RE: BILL NYE VS KEN HAM: TONIGHT AT 7 PM
February 25, 2014 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2014 at 9:53 pm by Bad Writer.)
SW Wrote:BW Wrote:Most available, maybe, but is it the most used? Still, that's not to say that any other version is any less prone to translation errors rife with early revisions and rewrites from times past. If there are no existing, original texts, scrolls, or documents, then why bother claiming that it's perfect/infallible? It's demonstrably changed (even a single translation tends to have that effect), so there's no point in deluding oneself further.
Early Christians created so many copies of scripture and distributed them so quickly and to such a widespread area revisions and tampering would have been impossible. You sound like you’re basing your understanding of the facts off of Dan Brown or something.
That actually sounds like tampering would have been more likely. I've never read Dan Brown nor seen any of his movies; your ad homs fall a bit short this time. I base my understanding off of experience in linguistics. There's no such thing as a perfect translation. What, did god guide the very hands that wrote every word in the Bible, and, afterwards, did he stamp the words in cast iron to stand for all eternity?
From the moment the words were written, the text was doomed. No god could possibly circumvent this fact unless he hand-delivered the message himself to each new generation of people until the end of their days. And even then misinterpretation of that god's words would occur.
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