RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 17, 2015 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 11:03 am by Randy Carson.)
(May 17, 2015 at 3:46 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:(May 16, 2015 at 9:10 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: As I explained in the OP, the translations that we have to day are made from demonstrably accurate copies of the Greek manuscripts which are scattered about in museums and churches all over the world. The autographs themselves are lost.
Ah, I see ... copies of copies. Kind of like how people whisper a message from one to the other and see how far it gets distorted ... what was that game called again, Randy? Help a brother out, I'm old and my memory is fading.
Parker, try to keep up. I dealt with Ehrman's silly Telephone Game in the OP.
Quote:(May 16, 2015 at 11:38 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: It's Greek > English. No intermediate steps.
How do you know you have the original Greek texts?
Read the OP. No, seriously. It's all there. Post #1. Of this thread.
Thanks.
(May 17, 2015 at 6:34 am)robvalue Wrote: That would be awesome. It's kind of like a sheriff that was around a long, long time ago and used to keep order. He got everyone thinking they had to behave or they'd have him to answer to. Pretty soon, they were just living by his rules. When anyone was watching, anyway. It was second nature, and they taught all the rules to their kids.
They didn't even notice when he left town, they preserved his rule book. They had to keep writing it out for new people and over time it got twisted... what would the sheriff think? Does it even resemble what he started? Did he die, or is he at another town?
Rob-
C'mon...if you have an issue with anything I wrote in the OP, tell me where my argument is wrong.
Otherwise, don't keep repeating the falsehood that the Bible today is a corrupted text.
Atheism has some good arguments, but this isn't one of them.
