Um, THE BIBLE IS NOT THE ROOT OF ISLAM.
Cool
Correct the Holy Spirit?
Sounds like more persecution to me!
Also should get into that little Thou shal not kill vs murder thingy.
The Masoretic (official) text of the Hebrew Old Testament was assembled centuries after the documents were first written. Textual criticism is not only allowable, it’s an imperative.
old testament not new.
New testament Greek is still being used to this day so what are they “correcting”?
If God has not maintained His Word true and accurate throughout all the ages then man has no way of knowing what is true and what is false. Therefore man has no shot at salvation. Therefore there can be no omnipotent and omniscient God, and by extrapolation no basis for ethics, morality, or even definitions of good and evil. That means we should all live strictly for as much carnal pleasure as fast as we can since there is nothing after death.
I think I’ll stick to my antiquated believes, thank you.
The Masoretic (Hebrew) text is post-Christian, and NOT the basis of the Christian faith. The Dead Sea Scrolls, created up to centuries before Christ, are far older than the Masoretic text, and are far closer to the Greek texts.
This is not idle controversy. The Masoretic text describes the Messiah as being born from an unmarried woman (”Alma,” as transliterated from Hebrew). The Greek text says he will be born of a virgin (”parthenos”). Thus, the Masoretic text suggests that the Messiah would be born of fornication, whereas the Greek text suggests he would be born of a distinct, miraculous act of divine creation.
According to legend, the Greek text was created by a miracle: 72 scholars all were inspired by the Holy Spirit to create identical translations from a Hebrew source document, despite being isolated in individual cells. This is “legend” not because it isn’t necessarily true, but because it’s irrelevant: whether due to a one-time miraculous inspiration, or a continual gift of the Holy Spirit, the Greek text is divine truth.
In contrast, the Masoretic text is the creation of people who despite their inspirationally passionate love for God were blinded temporarily from the truth of Christ that they may be, collectively, an example of Isaiah’s suffering servant. Their text, therefore, was written outside the protection of the Holy Spirit, and their motivation included disproving the notion of the divinity of Christ. Even though Protestants have followed the Hebrew in editing out certain books, they too have followed the early Christian church in rejecting key doctrinally problematic Hebrew translations.
(After the death of Christ, the Jews rejected the deuterocanonical books, which Protestants label “apocryphal” because they created the expectation of an imminent Messiah, which Christians saw fulfilled in Christ. Many had historically believed that they were also rejected because they were composed in Greek, not Hebrew, but the Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed the Hebrew, pre-Christian origins of six of the seven deuterocanonical books. Many others believe that the Hebrews considered them as less authoritative than “the Prophets” and “the Law,” but the Tanakh, in fact, includes other books from this class of books, the Khetuvim, which includes Proverbs, Job, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, etc.)
Where is River when she is really needed?
::Sigh:: And they wonder why the world doesn’t believe the Land and the Temple Mount belong to the Jews!
Shocker!!
Another effort, another argument focusing on man’s fallibility, and completely ignoring one very important Person in the process . . . God.
Fascinating article and well worth reading in its entirety.