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Unread 16 Sep 2006, 02:36   #9
Monroe
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Re: Religion and the truth

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Originally Posted by Thefoundation
I just read a version of shakespears hamlet. it started with a paragraph how many things in old English could be misinterpreted. And that a lot of the printings had miscopies. I seen a program about Nostradamus, (old fortune teller) How the parts of the text where miscopied by printers. Just remove a letter, miss a space bar. And old or ancient words have a very different meaning.

the bibble was completed between 300-650
the koran was completed between 700-1000

So we can truly say we should inter-per books from the 13th and 17th century, but people live, and even go to war for way older books. Can anyone explain this?
Well in terms of accuracy I can't speak to the Koran, but they have complete texts of some of the books of the Bible (Isaih specifically) that are dated to 1200 BC and historians believe they were likely written by the origional authors. When those texts are compaired to the modern versions the only significant differences are the ones you mentioned, spaces, minor gramatical issues (missing the's ands, ors, ect) which in no way change the overall message. In addition they have plenty of manuscripts of the new testiment dating to within a generation of the origional texts. All of the texts of the New Testiment were written before 100 AD, and they have manuscripts of from within 100 years of the origional for most of them. So while there is never 100% certanty in these matters of all of the ancient texts the texts of the bible have the most evidence for their accuracy. For example there are only 7 'source' texts for Homer's Illiad that can be dated to a reasonably close date to the origional but by and large scollars agree that we have an accurate version of the story Homer told.

As to why people follow any religous text, but then use it to justify evil acts, that has far more to do with evil people then it does with any particular religous texts (with the exception of cults that teach evil as good). The simple fact of the matter is people will use any means they can to justify their evil actions, even to twist and distort 'good' beliefs to justify their actions.
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