My Agnostic Story

[WessleWoggle]

Kasz216 said:

WessleWoggle said:

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:

RockSmith372 said:

616 is now 666 for example.

People weren't content with what was said... so they felt the need to fill in the gaps... and also remove other things that seemed to paint people in a bad light or change things.

I've read a lot of stuff about which parts of the bible were altered. They altered words, added in missing parts of the story... For example, in the gospel of mark, the original text ended right after it said the women were too afraid to to tell anyone about the man in the tomb who said Jesus was going to resurrect. Later scribes filled in the end of the gospel.

Also, in many earlier parts of the bible like genesis, the word used translated to 'God' is actually 'Elohim', which is plural, and means 'Gods'.

The bible christians read today is so much different from the original. It was originally polytheistic, but the monotheistic translators were biased, and replaced all gods in the story with one god, YHWH.

Well... that and the original bible was just a scam culled together by the romans, cutting away that which didn't make it a good religion for Rome... going to nazi like levels to get rid of everything that contradicted their new set path for Christanity.

It's true, although they didn't think of it as a scam. They just wanted the religion to be more unified....