls of the new testament books from different time periods that are very close word for word. The king James version had some controversy around it but was later found not to be that far off after all, and there is a revised KJ version.
Martian Luther spent time going over the scriptures converting the Greek to German who was a catholic priest he didnt seem to have any issues with the text. The message always comes out to be the same in the end, but if you like you can get a copy of the Breeches Bible or the Geneva Bible that pre-dates the king James.
I think its more amazing that the life of Christ matches the predicted Messiah of the old testament detail by detail.
2006-12-27 11:24:57 · answer #3 · answered by singularvision 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't you find it a little funny that you will believe the word of the priest. But not the word of God.
Why is it then that its still around and yet not one person can say that what the bible has predicted has came true.. not one thing has been proved a lie.... You can trust your man and I will put my trust in God and his word.
Sir Isaac Newton once said I find more sure marks of authenticity in the bible than in any profane history whatsoever" (two Apologies, by R. Watson, London, 1820 p57) Its integrity to truth proves sound on any point that might be tested. Its history is accurate and can be relied upon. For example, what it says about the fall of Babylon to the Medes and Persians cannot be successfully contradicted(Jer 51:11,12,28; Da 5:28) , neither can what it says about people like Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar (Jer 27:20; Da1:1 Egyptian King Shishak(1Ki 14:25; 2Ch 12:2) Assyrians Tiglath-pileser 111 and Sennacherib (2Ki 15:29; 16:7; 18:13 ) the roman emperors Augustus, Tiberius and Claudius(Lu 2:1; 3:1; Ac 18:2); Romans such as Pilate, Felix, and Festus (ac4:27; 23:26; 24:27); nor what it says about the temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Areopagus at Athens (Ac 19:35; 17:19-34). What the Bible says about these or any other places people or events in historically accurate in every detail.
2006-12-27 10:56:32 · answer #4 · answered by mrs.mom 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
How about this one- if the bible is the undeniable truth about God and the universe, why is it so open to interpretation and why are there so many versions of it?
If each version is simply another person's interpretation of the word, then how many times in the past 2,000 years has that happened, and what are the odds that the entire thing has been twisted way beyond its original meaning?
If that's the case, then Christians are giving theiir very existence over to a story written by simple human beings, not God. And they wonder why I won't follow it.
2006-12-27 11:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Check your sources, buddy. The oldest manuscripts of the Old and New Testaments are very close to the King James Version, and are even closer to modern translations like the RSV and NKJV. Either you misunderstood the article that you read (which may have been comparing the Byzantine text to the Minority text), or your priest is blowing smoke.
As for the Bible being "made up," of course it is. How can you write something down without making it up first? God did not dictate the Bible word for word, cover to cover. The Bible is a library of historical, poetical, philosophical, allegorical, and legal texts compiled over thousands of years. The authority of Christianity resides in the interpretation of the Bible, not in the text itself. The Church was around long before the Bible (as a whole). The first Ecumenical Council to deal with the canon of Scripture was convened in the 7th century.
2006-12-27 10:56:25 · answer #6 · answered by NONAME 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Maybe History is also made up.
If you really did read 'Misquoting Jesus' you will note very many inaccuracies.
All thoughts of the bible being made up should be put to rest after the discovery of the dead Sea Scrolls.
The New testament has been heavily edited but besides the many versions, the Old Testament seem to be quite authentic. The Dead Sea Scrolls proves it.
2006-12-27 11:00:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
look i am not a religious person at all and furthermore i am gay and doing homosexual acts so sinning in the rain but i think sometimes we (criticizers of ultra Christians) are a bit more extremists than themselves.
i think the bible is a book of men, written by men. I dont know about the god inspiration and i dont care about it.
But since the idea of god many people in here have is totally made up: they "create" an idea of god to fulfill their own fears and hate...then i dont see why couldnt they think that this made up god inspired this made up book
2006-12-27 11:00:03 · answer #8 · answered by whoknows 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is his opinion, he got it after studying for "ten years". There are many many Christians who are fluent in greek and hebrew and have studied actual ancient texts far longer and they will tell you it is genuine.
Jerome went against popularity and chose the Hebrew Bible as the text for the Old Testament because it was the genuine. This was 1000 years before the King James Bible.
2006-12-27 10:57:56 · answer #9 · answered by Bad bus driving wolf 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I disagree. Alot of archeological evidence has surfaced lately that proves the Holy Bible is an accurate historical text. The base of the Tower of Babel was located in Iraq. It was originally thought that Pontius Pilate was a fictitious character but archeologists recently discovered Roman records to his existence. Events in the Bible have been discovered in Egyptian archeology as well.
Too many to lists. Free your mind. It's clouded by hatred.
2006-12-27 10:56:49 · answer #10 · answered by Darktania 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
WHAT are you reading?? Your statements are radically, historically inaccurate.
Who is this so-called "priest"? What is YOUR source? And what does it mean "he discovered"? Ten years? that's all??!?!
By quoting this quack, your statements are clearly made out of ignorance in an attempt to discredit something you know nothing about. For your own sake, get a second opinion.
Free your mind from prejudice.
Look, I'm not saying that the Bible is true, necessarily, I'm just saying, even apart from a religious perspective, your facts are grossly erroneous.
2006-12-27 10:59:13 · answer #11 · answered by im3ngs 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋