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The Greek New Testament was copied and recopied by hand for 1,500 years. Regardless of those scribes who had worked very hard to be faithful in their copying, errors crept into the text. How can we be confident that what we have today is the Word of God?
Agnostic early Christianity and textual scholar Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, writes, "For me, though, this was a compelling problem. It was the words of Scripture themselves that God had inspired. Surely we have to know what those words were if we want to know how he had communicated to us, since the very words were his words, and having some other words (those inadvertently or intentionally created by scribes) didn’t help us much if we wanted to know His words." Misquoting Jesus (p. 5)
"Not only do we not have the originals, we don’t have the first copies of the originals. We don’t even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later—much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places." - Agnostic NT textual scholar Dr. Bart D. Ehrman
These near-death experiences or out of body experiences have been used to argue that humans have a soul that lives on after a person dies. The simple answer is that these are simply hallucinations when the body and mind are under extreme stress. The same out of body experiences happen when a person is fatigued,... Continue Reading →
Genesis 6:6-7 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 6 And Jehovah regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 Jehovah said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the heavens;[1] for... Continue Reading →
Matthew 5:29 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 29 If your right eye makes you stumble,[1] tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for one of your members to be lost to you than for your whole body to be thrown into Gehenna.[2] Matthew 13:21 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 21 Yet he has no root in himself... Continue Reading →