tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post636260971771420455..comments2023-11-02T10:50:42.128-05:00Comments on CLOSED: If not the Bible, then what?TLF+http://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-44635289224537046772008-06-13T09:04:00.000-05:002008-06-13T09:04:00.000-05:00I recommend the recent works of Bart Ehrmann is yo...I recommend the recent works of Bart Ehrmann is you desire an understanding of Scripture. You can Google him.cphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13163860831438587167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-50364848052968772132008-06-10T22:24:00.000-05:002008-06-10T22:24:00.000-05:00The New Testament is the best attested set of docu...The New Testament is the best attested set of documents from antiquity. The documents themselves are really not open to much question. We have a very good idea of what they likely looked like in the first century. If you doubt their transmission over time, you must also doubt every other document from antiquity. the oldest manuscript of Caesar's _<BR/>Galllic Wars_, for instance, is about a millennium old - copied a thousand years _after_ Caesar wrote the original. There are three such copies, all about the same age. This makes the _<BR/>Gallic Wars_ pretty reliable. Now consider this: in the case of the New Testament, we have something like 3000 manuscripts and fragments from the first seven centuries. In other words, the manuscript evidence for the NT is an embarrassment of riches, more reliable than Caesar's work by several orders of magnitude in terms of manuscript evidence, and closer to the original by centuries.<BR/><BR/>Of course, people do doubt the things recorded _in_ the NT, like, oh, for instance, Jesus' resurrection. But in no case can we justify such doubt on the specious basis of a claim that the NT's transmission has been corrupt. <BR/><BR/>LaocoonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-13412803021313358532008-06-09T22:52:00.000-05:002008-06-09T22:52:00.000-05:00People attempt to discredit the Bible because that...People attempt to discredit the Bible because that gives them an excuse not to investigate it for themselves. They are really afraid of an encounter with the Living God. Usually these are the same people who have never read the Bible from cover to cover.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The deeper one goes into the study of the Bible, the more assured one becomes that these pages breathe Truth and Life. The consistency of themes over centuriens can't be explained by a editorial process.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.com