(July 12, 2017 at 12:45 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:The committee that wrote the original Bible in 692 A.D.
I'd still like to know where you are getting this stuff from?
My conclusion is based on a reading of history. The three copies of the 692 A.D. Bible were the first complete Bibles ever produced. They were the master copies, written in Latin. You can't find any complete Bibles before that time. They don't exist. Those were huge, 75 pound monsters written on vellum that required 2,000 cows.
My theory, and it is only a theory, is that the Uthman committee's product of the Koran in 640 caught the Christians flatfooted. They had been getting by with oral stories for centuries. So the Christians had to catch up. They assembled a team of story tellers, writers, and artists and they raised a herd of 2,000 cows for vellum. After slaughtering the cows and processing the vellum they got to work and produced their masterpiece = a complete comprehensive illustrated collection of the oral stories in true book form written in Latin.
All other Bible versions were written after that time, which is why they are so consistent, other than maybe 2,000 minor variations and deletions.
Now think about this:
1. Do you know when the Bible got numbered chapters and verses?
2. Do you know when the "J" words (John, Judas, Jews, Jerusalem, Joshua, Joseph, etc) were introduced in the biblical stories?
3. Do you know when Yeshua became Jesus?
4. Do you know when the 14 Apocrypha books were deleted and why?
If you didn't know the answers to those basic questions what makes you think you know anything about the history of the Bible?
Remember, religion is a very big business. It has to sell the lie because it can't survive on the truth. A number of Christian and Islamic beliefs are very similar. But there are enough differences to ensure that there will never be a reconciliation between them.
The book Ben Hur was published in 1880. If the writers in 690 had the story they could have condensed it into a book in the New Testament to add credence to the idea that Yeshua had been a real person and changed people's lives. No one would have been the wiser.
