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The Bible we have today came from the AV330 Gothic Version, the version that was favored over the Sianiticus by the common people.But the bible we have today comes from these, and other, texts. These are the oldest copies - no other exists.
... my own arrogance?No, it's obvious to me that you have the problem that when it comes to contradictions between reality and the Bible, I put my faith in...
No, he leaves the version of the bible he takes as defining to the popular vote, until the moment that popular vote takes a different version than him. Than he needs to set a different arbitrary benchmark.So you're happy to leave the defining version of the Bible up to popular vote, and yet you tell off scientists for updating their theories. Is this some "unwritten principle" that I'm not getting?
You update the Periodic Table, for example, by adding to it --- the Bible is updated by redaction, with no additions to It.So you're happy to leave the defining version of the Bible up to popular vote, and yet you tell off scientists for updating their theories. Is this some "unwritten principle" that I'm not getting?
You update the Periodic Table, for example, by adding to it --- the Bible is updated by redaction, with no additions to It
The Bible we have today came from the AV330 Gothic Version, the version that was favored over the Sianiticus by the common people.
While Spirit-filled men were translating Its prececessor into the Gothic (Byzantine) language, the world was translating the Sinaiticus from Origen's Hexapla into the Codex Sianiticus.
My Bible is complete, though; the fact that scientists contend that nothing is complete causes problems with them, as they try and apply that to the Bible, and think that the Bible should be updated as well. Only it doesn't work that way.That's because we didn't know about all the elements at the time. Although Mendeleev did a good job a predicting them. Anyway, why is it a problem that the periodic table was incomplete?
.Vox populi, Vox Dei.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 said:For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
My Bible is complete, though;
the fact that scientists contend that nothing is complete causes problems with them, as they try and apply that to the Bible, and think that the Bible should be updated as well. Only it doesn't work that way.
If you mean the completed Scriptures, since around 100 AD.Oh, AV...?
In what year did the common people have access to the Bible, instead of what was just read to them at church?
If you mean the completed Scriptures, since around 100 AD.
Revelation, for example, was written to the seven churches in Asia, and they, of course, would have copied and dispersed it throughout.
I guess I don't understand what you're asking. Even an Ethiopian eunuch had a copy of the Scriptures (see Acts 8).You missed the part about "common people" -- unless there was a wave of literacy among the hoi polloi you're keeping under your hat.
I guess I don't understand what you're asking. Even an Ethiopian eunuch had a copy of the Scriptures (see Acts 8).
There are two major documents we are taught to stay away from --- Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus for two good reasons:
* Whenever you see a footnote say "oldest manuscript says...", or "better manuscript says...", never rely on it - ever. The common people rejected these manuscripts and refused to use them.
- These are considered the oldest. Why? Because the common people never used them. Thus they were preserved by disuse.*
- Codex Sinaiticus was found in a trash can, and Codex Vaticanus was found locked in the Vatican, well out of reach of the common people.
A eunuch would most likely have been able to read.I guess I don't understand what you're asking. Even an Ethiopian eunuch had a copy of the Scriptures (see Acts 8).
Huh? I'm truly lost here; unless he's implying the common people didn't know how to read. (Please say I'm wrong.)A eunuch would most likely have been able to read.
Subtle enough as a hint on what he meant with "common people"? Or do I have to start bolding words for it to get through to you.
The common people did not know how to read. Reading was something only few people could do in those days.Huh? I'm truly lost here; unless he's implying the common people didn't know how to read. (Please say I'm wrong.)
The common people did not know how to read. Reading was something only few people could do in those days.
But I'm guessing this is one of those many pesky facts that you like to ignore.
http://www.restorationfoundation.org/volume_3/32_6.htmWe're talking AD 100 here -- literacy was, until recently in human history, a privilige for an elite few.
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