need it for research purposes but I can't find it :D
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/polycarp-lake.html
He had something that was written, and he was referencing it as he wrote
That's exactly what I wrote above... 😒 There is no bible scripture from that time period that has survived to this day as far as we know.
Edit: Okay I digress, he was likely quoting from a scripture in his letter but a Bible from that time period hasn't been discovered and perserved to this day.
Edit: Okay I digress, he was likely quoting from a scripture in his letter but a Bible from that time period hasn't been discovered and perserved to this day
They were never lost. They were carried from church to church and copied. There's over 50,000 copies of them, and they all were faithfully reproduced, almost zero errors
How can you know that if there's not an original from that time period? You can't.
The hearts of men contain evil and imperfections and you can't convince me or many people that every person who copied that Bible through the centuries didn't make slight changes here nor there for political purposes or just due to a mistranslation game of Telephone.
You have to have a Bible made from that time period of 1st-2nd century AD to back up this claim and there isn't one that we know of. God gave you a brain and logic, use it.
The Dead Sea scrolls are in fragments. Those fragments verify the Hebrew Masoretic Old Testament and the Koine Greek New Testaments used by the translators of the Geneva Bible, King James, and Young's Literal Translations.
My God is more powerful than your god is. You just told me this. My God, the One True, Holy and Righteous Creator of all things in the Heaven and the Earth, has enough POWER to give us His Word of salvation. He came as a man and SPOKE these same Words to us and you think He is a weakling, at the mercy of man?
You are right that man is evil. God gave us brains and discernment, yes. The information about the Bible and it's origins is so much more effed up then our election fraud, it is biblical. People have fashioned stories on how the Bible isn't real, those who've done there research know this is false. You think political things are the only things censored on the left's internet? The Bible has been preserved since the writings of Moses. They were kept on all sorts of written different methods, depending on the age in which they were written. What is true, and not necessarily thought about as often as it should be, is that Christianity (and Judaism pre-Christ) has been on the hairy edge of being wisped out.
If there was no God and no Jesus, there would be no need for the religion. People have attacked it so much throughout human history that it should have been destroyed.
The devil picked up on this trick, look at 1. Jews and 2. Muslims. Before Jesus, there were not groups of people worshiping the same god going in and out of near extinction. Now, we have 2 major groups, Jews, seen by the world as the sufferers, and if you attack Jews, you get attacked yourself, because they are viewed as "remnant people." Then you have Muslims, if you attack them, the world seems to attack you instead. There are a few exception to this, but in the majority.
Attacking Christians, who by in large, ought to have the most tolerant of all religious views, does not make any logical sense. A Christian's view is believe in Jesus as your Savior or you face eternal wrath, but there's no physical harm (while on earth that was "threatened") whereas the muslims say convert or die and Jews say, we will kill for the promised land.
This is what sets the Christian religion apart. Now if the God who is able to keep a religion like this alive, how is he not able to keep His written Word available, more importantly, if you are a Christian yourself, how could you believe that God raised Jesus from the dead, but not believe he could / would have a written word to his people after he left. The Bible self proclaims, if what it says isn't true, then you are a fool to even believe any of what it says.
Final point: Cherry picking from the Bible, PET PEEVE of mine. Context, context, context. I know a lot of people (who claim Christianity) who've attacked by opinions on the Bible using 1 isolated verse with no relation (contextually) to the topic. [Example: "Minister" friend of mine says Jesus did not condemn the women whoring around with many men, therefore, LGBTQAIIP+ agenda should be embraced, Jesus never accepted her sins, he died to pay for them, but she ought to live a life of gratitude and live in accordance of God's word / law