Chapel Perilous

Who changed the Bible and why? Bart Ehrman’s startling answers: "We have only error ridden copies, and the vast majority of these are centuries removed from the originals and different from them, evidently, in thousands of ways.

Not only do we not have the originals, we don’t have the first copies of the originals. We don’t even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later-much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, and many thousands of places . . . Possibly it is easiest to put it in comparative terms: there are more differences among our manuscripts [than] there are words in the New Testament."

End of a debate that should never have begun in the first place.
And get this pentacostals and religious snake handlers:
Your whole belief structure is based on passages that were never written by Mark, so the gibberish and deadly venomous reptile love is even more ridiculous and pointless.

"The elephant in the room, however, is that none of the authors of the Gospels ever claimed to witness any of the events they were reporting."

Read the comments too. You can't shake a true believer with facts, especially those who seem to think they have a personal relationship with "christ".
Kinda creepy, actually. 
posted by Bsti @ 7:26 PM ¶ comments