Flaws in the Scriptures

Thank you for both the congrats and the post.I'm not really into scriptural studies.However looking at your posts on the "horsemen" numbers I might even be able to guess how the mistake may have been made in copying at some time. That is from 700 to 7,000 between IISam 8:4 and IChr18:4Can you tell me where the Hebrew comes from here? When was the oldest copy of this written?I don't see how there can be any argument with this presuming your translations of the Hebrew are correct. Is the conclusion that somewhere, somehow, someone made a little mistake?

This is for Messenjah regarding this site:
Page not found | So the site you pointed to says there was a copying error.Then the other site goes on and on listing various excuses. What I glean from it is that the bible doesn't have a copying error. No, it was written in a very misleading fashion in the first place. The text forgets to distinguish between horsemen and companies of horsemen.Then finally it gets down to a mystery of God. We don't know why it looks like an error but it can't be and we don't understand why it looks like it is. LOLSo how many other less obvious mysteries of God are there? At least these places had some internal cross reference so we could get a hint that we didn't have the right answer. As you first site stays, "I cannot say." So you can not say what parts of the Bible are right and which are not. For any number of reasons including God's own unknowable ones we may be misunderstanding what is written. And we cannot say where we are and are not.Wait! Yes we can! We go out and check for evidence ourselves. Is the earth flat? Does the sun circle it? Is the earth 6,000 years old? Were man and all liveing things created in the same week?We can't check the number of horsemen but we can check some things. The above are other places where, for reasons known only to God, we have misread what the Bible is really trying to say. Fortunately we can now correct those places.

I think that is the whole point of this thread. We do not have any of the original Scriptures. All we have are copies and translations.Since errors can be, as you have pointed out, introduced by this process we can no longer be sure of what was originally said, what has been changed, what has been left out and, I guess, what might have been added.

Oh!? How do you tell? You just guess? Make it up to come out as you would like? Or maybe you have some external reference to check against?