Originally posted by debbiejoWhere did you get that from?
If we examine the oldest known Bible to date, the "Sinai Bible" housed in the British Museumh, we would find a staggering 14,800 differences from today's Bible.
(This is not a rhetoric question, I agree, but I feel that in all fairness, I should attack this statement like I would if someone said the Bible has never been changed.)
I glanced at a book by Tony Bushby's "The Bible Fraud"
Also:
We cannot be sure that we have the full version as it was originally intended. In 1415 the Church of Rome took an extraordinary step to destroy all knowledge of two second century Jewish books that it said contained the true name of Jesus Christ. The Antipope Benedict XIII firstly singled out for condemnation a secret Latin treatise called "Mar Yesu" and then issued instructions to destroy all copies of the book of Elxai. The Rabbinic fraternity once held the destroyed manuscripts with great reverence for they were comprehensive original records reporting the life of Rabbi Jesus.
Later, Pope Alexander VI ordered all copies of the Talmud destroyed, with the Spanish Grand Inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420-98) responsible for the elimination of 6,000 volumes at Salamanca alone.
Solomon Romano (1554) also burnt many thousands of Hebrew scrolls and, in 1559, every Hebrew book in the city of Prague was confiscated. The mass destruction of Jewish books included hundreds of copies of the Old Testament and caused the irretrievable loss of many original handwritten documents.
The oldest text of the Old Testament that survived, before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls" was said to be the Bodleian Codex (Oxford), which was dated to circa 1100 AD. In an attempt by the church to remove damaging Rabbinic information about Jesus Christ from the face of the earth, the Inquisition burnt 12,000 volumes of the Talmud.
I have heard that the Bible of today is not at all like the Bible that existed the time it was created at the Council of Nicea. But wow, 14000 sumthing differences ?
That's amazing. I wish we could somehow get our hands on the rest.
I always wanted to read the Gospels of Tomas, Judas, and Mary Magdeline. There's aren't included in the newly editted Bible.
http://www.thedevineevidence.com/skeptic_bible_fraud.html
Once again, debbiejo's arguments fall to none other than history.
Oh, and here's a little tidbit for your quote from the Pope about how Christ was a myth that was "profitable":
History and the Bible
I've been noticing that the Bible and history has been concieved through books and word of mouth. And if you look at the word history, it says:
(HIS)story. So I am wondering, throughout the billions of years, who does this story belong to? And since the bible has been reformed and whatnot, is there a real truth to HISstory?
Re: History and the Bible
Originally posted by Sol Valentine
I've been noticing that the Bible and history has been concieved through books and word of mouth. And if you look at the word history, it says:
(HIS)story. So I am wondering, throughout the billions of years, who does this story belong to? And since the bible has been reformed and whatnot, is there a real truth to HISstory?
The "his" in the word history is coincidental.
Originally posted by Sol ValentineWouldn't it be either His tory or Hi Story?
I've been noticing that the Bible and history has been concieved through books and word of mouth. And if you look at the word history, it says:
(HIS)story. So I am wondering, throughout the billions of years, who does this story belong to? And since the bible has been reformed and whatnot, is there a real truth to HISstory?