Has the Bible been altered?

[po18guy]

Actually it’s called the hermeneutic of suspicion by modern Biblical scholars. It PRESUMES that the human writers were consciously writing fables and stories, because that was just how people wrote then.

Former Pope Benedict XVI has called for a critical look into the underlying assumptions and methods of the historical/critical interpretations themselves, which HAS been undertaken by many 21st century Biblical Scholars. People like Bart Ehrmann have been pretty much dismissed as guilty of these false assumptions and their hermeneutic of suspicion.

An excellent scholarly work on the problems with the historical/critical interpretations of the Bible can be found in Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture 1300-1700 (Herder & Herder Books)

I await Mr. Ehrman’s discovery of the fullness of God’s revelation and subsequent conversion to Catholicism. Really. His own methods of investigation (a reverse-engineering and forcing of a contemporary template over ancient texts) combined with his own weakly-founded (SS) religious tradition have certainly caused him to doubt, and we well know from whence doubt comes.

I am surmising here, but I suspect that Mr. Ehrman, based on his textual criticism, may harbor an unhealthy skepticism toward sacred scripture (and which his research suspects to be flawed), and thus by projection, all of Christianity is in his sights.