Did you know that the Bible does not exist ?
For centuries the lack of evidence of the originals texts have plagued the Christian faith and we have not found anything original yet to reconcile or to know if any modern bible past or present has anything original, such fact have caused enormous Christian division, and created many christian branches, each one of them with its own bible distinct from the others.
Not only we do not have original writings to verify the thousands of copies that there are.
We do not even have the first copies of the original texts.
Nor, we have the copies, of the copies, of the copies, of the copies of the originals.
What we have are anonymous copies made later, much later.
In the greatest instance, they are copies of centuries later.
Each copy was made in order to fit the beliefs of a group.
Copies that have been copied from the copies creating new Bibles that will create new Christian beliefs.
No copy in the present fits with the oldest copies, becoming the most altered document in all human history.
All are different from each other.
Researchers have collected all possible copies of the New Testament only to arrive at the conclusion that there is nothing original.
Currently, there are more than 5,700 ancient Greek manuscripts, more than 10,000 manuscripts of the Bible, of the hundreds (if not thousands) of the Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, ancient and Slavic manuscripts of the New Testament Church.
In addition, there are a series of writings of Church leaders, all of whom cite the New Testament text interpreting it in their own way, not including the millions of interpretations of these copies by millions of believers around the world, and in these parts, many without realizing that they only interpret only copies of copies.
All this information has been digitally scanned and is now compiled on computers to facilitate comparison and analysis on the computer.
Codex Vaticanus
http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_03
Codex vaticanus (B) fac simile
https://archive.org/details/CodexVaticanusbFacSimile
Codex Sinaiticus
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/
There are more variations between manuscripts recklessly than words in the New Testament.
Now, if you still want to examine the copied copies of anonymous copies, there are rules that must be applied before the study.
For example:
* The Old Testament was composed in classical Hebrew called Archaic, which is an extinct language.
* The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is identical to that of the Phoenician alphabet, and was used as the main tool for writing the Hebrew language by the Israelites, both by Jews and the Samaritans.
* The common ancestor of the Hebrew and the Phoenician is the Canaanite alphabet system, and the first distinct alphabet from the Egyptian.
* The Archaic Biblical Hebrew is the Canaanite language alphabet that in turn was perfected in the Phoenician alphabet.
* So the Old Testament was written in the language of the Phoenicians or Canaanites that today is called Hebrew.
* At present, the Hebrew alphabet is actually a stylized form of the Aramaic script, not the Archaic Hebrew.
* The Old Testament was written in the Phoenician alphabet script, which is called in the Biblical Archaic Hebrew the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which is read from right to left.
There are many factors that enter into a translation that are invisible and unknown to the translation reader.
Most Bible readers assume that the translation of the Bible is an equivalent and accurate representation of the original text, but due to the great difference between the language of the ancient Hebrews and our present language, as well as the differences between two cultures, an exact translation is impossible, and without the original texts much less.
It is a basic fact, that from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, there has not been a single Hebrew Bible, nor just a Greek Bible. there were several, all circulating at the same time, and competing with each other within the Jewish sects, just as the Christian Bibles now compete with each other within the Christian sects.
In fact, it becomes clear that the very notion of an "original" text does not exist, because it is impossible to point to any particular point in the development of a book and say that it is "original."
References:
https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/th...oes_not_exist/
https://www.quora.com/If-no-original-manuscripts-of-the-bible-exist-how-can-it-be-interpreted-and-followed
Christian sources:
https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/stewart_don/faq/words-bible/question4-original-manuscripts-of-the-bible.cfm
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