| Zappykins said: Just remember 'The Bible' is a collection of many books, including some of the Hebrew Holy work and stories passed down to someone, who heard it from someone one ,who claims to know Jesus. Which was then passed through a government and religious organizations then translated to what we have know. It does have some really good parts. On I happen to be really fond of is Romans 8:35 "No one and nothing can separate us from the love of God." Wish people lived more like they felt like they were loved, and the responsibilities and obligations that come with that. PS Congrats on being a Godfather. |
Not really. The entire works of the New Testament were written within 1 generation of the death of Jesus. All the works were written between 50-100AD. We also have manuscripts and fragments of the New Testament books that circumvented government and religious organizations, that have been translated from the original languages. Said copies are available, and are used to compare against your supposed "government/religious organization" translations.
I suggest you do a bit of research on textual criticism and the manuscripts that make up the New Testament. Its a bit different than you make it out to be. Just because the major unical codices were authorized by Constantine and others does not mean there aren't earlier fragments available that can be referenced when creating a new Bible. The reality is that the fragments that predate the unical codices agree with them, challenging your argument that they are somehow modified from their original intent. We have fragments of almost every New Testament book that predates Constantine and the Catholic church.
Here's an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_52
The fragment's date? 125AD - less than 100 years after the death of Jesus, and only about 30 years after the date of the writing it references (Gospel of John).
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
