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[–]doginventer[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Since he refers to the original texts throughout, I’d say: yes, yes he does.

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Original texts? We have no original texts.

[–]doginventer[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

True, I should’ve said ‘previous copies’ of the texts in Greek, or texts in the original language of scripture: Hebrew.

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So you mean, not the king James one?

Do you mean the tora?

From what I understand, the Bible was re written, and then destroyed. There are no original copies left.

[–]doginventer[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The torah is pretty much the same as the old testament; that and all or most of the new testament were originally written in Hebrew. The whole lot was later translated into Greek and eventually into various other languages.

After the natural degrading of paper and parchment over time, and the fanatical book burnings of Rome, Judiasm, and Islam, there are still a remarkable number of fragments of multi-thousand year old texts in existance. These together with the science of textual analysis mean that we have a very good idea of what the originals contained.

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Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I would enjoy reading a larger discussion about this.