> The problem is, most Christians don't follow Jesus,
> they follow his
> disciples - the New Testament is hearsay from 60 or
> more years after
> Jesus' death. Plenty of time for the message to
> be scrambled and confused like cable channels.
Growing up in a fundamental Christian home
(Protestant, Church of God to be exact), I was exposed
to quite a bit of theology in my youth. For the
record, the particular sect of Protestant Christianity
that my parents subscribe to believes that the bible
was written with divine inspiration by god, such that
everything in it is there because god wanted it to be
there. Although parts of the new testament consist of
historical accounts of the life of Jesus and the early
apostles (Paul, for example), the new testament is
mostly made up of letters that were sent by early
Christians to other churches in an effort to help them
get started and stay the course. But you are correct
in saying that some of it is scrambled because, as
with the old testament, a lot of it is lost in the
translation. The old testament was written in Hebrew
originally, and the new testament in Greek. And in
trying to convert the bible to the first standardized
English translation (i.e. the original King James
Version), some words used by the Hebrews simply have
no parallel correlation in English, and words had to
be substituted or redefined. This is where some
scholars argue that the bible is inadequate or
inaccurate in some ways. So make of that what you
will.
feeling scholarly,
*phiL*
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