RE: Why do Christians trust the Bible?
October 18, 2014 at 3:54 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2014 at 4:23 am by Aractus.)
(October 18, 2014 at 3:39 am)Luckie Wrote: What on earth is a non protestant?He's Orthodox. They have some of the looniest beliefs they are, and claim to be the one true Christian religion pre-dating Catholics and Protestants.
e.g. They don't believe in textual criticism or in other scholar discussions since "their beliefs have never, ever, changed".
Here's an example of this rampant stupidity with the MT:
Quote:It would seem that the Septuagint (LXX) translation is not only far more ancient than the Masoretic Text . . . the Septuagint is far more accurate as well. It is a more faithful representation of the original Hebrew Scriptures.
My God what idiots! It's like they deny the existence of 1Qlsa, which is radio-carbon and palaeographically dated to the 2nd century BC and is mostly letter-to-letter identical to the MT. There are a couple of small sections missing in 1Qlsa which are in the Lennigard Codex; however; those sections all exist in other DSS manuscripts (there are 20 or so Isaiah scrolls in total). No part of the Lennigard Codex's text was not found among the DSS.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
