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[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The Bible God does and also doesn't. It's a contradiction. Because unlike people seem to think for some reason, the book is NOT perfect and was written by PEOPLE. And it never claims otherwise.

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

Check out Two Old Dudes on YouTube. I agree the Bible is not inerrant, but Christians will claim it is.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The Bible will actually tell you it is quite corrupt. Jeremiah 8:8 is quite explicit. Some will try to say it's referring to other books and commentaries, but chapter 7 specifically calls out animal sacrifice laws, which are plentiful in our current Torah.

There are no hints of an infallible canon of books. Ironically that idea was copied from Marcion.

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

Marcion used a limited number of books, and only one Gospel: The Gospel of the Lord. I also found a lot of similarities between the Gospel of Thomas and our current synoptic Gospels.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes I am quite familiar with Marcion's Bible. It's something they don't want you to know about because it's full of clues about what older copies of the books he used looked like. I also managed to locate Matthew in Hebrew, another source for which there seems to be a conspiracy to discredit. It seems Mark may actually have been written in Latin, because its old Latin has quite a few strange agreements with the Hebrew Matthew, not to mention the writing style. There's a lot you're not supposed to know about, but I've found it.

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

The New Testament was written in koine Greek.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most likely. Excluding Matthew and probably Mark. And all the gospel books are assembled from fragments in different languages. I haven't looked into it too much but there was also a Hebrew Revelation, James, and Jude found; and there does seem to be something to it, but I think those books are all forgeries anyway. There is a Hebrew Hebrews but I haven't really looked into that at all. Paul is pure Greek.