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Assuming that's true ... which it isn't ... but assuming that's true:The gospels alone, had several verses added to it, hundreds of years after the oldest versions we have available.
Assuming that's true ... which it isn't ... but assuming that's true:
Why do you think it took so long?
Okay.Well it is true av.
First thing is that God gave Moses ALL of His plan of Salvation 3500 years ago. Nothing has changed in 3500 years. The only difference is the Old Testament of the Old Covenant looks forward to what Jesus would do at Calvery. The New Testament of the New Covenant looks back to the finished work of Calvery. I know you like to read the skeptics bible and I am only pointing out that I do not see that much difference between the skeptics and the revisionists. They both try build a straw-man argument and they both fail to present their case.There's no revisionism about it - we know that the bible has changed over time. It's not news to anyone who has been paying attention.
Nothing has been added to what God gave Moses. God gave Moses all of His plan of Salvation. Noah had all of God's plan and he preached it for over 100 years. Noah was righteous and he knew the way of righteousness. Still people made a choice not to follow God and they were destroyed in the Flood. Each and every person has that choice to make.That is the problem. If a god existed and he told the story, why the need to add verses hundreds of years later?
But the bible has. It demonstrably has. We have old bibles to prove that not just linguistic quirks changed, but the actual content of the books has changed. Look, I'm sorry, but at this point this comes down to nothing more than a denial of reality. If God gave Moses ALL of His plan of Salvation, then the problem has clearly occurred during one of the many, many, many, maaaaany transcriptions (performed by hand by people who were not experts). But to deny that the bible we have today is different from the bible of centuries past is not just wrong, it is denial. I mean, you can find substantial differences not just between manuscripts of now and the past, you can find substantial differences between different bibles published today!First thing is that God gave Moses ALL of His plan of Salvation 3500 years ago. Nothing has changed in 3500 years.
Perhaps you are talking about the Minority Text (which are based upon mainly 2 corrupted New Testament manuscripts) compared to the Majority Text (which are based upon over 5,000 New Testament manuscripts). http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/m-m.htmlBut the bible has. It demonstrably has. We have old bibles to prove that not just linguistic quirks changed, but the actual content of the books has changed. Look, I'm sorry, but at this point this comes down to nothing more than a denial of reality. If God gave Moses ALL of His plan of Salvation, then the problem has clearly occurred during one of the many, many, many, maaaaany transcriptions (performed by hand by people who were not experts). But to deny that the bible we have today is different from the bible of centuries past is not just wrong, it is denial. I mean, you can find substantial differences not just between manuscripts of now and the past, you can find substantial differences between different bibles published today!
If this is "non-negotiable" to you, then all you're doing is demonstrating that you don't know the first thing about your holy book or its history, and have no interest in learning.
Also wrong.Perhaps you are talking about the Minority Text (which are based upon mainly 2 corrupted New Testament manuscripts) compared to the Majority Text (which are based upon over 5,000 New Testament manuscripts). http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/m-m.html
When they found the Dead Sea Scrolls they came to the realization that the Old Testament has remained consistent and unchanged. The reason is because of the mathematical precision makes any mistakes self correcting. Just like the mistakes in DNA for the most part are self correcting.
Nothing has been added to what God gave Moses. God gave Moses all of His plan of Salvation. Noah had all of God's plan and he preached it for over 100 years. Noah was righteous and he knew the way of righteousness. Still people made a choice not to follow God and they were destroyed in the Flood. Each and every person has that choice to make.
Good question.That is the problem. If a god existed and he told the story, why the need to add verses hundreds of years later?
Good question.
That's what I'm asking you.
Do you have an answer or not?
Oh, well ... I tried.Why the very late additions?
I agree with what many of the scholars state. Mark ended very abruptly, compared to the other gospels and a later scribe likely added verses so they would be more inline with each other.
The adulteress story, was likely something a later scribe and the powers at be thought was a nice story and how they wanted to represent jesus - a marketing decision.
Things are always made to be so black and white for creationists. Some, it seems, have a hard time with shades of gray and would rather have AN answer, even if wrong, than no concrete answer at all.
I have no idea what your talking about but I have heard nonsense like Matthew copied from Mark which is total and complete nonsense from people that have no idea what they are talking about. It is as if the skeptics and scoffers are happy to listen to people without even a 1 st grade knowledge of the Bible and they disregard the people with a Phd level of knowledge about the Bible.The gospels have changed and been added to over time, which is what the discussion was about.
Assuming the deity exists and had anything to due with what was written in the bible, I would say the later added verses are frauds put in there by people that seeked to gain from them, or who didn't think the bible was good enough as-is.Okay.
For the sake of arguing, I'm agreeing with you, and I'd like to know what took God so long to tell the whole story.
In your opinion.
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