How much has the Bible been misinterpreted throughout history?
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No way of knowing.  Here's a few fun ones for you:\n\n- The bible never says that Mary Mag is a prostitute, a common Christian belief started by Pope Gregory in the 7th century\n\n- The Hebrew word for "abomination" can also be translated as "unhealthy"...so perhaps its just unhealthy to eat pork, or lobster rather than sinful (Leviticus)\n\n- The Hebrew word for "on" is the same as "next to"...so did Jesus walk on water or along side it?\n\n- While its often said that Jesus had no siblings, the bible states several times that he had 4 brothers and several sisters\n\n- Different Gospels list different names of apostles\n\n- The bible only mentions the men.  There were several wives of apostles that followed Jesus.
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No. There has been too much lost in the numerous translations. And I would question your statement about the book being in existence for 'thousands' of years. The new testament and the gospels were not instantly assembled upon the death of Jesus of Nazareth. The old testament was passed on by word of mouth long before the books were written.  Compound these necessary flaws with the council of cardinals who decided which books were going to be part of the bible and which books were not, and the church's practice of censoring anything that did not agree with doctrine, and you have a less than perfect product.
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Who said anything about making sense?\nYour summary is brief but pretty much on the mark.You forgot to mention rape ,slavery and child abuse.They are all in the bible too.
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First off, the Bible was written by men, so therefore, there are errors in it.  Second, there are parts of the Bible that haven't been published, they sit in the Vatican Vault, hidden. Thirdly, as said already, no one has met God and been able to tell what he really meant; or even met Jesus and tell about first hand to everyone now.  Fourth, there are interpretations that don't go with what is said.  For example: Man shall not lie with man as he lies with woman.  Well, DUH!!!  It's impossible for a man to have sex with a man as he does a woman, sheesh, get it right people!\n\nAnd as for RENT, Angel was the best.  He was who he was, didn't care what anyone said about his life, and lived like it was his last day.  His voice was incredible, dancing: amazing, and overall personality couldn't have been beat!
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It has been translated differently in each version on the bible.
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Don't you have that backwards? I've met many people who believe every word in the bible even if you can prove that it is a miss translation, or against known facts. The bible can be used to "prove" anything you like if you take it out of context and add your own spin.
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yes, I am intersted. I also have to remember that other writings outside of the Bible aren't always true. If what those "early Christians" wrote doesn't match up Biblically, than I have to choose to reject it. not to say that you can't learn things about the time period and culture from these writings.
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:}\nThat's true , the bible teaches all have sinned and fallen short of the kingdom of g-d
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30 different characters contributed to the bible over a period of around 30 years.  Then it was edited countless times by other characters.  Then rewritten a few times to be "clearer on certain subjects.".\n\nBy the time we got the modern version, there were no original copies left to check the authenticity and accurateness of the text.
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88.3% of statistics are made up on the spot, including yours.\n\nThe NT is nowhere near accurate. The differences are enormous and range from mistranslations to complete fabrications.\n\nTry taking another look...\n\nPaul vs. Jesus: http://www.wordwiz72.com/paul.html\nFabricated proof texts: http://www.karaites-usa.org/Responding_To_Missionaries/refuting_christian_proof_texts.htm\nPaul's invention of Christianity:\nhttp://wadee3.5u.com/Paul.htm\n\nThe list goes on...\n\nEven if it were accurate, there's nothing unique about a  half-man half-god born-of-a-virgin "saviour", there were several walking around during that period of history, e.g. Romulus and Remus, Perseus, Zoroaster, Mithras, Osiris-Aion, Agdistis, Attis, Tammuz, Adonis, Korybas, and Dionysus.\n\nThere were also plenty of Jewish Messiahs at that time, many of whom found themselves in opposition to Rome and on a cross as a result.\n\nDoes any of this sound familiar?\n\nYou could also say 99.5% of The Lord of the Rings is accurate, but it's still a fiction. Seems to me you're looking in all the wrong places for all the wrong reasons.\n\nAlso have you considered that maybe it's only .5% of your brain that is rational, the other 99.5% lives in fantasyland?  I think that's just as likely, dont you?
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Of course the Bible has errors, the Synoptics (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) don't even agree on what time of day Jesus was crucified.  The Bible was written by MANY differeny people and there are bound to be things that are inaccurate and just flat out wrong.  The Bible was written by people, not God, and there for it is a statistical impossibility that none of those people made absolutly no errors over a periond of two thousand years.  To me, the Bible is for inspiration and for insight into a lot of spiritual topics, but it is by no means without flaws.  To believe that the Bible is without flaws is a very, very rigid way to look at it and if someone doesn't think so, there is plenty of proof otherwise.  And those who always quote and espouse the stuff in the Bible usually can't come up with anything interesting theologically on thieir own.
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I'm sure this is tongue in cheek, but obviously one can be christian and not think that the bible is meant to be read as literal truth in every word.  you'd go crazy reconciling the contradictions.
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Yup I do and its funny in a weird sort of way how people will adapt what is in the Bible to suit their own needs. The book hasnt changed in a few thousand years I doubt its going to any time soon. Its all a matter of personal interpretation I guess but it shouldnt change every time you read it or speak about it to someone if you are a person of your convictions then it will stay the same.
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the bible was written by man. keep that in mind.
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I have faith that the Bible really was written via the INFLUENCE of the Abrahamic god, but not necessarily at the time it was written. It didn't start being actually put into written text until centuries after the life of Jesus, and therefore MUST have been shared through oral tradition over generations. As that CAN be a reliable source of information, on the other hand, did you ever play "Telephone" in elementary school: one person says a sentence or phrase into one person's ear, and that person repeats what they heard to the next person, and than that person repeats it to the next person, and so on, and it never comes out exactly how it started. Maybe Yahweh started the game, and after generations of playing "Telephone," it just got a little mangled.\n\nPlus, have you ever tried to translate anything EXACTLY from one language to another? It can't be done: words that exist in some languages don't exist in others, and vice versa; not to mention the varying sentence structure from language to language.\n\nThen, of course, the Roman Catholics had to go and alter it for their own control-the-masses power hype, and screwed it up even more. Let's face it: we're human. We’re fallible, and so is the Bible.
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God promised to preserve his Word, not the English language. He knew about the translations, and the annomalies that may arise.\n\nYou can bet the translations (not all of them), but a few of them, potray the message in a clear and concise manner.\n\nWhile the enemy may taint some avenues of the Gospel, the Lord will not allow them all to be corrupted.\n\nI posted this in another thread:\n\nThe Bible is made up of 66 books, written by 40 authors on 3 continents, using 3 languages, and penned over a 1600 year span of time, yet it uniquely fits together without contradiction, making up one volume we call, “The Bible”.\n\nCharles Spurgeon said, "This Bible is the anvil on which many a hammer of critics has been worn out." It has truly withstood every test and trial while remaining the undisputed bestseller of all time! Over 1/2 billion Bibles were printed in1997 alone!\n\nWhat makes the Bible so different from all other books? It's incredible accuracy both historically, scientifically, geographically, and prophetically.\n\nArcheological findings, have proven the Bible’s literal accuracy. The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947, substantiate the accuracy of the Old Testament scriptures written 2,500 to 3,500 years ago!\n\nThe Bible revealed many truths thousands of years ago long before they were discovered. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica; Volume 4 page 937 "Columbus discovered America by Bible prophecy rather than by astronomy." Columbus believed the Bible and convinced the Queen after reading to her the following scriptures:\n\nIsaiah 40:22 (about 800 B.C.)\n\n"It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth..."\n\nJob 26:7 (Almost certainly over 1,000 B.C.)\n\n"He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."\n\nMan thought the earth was flat and perhaps sat on the back of a turtle, just 500 years ago, yet God revealed the earth's true Geography over 3,500 years ago, a circle that hangs on nothing.\n\nIncredible as it may sound, we probably killed our first president, George Washington, by bleeding him to death. A practice called blood letting, the cutting of ones wrist and removing life giving blood. If we had only read and believed God's word:\n\nLeviticus 17:11\n\n"For the life of the flesh is in the blood..."\n\nThere are hosts of incredible proofs like these throughout the Bible. The water cycle and evaporation process is revealed in Ecclesiastes 1:6-7 and Psalms 135. \n\nThe Bible is the only book that foretells the future with 100% accuracy. It foretold the birthplace of Jesus 700 years before He was born! (Micah 5:2), That He would be crucified over 500 years before this inhumane practice ever began! Details about Jesus’ crucifixion such as: His hands and feet would be pierced, His beard would be torn out, His garments would be gambled for, and that He would die between two thieves, and be buried in a rich mans tomb (Isaiah 53, Psalms 22). Jesus fulfilled 30 different prophecies in just one day. There were about 300 prophecies that foretold His first coming and over 500 that tell of His second coming.\n\nOne such prophecy was fulfilled and witnessed by millions of people alive today! On May 14th, 1948, three million Jews from all over the world speaking 85 different languages returned to a tiny piece of desolate desert land, that most had never seen. God foretold of this incredible event through His word over 2,500 years ago.\n\nJeremiah 30:3\n\n"For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it."\n\nEzekiel 36:24\n\n"For I will take you (Jews) from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land."\n\nZechariah 8:8\n\n"And I will bring them, and they shall dwe
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The bible says so and i belive its God's word\n\nand one person commented that the bible is not reliable... but the bible is the most accurate historal document in existance.  Out of all the kings, pharaohs, and emperors through biblical times 90 something percent are spelled correctly and through any other historical text during the times the average percent is around 10 percent and the highest is about 15 percent.  People who never met, saw or visited the graves of these leaders spelled them correctly while peole who met the leaders in person could not spell the names right.  That is historically accurate if you ask me