(June 10, 2013 at 8:24 am)Aractus Wrote:(June 10, 2013 at 12:58 am)justin Wrote: Pretty cool but knowing xtians they'll just silence the tracks or talk woo woo until people drop it. we already know their off in the head denial is inate in us all and they seem already a couple steps ahead in that department of thinking so i have little reason to think they'll change.Okay, what I find disappointing in this thread is the uninformed opinions that are being posted. It's just as bad as 9/11 "truthers" who have no idea of what the facts really are.
Post your opinion, fine, but first go and inform yourself.
1. This is not the "oldest" copy of the Bible.
2. It is of Alexandrian text-type. We know about the textual variants in the greek mss, we have scholars who specialize on these variants. We use critical texts as the basis for the Biblical text, therefore, any mss will contain variants from it.
3. The order of the OT books is arranged differently from the Jewish order, the order of the NT books is largely irrelevant as their order (as we have them in our Bible) is based (loosely) on type and length.
4. There's nothing new about this, it's a text type that has been studied for centuries, and the codex isn't new. We are discovering new mss all the time, and that's what is really exciting.
If you stuck any holy book next to a copy of Harry Potter please tell me how history and order and language used makes the fantastic claims in either different or true?
A Yellow Brick Road comic book is still a comic book regardless of if the comic book is taken as fact or fiction.
While the history of these books are documented it will never make the fantastic claims in them true, or the gods people claim are the head characters in these books real.
We have evidence of the beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians and their history is well documented, but it does not make Isis or Osirus or Horus real merely because people wrote the claims down or depicted them in buildings or art or tombs.
