RE: Why the "There are so many interpretations of the Bible" claim is confused
October 29, 2015 at 1:44 am
(October 28, 2015 at 7:59 am)Aractus Wrote: AtlasS, I've mentioned this to you many times. Modern scholarship has long-since disproved that theory. That's why the MT is now preferred above the LXX, and why Textus Receptus is preferred over the "majority text".
From my understanding the Qumran texts date to the last 2 centuries BCE & a century forth in CE. The MT is compared against the Qumran scrolls more than anything in terms of similarity; my problem is who wrote them, how, and to serve whom.
In other words : the original version itself that was kept in the temple mount can be itself forged. That if there was a kept original version in the first place.
Who can say for certain, that they are the same tablets of Moses peace be upon him ? the Jewish texts themselves, points a finger to the sins of Moses's followers : the golden calf story. How many Aaron were there to forge after Moses's death ?
That for Old Testament though.. how many Aarons could there be within Jesus's followers ?
And still, I never hold dates for granted.
Quote:There is no doubt, whatsoever, that Jesus showed up and taught in the first century. Exactly what he taught, what his beliefs were, and what his focus was is a matter that will be debated for many centuries to come, but we know that he did make teachings. The teachings in the synoptic gospels most likely come from two pre-existing written sources, one of which (the sayings document) probably goes back to the 40's or 30's AD.
Quoting a wikipedia link :
Quote:Broadly speaking, the synoptic gospels are similar to John: all are composed in Koine Greek, have a similar length, and were completed within a century of Jesus' death.
Being completed a "century" after his death, is a main disaster in terms of the accuracy of the text..I understand that this was never written directly; rather it was based on the memory of the writer..exactly like the Muslim "Hadiths".
And the Q source seems lost; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_source
The year of the Q source is hypothetical, since the source itself is hypothetical.
