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    zarkonite, it's a weak argument to say the Bible is disreputable because it was supposedly re-written many times. The argument is weak because it isn't true. In fact, we have original or second-generation copies of manuscripts for every single book in the Bible—from the Pentateuch to the Prophets to the entire New Testament. Because the languages—ancient Hebrew and Greek—are still known by scholars today, one can go directly to a verbatim copy of one of these original manuscripts and read the words written thousands of years ago.

    Of course the Bible is now available in many versions and has been translated into many languages, but if you compare several of the available English versions, for example, there is no fundamental difference in what they are saying—it's differences like purple and scarlet, beer and ale, thou and you, etc. etc. They all contain the same fundamental information.

    At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, when a group of bishops met to determine what would officially be grouped into the canon of Scripture, they only took seriously the Biblical accounts that were still available in the form of original or second/third-generation manuscripts, i.e. nothing that was written more than a couple hundred years after the respective events.

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    • I mean if you simply don't believe it that's fine, just find a better argument.Scotch_Roman
    • I'm talking from taking many many religious studies courses at uni, it's a well known fact it was adjusted a lot.zarkonite
    • I even took two classes tracing stories cross-polinating across religion and their evolution through time.zarkonite
    • You can belive what you want but the scholastic study of religion as litterature is quite clear on the facts.zarkonite
    • Scholastic study my ass. Bunch of atheists and agnostics looking to justify their unbelief; nothing more.Scotch_Roman
    • (of course I suppose you could say the versa about Christians...)Scotch_Roman
    • But the fact remains that secular Biblical scholars are woefully unschooled, whether you took a uni level class or not.Scotch_Roman
    • not.Scotch_Roman
    • BTW I got my information from numerous people with Master of Divinity Degrees. Some even have PhDs in Divinity.Scotch_Roman
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