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RE: So there are how many translations now?
March 21, 2011 at 10:05 am
But it's "the word of God!" Never mind how many times we've changed it...
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RE: So there are how many translations now?
March 21, 2011 at 5:25 pm
(March 21, 2011 at 8:57 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: more evidence that the bible is man made??
Do we really need evidence? Isn't evidence needed only when there is doubt? The book speaks for itself, I think!
There are many intelligent Christians, no doubt, but an "intellectual Christian", is surely an oxymoron.
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RE: So there are how many translations now?
March 22, 2011 at 9:48 am
Yes! ANOTHER translation!
So let's see... this book started out as an oral history. This oral history was passed down through an unknown number of generations with each successive story teller adding his own embellishments. Finally, it was written down. And then copied. It was copied an unknown number of times. It was then translated. And translated again. And again. And again. Until it was translated into a form of English we wouldn't understand. Finally, it was translated into English. It was then tweaked and converted into many different versions.
So who the hell knows what the original said? You couldn't have a grocery list go through that many retellings, copies, translations and conversions without having some big changes in the dinner menu!
But it's the "inerrant word of God"!
Yeah, right!
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RE: So there are how many translations now?
March 22, 2011 at 3:43 pm
Or.....
You have the original text, and you try to work out exactly what it says in the language of your time. Time moves on, and you have to translate it again so this new crowd now get it. Sometimes you let your own culture influence your translation a little too much and mis-translate a few lines. Sometimes you get in a crazy mood, but get major respec for that cool lolcat version.
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RE: So there are how many translations now?
March 22, 2011 at 4:34 pm
(March 22, 2011 at 3:43 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Or.....
You have the original text, and you try to work out exactly what it says in the language of your time. Time moves on, and you have to translate it again so this new crowd now get it. Sometimes you let your own culture influence your translation a little too much and mis-translate a few lines. Sometimes you get in a crazy mood, but get major respec for that cool lolcat version.
You'd think this deity would provide us with an inerrant copy of his word. You know, so we don't muck it up. But he's been silent for 2,000 years. Gee, I wonder why....
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RE: So there are how many translations now?
March 22, 2011 at 4:36 pm
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The only people involved in the whole sorry spectacle called "christianity" who are conceivably even more confused, ignorant and superstitious then modern christians are the iron age vegetables who partook in concocting such drivel as might be called the "original text" of the "bible".
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