tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655903578055891907.post3640961183789927346..comments2023-02-10T17:25:02.857+02:00Comments on Simeon's Articles and Papers: Has The Bible Been Changed?The Stylitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04683955737329829731noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655903578055891907.post-3768797659036680942009-09-05T11:53:55.084+02:002009-09-05T11:53:55.084+02:00This is so easy to knock down though. No one is sa...This is so easy to knock down though. No one is saying that the Bible as we now have it is corrupted. What was corrupted was the actual teachings of Jesus (as). The Injil is _not_ the gospel that is written on paper, it was the teaching of Jesus, which is scarcely reflected in the text of the New Testament that we have today. Most scholarly assessments don't even have the so-called Gospels being written down until 80 years after the fact. And the Muslim argument you cited actually is true -- as evidenced by the emergence of the dozens of Nag Hammadi and other "gospels" which cast crippling doubt on the legitimacy of the four "Gospels" that we now have today. <br /><br />Another key piece of evidence for tahrif of the Injil, and I use that term in the broadest sense for sure, is that no part of the Bible agrees with any other part, whether in moral laws, cosmology, or statements of historical fact. That is the most problematic and to my mind insurmountable challenge of the Bible. It can be made to say just about anything, because it _does_ say just about everything. It's an anthology of nearly 4,000 years of Middle Eastern religious thought and as such is practically meaningless if we seek a solitary unifying idea, other than the concept of salvation history. That's why there are over 30,000 discrete Christian sects -- the central idea cannot be located in their shared text.Quid Quintessanoreply@blogger.com