The "Original" Manuscripts.

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Bismillah:


Assalamo Alikum

My only request is that you please try to respect (not accept) the integrity of the Holy Bible & the Christian faith. No absurd claims that your assumptions are facts. Ask questions. Express

I totally respect your beliefs, including the Bible, but I do not see that it was perfectly preserved; and there are many evidences on what I am saying, if you wish i can post them here for your study.

your opinions. Challenge me. But please don't pretend to be a biblical scholar

I never did, I am only quoting what some <b>Biblical scholars </b> have said concerning this subject but sadly you don’t even bother to listen to them. A N D by the way I do not intend to challenge you.

Today's Bibles match the ancient manuscripts, no question. There are over 5000 fragments of Scripture which date back to the 1st Century AD. Nothing has been added or removed. Because they were continually translated in different languages, there are slight variations, e.g. one version says "Jesus Christ" & another says "Christ Jesus". That's how minor the alterations (if you can even call them that) are. The original expression can be deduced beyond any reasonable doubt. The essential message was never distorted.

Words are really nice, but to prove them it is next to impossible.


It is true that there are 24,000 manuscripts of the New Testament, 5,000 of which were written in the original Greek language. <b>Of these thousands of manuscripts, no two manuscripts are identical.</b> so how did you come to know which one is the accurate word of God?


Now, I did not examine those manuscripts by myself, I did not ask Muslims to teach me about those Scriptures, but I did ask reliable Christian Bible Scholars who admits that the Bible of today is not really what was originally written, and some of them even said that the message itself was distorted.

I know this is far fetched, you don't have to believe it... but it's actually 100% true The adultery passage (St John 8) was temporary concealed only by the Alexandrians because they feared their women might consider it a licence to adultery. When the Church canonised the books of Scripture in the 4th Century AD, every copy was identical & remains so.

But we are talking about <b>recent discovery</b> FHC, <b>Bart Ehramn</b> done his reseach a couple of years ago, he learned Greek and studied the manuscripts <b>and found that this story "and many other verses" do not exist at all</b>.

As for St Mark's Gospel, to cut a long story short (pun), the longer ending is canonical. It appears in all the ancient manuscripts except for two Greek ones (B & Aleph), however, the scribes who wrote these two unicals left a blank column at the end of verse 8 indicating that a conclusion exists but they chose to omit it. It was most certainly included in the Latin Vulgate - the official translation produced by St Jerome.

How can you contradict what Bible scholars have said? Now are you pretending to be a bible scholar? :conf06:


Salam


Wael