Bible- Reliability?

[inthecloud]

Read Hershel Shanks The Dead Sea Scrolls.
No fixed canon for the Escenes. Huge problems with the Pharisees about books like Daniel or Esther who were written at the same time than Maccabees not in the 400 BC.
Huge diferences in text that matches more the Septuagint that the Masoretic Text used in most protestant and catholic bibles. The Orthodox have stayed close to the Septuagint. To their credit instead of falling to the fetish of “translation of the original languages”.

 

[anthony022071]

It is purely a matter of faith. Scholars can’t even determine whether Shakespeare wrote all the works attributed to him and yet some think they can “prove” divine inspiration which is totally outside the realm of human understanding…

It isn’t purely a matter of faith. Judaism and Christianity are grounded on historical events,and the scriptures themselves are the documents which record those events.

Divine inspiration is not totally outside the realm of our understanding. When a saint lives in accordance with the perfect way of life that Christ taught,as recorded by the scriptures,then the divine inspiration of the scriptures and the divinity of Christ are verified.

 

[031064]

I’m over this now- but just to let Pinoy catholic know- the fact that people died for it (although I also believe they were most holy martyrs) doesn’t justify to people of other religions that ours is true because people die for Islam and other religions sometimes too… sooo… there’s my 2 cents.

 

[PinoyCatholic]

Your question was “who’s to say that Christ wasn’t just made up in the eyes of some writer who wanted to portray a moral message?” It was not “what would justify to people of other religions that ours is true?”.

Though they are related, they’re completely different questions. And my answer still stands.