Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

You guys should form a committee and decide whether to go with this line, or contradictions. The two are, well, contradictory.

It was Saint Jerome, who, in 405 AD, completed the Latin Vulgate:

Jerome was a scholar at a time when that statement implied a fluency in Greek. He knew some Hebrew when he started his translation project, but moved to Jerusalem to strengthen his grip on Jewish scripture commentary. A wealthy Roman aristocrat, Paula, funded his stay in a monastery in Bethlehem and he completed his translation there. He began in 382 by correcting the existing Latin language version of the New Testament, commonly referred to as the Vetus Latina. By 390 he turned to translating the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew, having previously translated portions from the Septuagint which came from Alexandria. He believed that the mainstream Rabbinical Judaism had rejected the Septuagint as invalid Jewish scriptural texts because of what were ascertained as mistranslations along with its Hellenistic heretical elements.[24] He completed this work by 405. Prior to Jerome's Vulgate, all Latin translations of the Old Testament were based on the Septuagint, not the Hebrew. Jerome's decision to use a Hebrew text instead of the previous translated Septuagint went against the advice of most other Christians, including Augustine, who thought the Septuagint inspired. Modern scholarship, however, has sometimes cast doubts on the actual quality of Jerome's Hebrew knowledge. Many modern scholars believe that the Greek Hexapla is the main source for Jerome's "iuxta Hebraeos" translation of the Old Testament.[25] However, detailed studies have shown that to a considerable degree Jerome was a competent Hebraist.[26]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome#Tra...mmentaries

But, even after Jerome, there was still major controversies over the "inspired" text:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_Johanneum

That sounds impressive and it might even be true on a planet in the Sombrero Galaxy but it's pure BS on this planet in the solar system in this galaxy.

The Catholics came up with the lie that some character they named "Saint Jerome" wrote the Bible in the late 390s from the original Hebrew.  They needed to make it an ancient book in order to sell their business model.  The pesky fact is that such a book doesn't exist and never existed until many centuries later.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate

The way the actual events really went down is that the early Christians relied upon oral stories and a few people may have written parts of them down through the ages.  But they were never a comprehensive set of scrolls.  Then as time passed Uthman formed a committee to write his fairy tale about Mohammed and Allah into a book.  The Christians were caught sleeping because they didn't have such a complete book for their fairy tale.  So they got busy and came up with a plan.  They assembled a team of story tellers, writers, and artists and bred a large herd of cattle for vellum to write on.  By the 690s they had produced three beautiful copies of their work, each weighing about 75 pounds.  That was the original Bible, the Codex Amiatinus.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Amiatinus


You couldn't produce a legitimate copy of an earlier Bible if doing so made you the emperor of the world.  

The clever thing is that the writers included all kinds of passages showing that it was just a BS story.  That's the purposes of the contradictions.  And since no one had any evidence  to refute the official version it has endured for the past 1,325 years.  Every once in a while a committee will delete a sentence or two that it doesn't like.  There's been a lot of those.  And once in a while someone will get a bug up his butt and toss a whole set of books out of the Bible.  

Bonus question:  Do you know when the Apocrypha books were purged?  If you don't know that then you don't know Jack ____ about the Bible.

As it says in 2 Maccabees 15:38-39 (CEB)= " 38 If the story was told effectively, this is what I wanted. But if it was told in a poor and mediocre fashion, this was the best I could do. 39 Just as it is harmful to drink wine or water alone while wine mixed with water is delightful and produces joy, so also may the writing of this story delight the ears of those who encounter this work.

The end."