It's an oral history. It was passed down, word-of-mouth, father to son, from Adam to Seth, from Seth to Enos, from Enos to Cainan, for 40 generations, a growing, changing, story, it was handed down, word-of-mouth, father to son. Until Moses finally gets it down on lambskin. But lambskins wear out, and need to be recopied. Copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of an oral history passed down through 40 generations.
From Hebrew it's translated into Arabic, from Arabic to Latin, from Latin to Greek, from Greek to Russian, from Russian to German, from German to an old form of English that you could not read. Through 400 years of evolution of the English language to the book we have today, which is: a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of an oral history passed down through 40 generations.
And people want to take that literally?
2007-01-27 06:35:50 · 6 answers · asked by St. Tom Cruise 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually the history of the stories in the bible go back even further. The original stories were taken from Ancient Egypt. So I don't think anyone should take it literally at all. It's a story just like the Harry Potter series. Fiction.
2007-01-27 06:54:09 · answer #1 · answered by Nepetarias 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If your an everlasting being, are you going to oversee that your word is messed around with and mistranslated to a degree? look at the stories and instructions. what could possibly have been largely mistranslated to the point where it has gone completely awry? Nothing! It is all basically worship and love me and you will receive goodness. That is not altered at all. In fact, you praise it by stating it started with Adam over 6,000 years ago. Evolution has constantly changed and added or altered from it's initial teachings. Evolution was inspired by the devil and his tactics will always change, for he is in a no win situation.
2007-01-27 06:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by ConstElation 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
english bibles are directly translated from Hebrew/Greek, also the dead sea scrolls and many other texts have been found in archaelogy from old testament writings thousands of years ago and do nothing but prove the authenticity of the bible. no fundamental truths have been changed in the bible especially concerning Jesus.
2007-01-27 06:48:48 · answer #3 · answered by disciple 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Why wouldn't we take it literally? Of all the prophecy's of Jesus' first coming (and they ALL came true) each of them were literal. They literally happened. Everything in the Bible is true. It is God's Word, it is unfalliable. We can trust in God, not man, so when God's Word (the Bible) says something, than we can believe it to be/come true.
2007-01-27 06:48:21 · answer #4 · answered by Mandy S 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
People who do that are extremely misguided and often dangerous.
2007-01-27 06:47:33 · answer #5 · answered by God 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because fundamentalist are idiots.
2007-01-27 06:40:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋