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Theodoric Member Posts: 9076 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.7 |
But, the Jewish transcribers were meticulous in their translations. Evidence please. Anyone can make unsupported assertions, please evidence this. I have facts and figures. How do you explain the difference between the Septuagint and the Masoretic texts. The Dead Sea scrolls clearly show that there were at least a few versions. Some the scroll agree with the Masoretic, some with the Septuagint and others differ from both.As shown in The Text of the New Testament, Kurt Aland, Barbara Aland, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995 -->The Text of the New Testament, Kurt Aland, Barbara Aland, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995 -->The Text of the New Testament, Kurt Aland, Barbara Aland, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995 Over 1/3 of the verses in the New testament alone have variations. Also, you do know that many of our ancient classic books that have been found have never had an original found with them either yet college professors consider them completely historically accurate. In fact, the Bible has the MOST manuscripts that have been found backing it up. More then anything from Homer for example. Oh you are in my wheelhouse now. Do you fundies actually believe this stuff or are you just comfortable spouting lies and untruths. You see I have evidence you do not. Comparing the Iliad with the bible is disingenuous at best. The New Testament is a compilation, Iliad a single book by a single author. Also, the vast majority of manuscripts christians claim are just fragments. On comparing extant copies of individual books to the Iliad compares quite favorably. Book of Revelation 287, Iliad 650, Book of Acts has 573. Only the Gospels all combined show a significantly higher #. Lets compare it to the Quran. The library of Astan-i Quds-i Razavi in Mashhad, Iran alone houses 11,000 manuscripts of the Quran. So using your argument the Quran must be more special than the Bible. Source for this is The Rejection of Pascal's Wager, Paul Tobin, Authors OnLine, Limited, 2009 --> The Rejection of Pascal's Wager, Paul Tobin, Authors OnLine, Limited, 2009Oh by the way. I don't know any college professors that teach that Homer is history, please point out who teaches this. Edited by Theodoric, : Fixed db coding Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
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kbertsche Member (Idle past 2132 days) Posts: 1427 From: San Jose, CA, USA Joined: |
quote:They didn't say "without form and void" and they didn't say "empty and desolate." They said tohu wa-bohu. I suggest that they meant tohu wa-bohu. quote:What's the problem? Any sort of literature, whether in one's mother tongue or not, is "open to interpretation," so must be interpreted carefully and correctly. This is also true of scientific writings.
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kbertsche Member (Idle past 2132 days) Posts: 1427 From: San Jose, CA, USA Joined: |
quote:A good interpreter does not just "make it up." If this is what you meant when you said that hermeneutics has an "element of artistic license," then I disagree with your characterization of hermeneutics. I agree with the "art," but not the "license."
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Peg Member (Idle past 4930 days) Posts: 2703 From: melbourne, australia Joined: |
greyseal writes: And Peg, what makes you think YOUR interpretation is correct over ICANT's? because it is impossible that the earth and all in it came into existence in 6 days. Physically impossible. Genesis says that God commanded the animals he had created to 'go forth and multiply' and im pretty sure that reproduction takes more then 1 day. God obviously didnt create each individual animal....he made several whom then went forth and multiplied....that would have taken years. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.
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greyseal Member (Idle past 3862 days) Posts: 464 Joined:
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Christians don't believe this though greyseal. We believe that the Bible was written by men, inspired by the Holy Spirit to write what God wanted them to write. excuse me, but we have three "men" here (humans is longer to type, so natch, sorry Peg * Peg - says God clearly meant "YOM" as we use the word "age" (i.e. "the days of")* ICANT - says God obviously meant "YOM" in it's most literal obvious meaning as "day" * Moses - well he's dead. He just said Yom * God - ? well, everyone is proclaiming they know what God meant, but nobody can actually ask the fellow so written down or not, inspired or not, there's at least two valid interpretations here which are following exactly what God said, yet coming to two wildly different answers. Which one has the real direct God hotline?
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greyseal Member (Idle past 3862 days) Posts: 464 Joined: |
They didn't say "without form and void" and they didn't say "empty and desolate." They said tohu wa-bohu. I suggest that they meant tohu wa-bohu. yes yes, but what does it mean?
quote:What's the problem? Any sort of literature, whether in one's mother tongue or not, is "open to interpretation," so must be interpreted carefully and correctly. This is also true of scientific writings. what's the problem? the problem is that when such a simple phrase cannot be pinned down, the text's use as anything other than literature is highly suspect. You talk about interpretation, but what you treat it like is translation. 1+1=2 is a formal, simple mathematical equation which can be written in many ways and many tongues, and when translated it will always be the same thing (philosophical discussions on "what is the number 2" and so on notwitstanding). But "tohu wa-bahu" ? the last word is apparently nonsense and the first word has many meanings - from formless (so "not existing" is fair) to "wasteland" or "empty" (in which it would not be) to "vain" which is...something else entirely. And yet you treat this book as if it were the same as the mathematical equation of "1+1=2" when it quite clearly is not. God may have said...something...and it was translated into "tohu wa-bahu" (let's say), and now it's been translated several times again and it's ended up as "empty and desolate", "formless and void" and many other alternatives, none of which mean quite the same thing. All these translations, right from the very, very first ones that we don't even have any more, are quite obviously the words of men, and unless the magical sky-daddy's ability to guide humanity has ebbed to nothingness over the years, you can hardly claim that modern translations are any worse or any better than contemporary scribes and translators. yet still they differ. These words, they don't seem to be God's words, do they?
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greyseal Member (Idle past 3862 days) Posts: 464 Joined: |
greyseal writes: And Peg, what makes you think YOUR interpretation is correct over ICANT's? because it is impossible that the earth and all in it came into existence in 6 days. Physically impossible. silly me, I thought Yahweh was omnipotent. tsch. shows what I know. so, he couldn't have sped up reproduction, or allowed the animals to reproduce asexually, or allowed some other sort of special magical reproduction seeing as, you know, he can create an entire universe and breath life into mud and all that?
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kbertsche Member (Idle past 2132 days) Posts: 1427 From: San Jose, CA, USA Joined: |
quote:To steal a phrase from Kenton Sparks, the Bible is "God's Word in Human Words."
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Peg Member (Idle past 4930 days) Posts: 2703 From: melbourne, australia Joined: |
greyseal writes: so, he couldn't have sped up reproduction, or allowed the animals to reproduce asexually, or allowed some other sort of special magical reproduction seeing as, you know, he can create an entire universe and breath life into mud and all that? the bible doesnt even imply that it was all instantaneous so why assume that it was?
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Flyer75 Member (Idle past 2423 days) Posts: 242 From: Dayton, OH Joined: |
Peg writes: the bible doesnt even imply that it was all instantaneous so why assume that it was? Nor does the Bible imply that it took billions of years for creation, so why assume that it was?
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Peg Member (Idle past 4930 days) Posts: 2703 From: melbourne, australia Joined: |
Flyer75 writes: Nor does the Bible imply that it took billions of years for creation, so why assume that it was? yeah, lets ignore the meaning of the hebrew word used and just assume that moses actually wrote the english word 'day' why not, everyone else does
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Flyer75 Member (Idle past 2423 days) Posts: 242 From: Dayton, OH Joined: |
Peg,
So you've spent this whole time telling all of us that YOM can mean other periods of time other then a literal day, which I didn't disagree with you on, yet you now want to claim without any proof that with CERTAINTY it means millions of years????? When it CAN mean a literal day also?
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Peg Member (Idle past 4930 days) Posts: 2703 From: melbourne, australia Joined: |
Flyer75 writes: So you've spent this whole time telling all of us that YOM can mean other periods of time other then a literal day, which I didn't disagree with you on, yet you now want to claim without any proof that with CERTAINTY it means millions of years????? When it CAN mean a literal day also? without any proof??? how long does it take for a diamond to form how about coal? How long does a landmass, covered in hot magna from an erupted volcano, take to re-vegetate? How long does it take for the light from the sun to reach the earth? could all this have really happened in 24hours? I think the evidence is fairly clear on that and therefore how could the Yom of Genesis be a 24 hour day??? It couldnt. So the logical interpretation of the account is that the Yom in this instance was a very long time, ages, eons, milleniums or simply... a very long Yom. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.
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greyseal Member (Idle past 3862 days) Posts: 464 Joined:
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without any proof??? how long does it take for a diamond to form how about coal? How long does a landmass, covered in hot magna from an erupted volcano, take to re-vegetate? How long does it take for the light from the sun to reach the earth? could all this have really happened in 24hours? I think the evidence is fairly clear on that and therefore how could the Yom of Genesis be a 24 hour day??? It couldnt. So the logical interpretation of the account is that the Yom in this instance was a very long time, ages, eons, milleniums or simply... a very long Yom. So God in your opinion can't do anything supernatural, like, say, bringing the dead back to life? Or walking on water? Or making a bush burn without actually burning? Or turn water into wine or a staff into a snake?
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Peg Member (Idle past 4930 days) Posts: 2703 From: melbourne, australia Joined: |
Greyseal writes: So God in your opinion can't do anything supernatural, like, say, bringing the dead back to life? Or walking on water? Or making a bush burn without actually burning? Or turn water into wine or a staff into a snake? Yes he can, but we are not talking about him manipulating physical laws, we are talking about him setting creation into motion.
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