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originally posted by: Seede
a reply to: knoledgeispower
As far as homosexuality is concerned, that is your prerogative. If you want to believe that it is not a filthy perversion of the flesh then by all means no one can force you to not believe it is a disgusting and filthy practice. The ball is your court. You have the same freedom to free will than anyone else. If you do not fear judgment and eternal punishment then simply keep on keeping on. But now that you have gone to lengths to publicize your beliefs then it is justified to be criticized by others. In other words you have simply made a public proud statement that you are an atheist and approve of booty pumping. I disagree with you and that also is my prerogative.
I don't know why you haven't been at least post banned for saying that.
But I'm not surprised. You're a scary blinkered blind archaic outdated repulsive god botherer. You and many others are the reason I despise religion.
You're banging on about something that was written by man, not by god but by a man.
Open your eyes because you're wasting your lives with this rubbish....
originally posted by: Seede
a reply to: knoledgeispower
originally posted by: ServantOfTheLamb
A claim I see all the time with no documentation behind it.
Manuscript evidence for the New Testament is remarkable, far surpassing that which exists for any other ancient book. And those who work with these ancient copies (called "textual critics") are convinced that they have been able to recover a Greek New Testament which is virtually identical to the original.
This evidence does not prove that the Bible is the word of God. But it does demonstrate conclusively that the Bible you have is the same which was first written by its authors. When Teabing (the Da Vinci Code's "historian") asserts, "History has never had a definitive version of the book" and claims that scholars cannot confirm the authenticity of the Bible, he's simply wrong. Is the Bible true?
originally posted by: stormbringer1701
...the manuscripts used to compile the KJV are still in the british museum. that means that these original texts are available to check on the good editors of the KJV and other version's editors. Furthermore in the case of the old testament because of the nature of hebrew every line has a checksum. it cannot be edited or typo'ed without it showing up as a checksum error and of course things like ancient fragmentary copies of isaiah show practically no divergence from our modern copies of it.
originally posted by: greyer
a reply to: knoledgeispower
There are tons of contradictions in the old testament, and also the new, especially with all the gospels that didn't make it to the bible.
Really it is a shame, it make you think they just made it all up and that is why we see the errors.
originally posted by: Murgatroid
originally posted by: ServantOfTheLamb
A claim I see all the time with no documentation behind it.
Of course we all know why...
There obviously IS no documentation.
No one has ever been able to prove that the Bible was tampered with.
That argument FAILS because it is based on nothing but propaganda and disinformation.
Thats what happens when you place your trust in organizations attempting to influence the public's perception through controlled disinformation instead of trusting God.
Manuscript evidence for the New Testament is remarkable, far surpassing that which exists for any other ancient book. And those who work with these ancient copies (called "textual critics") are convinced that they have been able to recover a Greek New Testament which is virtually identical to the original.
This evidence does not prove that the Bible is the word of God. But it does demonstrate conclusively that the Bible you have is the same which was first written by its authors. When Teabing (the Da Vinci Code's "historian") asserts, "History has never had a definitive version of the book" and claims that scholars cannot confirm the authenticity of the Bible, he's simply wrong. Is the Bible true?
originally posted by: stormbringer1701
...the manuscripts used to compile the KJV are still in the british museum. that means that these original texts are available to check on the good editors of the KJV and other version's editors. Furthermore in the case of the old testament because of the nature of hebrew every line has a checksum. it cannot be edited or typo'ed without it showing up as a checksum error and of course things like ancient fragmentary copies of isaiah show practically no divergence from our modern copies of it.
originally posted by: knoledgeispower
It's a fictional story book full of morals telling us how we should live our lives and should not be taken as fact. The Chronicles of Narnia has many morals telling us how we should live our lives but it's not taken as factual.
There are errors because of translation, not because I think it's fictional. I've watched documentaries that talk about how hard it is to translate texts of an old language. Sometimes there isn't the right word for it so they have to pick something that works best.
Also I take into consideration that history books have been altered many times to appease the people in power so how do we really know the same hasn't happened to the bible? Entire groups of people have been slaughtered & removed from the history books.
originally posted by: knoledgeispower
I trust God & because he can't make sure that nothing has ever been altered in the bible, I will trust God. Not the bible that was written by man, translated by man & rewritten again by man.
"Didn’t you read my book?"
"You don't believe my word the Bible..."
"an audible voice telling him to read a Bible..."
As I stood there in the front of the church weeping and weeping, huge weights were being lifted from my back, my life and my mind. I was literally being cleansed and purified supernaturally by the Lord Jesus Christ as I was repenting of my sins, and I was filled with such tremendous love, joy and peace.
The Lord spoke two things to me there. The first was that every Word in the Bible was true, and the second was that I would never die. I was floating after that for eight years, and the Bible came alive to me and the words leaped off of the pages and literally exploded into my brain. happy707.wordpress.com...
Praying all night in the mosque, he asked God to help him. Suddenly he felt drops of oil falling on him and even smelled its fragrance, he says. He claims another time he heard an audible voice telling him to read a Bible—an abomination to a Muslim. “We would not touch a modern-day Bible,” he says. “This voice immediately put a desire in my heart. It is so vivid, so clear, so overwhelming. Still today, I could not forget that voice.” Why Revival is Exploding Among Muslims
"You don't believe my word the Bible. It's My responsibility as God to protect My word for you."
A Testimony of a Face to Face Encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ
Dr. Richard Eby was a professor and obstetrician who fell off a second story balcony in Chicago and hit his head and died instantly and found himself in Paradise. When he came back to a bloodless corpse in the hospital morgue, the athiest Doctor refused to believe he was alive and told him to 'shut up and don't give me any of that #' because he knew that Eby had been taken into the hospital as a totally bloodless dead body.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Jesus, where am I?I gasped! Suddenly in a new body in a new place with new life, I was ecstatically joyful: no pain, no tears, no sorrow, no memory.
Instantly, before I could complete my query, that same Voice in a tone of gentle thunder echoed within my head: "Didn’t you read my book?"
He was speaking to me (in fact, in me) with a speed greater than lightning, and in a language of sweet purity unlike anything that an earthly tongue could utter. I gasped again. I had HIS MIND, impossible as it seemed! Every word clearly meant exactly what was being said. We seemed to have a joint mind: I would ask, and He would answer. (The speed of this communication in such a MIND is hard to describe in human terms. Perchance I can now liken it to a printed page on which the questions being typed have the answers typed upon them, line upon line, at the same time, instantly.)
Yeshua began His answer: "If you had read My Book you would have known all the answers."
"In fact, everything that My children need to know about how God thinks and works and judges and rewards, either before or after the Cross, is already in My Book. That is why I commanded mankind to ‘engrave My Words upon their hearts,’ and to pass them along from generation to generation. I wanted everyone to hear and know just Who I AM, the Messiah, their one hope of Salvation, their Most High God."
Dr. Richard Eby dies, visits heaven, and returns with a startling message
originally posted by: Murgatroid
originally posted by: knoledgeispower
I trust God & because he can't make sure that nothing has ever been altered in the bible, I will trust God. Not the bible that was written by man, translated by man & rewritten again by man.
IF the Bible were not the 'Word of God', WHY does He so often tell people to read it?
There are countless encounters where Jesus says things such as:
"Didn’t you read my book?"
"You don't believe my word the Bible..."
"an audible voice telling him to read a Bible..."
I had a supernatural encounter with the Spirit of God in 1979 that left me KNOWING without question that the Bible was written by GOD.
Below are three similar encounters, during two of them, Jesus refers to the Bible as "My Book":
As I stood there in the front of the church weeping and weeping, huge weights were being lifted from my back, my life and my mind. I was literally being cleansed and purified supernaturally by the Lord Jesus Christ as I was repenting of my sins, and I was filled with such tremendous love, joy and peace.
The Lord spoke two things to me there. The first was that every Word in the Bible was true, and the second was that I would never die. I was floating after that for eight years, and the Bible came alive to me and the words leaped off of the pages and literally exploded into my brain. happy707.wordpress.com...
Praying all night in the mosque, he asked God to help him. Suddenly he felt drops of oil falling on him and even smelled its fragrance, he says. He claims another time he heard an audible voice telling him to read a Bible—an abomination to a Muslim. “We would not touch a modern-day Bible,” he says. “This voice immediately put a desire in my heart. It is so vivid, so clear, so overwhelming. Still today, I could not forget that voice.” Why Revival is Exploding Among Muslims
"You don't believe my word the Bible. It's My responsibility as God to protect My word for you."
A Testimony of a Face to Face Encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ
Dr. Richard Eby was a professor and obstetrician who fell off a second story balcony in Chicago and hit his head and died instantly and found himself in Paradise. When he came back to a bloodless corpse in the hospital morgue, the athiest Doctor refused to believe he was alive and told him to 'shut up and don't give me any of that #' because he knew that Eby had been taken into the hospital as a totally bloodless dead body.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Jesus, where am I?I gasped! Suddenly in a new body in a new place with new life, I was ecstatically joyful: no pain, no tears, no sorrow, no memory.
Instantly, before I could complete my query, that same Voice in a tone of gentle thunder echoed within my head: "Didn’t you read my book?"
He was speaking to me (in fact, in me) with a speed greater than lightning, and in a language of sweet purity unlike anything that an earthly tongue could utter. I gasped again. I had HIS MIND, impossible as it seemed! Every word clearly meant exactly what was being said. We seemed to have a joint mind: I would ask, and He would answer. (The speed of this communication in such a MIND is hard to describe in human terms. Perchance I can now liken it to a printed page on which the questions being typed have the answers typed upon them, line upon line, at the same time, instantly.)
Yeshua began His answer: "If you had read My Book you would have known all the answers."
"In fact, everything that My children need to know about how God thinks and works and judges and rewards, either before or after the Cross, is already in My Book. That is why I commanded mankind to ‘engrave My Words upon their hearts,’ and to pass them along from generation to generation. I wanted everyone to hear and know just Who I AM, the Messiah, their one hope of Salvation, their Most High God."
Dr. Richard Eby dies, visits heaven, and returns with a startling message
originally posted by: AlephBet
a reply to: knoledgeispower
The Epistle of Barnabas is the true version. The Gospel of Barnabas is Muslim forgery. A simple Google search will show you that it is not authentic. Your title is misleading. This is not a Bible.