Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, and other christian DENOMINATIONS?

Question

How does the discovery of the The Dead Sea Scrolls affect the bible?

Are they in harmony with the Bible or against it. What are your thoughts about the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Answer 1

It is less a matter of them needing to be in line with us/our beliefs and more a matter of us needing to be inline with them.

Answer 2

The Dead Sea Scrolls are in harmony with the Bible, in fact, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide undeniable proof that the transferring of the biblical text through a period of more than a thousand years by the hands of Jewish copyists has been extremely faithful and careful. There are some minor variations of spelling and some differences in grammatical construction, but the Dead Sea Scrolls do not vary doctrinally from more modern texts.
It is interesting to note that in numerous cases, the Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed the decisions by the New World Bible Translation Committee to restore Jehovah’s name to places where it had been removed from other translations of the Bible.

Answer 3

The Dead Sea Scrolls (found way back in the 1940's) and are also used by most Newer Versions of the The Old Testament, support what was already in the Bible.

Bible believers often are confronted with the charge that the Bible is filled with mistakes.
These alleged mistakes can be placed into two major categories:
(1) apparent internal inconsistencies among revealed data; and
(2) scribal mistakes in the underlying manuscripts themselves.
The former category involves those situations in which there are apparent discrepancies between biblical texts regarding a specific event, person, place, etc. [For a treatment of such difficulties see Archer, 1982; Geisler and Brooks, 1989, pp. 163-178].
The latter category involves a much more fundamental concern—the integrity of the underlying documents of our English translations.
Some charge that the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek manuscripts, having been copied and recopied by hand over many years, contain a plethora of scribal errors that have altered significantly the information presented in the original documents.
As such, we cannot be confident that our English translations reflect the information initially penned by biblical writers.

However! the materials discovered at Qumran, commonly called the Dead Sea Scrolls, have provided impressive evidence for both the integrity of the Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of the Old Testament and the authenticity of the books themselves.

Answer 4

The Dead Sea Scroll contain:
- All of the books of the Old Testament (Hebrew scriptures) except Esther
- Several books that never became part of the Hebrew Scriptures
- Numerous commentaries on the Scriptures
- Books having to do with
.....- Community life
.....- Rules for living
.....- Temple worship
.....- Other matters

There are many duplicates. Fourteen copies of Deuteronomy have been found and two of Isaiah.

The scrolls are important because they:
- Testify to the accuracy of the people who copied and recopied the Scriptures over the centuries. Despite minor errors, they show us that the Old Testament has not changed since it was compiled.
- Throw light on beliefs and customs in Palestine during times between the Old and New Testamants. There was far more diversity among the Jews than had been thought.

For more information, see:
http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/SFS/an0500.asp

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

It doesn't. If anything, the Dead Sea scrolls help affirm Biblical content, at least from the Catholic perspective it does.

Answer 6

As far as I understood, the Dead Sea Scrolls actually confirmed the accuracy of at least the KJV. The majority of the discrepancies that they found were in spelling.

Brothers and sisters, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Answer 7

The so-called Bible did not derive of any dead sea scrolls or related items, but instead a result of theft of prior Jewish rubble, specif. pseudo-esoteric crap. Mere cheap imitation of the sacred volume.

QUOTE: "Do not be misled. Our writings do not derive of any man-made religion or like vice. Those whom demand some divine appointment to author nonsense and thence pass the same off as if authoritative matter are of the historical tribes of the lost, the same of disobediant and unruly hearts." Tr. 1.19.

Note: Tr. are of the sacred volume regarded as Holy Revelation.

Answer 8

They're dead and they came from the sea?

Answer 9

gives us more light and knowledge about God.

Answer 10

They're old.