(June 29, 2014 at 5:41 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: If you paid attention and actually learned something instead of believing BS propaganda you would know that the Vulgate is BS. And how should you know that if you could actually think for yourself? Because it uses the letter "J" in its stories. Why is that important? It's important because the letter "J" wasn't used as a letter in words until the Middle Ages. It was always used with certain Roman numbers. So it couldn't have been used as a letter in words in the 4th Century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
http://vulgate.org/nt/gospel/matthew_1.htm
This is a like arguing The Idiot is a novel written by the English because they translated it.
There are real problems with the exact wording of the Bible because it was copied by hand until the printing press was invented. But this is not unusual for ancient lit. We have the same issues with Homer, Plato, Herodotus, Cicero, and many others.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.