(June 15, 2017 at 2:48 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Theists seem to think that a 2000 year old book of iron age myths is real. They forget that the stories in it were first passed on by word of mouth, then written down, probably in Aramaic, then translated into Latin, then hand copied and the copies were copied.... for 2000 years. They still expect us to believe this long lasting game of chinese whispers??
Uh..no.
Written down in koine greek most of which we still have.
then translated to latian
then from latin to English till the koine greek was re discovered then from the 2nd-4th century greek to the English and every other language.
The reason for so many different copies because you can not directly translate koine greek into English. and also we find older and more pure copies of the bible and it may change a small thing or to from time to time so every 10 or 20 years we will get a new revised version of something.
That said the bible was not compiled like what you described. (A game of telephone)
You are getting a more pure version of the bible than you can get of any first century work. a more pure version of the bible exists than even that of shakspere's works that are only a couple hundred years old.
