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Question of the Day! | by kickstart | 2006-11-19 12:26:49 |
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Prolly the fact that... | by breezeblock | 2003-07-11 01:21:08 |
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umm ... | by graeme | 2003-07-11 01:32:43 |
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Interestingly enough... | by Buffy_Fett | 2003-07-11 02:55:38 |
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Small question | by catharsis | 2003-07-11 05:40:59 |
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by graeme |
2003-07-11 06:55:51 |
... to answer some of that.
" AFAIK, the Bible is a collection of many different books written down by many different "historians", decades or even a century after the described events. That's also why we have several (slightly differing) accounts of certain events. Which of these do you take to be the "perfect" copy? "
Some of the Bible was written as history, but not all of it. Some of it was laws and rituals, other parts are poetry and prose, some are prophecy, some are letters containing mostly teaching - it is a collection of books by a number of authors.
I believe that God inspired all of them to write what they wrote: some of the writings is (in essence if not in actuality) a transcription of divine inspiration or revelation, other parts are a record of observations that God inspired/prompted them to record.
Some people believe differently - that is their perogative - but this is what I believe.
" Also, if God's intention was to creat a perfect instance of the Bible to bring his word to the people unchanged, why has it been lost? If he inspired those first authors to write everything in the perfect words, why not also inspire the translators to do the same? "
I believe that this is the case ... to some extent. Let me elaborate.
When the manuscripts (scrolls, papyrus, whatever) were copy within their own language, the copies were exact - the Hebrew/Jewish Rabinical traditions make this reasonably certain. When they were translated into other languages, a certain amount of loss of meaning and/or clarity is to be expected as different languages doesn't usually "map" perfectly onto each other. This is compounded when you have a translation of a translation.
Things can also go astray if you have people with their own agendas or whose organization claims Biblical adherence and wants to have their own version of the Bible to back-up their teachings.
" Oh, let me guess. God's ways are unfathomable. "
Frequently, yes. Except that God is omnipotent and can achieve whatever He wants. - Simple.
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