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originally posted by: RookQueen
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
I have the feeling that it will be revealed very soon. I could be wrong but life feels very different right now. I am hoping like you that I find out while still in this earthly realm if not I'm okay with that too. Before I was being awakened, I was okay with finding out after I pass on so it's no big deal if I have to wait until then.
I have the feeling that it will be revealed very soon
originally posted by: alexandrae
King James hired a man to rewrite and edit out many writings; it took that man 2 years and he got paid well; the Bible has so many contradictions in it; it is really annoying.
originally posted by: Gothmog
The authors of the bible wrote to obscure things
Because the Bible was not meant to read with an "earthly mind".
However , reading it will eventually lead to understanding .
originally posted by: Claymation213
The reason they wrote to obscure truth is because the foe is among, even now, that they didn't want foiling their message of truth.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: Claymation213
The reason they wrote to obscure truth is because the foe is among, even now, that they didn't want foiling their message of truth.
John of Patmos was a shaggy hermit who lived in a cave on a little Greek island. He was also writing for Jews, not Christians. If you're going to believe what that guy said, you might as well go ask the local homeless guys living under the freeway overpass what their take is on the domination of the Jews by the Romans and what they think will happen supernaturally to even everything up.
Revelation was Christianized and added to the end of the New Testament to give the book an exciting ending. It's literally not "Gospel."
John of Patmos (also called John the Revelator, John the Divine, John the Theologian, and possibly John the Apostle) could be the author named as John in the Book of Revelation. The text of Revelation states that John was on Patmos, a Greek island where, by most biblical historians, he is considered to have been exiled as a result of anti-Christian persecution under the Roman emperor Domitian
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: Claymation213
The reason they wrote to obscure truth is because the foe is among, even now, that they didn't want foiling their message of truth.
John of Patmos was a shaggy hermit who lived in a cave on a little Greek island. He was also writing for Jews, not Christians. If you're going to believe what that guy said, you might as well go ask the local homeless guys living under the freeway overpass what their take is on the domination of the Jews by the Romans and what they think will happen supernaturally to even everything up.
Revelation was Christianized and added to the end of the New Testament to give the book an exciting ending. It's literally not "Gospel."
Bible has so many contradictions in it; it is really annoying.
To quote the Bible, ..."it is the duty of kings, to search out a matter".
Are you a king/Queen? Or a just a subject, that is "told" what to believe, or not to believe?
PAPYRUS
pa-pi'-rus (Cyperus papyrus; bublos, biblos, whence biblion, a roll, ta biblia, "the Books" = the Bible):
No. A comparison of ancient manuscripts shows that the Bible is basically unchanged despite millenniums of recopying on perishable materials.
Does this mean that mistakes in copying were never made?
Thousands of ancient Bible manuscripts have been found. Some of these contain a number of differences, indicating that mistakes were made in copying. Most of these differences are minor and do not change the meaning of the text. However, a few significant differences have been discovered, some of which appear to be deliberate attempts made long ago to alter the Bible’s message. Consider two examples:
1. At 1 John 5:7, some older Bible translations contain the following words: “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” However, reliable manuscripts confirm that these words were not in the original text. They were added later. * Thus, reliable modern Bible translations have excluded them. [*: These words are not found in the Codex Sinaiticus, the Codex Alexandrinus, the Vatican Manuscript 1209, the original Latin Vulgate, the Philoxenian-Harclean Syriac Version, or the Syriac Pe#ta.]
2. God’s personal name appears thousands of times in ancient manuscripts of the Bible. Yet, numerous Bible translations have replaced it with titles such as “Lord” or “God.”
How can we be sure that there are not many more errors waiting to be found?
At this point, so many manuscripts have been discovered that it is easier than ever before to detect errors. * What has a comparison of these documents revealed regarding the accuracy of the Bible today?
- Commenting on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures (commonly called the “Old Testament”), scholar William H. Green stated: “It may be safely said that no other work of antiquity has been so accurately transmitted.”
- Regarding the Christian Greek Scriptures, or “New Testament,” Bible scholar F. F. Bruce wrote: “The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning.”
- Sir Frederic Kenyon, a noted authority on Bible manuscripts, stated that one “can take the whole Bible in his hand and say without fear or hesitation that he holds in it the true Word of God, handed down without essential loss from generation to generation throughout the centuries.”
[*: For example, over 5,000 Greek manuscripts of the so-called New Testament, or Christian Greek Scriptures, have been discovered.]
What additional reasons are there for confidence that the Bible has been transmitted with accuracy?
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- Jesus and his followers quoted from copies of the Hebrew Scriptures without expressing any concern about the accuracy of those ancient texts.—Luke 4:16-21; Acts 17:1-3.