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On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:36:53 +0000 (UTC), Gary McNees
wrote:

>
>
>Bart Goddard wrote:
>> "Mike Rhodes earthlink.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The "Bible", as it were, is being 'rewritten' all the time; so it may
>>>be 'understood' (in a certain way?). Anyone with whatever authority
>>>can then declare it as 'God's Word', and others may except it as so.
>>>
>>>But there was nothing to prevent others from doing the same thing to
>>>the early writings, adding and deleting as they saw fit;
>>
>>
>> How hilarious. The very guy who wants to ignore the Bible
>> and instead "follow the Spirit", just called the Spirit "nothing".
>>
>> It never ceases to amaze me how much self-contradictory stuff
>> a guy has to swallow in order to be a heretic.
>
>Very true Bart, but even further, Mike R. is either unaware
>of textual criticism or ignores it, and the related scientific methods
>used to PROVE the authenticity of Scripture, and that it is very close
>to the originals.

"PROVE" what? What do you mean by "authenticity"? That we have the
original penned letters? I'm aware of no object, nor discussion,
saying as much. What does the apostle Matthew's writing actually look
like? Can you tell me? Of course not, or someone would've done so.

But then you qualify it by saying it's "very close." So we don't have
the original letters, and don't exactly know what was in them.

> He really should do some research before opening
>mouth. Even atheistic and agnostic scientists know that the Scriptures
>were not just changed willy nilly.

"Willy nilly" ? Oh, come on. Such would be a silly & useless act.
Why would you even suggest it? Pretending I have, then accuse me of
your own silliness. (Proving you are not being so honest.)

>For those who want to know, because
>there are so many copies of Scripture from sources all over the world,
>by comparing them, one can deduce the original with very good accuracy.
>
>Also, for the scientifically minded, the scrolls found near the Dead
>Sea, prove that even very old Scripture, such as Isiah, have been
>preserved with extreme accuracy. Copies removed from other sources very
>old show that the Isaiah we have today is nearly identical to what it
>was a very long time ago.

There's no reason to expect a change in Isaiah's wording, for there
wasn't a strong reason for the Jews to want to change them, that I'm
aware of.

But the war with the pharisees, the crucifixion, & Saul, the
Judaizers; all of this leads me to believe that a fake convert of a
scribe having responsibility over the letters could insert nasty
little changes of hi