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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: Please, many of the "translations" in it were politically motivated. King James had gotten the playwright William Shakespeare to do much of the work in his "version" of the bible.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: Apparently since they are all full of contradictions and errors thus proving that none of them are actually the inspired word of your god. The so-called "original" texts and manuscripts are irrelevant since they are not what is being taught from to hundreds of millions of Christians as the literal and inerrant word of their god. [This message has been edited by nos482, 09-03-2002]
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nos482 Inactive Member |
Originally posted by gene90:
How does that "prove" that none of them are inspired by God? If they were truly inspired by god than there wouldn't be any errors and there would only be one version. "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly" And who desides if it is actully the "correct" translation? The moral of this story: don't shoehorn all of Christianity in with the fundamentalists. It's no better than when a YEC strawmans evolution. Either you accept your bible as the literal word of your god or you don't, unless you are one of those Cut&Paste Christians. The vast majority of Christians are not taught from the "original" texts and manuscripts. And I didn't say all. I had said humdreds of millions of Christians. So, your point is moot. BTW, most Christians in the world don't concider Mormons to be real Christians.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
Originally posted by Andya Primanda:
What a shock. The Bible is the word of... Shakespeare? That means Shakespeare is God? You truly must be incredibly thick headed. I had said that he had gotten WS to do much of the work, as in translating, on his version of the bible. BTW, in biblical times they didn't say Thous and Thes. Like I keep saying, I'm constantly amazed at the ignorace most Christians have on the actual history of they own belief system.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: A docuementary on A&E, one on the Discovery Channel. But what can I expect, you're only a teenager and don't know a great many things, only what you've been told by your clergy. You're no different than the majority of Christians when it comes to the actual history of Christianity. [This message has been edited by nos482, 09-04-2002]
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: I would think that the Discovery (Canadian version) Channel would be far more reliable a source than "Puff, god did it!"
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nos482 Inactive Member |
Originally posted by John:
I do not think the Shakespeare hypothesis is accurate. I looked it up. It seems to be myth. [/B] From where did you look it up?
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nos482 Inactive Member |
Originally posted by gene90:
That would be true--immediately after it was written. But since it was written over the centuries parts of it would actually have time to degrade while other parts were being written. And since it was not dictated in English it is inevitable that there are multiple versions. Factor in opportunistic publishers and you get lots more versions, most of which probably aren't needed anyway. Language and time are irrelevant. On the personal level we have the spirit, on the church level we have the prophet and extra-Biblical sources. The first two are extermely biased and suspect and the last is limited and doesn't actually prove the existence of god only that the story tellers used current peoples and places in their stories. That doesn't bother me. It should if you end up being burned at the stake as a heretic.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: I think that it was suppressed. BTW, it IS the KING JAMES bible. And you can see some influence of Shakespeare in it. You like the literature in it?
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: The first post in this thread proves that you are incorrect on it being free from translation errors.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: Islam came along later enough so that it could keep better control over what was written than Christianity could. Also, its scope and range is much smaller than Christianity as well. Maybe it would have been a different story if the Roman Empire had been able to adopt Islam instead? [This message has been edited by nos482, 10-02-2002]
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: That sounds like a book called "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson. It is a "what if" novel where the Black Death had killed 99% of Europe's population and looks at the last 700 years when Buddhism and Islam are the main religions and the New World is colonized by China.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
Too little too late.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
People who live in glass houses....
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: What I had meant was that that discussion was long over and I didn't want to start banging my head against his wall again, plus I don't want to attend his circus either. [This message has been edited by nos482, 10-07-2002]
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