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hyperlexian
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04 Aug 2010, 8:46 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
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if what you say i true, then there would already be an established statistic. but there is not. any statistic i personally generate would not satisfy the biblical scholars. anyway, the whole idea of using a statistic negates the essence of the question, as it is based on opinion. each of has our own threshold of proof.

I am not sure it negates the point, but I do recognize your criticisms of statistics as valid. You can use them, but they don't give us the underlying reality so much as just some number that represents *something*, and in the case of any writing, the lines become TOO blurred to use, as the interpretation of the writing is full of question, as is what constitutes a truth-claim, as well as, what represents a claim about truth made by the text.

yes, exactly! what you said.



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05 Aug 2010, 1:14 am

Dnuos wrote:
Not only 1,000 pages, but another thousand-number is in play - the stuff's been re-translated for over 2,000 years (not even going to guess how many for the old testament). I think that a lot of the biblical contradictions people find might just be mistranslations... which is either way, why I'm kind of skeptical.


Aside from the Septuagint in 230 BC for the Old Testament and the Vulgate in about 382 AD, how many translations of the Hebrew Tanakh or the Greek New Testament were there up until about the 1500's AD? Most of the translations have been made in the 20th century AD, and those are translations from the Hebrew Masoretic Text for the Old Testament and the Majority Text for the New Testament. I do not see how having a myriad of translations from the same source documents somehow invalidates the source documents, so if you believe this to be true would you please expound on how this would be?