The BIBLE is TRUE!

and which ideas were stolen?

..the prophet Jeremiah said: I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.

 

My point is that John made it explicit that parts of the book itself could have been altered. I don't know how you feel about that. Obviously you probably already know that, since there are apocryphal texts. But it must make a big difference if John is so against it, right? How do you ever know you're reading the Bible as it should be?

 

You can't really know for sure I guess. Words, and the meaning of in certain contexts change over time as does their use. Phrases as well, and other such language elements. Think about the word "computer". This word started to be used to mean what it does in the context you all are familiar with probably somewhere around the 1940's. It is a form of the word compute. Think about what the word compute means. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary: "to find out (something) by using mathematical processes" or "to determine especially by mathematical means". This does in fact describe what a computer does, but that is probably not what most people think of when they think of what we know as a computer today. That also describes calculators, and other things so the meaning of things could be ambiguous. Know what i'm sayin'?

There are people that study such things tho, and try to determine what they "think" the most appropriate definition of a word would have been at the time they think the text was written. However, I imagine that the knowledge of ancient languages may not have been what it is today when the first Bible translations were published.

 

are you speaking of the Gnostics?

here is the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
those were written somewhere between 200-400 A.D...John penned that scripture I quoted before at around 96 A.D. so, he knew that Satan would mislead people with writings that differ from the Bible.

Well, you have to compare different translations side by side.research, research, research..

 

Yes, remember their wording was a little different back then, but there were scribes that transferred the writings from one paper to another and they were very meticulous.
Jehovah God is all powerful, dont you think he would make sure his words and the words of the men he filled with holy spirit to write the bible would make sure it is preserved..the bible is the most well known book in the world, translated a lot.


Bible translations
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the general history of Bible translations. For translations into specific languages, see Bible translations by language.
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. As of November 2012 the full Bible has been translated into 518 languages, and 2,798[1] languages have at least some portion of the Bible.

 

You're making an assumption. Three related assumptions, really.

 

How can the Bible be true when all the other major religions maintain their holy book(s) are the one true word? Do you really think that only one of them is true? I guess you do.

I think if you can't experience it directly without drugs, thru meditation, chanting, swirling, or whatever, it isn't true, it's just faith.

 

They have a better leaning on Art than a stick it up your observing content for ... I could have said it. I should have said in the pub. But life is for poetry and the technical will in in the love of a stenographer.

 

there are a lot of good one liners in it.

there is more truth then we currently understand between the lines
as the people who lived at the time the words were written
would have understood them.

today's distortions, based on what those same words would mean in ordinary speech today, contain almost none of it.