Re: question of authenticity

"1 Cor.14:33
For God is not the author of confusion...."

Is in fact He the author of the Bible?


Have you ever played the "telephone game" as a child, perhaps at a birthday party? It's the one when you have a long line of people, and the first person thinks of a phrase, and whispers it into the ear of the next person. That person whispers what he/she heard into the ear of the next, and so on. When the last person speaks that phrase out loud, the message is always changed in some way.

The Christian bible was written in this way. The bible didn't start to be put into writing until approximately 70 years after Jesus' death. All of the information was passed by word of mouth during this time, spanning many cultures and interpretations, and changing from each person who retold it.

Then, once written in ancient Hebrew, it underwent translation to Latin, and then eventually into old English. Interpreting from old English is difficult enough at times, so imagine what happened through cross cultural and foreign language translations. Much was lost or changed.

Then, you have various stages of episcopal history which describe how certain leaders of Christianity decided that certain parts of the survived bible (to that point) should be excluded as well. Says them? Why? This is further made ridiculous once man decides to take it upon himself to make laws in the church, which have nothing to do with what survived of the written word in the modern bible.

These laws are dogma.

Sebek

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