Does God / a supreme being exist?

[Tajin898]

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

Fact: The Bible has been edited throughout history.

Is God responsible for these revisions? For The Bible to truly be the word of God he would have to be.

The Bible is not the word of God. The Bible has changed throughout time to match credible accounts of history so people can have more "faith" in it.

Most likely, no human being has ever been privy to any sort of divine communication or intervention.

Accept this life for what it is because it's probably the only one you're going to get. Religion is a tool in the subjugation of humanity.

There may be a higher power; it makes sense that there is, but I don't know. I'm comfortable in my ignorance. I don't need a fucking bullshit fairy tale.


"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words."
-Isaac Asimov

I would LOVE for you to explain how the Bible has been edited throughout history.

Please explain, theologically speaking (what the Bible teaches about anything/everything) how the Bible has been edited or changed in anyway.

If you are referring to textual variants, then please be educated and don't make statements like "the Bible has been edited." That in no way prepares a hearer for the truth of the Bible's manuscript history.

First, there are textual disputes, which are the fewest in number (accounting for less than 1% of all textual variation throughout all of the manuscript evidence of the Old and New Testament btw). An example of a textual dispute would be something like - This Greek/Hebrew manuscript says this, but this Greek/Hebrew MSS says that. What did the author originally write here? (Again, give me ONE example of how this type of variant has altered the text in a theological sense.)

The other type of dispute is translational. An example of translational disputes would be something like - the underlying Greek/Hebrew manuscript uses this word. What does this word translate to in English? Bible translators have to make decisions about how to translate the Greek and Hebrew into English, and being the scholars that they are, who better to make translational decisions about the manuscript than Greek and Hebrew linguistics scholars? Yet again, to argue your term "edited", the process through which the Bible has been copied and reproduced throughout history is not summed up in the term "edited."

There is a very intense, scholarly, un-hidden process that you can study and read up on that will save you the need to use terms like "edited" in the future. Again, for the sake of right thinking, this argument is in no way meant to sway anyway away from or toward the Christian faith, only trying to shed some light on some helpful terminology when it comes to talking about the truth of the Bible and how it has been preserved over time.

I'm not going to read back over this to proofread, sorry for any errors.