HAs it ever occurred to you bible readers?

Question

That the first scripts of tbe bible were handwritten in 1450 BC. And the first printed bible wasnt until 1460AD. Has it ever occurred to you that throughout from 3000 years of handwriting the bible somebody might have midunderstood it and wrote it wrong or simplified it or even left important stuff out.
Are you sure your reading the word of God or the views of some lonely guy with a typewriter trying to get some attention?
just want to know.

Answer 1

Your such a scholar

Answer 2

Many of us tend to have the idea that the Bible somehow just appeared, without ever considering the historical process that brought the anthology of writings we call the Bible together across over 2,000 years of History.
And even when that historical process is considered the question, often arises as to the matter of the veracity of the Bible.
While a logical question, it is more difficult to answer than it would at first appear. As with many issues related to Scripture, there are assumptions and considerations that often influence the answer beyond the evidence itself. How this particular question is answered will depend to a great extent on how one views the Bible, including such issues as the nature of Scripture, theories of inspiration, who witnessed this and that and who really wrote it (finally persay). Remember it was written in Arabic, hebrew and greek!!! Latin is way afterwards, being the first translation around 382 AC by Jeronimo. This bible is called Vulgata Latina (meaning vulgar).
Jeronimo was a poligloth,although his arabic was quite weak, he was considered the wisest and more educated of all writters from the first centuries.
In other words, what this fully respected man did was a literal translation (transliteration) three idioms into one (OT) then one to another (NT).
Needless to say that some words and expressions are translated without its real meaning.
For instance: Faith, trust, fortitude, rely can be 22 different words in those 3 idioms. All meaning the same general sense but within a subtle difference.
The NT was written three times and there were three versions that the old cristians would use:
Códice Bobiense (african text used by Tertuliano and Cipriano);
Códice Vercelense or Veronese (european text used by Irineu and Novaciano);
Vulgata Nuovo Testamento - Il 4 Evangelli (Latin[Italic text used by Saint Agostinho which was actually another reference to the Vulgata written by Jeronimo.
By that time, there were many amateurs and levian translations of the Septuaginta (greek version of the OT) and they were quite lame, made in such a rush for non professionals which led many onto a huge range of mistaken doctrines. Thsts the reason Jeronimo was the chosen one to make the first bible revised. After living at Antioquia and Belem for years, he made many corrections, added some things that passed unseen and still, he was accused of alter the scriptures and introducing a pagan name to the Messiah. I must say that no one wanted to do that so sacred job, instead, used those amateurs versions and wanted to accuse him or anyone who would be as erudith as Jeronimo was. This new translation was also called a perverted version, because many euclasiastic authorities at that time, believed the new version should been purely Septuaginta and not directly from hebrew like Jeronimo did. Among those authorities, Saint Agostinho was one the most critical defending this idea and still, used his text.
Remember: Latin was NOT the original idiom, it is the main idiom for the catholics and some cristians who do not know the process of those 66 books (bible).

PS1: The name of the Christ, Jesus, was said as pagan due those tribulated translations. Yehoshuah, Yehosh, Yosh, Yoshua, Joshua, Josh and Jeso are false. Y and J are read as I. The name has ALL the 5 vogals + the letter S which was not considered a consonant.
His would be something like.... YÆSOUS (rouhgly done by lil me lol) since i have no idea where to find the 100% right keys at this keyboard.

PS2: Faith is a substantive without a verb. Trust is both+ to have faith.
Faith in latin is Fides and in greek is Sispt - Now fides has the verb Fidere which is to trust
But the verb "to faith" exists only in greek.

PS3: Brother, Sister and Cousin mean only ONE WORD in some greek and hebrew dialects. Thats one of the reasons many say Jesus (Iaesous) had brothers and sisters AND cousins.

See how the bottom line is the accurancy of the idiom AND lexicon used.

I could talk the whole night about it.... I just hope someone read it all and i thank you very much for reading.
Hugs,
Valentinna

Answer 3

if the Bible is not true or if it is filled with errors, Christianity would only be a “blind faith”—something people believe without any evidence to support it.Christianity is not a blind faith. It is the only religion that can prove itself, and a main source of that proof is the Bible.One of the strongest arguments for the accuracy of the Bible is its 100% accuracy in predicting the future. These future predictions are called “prophecies.” The Old Testament was written between approximately 1450 BC and 430 BC. During that time, many predictions of the future were recorded in the Bible by God’s prophets. Of the events that were to have taken place by now, every one happened just the way they predicted it would. No other “sacred writing” has such perfectly accurate predictions of the future.We are ignorant of that which we do not read. The Bible is God’s letter to humanity collected into 66 books written by 40 divinely inspired writers. These writers come from all walks of life (i.e., kings to fishermen) and spans over a period of 1,500 years or more. These claims may seem dramatic (or unrealistic to some), but a careful and honest study of the biblical scriptures will show them to be true.

Answer 4

Well, since the typewriter wasn't invented until the late nineteenth century, I don't think we need bother with a "lonely guy with a typewriter trying to get some attention".

However, the scribes who copied manuscripts over the millenia were known to have made errors. Also at times it was considered quite appropriate to "improve" upon a manuscript by adding an illustrative story or changing the wording.

When reading any sacred text, I think the important thing to do is to look for the general themes brought out in the teachings contained in that book. I think human beings may get a better-and definately broader-concept of God by reading sacred scriptures from many different spiritual paths and see what they say that is similar. I have been doing this sort of study for a number of years, and have found that all paths, in writings somewhere, have a variation of the Golden Rule. Perhaps then one could say that this is the Word of God, along with other teachings that the different paths have in common.

Answer 5

Actually, you are not the first person in the last 2000 years that this has occurred to. Did you really think that no one else has asked this before? Or are you testing us?

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...There are more than 24,000 partial and complete manuscript copies of the New Testament.

These manuscript copies are very ancient and they are available for inspection now.

There are also some 86,000 quotations from the early church fathers and several thousand Lectionaries (church-service books containing Scripture quotations used in the early centuries of Christianity).

Bottom line: the New Testament has an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting its reliability.

The Variants in the New Testament Manuscripts Are Minimal

In the many thousands of manuscript copies we possess of the New Testament, scholars have discovered that there are some 150,000 "variants."

This may seem like a staggering figure to the uninformed mind.

But to those who study the issue, the numbers are not so damning as it may initially appear.

Indeed, a look at the hard evidence shows that the New Testament manuscripts are amazingly accurate and trustworthy.
To begin, we must emphasize that out of these 150,000 variants, 99 percent hold virtually no significance whatsoever.

Many of these variants simply involve a missing letter in a word; some involve reversing the order of two words (such as "Christ Jesus" instead of "Jesus Christ"); some may involve the absence of one or more insignificant words....

Answer 6

Honestly, your question doesn't sound very sincere, but for everyone else's benefit:

The Dead Sea Scrolls and other scrolls confirm that the texts that we have now are accurate to at least 500 BC. Jewish scribes had a very precise method for copying scrolls that relied on character counting. It's virtually flawless. This gives me confidence in the texts. Many academic critics doubt that the Bible is the word of God, but few doubt that the texts we have accurately reflect what was written originally. There are thousands more original manuscripts validating the Bible's authenticity than any other ancient text. So, when you studied Homer in high school did you stay awake wondering if it was really his stuff?

Answer 7

There are misinterpretations in the Bible, but they are minimal. I agree with Beekay.

The scriptures actually talk about the Bible being the inspired Word of God, and like everything else in Christianity, I have faith in this. And I know it is the inspired Word of God, because it has real POWER.

I don't read the Bible because I have nothing better to do, I read the Bible because it has more power than ANYTHING else in this world.

So, to answer your question, yes I am sure I am reading the word of God.

Give it a go.

Answer 8

The Bible has been very well preserved over the millenia and the manuscript and historical evidences prove this. For example, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain copies of books from the Old Testament which date about 200-100 B.C.. These manuscripts say the same thing that our Bibles say today which shows that the Bible has been faithfully and accurately preserved over the millenia. Also, the earliest New Testament manuscripts date back very early and say the same thing that our Bibles say today. We have more than 24,900 New Testament manuscripts, more than 5,300 of which are Greek copies, and 85,000 quotations of the New Testament by early church fathers. There are lots of other reasons that we know that the Bible has been well preserved over the millenia. For more information about this go to www.equip.org

Answer 9

Christ did not say, "Sit down and write Bibles and scatter them over the earth, and let every man read his Bible and judge for himself." If Christ had said that, there would never have been a Christianity on the earth at all, but a Babylon and confusion instead, and never one Church, the union of one body. Hence, Christ never said to His Apostles, "Go and write Bibles and distribute them, and let everyone judge for himself." That injunction was reserved for the Sixteenth Century, and we have seen the result of it. Ever since the Sixteenth Century there have been springing up religion upon religion, and churches upon churches, all fighting and quarreling with one another, and all because of the private interpretation of the Bible.


One cannot have God for his Father, who will not have the Church for his Mother, and likewise, one cannot have the Word of God for his faith who will not have the Church for his teacher. It is the infallible teaching authority of the Church, as promised by Christ, which alone preserves God's Word from erroneous interpretation.

It is Divine Faith alone by which we give honor and glory to God, by which we adore His infinite wisdom and veracity. That adoration and worship is necessary for salvation.

Answer 10

No. And here's why, since C.L. Sholes, a mechanical engineer didn't invent the first practical modern typewriter until 1863 it would have been impossible for a lonely guy to have typed the Bible in 1460.

Answer 11

If this is the way you think then, Satan already won.

THE INERRANCY OF SCRIPTURE, The term "inerrancy" means free from error. The Bible also is infallible (incapable of error).

The Bible that has not been legitimately questioned or proven to contain any errors at all.

Translating from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek is difficult at times, but this gives no license for wicked "scholars" to run rampant perverting the word of Almighty God.