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Originally Posted by jewpinthethird
So much of my opinion of "religious" people has been tainted. But then I have so say to myself "No, these people are not 'christians'."
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SO true, I consider myself a "hardcore christian" and I have never forced my beliefs on anyone. I have never told anyone that they were going to hell (cept my friends as a joke). I have told many ABOUT my beliefs, but you have to make your faith your own.
And also, please don't make uneducated remarks about a person's religion. Mine or anyone else's. I took very high offense to the remark early in the thread about "having complete faith in a book" or something like that.
1. The bible isn't A book, it consists of 66 seperate books, gathered together by the early church, and put together into one big "file cabinet."
2. Here are some facts on the bible...
Everyone in school has read the Illiad right? how many manuscripts were found for that book? 643, a HUGE number! no one ever questions the authenticity of that book, well how bout Plato? only 7 for him but not a single person questions if he wrote that. aristotle has 49, and Sophocles 193. so the illiad and sophocles seem to be leading in this one, well For The New Testament, they havefound 24,000 manuscripts. all 24,000 manuscripts were handwritten too, not by word of mouth.
How much time in between the date of writting and the earliest known manuscript? well Aristotle is at 1450 years between the writting and earliest manuscript. plato is at 1250 years, and homer is at 500 a very low number considering all the others. well the New Testament has the number of 15 years from the first writting to the earliest known manuscript.
How Accurately were the manuscripts written? oblivously the more accurate the better. well there were three books a Non-Christian scientist looked at. The Illiad, The New Testament, and the Mahabharata which is a very big religous book for Hinduism! The Illiad had a 5% distoration rate, meaning that 764 lines of the illiad were distorted or copied wrong, one every 20 lines. The Mahabhrata had a distortion rate of 10%!! which means 26,000 lines were corrupted, The New Testament, was .2% out of 20,000 lines, 40 were distorted.
WEll I hope you read this incredibly long post, cause there's good information in there