Does God / a supreme being exist?

[Tajin898]

Originally Posted by quellren [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You mean like when the Catholic church simply removed whole books because they didn't tell the story the way they wanted?

Or when certain manuscripts, like the dead sea scrolls were simply ignored as not gospel?

Editing like that?

The Catholic church didn't remove any books, rather they added apocryhpal books at the Council of Trent largely in response to the Protestant Reformation.

Also, the Dead Sea Scrolls weren't ignored as much as they were seen as tools, mainly translational tools. The Dead Sea Scrolls contained a majority amount of Apocryphal writings, and the biblical manuscripts they did contain gave scholars a great resource by extended the Bible's manuscript history back by a millennium (which made it possible to even more accurately determine the Bible's integrity of preservation and transmission).

However, as far as the Biblical text goes, at least the text of the Protestant Bible (which contains the books accepted and verified by the 1st century church) has not been "edited" in any way that would change or effect the theologies and key doctrinal teachings of the Christian faith.