I don’t have a problem with atheists — each to his own comfort level — nonetheless, it is ridiculous for one of that inclination to get rattled to the extent that others of belief are denied their comfort. Atheism by definition is free from religion. Theists are free to believe as they see fit; atheists should look upon these " misguided" as pathetic but have the right to the "wrong" path. If, however, atheist take on the passion of "religion" in their belief that there is no God, they in reality are in the business of propagating their non-faith as feverishly as the old Marxist line. In this respect they are as trapped in "belief" as the rest of us pathetic old fools. They should therefore lobby for a limited currency series that states "In "God we do not trust," or a postage stamp that shows a black hole with the inscription "Godless."
You really take that serious??? Buahahahahahahahahahaaaa....
No wonder Jafo has thrown you out. All hope is lost with you. Go study mathematics and then read that stuff again.
And be careful to use sites as proof that quote Göbbels. Nazis had some other ideas you might take comfort in but are utterly horrible to the rest of us.
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http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/evolution/impossible.htm
You're talking about this quote:
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will eventually to come to believe it.[1]
I found the quote to be quite applicable to the lies of Evolution. If the shoe fits, ....
I quoted two Evolution lies in #375:
This is a lie but stated in science books as true. Students should be told the truth instead of being told lies
Truth is, those fossils of teeth and bones are scientifically proven to be either fully human or fully ape, there hasn't been any found that were in-between.
Here is another..
These 2 examples are proof of the much repeated Evolutionist's lie told to unwary public school children. They repeat this lie so often that they hope that people will eventually come to believe it as true. Are you one of those who believes these evolution lies? Do you believe you descended from an ape to ape-like ancestors? Do you believe you are just another animal in the evolution line, the working of blind, random chance?
I believe that molecular and genetic science has proven Evolution is impossible. I believe that science has proven the genetic barrier prevents change beyond "kind" (species).
I believe science has proven we are totally distinctive and exceedingly intricate.
Evolution is impossible and I believe in something else.
I believe the complexity of the human body fills us with awe, "for it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, that I know very well." Psalm 139:13-14 paints a much different picture of our beginning that does darwinian Evolution.
I say teach these students the truth. Tell them to date there has NOT been found any evidence that proves that macro-evolution has occurred and that in fact, modern science is proving Evolution is impossible.
Only believes you are postulating. I come to the understanding that you do not yourself believe in all the things you say but just want to get some reaction from us.
Here is your reaction: Science is a snapshot of our understanding of the universe, evolving as we gather more information and are able to interconnect more data. (Your) religion was an understanding of our environment at a time when we had very limited data (not wholly true as some stupid blasphemous Greek could calculate the diameter of earth before the birth of your Christ, while your RCC threatened and tortured people for saying that the earth is not the center of the universe and its not a disc). We just have gathered more and more information as time passed but you stayed in that snapshot of 500 AD.
Science can never be the ultimate truth as science always strives to better its understanding of the universe. It is an asymptote getting ever nearer the truth without ever touching it.
Religion has no such principles. It just is because once somebody said so and from there on no one ever evolved it.
So the fundamental problem religion has with evolution is that sciences evolve, religion does not. I is created, stays static/stagnant for a while (even a long while) and then vanishes.
So please, Lulapilgrim, if you really truly believe what you state here, have the decency to search for another playground for your postings and accept this thread as dead to you because when you do not want to further your own understanding you will never be able to comprehend another's ideas.
If you read the part of the Humani Generis which she posted earlier you will see that the pope, and the Teaching Authority of the Church forbids Catholics to admit anything that may contradict the idea of monogenism. That point is extremely important. Some Catholics don't believe in evolution. Others do and simply do and say what they will depending on whether they think their current understanding of evolution theory does or doesn't contradict monogenism. Most Catholics that I know do not deny evolution theory, mostly because they believe that there is nothing in the current science of evolution that proves or disproves monogenism.
Yes, I really take what Michael Baker says about Evolution seriously. I think Michael Baker is telling the truth to the point I said what I believe about it.
Well, you've come to the wrong understanding because I actually do believe everything I said I believe.
As far as a reaction to Baker's article or what I believe, I expected either agreement (that indeed Evolution has a real credibility problem) or disagreement in the form of a civil rebuttal.
If you carefully read the linked article you posted you will (or not) realise that the postulated principles are just believe with closed circle reasoning.
A person who states
"This is the fundamental logical principle. If a man refuses to acknowledge its truth he cannot speak. For every acceptance or rejection of a proposition presupposes it."
cannot be taken seriously, because it hinders discussion. To refute somebody a different opinion to ones "truths" because he says them irrefutable is arrogant and has no base in reality.
Some of the "fundamental principles" are formulated to give them scientific appearance but the examples hereto are child-like and false.
Conclusions to 1 and 2 are explanations that an evolutionist would give. Yes, chance is just another name for chaos. Chaos means that the influencing forces are too numerous to calculate the end result because it is impossible for someone to comprehend them all.
Time is a measurement, whats the problem with that? Its a descriptive measurement of an amount of processes taking place between two points of measurement.
3. yes, but Darwinism tries not to give an explanation of how the first matter came into existence. Nor how the first primitive life forms (single cell organisms) came into being. These have been explained (or tried to) by others.
4 and 5 - Utter bullshit. It's no logic at all. Its like the old japanese riddle:
A black horse is a horse. A white horse is a horse. so black is white or there is no horse.
Thats no logical reasoning at all, it's a mind game for people not witted enough to see the false presumption.
The other following "arguments" are based on these false presumptions and twist them even further. There is no science in it at all, but a nice mind game. When studying informatics I had a professor who could easily proof the 2+2 is not 4 using deduction. But that doesn't mean it was right. It was just possible if you used the wrong basis for your calculations.
As for the cause as to wherefore mankind would evolve, thats not one to answer as we are just one step in this evolution and that would be like to ask a child at the age of 1 what the destiny of their great great grandchildren will be. Perhaps there is none but that is where the understanding of most common minds fail - they need a cause for their being alive. It would hurt their ego too much to have none.
So take this idea (and no more it is) as an example for why live could evolve:
Some day, may it be very very far away, the sun will go dark. Or go supernova. Or our planet core will go cold. Either way, life on earth will become impossible. If live wants to go on and has this alone as its single cause it necessary for life to evolve to a point where it can propagate itself to other worlds/galaxies/universes.
Well, it can apply to Christian lies too... take a look at http://www.biblicalnonsense.com/chapter4.html for a list of some method used for support Christian lies...
Human are not ape... it is say human and ape have a common ape-like origin...
The evidence for human evolution is overwhelming. This includes thousands of fossils, which show the progressive straightening of the spine, the increase in brain volume, and change in facial features. Humans inherited their tail bone, a remnant of what was once a human tail, from primate ancestors. All animals have a tail at one point in their development; in humans, it is present for a period of 4 weeks, during stages 14 to 22 of human embryogenesis. Humans have a non-functional third eyelid, the plica semilunaris. Humans also have external ear muscles, which animals use to swivel and manipulate their ears (independently of their head) to focus their hearing on particular sounds. Humans still have remnants of such muscles, but they are now feeble and now are capable only of slightly wiggling the ear. DNA comparisons also show that humans share approximately 96% of their DNA with their closest cousin, the chimpanzee. However, there are very distinct differences between Homo sapiens and Pan DNA. Chimps have 24 chromosomes while humans have 23. About 18 of these chromosomes are nearly identical while there are significant differences in chromosomes 4, 9, 12, 21, and Y. The Y chromosome in Pan is smaller and only about 60% of that of humans.
Well, it is not a god who "knit" a human in his mother's womb... all start with a sexual relation where a spermatozoid meet a ovule... from the single cell created from sex, a full human is created following the DNA code... raw material used is from the mother body...
As for the Psalm book, it is filled with non realistic thing ( like all the bible )... by example, at 147:4, it is wrote that "God tells the number of stars and calls them all by their names" ... let say that God was taking 1 single second for call the name of one single star... and with around 10000000000000000000000 stars in the universe... it will have taken God 317097919 million years for call all the star name to his follower... it is about 10 x more that the actual age of the universe !!! The real one, not the 8000 yo thing... seem that God don't really know how much star and have not calls them by their names... that in the bible, the level of knowledge of God is somehow equal to these of people living at these time, in these area... somehow a pretty stupid God when compare to a actual 6yo kid...
If God truly is the inspiration behind this purportedly divine declaration to the world ( bible, he shows absolutely no interest in its understandability or accuracy in astronomy, cosmology, zoology, botany, anthropology, geology, ecology, geography, physiology, and several other disciplines
I don't say that God don't exist... everything is possible... but any real God who is the creator of our know universe will not be stupid like any God depicted in any religious book...
I think that your main mistake is too read the "sacred text" like some scientific text... for me, these "sacred text" are more like the writing from Jean de La Fontaine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_la_Fontaine )... you need to find the education in morals hidden in these text... if you look at "The tortoise and the Hare", it is about overconfidence ... read the "holy text" in the same way and never try to use them as scientific truth...
Now, as for the opening post about atheist, i will make a single comment... everybody is born atheist, it is the influence of parents, friends, church, educational system, tradition who transform the atheist baby in a grow up who believe in some God... At personal level, i think that i am agnostic :
"an agnostic is someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of a deity or deities"
"agnosticism is the view that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify the belief that deities either do or do not exist"
I had never thought of Evolution as chaos in quite this way, but it is absolutely true. Instead of "evolving" as Evolution Theory suggests, the universe and all that's in it, including all life is de-volving, towards it's end.
This is true from both a scientific and religious viewpoint.
Scientifically,
Evolution is built on 2 foundational pillars. One---Evolution teaches that matter is not conservative, but self originating; that it can arise from nothing and increase. But the first Law of thermodynamics annihalites this error.
Two---Evolution teaches that matter and living things keep becoming more complex and continually evolve to greater perfection. Cosmic or Stellar Evolution teaches that inorganic matter becomes more ordered and perfect and Darwinian Evolution teaches living creatures are always evolving into higher planes of existence. But the second law of thermodynamics devestates this theory.
Absolutely true, but Evolutionists don't/won't let true facts get in the way of their faith in and promotion of Evolution.
Me too. And the best way to do that is to have schools teach both sides (or as Smoothseas would say, "opposite sides") of the Origins debate.
Certainly not in the case of teaching both sides.
Amen
(I'm atheist, by birthright, never baptized)
Lula posts:
I said:
BT posts:
Let's start with what your Evolutionary science teaches. Evolution is a molecules-to-man natural transformation in which new, higher genetic information is gained which was not possessed by one's ancestors. e.g. by random chance processes over eons of time reptiles supposedly changed into birds.
I said I believe the empirical science of molecular genetics disproves what your Evolution science teaches.
The molecular structure of DNA proves that man cannot be the end of an evolutionary process. The molecular structure of DNA proves Darwinian Evolution is impossible. The fantastic complexity and orderliness and workings of the DNA code cannot be the work of random chance processes.
Molecular genetics shoots down postulated evolutionary sequences. Because of their DNA, there are no progressive changes from fish to amphibians, to reptiles to mammals, to man. Molecular genetics confirms systematics, not phylogeny. Molecular genetics confirms Linnaeus, not Darwin.
Not only that but it also boils down to the matter of the immortal soul. Right reason, Scripture, and CC teachings rule against matter giving birth to the soul. Gen. 1:27 states that God made man in His own image, male and female. Mankind therefore being composed of body and soul has a material (physical) and spiritual nature. So each and every human body being produced from pre-existing matter by human generation, is therefore subject to the laws of growth and decay. But according to Gen. 2:7, man has a soul, "The Lord formed man of the slime of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul."
The human soul being a spiritual substance is therefore indestructible destined for immortality. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the soul may be defined as the ultimate principle by which we think, feel and will, and by which our bodies are animated. The term "mind" usually denotes this principle as the subject of our conscious states, while soul denotes the source of our vegative activities as well.
So, the likeness of man to God lies in the conscious principle which animates the body with understanding and free will.
So as far as evolution is concerned, the chief distinction which separates mankind from all other creatures is his immortal soul..the life principle...the animal soul is generated with the body and perishes when the body dies. It's impossible to imagine that a perfect spiritual entity, a soul made directly by God when He made man, could ever have come from a body of an animal, like an ape.
Why on earth would God fall back on an animal species in order to borrow a body for a human person? God made the whole man all at once, self contained, cpmplete and independent of all antecedents.
This is essentially what I'm saying about our DNA..that by it we now know one kind of species cannot evolve into a completely different one.
As an aside, your mention of not proving the world was round got my attention.
Actually more than a couple thousand years ago, people knew the earth was a globe thanks to the writings of Isaias, one of God's prophets. He lived in the time of Hezekiah, King of Judah in 716-687 BC. God knew the earth was a globe; after all, He created it that way. God inspired Isaias to write His prophecy.
Isaias 40:21-22 states, "Do you not know? Hath it not been heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Hath you not understood the foundations of the Earth? It is he that sits upon the globe of the earth....."
Some translations have "globe" as "circle" of the earth.
So there you have it...sometime between 716 and 687 BC when Isaias penned God's prophecy, they knew the earth was a globe.
And this knowledge that the earth was a globe wasn't lost to the subsequent generations. The medieval scholars and scientists (Jean Buridan and Nicholas Oresme for example) never doubted the earth is a globe or sphere and by the 15th century the fact the earth was a globe was fully grasped.
Christopher Columbus was a devout Catholic and he knew the earth was not flat becasue he knew the Scriptures.
Science is not out to disprove anything and has no problem changing its mind as the data promotes and it has no real direction but forwards … wherever the data takes us. I am still hoping for little green men myself. All you and your ilk are want to do is try to discredit everything and anyone not of the church or the religion. Even though evolution has nothing at all to do with religion or the bible … you perceive it other than it really is and you try to PROVE NOTHING … all you do is try to disapprove shit … everyone’s shit … and that is not science any way you (others) look at it … that is how religions work.
So you accept that translation errors can occur? As for example the mother maria was translated as "virgin" instead of "young woman"?
There again, circle reasoning.
I write a book saying that god said that all in this book is true. So how can I prove it? Because the book says everything written in it is true! (Are you actually thinking of what you are wrtiting here?)
It is you who translate "globe" in place of "circle" for demonstrate that Isaias was knowing that the earth is a sphere and not a flat circle surface...
Isaiah describes how God will “maketh the earth empty, turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof” (Isaiah 24:1). No matter how the spherical earth is situated, however, part of it will always be “upside-down” relative to another. As you should also realize that there’s no true “upside-down” to the earth, it’s impossible to orient our planet in such a fashion and erroneous for Isaiah to use this absurd brand of diction. The concept of gravity and its effect among massive spherical bodies would have certainly been a foreign notion to a fallible man, such as Isaiah, when this piece was written over 2000 years ago. However, if the earth were as flat as a casual observation would indicate, and we toss all modern understanding of gravity to the side, it would be very conceivable for us to think that God could invert the earth so that its inhabitants would fall into some unknown void. As the situation stands in the natural world, Isaiah plainly made the flat earth mistake because he had no scientific knowledge beyond that of his peers.
On the other side of the coin, there’s a singular instance found in Isaiah that Christians often flaunt to promote an imagined harmony between the Bible and the true configuration of the earth. All the while, previously mentioned scriptures authored by Isaiah and his colleagues go completely ignored. Isaiah 40:22 says, “It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.” The word in question here is “circle.” A circle is a flat two-dimensional object, while a sphere, the approximate shape of the earth, is a three-dimensional object. The original Hebrew term used in this verse is chug, meaning circle. The same word is used twice in the book of Job to describe Heaven and the sea, two areas that we have no reason to believe anyone ever considered spherical. Furthermore, Isaiah does not use the actual Hebrew word for sphere, kadur, in 40:22 even though this utilization would have been much more appropriate if Isaiah intended to convey a spherical planet. In addition to this logical analysis of the verse, historians have long determined that a disc-shaped earth was a popular belief not only in the Middle East, but also in Greece before the time of Aristotle. We even have ancient maps of Babylon and Egypt containing illustrations of a circular sea surrounding circular land. When you combine this tangible evidence with other biblical comments regarding the shape of the earth, the likelihood of Isaiah 40:22 referring to a sphere is extremely remote.
We’ll begin with the verse that I believe Christians most commonly cite as a prophecy fulfillment. Isaiah 7:14 reads, “A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Even so, the claim of a prophecy fulfillment fails miserably due to both context and content of the message.Let us consider the content of Isaiah 7:14 first. In this passage, the English word virgin was translated from the Hebrew word almah. However, the most accurate term in the Hebrew language for conveying a sexually untouched woman is betula. Almah is a general term for a young woman, not necessarily a virgin. If Isaiah wanted his audience to believe that a virgin was going to give birth to a child, he had a much better word at his disposal. One would do well to think that he should utilize this more specific term for such a unique event so that his contemporaries wouldn’t first have to know that he was invoking the much less anticipated, potentially vague meaning of almah. Furthermore, Proverbs 30:19 is extremely detrimental to the virgin translation of almah: “The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with [an almah].” Since the term doesn’t necessarily mean virgin, one must look for the obvious connotation of the original Hebrew word. With this responsibility in mind, virgins don’t have children. In all reasonable likelihood, almah refers to a young woman in this passage. Even so, Matthew 1:23 may have tried to relate the Immanuel birth to Jesus by altering the obvious content of the Old Testament prophecy. Ironically, even the Greek word parthenos used in Matthew doesn’t necessarily mean virgin, as repeatedly demonstrated in Homer’s Iliad.A second and seemingly more overlooked clue in the passage’s content is the name of the child, Immanuel. To put it in the simplest of terms, Jesus’ name wasn’t Immanuel. The fact that Immanuel means “God with us” doesn’t make one iota of difference because hundreds of Hebrew names have references to God. For example, Abiah means “God is my father,” which, in my opinion, would have been slightly more impressive. The verse plainly declares that she “shall call his name Immanuel,” but the so-called Messiah’s mother called him Jesus.
Damn, Thoumsin. You impressed me again! Have you learned hebrew? I've had old greek in school
When it is in italic, text is not from me
As for language, i have learn ancien greek and latin ( forget it ), modern greek ( forget it but have help me to learn some basic russian )... french, dutch, english... along with assembler, pascal, basic, fortran, etc
As for religious text, it have always interest me... by education, i was catholic... by marriage, i have become orthodox... by using my brain in place of believe everything, i have become agnostic... i don't know if a god exist or not, what i know is that religion have nothing to make with any god... religion are a instrument for control people, at the origin or implicated in numerous war... if religion was removed from the surface of the earth, we will almost have paradise on earth...
CIVCORP POSTS:
Just to be clear, I was agreeing with Civcorp's statements, just adding a bit, that's all.
lULA POSTS
tHOUMSIN,
I enjoyed reading your 392.
First, please understand that it is not me who translated the word in Isaias as "globe". It was St.Jerome in the 400s and imho, he certainly had the qualifications to do it.
Secondly, I've already said that some other more modern translations have "globe" as "circle".
Since in 2Timothy 3:16-17 we read that "all Scripture, inspired of God is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, and to instruct in justice..." , I quoted the Douay Rheims version and for good reason. It's the most accurate translation of St.Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible (405 AD), which is a word-for-word translation from the original Hebrew and Greek. St. Jerome was a consummate linguistic genius, Greek speaking from birth, knew Hebrew and Latin perfectly and had many manuscripts to work from that are no longer extant. I believe he was raised up by God to translate Scripture into common Latin.
Are you aware that the original Hebrew version of the Old Testament was translated by 72 Hebrew scholars into the Greek Septuagint around 200BC?
I'm convinced the word "globe" is the original word in Isaias because the Hebrew text forms part of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Qumram and the Greek version of Isaias in the Septuagint is the same as the Hebrew text. (Masoretic).
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Here is Isaias 40:21-22 in its full context.
21 "Do you not know? Hath it not been heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Hath you not understood the foundations of the Earth? 22 It is he that sits upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out of the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.
Now, we can discuss the difference between circle and globe until the cows come home but as I see it especially taking Isaias in its full context isn't that much of a difference at all.
For if we do we will find out Who is sitting upon the globe (circle) of the earth. Here Isaias is talking about God's Almighty power and majesty.
Yes, quite true the concept of gravity and its effect was foreign to fallible man such as Isaias was, but it goes back to my point... Infallible God knew the earth was a spherical globe, for He created it as well as the laws of gravity and He inspired Isaias to write.
But There is harmony between Scripture and the true configuration of the earth.
Just as CivCorp said, empirical science would catch up later and prove the earth is a spherical globe which is in complete harmony with Isaias 40:21-22.
Me, I learned english, latin, old greek, AppleTalk (not the network protocol), Hypertalk, AppleScript, Pascal, q- and QuickBasic, Perl, php, Java, JavaScript, C++, FileMaker Scripting Language, Objective-C and many a structural language
But it is easier to forget than to learn...
No matter how the spherical earth is situated, however, part of it will always be “upside-down” relative to another. As you should also realize that there’s no true “upside-down” to the earth, it’s impossible to orient our planet in such a fashion and erroneous for Isaiah to use this absurd brand of diction. The concept of gravity and its effect among massive spherical bodies would have certainly been a foreign notion to a fallible man, such as Isaiah, when this piece was written over 2000 years ago. However, if the earth were as flat as a casual observation would indicate, and we toss all modern understanding of gravity to the side, it would be very conceivable for us to think that God could invert the earth so that its inhabitants would fall into some unknown void. As the situation stands in the natural world, Isaiah plainly made the flat earth mistake because he had no scientific knowledge beyond that of his peers.
Thoumsin,
Please note the translation of Isaias 24:1 you quoted is quite different from the Douay Rheims version.
"Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof."
What is Almighty God telling us through His prophet Isaias in chapter 24? Anything whatsoever about the earth being a globe, a circle, flat or whatever? I think not. This quote you found is someone taking a mis-translation of one verse of Scripture and trying to make a case that Isaias uses an "absurd brand of diction" and makes a flat earth mistake. This is utter nonsense.
Isaias 24:1 is also known as the Apocalypse of Isaias. Isaias 24 tells us about the final judgment of Almighty God upon all sinners of the world. Verses 2 and 3 confirm that the entire earth shall be utterly laid waste and made desolate.
This is absolutely true of true empirical science. Wha tyou seem to refuse to recognize is that true empirical science has refuted and disproved Darwinian Evolution science and it's true blue adherants still refuse to accept this and continue to masquerade Darwinian Evolution, now proven pseudo science, as fact.
http://www.biblicalnonsense.com/chapter7.html
I have read about the legend :
The Septuagint derives its name from Latin versio septuaginta interpretum,"translation of the seventy interpreters," (Greek: ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα, hē metáphrasis tōn hebdomēkonta), "translation of the seventy ".The title refers to a legendary account in the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas to his brother Philocrates, of how seventy or seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century BCE to translate the Torah (or Pentateuch) from Biblical Hebrew into Greek for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria.As narrated by Philo of Alexandria, 72 Jewish translators were enlisted to complete the translation while kept in separate chambers. According to legend, Aristeas arrived at the figure of 72 scholars by calculating the participation of six elders from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. Adding to the legend and coincidental alignment with the number of scholars being 72 was the implication that these scholars all produced identical versions of the text in exactly seventy-two days. This story underlines the fact that some Jews in antiquity wished to present the translation as authoritative. A version of this legend is found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud (pages 9a-9b), which identifies fifteen specific unusual translations made by the scholars. Only two of these translations are found in the extant LXX.
Being a legend don't make it true... try it today, put 72 priest in 72 room and ask them to wrote the Septuagin like it is in their christian bible ( don't ask for a translation who will make thing more complex )... Pretty sure that you will not have 72 identical copy...
Well, there is no way to prove who is right since we don't have the original text but copy of copy of copy of copy... same the DSS scrolls are not original text... if i good remember, in the first cave, there was two copy of the Isaias scroll, both being almost identical with only some minor variation... yet, these minor variation show that they are not exact copy from the original...
According to The Oxford Companion to Archaeology:The biblical manuscripts from Qumran, which include at least fragments from every book of the Old Testament, except perhaps for the Book of Esther, provide a far older cross section of scriptural tradition than that available to scholars before. While some of the Qumran biblical manuscripts are nearly identical to the Masoretic, or traditional, Hebrew text of the Old Testament, some manuscripts of the books of Exodus and Samuel found in Cave Four exhibit dramatic differences in both language and content. In their astonishing range of textual variants, the Qumran biblical discoveries have prompted scholars to reconsider the once-accepted theories of the development of the modern biblical text from only three manuscript families: of the Masoretic text, of the Hebrew original of the Septuagint, and of the Samaritan Pentateuch. It is now becoming increasingly clear that the Old Testament scripture was extremely fluid until its canonization around A.D. 100.
My point is that there is nothing wrong with your "belief"... you can believe what you wish... there is problem when you use these "belief" like fact or evidence...
At personal level, i think that there is some truth in the bible story... these stories was first transmit by voice before being recorded... these record have be copied numerous time including some error or volontary add-on... human are not xerox machine able/wishing to make exact copy... by the way, when i speak about truth, i mean when you compare actual version to the original one, not about the content itself... in fact, plenty of the story in the bible can be found in text from other older culture who believe in other god or gods, long before the abrahamic religion appear on these planet...
A single example :
A little known but important piece of information about the Genesis flood is that the extremely similar Epic of Gilgamesh in the Sumerian legend predates Noah’s story by at least one thousand years in the written form and at least five hundred years for the setting. The similarities between the two tales are so remarkable that we cannot write them off in good conscience as mere coincidences. In the earlier flood legend, Utnapishtim receives instructions and exact dimensions on how to construct a large ship to avoid an imminent flood (as does Noah in Genesis 6:14-16), takes animals and his family aboard to preserve life on earth (as does Noah in Genesis 6:19-7:1), lands the ship on a mountain after the flood has stopped (as does Noah in Genesis 8:4), releases a dove and a raven from the ship in order to aid his search for dry land (as does Noah in Genesis 8:6-11), and burns a sacrifice after the flood for the gods who find its odor pleasing (as does Noah in Genesis 8:20-21). Because several additional minor parallels exist, I would encourage everyone to read Tablet XI of the short epic in its entirety in order to appreciate fully the similarities between the two legends. Since the Gilgamesh tale is the earlier version of the two, we can only surmise that the authors of Genesis copied the Epic of Gilgamesh or inadvertently patterned the story of Noah’s ark on an even more ancient flood legend that we have yet to discover.
I personally believe that the bible is not the "words" from God but simply a compendium of tales, not all related to the children of these unique gods but some stolen to other older culture... well, at the time of the bible, copyright laws was not yet existing...
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