I've heard the argument that the Bible was translated by drunk monks. What do you think of this argument? I've always said it doesn't matter if they were high on crack and thinking they were writing letters to penthouse God would not have allowed them to write anything other than truth...your opinions?
2007-05-01 19:03:55 · 17 answers · asked by † H20andspirit 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
prophecy I was going to say drunk monk in a funk over some junk wrting about some booty in the trunk...slam dunk! Would have been been better huh
2007-05-01 19:30:27 · update #1
if there were such errors then we would find them today. people dont realise the wealth of evidence supporting the life of jesus and the reliability of the bible. if you doubt the bible then do you not doubt other historical sources and events? is it because one says there is a god that you criticize it infinitely more then a bibliography of a average person 2000 years ago? i rarely hear people questioning the holocaust, and for good reason! but i wonder if 2000 years from now if we are still arround (highly unlikely i know) would they think the same thing about it as we do the life of jesus? why do they use heavy weights for anything that they dont like and light weights for the things they do like?
2007-05-01 19:13:34 · answer #1 · answered by Sapphire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) From what I understand, the monks generally made copies of the bible, rather than translate it.
2) It's possible some of them were drunk, but I doubt a significant amount, if any, were.
3) Even if they were, we still have enough of the early manuscripts that we could correct any important errors they might have made.
2007-05-02 02:16:40 · answer #2 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it kinda was. Ireland had translated it, and when texts became destroyed in Europe, it was the Irish translation that had survived. Kinda weird, huh?
I don't understand Enslave Me Eternally's answer though. That's a record of the laws of the land at the time. It was what happened. Doesn't make it right.
2007-05-02 02:19:44 · answer #3 · answered by mithril 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not interfere in man's free agency, even in the translation of scripture. We don't know what, if any, parts of the Bible might be wrong, or not quite right, or not even there where they are supposed to be. But, there is enough, I think, that we know God is there.
2007-05-02 02:10:26 · answer #4 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing goofier than this is the notion that the translations into English retain more than a trifling of the original meaning.
2007-05-02 02:41:37 · answer #5 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you accidentally considered yourself clever by rhyming "drunk" with "monk."
Thanks for the substance-void question...hope ya enjoy the like-minded answer.
2007-05-02 02:11:55 · answer #6 · answered by † Gabriel † 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They might have been monks, not drunk, but as you say... the Spirit would have protected the Word.
2007-05-02 02:10:14 · answer #7 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is a corrupted collection of flawed, man-made texts. God would have nothing to do with that baloney.
2007-05-02 02:13:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think that's a stupid assertion, seeing as how these people only CLAIMED their works were inspired by a god in order to lend credibility to them.
Lev.21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Deuteronomy 17:2-5
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Psalms 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
If this is the work of a Supreme Being^, then I'm Scrooge McDuck.
2007-05-02 02:15:29 · answer #9 · answered by Enslavementalitheist 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the "Word of God" has been attacked since the beginning of time.
first satan in garden of Eden to Eve, then he's so brazen he trys to use it on Jesus himself, will he never quit him and his followers?
just another attack.
here's a thought for those who don't want to believe ...don't.
but show a little respect to other peoples right to believe.
2007-05-02 02:15:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋