And I will say it is indeed, and there are many similar explicable irregularities in three millennia of the copying and recopying of thousands
of biblical manuscripts.
Well, although I don't believe that there is any way to prove God nor do I think we will ever come particularly close even, I believe that the historical evidence in the form of copies
of biblical manuscripts and the ancient towns archeologists have found that are in the Bible point to the Bible is a true authoritative book.
And it is proven so by a simple study
of Biblical manuscripts.
Not exact matches
You ignore actual scientific evidence, -------------------- Actually, SeaVik, the SCIENTIFIC evidence is that the
Biblical Manuscript P72 that shows Peter's description
of the divinity
of Jesus flat out proves that it was not an invention
of Constantine, since it was written as much as 150 years before Nicea.
In addition to those 225
Biblical manuscripts there was recovered three Apocryphal Scriptures: «Tobit», «Ben Sira» (also known as «Sirach» or «Ecclesiasticus»), and «Baruch 6 ′ (also known as «Letter
of Jeremiah»).
In the
Biblical Manuscript P72, dating from 175 - 200AD, and containing the entire text
of 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and Jude, in this, we find 2 Peter 1:1 — ``... our God and Savior, Jesus Christ...» proving that the deity
of Jesus was NOT a construct
of Emperor Constantine (Roman Emperor from 306 - 337) as was proclaimed by Dan Brown in his book «The DaVinci Code,» but rather, this was a central teaching
of the disciples from day 1.
«Actually, SeaVik, the SCIENTIFIC evidence is that the
Biblical Manuscript P72 that shows Peter's description
of the divinity
of Jesus flat out proves that it was not an invention
of Constantine, since it was written as much as 150 years before Nicea.
As we learned in the discussion on Inerrancy, the process
of copying the Greek and Hebrew texts caused errors to creep into the
biblical manuscripts over time.
While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «
of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by
biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no
manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).
When I first mentioned that I'd been asked by my publisher to take the word «vagina» out
of my
manuscript for A Year
of Biblical Womanhood in deference to the general preferences
of Christian bookstores, I never expected you guys to care, much less do something about it.
«There were a lot
of people in the ancient world who thought that lying could serve a greater good,» says Ehrman, an expert on ancient
biblical manuscripts.
Exodus problems noted, Chronological and Archaeological in establishing the date and route
of the
biblical Exodusl A brief discussion
of radiocarbon (carbon - 14) dating and its application to the dating
of the Qur «anic
manuscripts.
«Sacrifice for the Fleet,» now at L.A. Louver, hosts a series
of new and recent works born from the artist's fascination with Greek literature,
Biblical texts, and Armenian
manuscripts (he is the son
of Armenian refugees).