Bible 5,664 manuscripts and counting
Homer's Iliad 650 manuscripts
Plato 7 manuscripts
Time line from earliest to original, Homer 1,000 yrs, The Bible 10's of yrs, Plato 1,300 yrs
2007-10-12 11:25:34 · 8 answers · asked by Bruce7 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Copies may not verify an original. However, a plethora of evidence does. Historical, geography[time, places, people], archelogy and witnesses. Read "Resurrection" by Hank Hanegraaff.
2007-10-15 07:30:24 · update #1
Amen! If the Bible can't be relied on at least on a historical basis then neither can any other ancient literary work.
2007-10-12 11:28:48 · answer #1 · answered by srprimeaux 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The amount of manuscripts proves nothing. It may sound like a good argument for the believer and I often times hear this regurgitated over and over. Apparently, this is an argument believers have attached themselves to and conditioned each other to use as proof.
I can copy something over and over again but just because I make these copies, that don't make what is written inside them truth. Read about that time period and the establishment of the Catholic church. Go read about the manuscripts more and the scribes who wrote them. Read up on Egyptian mythology and compare and notice the parallels and the alterations that were made. Ask a Rabbi to explain the absurdities of the so-called prophecies and the mistranslations from Hebrew to the Greek OT.
Seek truth diligently, it will pay off. Truth isn't always in numbers and never should be measured by mass appeal.
2007-10-12 18:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by Primary Format Of Display 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um... You do know that the Bible was not written by just one person or even one culture, right?
Even the Pentateuch (OT) which was claimed to have been created by Moses was actually written by 4 or 5 people.
Not only that, but the Hebrews did not even collect the Pentateuch into one written book until around 200 BC.
You, also, know that the Hebrews continue to have their history written. It is not by the Gentiles (non-Jews)?
2007-10-12 18:39:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Having a lot of copies can help verify the accuracy of the copies. It doesn't verify the validity of the content.
2007-10-12 18:40:55 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps someday archeologists will find some manuscripts written by Hans Christian Anderson--that will not make them true.
2007-10-12 18:34:52 · answer #5 · answered by Petrushka's Ghost 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
And none of those manuscripts are quite alike; each of them is special and unique.
2007-10-12 18:31:46 · answer #6 · answered by Michael 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Do you know that not even two of these manuscripts agree with one another?
A comparison between KJV and NIV
http://ecclesia.org/truth/m-m.html
2007-10-12 18:32:36 · answer #7 · answered by Kimo 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
YES, I knew this...and there is even more than that...
2007-10-12 18:30:10 · answer #8 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋