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The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
(May 16, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
(May 16, 2015 at 2:04 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Sorry, but you did no such thing, because you've skirted the essence of the argument, which is that the Bible has been translated into several different languages serially, and then (again, mostly serially) transcribed by hand. Ehrman maps some of the changes in Misquoting Jesus. You'd do well to read it.

The only thing you did to the "Telephone Game" analogy is skirt its point.

Not so, PT.

The gospels and the epistles were written in Greek.

My English translation was made from the Greek and not from some intermediary language(s).

Yes Dear, but Jesus and his disciples spoke Aramaic, not Greek. So that's one translation right there. And there were many retellings of the story before it was ever written down. How far off our version is from the original Greek text ignores the question of how reliable the Greek original was.
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.
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RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament - by Jenny A - May 19, 2015 at 10:37 pm

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