The "Original" Manuscripts.

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In the Name of the Father & of the Son & of the Holy Spirit.

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.

You have a funny way of showing respect, bro :P Anyways... please feel free to post your findings & we'll discuss. I must admit though, I'm very picky about sources so chose wisely ;)

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.

I'll hear them out but at the end of the day I trust the Church & only the Church. By all means, stick to your preferred theories but please don't impose them on me :)

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

I guess if you study hard enough, you'll come to know the truth about the ancient manuscripts. Read! Read! Read! There's plenty of evidence out there. The fact that we even have these manuscripts is a miracle! During the persecution of the Early Church, Nero attempted to burn all copies of the Bible. Thanks be to God he failed.

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?

The Church! She's been given sole authority from above to teach, govern & sanctify. The Church Fathers pretty much memorized Scripture off by heart & taught the Good News orally for centuries, so it would've been a walk in the park for them to sought through the manuscripts & eliminate the fake gnostic writings.


"no two manuscripts are identical" - but the ones that were used to produce the canon in the 4th Century AD are identical to the Bible sitting comfortably beside me right now :)

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.

It's fine by me that you support those biblical scholars. My biblical scholars & I tend to disagree with you guys. That's where the buck stops for us.

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>.


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

Simple! Because Mr Ehramn & his gang contradict what the Pontifical Biblical Commission over at the Vatican say. I know whose side I'm on :thumb:


No biblical scholar who steps out in public & declares "I agree with everything the Church says" will score attention, right? Like Dan Brown, Bart Ehramn will have his five minutes of fame & Holy Mother Church will remain on top like always :) Praise Jesus!


Peace & blessings!