by thousands of years,if yes why are we taught the wrong age.is it time the people took religion back out of the hands of the so called keepers of knowledge
2007-01-21 02:38:42 · 11 answers · asked by gasp 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
why are you imagining
2007-01-21 02:42:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is a collection of books that were written individually in languages such as Coptic, Hebrew, and Greek. So they cannot be read by the average person by any means. Were you take them out of the environment that they kept in which is temperature and humidity controlled they would quickly deteriorate. Many of the books of the Bible that we have are only copies of the of the copies of the copies of the copies that scribes made over the centuries. They are owned by museums, the Vatican and private collectors. They are not for sale. They most certainly belong right where they are so that scholars who are educated in that field can get access to them and explain what they say. Scientists use carbon dating and other sophisticated methods to determine when the particular manuscripts were written. These methods have proved to be accurate within 20 to 60 years. The chances that they are wrong are between zip, zero and nil.
2007-01-21 03:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually Biblical Scholarship is a fairly reliable science on the whole in this day and age. The big problem are the conspiracy theorists who have no sound foundation of Biblical studies and make wild assertions with regard to scripture. Good scholarship is open to critical reasoning and debate - there is no problem with people engaging in this in a constructive way as long as they have some sound foundation behind their arguments. Anyway the Bible is not a single age, but is a collection of books written at different times.
2007-01-21 02:49:41 · answer #3 · answered by stgoodric 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible in its present form has material between 2000 and 4000 years old...though some is undoubtedly based on older material. The great thing is that it HAS been preserved
2007-01-21 02:45:49 · answer #4 · answered by alan h 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It'd be really funny if the Bible turned out to be older than 6000 years, the age of the earth according to the Creationists.
2007-01-21 03:49:43 · answer #5 · answered by The Singing President 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scholars (scientists and historians) based things on what they can actually see and hold and test. The oldest known Bible is suspected of dating to 1,000 BC.
2007-01-21 03:07:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They reckon the oldest parts of the Bible come from 12 centuries b4 the Christian era.The New testament is thought to be 20 centuries+old,as there have been circa2000yrs since Jesus.(That's if he ever existed).
2007-01-21 02:49:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Dead sea scrolls were original Hebrew manuscripts of Old Testament dated sometine way before Christ.
2007-01-21 02:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The manuscript document evidence that we have is pretty clear. Best modern scholarship has a very good idea when the earliest texts were written. The finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls pretty much put your question to rest.
2007-01-21 02:43:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
thats a good question... but i dont think you will find the answer on yahoo-try looking were you wouldnt usually or were you least expect and then you'll find the answer gud luck!
2007-01-21 22:09:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋