This is FASCINATING and EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. I dont have any religious fanatics following me on FB (I hope), but its good reading material nonetheless—for all of you, believers or not. Here is a sample: «These manuscripts were originally written in Koiné, or “common” Greek, and not all of the amateur copyists spoke the language or were even fully literate. Some copied the script without understanding the words. And Koiné was written in what is known as “scriptio continua”—meaning no spaces between words and no punctuation. So, a sentence like “weshouldgoeatmom” could be interpreted as “We should go eat, Mom,” or “We should go eat Mom.” Sentences can have different meaning depending on where the spaces are placed. For example, “godisnowhere” could be “God is now here” or “God is nowhere.” None of this mattered for centuries, because Christians were certain God had guided the hand not only of the original writers but also of all those copyists. But in the past 100 years or so, tens of thousands of manuscripts of the New Testament have been discovered, dating back centuries. And what biblical scholars now know is that later versions of the books differ significantly from earlier ones—in fact, even copies from the same time periods differ from each other. “There are more variations among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament,” says Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, a groundbreaking biblical scholar and professor at the University of North Carolina, who has written many books on the New Testament.» newsweek/2015/01/02/thats-not-what-bible-says-294018.html
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 02:06:15 +0000
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