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RE: Food for Thought: Can an All Powerful God Really Be Cruel?
You say it's all in the bible. But the bible is a book that has been incorrectly translated for thousands of years just for the profit and advance of the christian church.
Except that is not true. We have over 5600 manuscripts, some dating as far back as the first generation after the authors. And we have enough of the writings of the early church leaders quoting those scriptures to nearly reconstruct the whole New Testament. And we have the Dead Sea Scrolls covering all but one of the books of the Old Testament - proving that the text has not changed since 200 BC when the scrolls were placed in the Dead Sea caves and forgotten for 2200 years.
So by comparing this massively redundant set of sources we can eliminate all typos and know with a high degree of confidence what the original Greek and Hebrew texts said.
Then we have over 25 groups of independent experts from many generations doing their translations from those original texts (not from each other) so we have lots of independent checks on translation accuracy. Check them out here: http://biblehub.com/john/3-16.htm
The Bible has by far the strongest pedigree of any historical document pre-dating the printing press.
An ancient book of prophecies and magical events?
Surely you're larping.
Yes. Prophecies that have come true. Imagine that.
that is exactly what I was saying, many different interpretations from the same books.....who is to say the actual knowledge (if any) wasn't lost to time!