Do you think the Bible has been edited over the centuries by unscrupulous people for their own ends? i mean look at the contradictory entries like thou shalt not kill Vs. thou shalt not suffer a witch to live (convenient for the inquisition).
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Of course it has. It gets changed every time it gets translated, or re-translated. Also, people in power back in the day used it as a tool to control people. Some changes are intentional, and others are simply things lost in translation.
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I'm absolutely convinced of it! Plus, I think there are other books of the Bible that either haven't been located yet or are being suppressed by the church authorities for various reasons.
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Absolutely not! - The comparision or example you put in your question is no different than the Laws which exist now. - Meaning there still remains capital punishment for certain gross crimes. A jury understands that justice is served when they send someone to the electric chair who murdered n innocent family. - We all know killing innocent people in cold blood is called "murder" but executing a murderer is totally different. A person who commits certain sins brings bloodguilt upon his own head. - In the Bible God has distinguished what is sin and what things are very grevious sins. The greater grevious sins carry the penalty of death. Witch craft along with adultery, kidnapping, idol worship and murder were all capital crimes for which death was God's perscribed penalty.
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oh i KNOW it has. Catholics edited the Bible to meet their own ideas for what the people should be taught about. there are several books left out of the bible & many things have been reworded & twisted around to mean other things.
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To understand the Bible you have to understand Hebrew and Greek. Buy a Hebrew/Greek lexicon or strong's dictionary. it will help you to understand The Bible.
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Mistakes have crept in and mistakes have been caught. By comparing translations and older manuscripts, you can see. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/39934 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/7025764
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Yes, the King James version particularly. Scotland's witch-hunting had its origins in the marriage of King James to Princess Anne of Denmark. Anne's voyage to Scotland for the wedding met with a bad storm, and she ended up taking refuge in Norway. James traveled to Scandinavia and the wedding took place in at Kronborg Castle in Denmark. After a long honeymoon in Denmark, the royal newlyweds encountered terrible seas on the return voyage, which the ship's captain blamed on witches. When six Danish women confessed to having caused the storms that bedeviled King James, he began to take witchcraft seriously. Back in Scotland, the paranoid James authorized torture of suspected witches. Dozens of condemned witches in the North Berwick area were burned at the stake in what would be the largest witch-hunt in British history. By 1597, James began to address some of the worst prosecutorial abuses, and witch-hunting abated somewhat.
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you bet ... from day one, its a hypocrites paradise!!
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the Talmud and the Midrash are nothing more than the thoughts, adding or taking away of the Tanakh.... the Jewish scholars and scribes have done this ALWAYS....but the story and purpose is still there for us all , IF we trully want it....
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not in substance. the manuscript evidence shows that the bible has mostly remained intact. the only changes do not take away from the meaning so they don't really matter. though there has been times when other books were considered sacred scripture as well but have been mostly weeded out and with good reason. the catholic bible has extra books and a few extra chapters added to existing books. the way you know they were added later is because of the earliest manuscripts not containing these extra chapters. the other books are not considered credible from not aligning with the rest of the bible or nature of God or shown from manuscript evidence to date too late in history.
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No. Every time archaeologists find a new artifact containing Scripture, it agrees with what we already have. That couldn't happen if it were really edited as claimed.
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