Thread: For An Intelligent Conversation On Spirituality/Religion

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD;347991Modern scholarship has demonstrated that the bible as it has come down to us through the years is not a reliable document based on the surviving manuscripts. A very good discussion of that can be heard [URL="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156"

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good point. this is something that has always bugged me about the Bible. it has been rewritten many times. why dd it need to be rewritten if it was the word of God? i hope this doesn't offend anyone as i am actually asking how this was justified. i mean no offense.

Originally Posted by chee16

good point. this is something that has always bugged me about the Bible. it has been rewritten many times. why dd it need to be rewritten if it was the word of God? i hope this doesn't offend anyone as i am actually asking how this was justified. i mean no offense.

I hope we can talk about these issues without offending anyone. If you follow the link or google Bart Ehrman there is much on the topic. The bible was disseminated orally for hundreds of years and eventually copied by hand by scribes. Inevitably variations occurred. Some by mistake and some purposefuly by those with a specific theological point of view. How the canon was selected is another interesting study.