(July 13, 2017 at 7:01 am)Dropship Wrote: 1- Why on earth would scribes want to change anything?
It's because some scribes couldn't resist the temptation of gratuitous insertions to bring adornments to their texts, adding words and phrases when the original language didn't sound exalted enough, or just seemed to be lacking something.
Now we have that one Gospel say that Jesus was crucified on Thursday while other on Friday. Or Mark's Gospel contains many endings depending on the Bible.
There is even a term called conflation of readings, when scribes of NT confronted different variants of same passages deliberately changed by earlier scribes so that this scribe had to pick one over the other. Usually scribe was afraid of risk of accidentally preserving the wrong version and omitting the genuine reading. So most of them tried to escape their quandary by incorporating both into the new copy.
(July 13, 2017 at 7:01 am)Dropship Wrote: 2- Moses busted the asses of anybody who deserved it
Really? There are reasons to kill women and children. Hmm, who would know. That's why I come to this forum for Christians to "enlighten" me.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
