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The Bible Origin
DIR By: Mentor
Date: December 2, 2012, 5:16 pm
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[B]66 books written by 40 different people over a period of more
than 1,600 years with no contradictions[/B]
Wow! Certainly thats enough proof but i found this article
interesting please continue reading...
Origin of the Bible - The Truth About Translations To many, the
origin of the Bible can be summed-up as follows: "A mere
translation of a translation of an interpretation of an oral
tradition" - and therefore, a book with no credibility or
connection to the original texts. Actually, the foregoing
statement is a common misunderstanding of both Christians and
non-christians alike. Translations such as the King James
Version are derived from existing copies of ancient manuscripts
such as the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Old Testament) and the Greek
Textus Receptus (New Testament), and are not translations of
texts translated from other interpretations. The primary
differences between today's Bible translations are merely
related to how translators interpret a word or sentence from the
original language of the text source (Hebrew, Aramaic and
Greek).
Origin of the Bible - The Reliability of Ancient Manuscripts
Another challenge against the origin of the Bible is the
reliability of the manuscripts from which today's Bibles are
translated. Remarkably, there is widespread evidence for
absolute reliability. There are more than 14,000 existing Old
Testament manuscripts and fragments copied throughout the Middle
East, Mediterranean and European regions that agree dramatically
with each other. In addition, these texts agree with the
Septuagint version of the Old Testament, which was translated
from Hebrew to Greek some time during the 3rd century BC. The
Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in Israel in the 1940's and 50's,
also provide phenomenal evidence for the reliability of the
ancient transmission of the Jewish Scriptures (Old Testament)
before the arrival of Jesus Christ. The Hebrew scribes who
copied the Jewish Scriptures dedicated their lives to preserving
the accuracy of the holy books. These scribes went to phenomenal
lengths to insure manuscript reliability. They were highly
trained and meticulously observed, counting every letter, word
and paragraph against master scrolls. A single error would
require the immediate destruction of the entire text.
The manuscript evidence for the New Testament is also dramatic,
with over 5,300 known copies and fragments in the original
Greek, nearly 800 of which were copied before 1000 AD. Some
manuscript texts date to the early second and third centuries,
with the time between the original autographs and our earliest
existing copies being a remarkably short 60 years.
Interestingly, this manuscript evidence far surpasses the
manuscript reliability of other ancient writings that we trust
as authentic every day. Look at these comparisons: Julius
Caesar's "The Gallic Wars" (10 manuscripts remain, with the
earliest one dating to 1,000 years after the original
autograph); Pliny the Younger's "History" (7 manuscripts; 750
years elapsed); Thucydides' "History" (8 manuscripts; 1,300
years elapsed); Herodotus' "History" (8 manuscripts; 1,300 years
elapsed); Sophocles (193 manuscripts; 1,400 years); Euripides (9
manuscripts; 1,500 years); and Aristotle (49 manuscripts; 1,400
years).
Homer's "Iliad", the most renowned book of ancient Greece, has
643 copies of manuscript support. In those copies, there are 764
disputed lines of text, as compared to 40 lines in all the New
Testament manuscripts (Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix, A
General Introduction to the Bible, Moody, Chicago, Revised and
Expanded 1986, p. 367). In fact, many people are unaware that
each of William Shakespeare's 37 plays (written in the 1600's)
have gaps in the surviving manuscripts, forcing scholars to
"fill in the blanks." This pales in textual comparison with the
over 5,300 copies and fragments of the New Testament that,
together, assure us that nothing's been lost. In fact, all of
the New Testament except eleven verses can be reconstructed from
the writings of the early church fathers in the second and third
centuries. (A General Introduction to the Bible, Ch. 24.)
Origin of the Bible - The Power of Prophecy The origin of the
Bible is God. It is a historical book that is backed by
archeology, and a prophetic book that has lived up to all of its
claims thus far. The Bible is God's letter to humanity collected
into 66 books written by 40 divinely inspired writers over a
period of over 1,600 years. The claim of divine inspiration may
seem dramatic (or unrealistic to some), but a careful and honest
study of the biblical scriptures will show them to be true.
Powerfully, the Bible validates its divine authorship through
fulfilled prophecies. An astonishing 668 prophecies have been
fulfilled and none have ever been proven false (three are
unconfirmed). God decided to use prophecy as His primary test of
divine authorship, and an honest study of biblical prophecy will
compellingly show the supernatural origin of the Bible. Skeptics
must ask themselves, "Would the gambling industry even exist if
people could really tell the future?" Again, no other holy book
comes even close to the Bible in the amount of evidence
supporting its credibility, authenticity and divine authorship.
allabouttruth.org
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