2007-01-27 14:55:02 · 7 answers · asked by HAND 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Textural criticism involves discerning who wrote the books of the Bible in whole or in part, what the words mean and whether or not they are translated correctly. Biblical scholars whether they be Christian, Jewish, agnotic atheist etc.realize that there are errors and that not all the books are authentic. Most of what they think is not a part of the public's knoweledge. For instance, there probably isn't one who believes that Moses wrote the the first five books of the Bible. Neither do most of them believe that any of the disciples wrote the gospels. They do agree that the NT has more mistakes than it has words. How does it effect the reliability? Depends on what your beliefs are to begin with. Many of the mistakes in the NT are minor anyway. Biblical scholars readily admit that we do not have any of the original texts of the NT. So there is no way of knowing exactly what it said in the first place. Plus the books of the Bible represent the views of one of the many sects that developed practically from the moment Christ was taken down from the cross. To get a full view of what people thought about Christ you would have to read what the various sects have to say as recorded in what is left of early Christian writing. I find studying what the various Biblical scholars theorize and why fascinating reading. Probably the easiest scholar to read is Bart Ehrman. His latest book explains the methods that he and his peers use to establish the truth about the books of the Bible and what they mean. From a personal perspective, the reliability does not matter to me. How they arrive at their conclusions and through what metholds is what interests me.
2007-01-27 15:35:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Textual criticism as in, inconsistencies between the Bible and reality, inconsistencies between the Bible and itself, or conflicts between the Bible and morality?
They don't really effect the reliability of the Bible to me, because the baseline it starts as (a collection of weird of books) stays about the same, and none of it is unexpected.
2007-01-27 23:00:11 · answer #2 · answered by WWTSD? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
textual criticism means exactly what it says, the criticizing of texts....Atheists do not criticize the Bible, we point out its flaws and lies. BIG DIFFERENCE
2007-01-27 22:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people state that the bible is totally all true... yet it includes some REALLY OUT THERE parts that are clearly not true, and things that today would be unacceptable behavior...
That does a job on discrediting it...
2007-01-27 23:12:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know much about it. But here is a link if you are interested in reading the application of it to the Bible. Lower on the webpage it discussed the Bible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_criticism#The_Hebrew_Bible
2007-01-27 23:00:13 · answer #5 · answered by eastchic2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I know humans wrote the bible. So therefore it's capable of being just an opinion and wrong.
2007-01-27 23:09:43 · answer #6 · answered by skunkgrease 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually you, mean "affect" in that question, and the period after athiests should be a comma.
2007-01-27 23:01:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋