Just don't be sleeping on slippery Satan sheets, you will slide off the bed and go down a chute leading directly to hell.
Let no one forget that for hundreds of years there were no printing presses. Scribes literally re-scripted the text over and over and over. Changing the spelling of a word by one or two letters can change the entire context. An example: "Go forth and Celebrate." VS "Go forth and be Celibate." mean two entirely different things. Of course in fairness, I also changed the words from "and" to "be" in this example. But it gets my point across. I have a very hard time trying to discern what the original messages in the bible were. Not only does this trouble me, but why were entire books of the bible taken out? To serve whom? I cannot provide a verse but I know I have heard about this over the years how the book of Enoch was removed and I believe doesn't it speak of reincarnation?
I would semi agree with your no printing presses point if it weren't for the dead sea scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls contained the oldest known copies of the Septuagint which is the Greek translation of the old testament. They were %99.9 the same as the oldest known copies we had of the Septuagint at the time of discovery (1948 I believe) and the differences were mainly spelling. This is also important because the Hebrew Masoretic text was created from earlier Hebrew source texts sometime before the 11th century AD but there were VERY many more intentional changes in them than the differences between the two Septuagint copies that i mentioned before. The changes were mainly in dates and genealogies so obviously the anti Jesus Jews were trying to change key Genealogies to try and disprove Jesus's lineage and sabotage Christianity. Ironically most modern English bible translations use the Masoretic text -_- ....by the way the book of Enoch in its entirety was found within the Dead Sea Scrolls.....also the Ethiopian orthodox Church was the only sect of Christianity that we know of that used the book of Enoch traditionally in their biblical texts.
Just don't be sleeping on slippery Satan sheets, you will slide off the bed and go down a chute leading directly to hell. Let no one forget that for hundreds of years there were no printing presses. Scribes literally re-scripted the text over and over and over. Changing the spelling of a word by one or two letters can change the entire context. An example: "Go forth and Celebrate." VS "Go forth and be Celibate." mean two entirely different things. Of course in fairness, I also changed the words from "and" to "be" in this example. But it gets my point across. I have a very hard time trying to discern what the original messages in the bible were. Not only does this trouble me, but why were entire books of the bible taken out? To serve whom? I cannot provide a verse but I know I have heard about this over the years how the book of Enoch was removed and I believe doesn't it speak of reincarnation?
I would semi agree with your no printing presses point if it weren't for the dead sea scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls contained the oldest known copies of the Septuagint which is the Greek translation of the old testament. They were %99.9 the same as the oldest known copies we had of the Septuagint at the time of discovery (1948 I believe) and the differences were mainly spelling. This is also important because the Hebrew Masoretic text was created from earlier Hebrew source texts sometime before the 11th century AD but there were VERY many more intentional changes in them than the differences between the two Septuagint copies that i mentioned before. The changes were mainly in dates and genealogies so obviously the anti Jesus Jews were trying to change key Genealogies to try and disprove Jesus's lineage and sabotage Christianity. Ironically most modern English bible translations use the Masoretic text -_- ....by the way the book of Enoch in its entirety was found within the Dead Sea Scrolls.....also the Ethiopian orthodox Church was the only sect of Christianity that we know of that used the book of Enoch traditionally in their biblical texts.