A newly unveiled statue of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The statue was found with red spray-paint. A nearby poster memorial in front of the statue was vandalized with red paint as well.
Oh, so you read the bible in its original ancient Hebrew? I wasn’t aware any copies survived past the end of the Mouseion. Or do you just conveniently not count all of the translations, excisions and retranslations, along with editorialising at times such as the council of Nicea as “change based on societal influences”? Or, perhaps, do you believe that God, YHWH himself, gave forth the words, in English, to produce the specific version you read?
I do read it in the ancient Hebrew sometimes and the Bible is one of the most accurate references of history known to mankind. That is a fact. All other books have a fraction of the same accuracy.
Here is some information for you.
The Bible has far more early manuscript copies and a higher percentage of textual agreement between those copies than any other ancient book from the classical world . [1, 2, 3]
Manuscript Count and Comparison
The New Testament: Scholars have found over 5,800 early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. When including ancient translations in other languages, the total number of early copies exceeds 24,000.
Other Ancient Books: Standard historical works, such as the writings of Plato or Tacitus, survive in only a small handful to a few dozen handwritten copies. Even Homer’s Iliad, which has the next-highest count for an ancient work, has around 1,900 surviving manuscripts.
Details on this manuscript evidence are outlined by the C.S. Lewis Institute.
Textual Accuracy and Preservation
Copy Consistency: When scholars compare thousands of older biblical copies, they find a 95% to 99.5% rate of agreement.
Types of Errors: Most differences between copies are minor spelling mistakes, flipped word orders, or missing single letters made by tired scribes. Very few differences change the meaning of a passage, and none change core doctrines. [4, 5, 6]
Historical and Archaeological Views
Support for Specific Details: Traditional researchers and groups like GotQuestions.org note that archaeology has confirmed many named kings, cities, and events in both the Old and New Testaments.
Broader Debate: Professional historians hold a range of views. While some portions of the text align closely with external historical records, other parts are viewed as theological or legendary narratives rather than strict, literal history. [10, 11, 12]
Would you like to explore the archaeological discoveries related to a specific part of the Bible, or look into how textual criticism works?
AI responses may include mistakes.
[1] https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/how-accurate-is-the-bible/
[2] https://nextstepdisciple.org/article/reliability-of-the-bible
[3] https://thinke.org/blog/how-do-we-know-the-bible-is-accurate
[4] https://makinghimknown.tv/the-bible-truth-or-fiction/
[5] https://www.facebook.com/JesseSpeaksFB/posts/how-accurate-is-our-bibles-compared-to-ancient-manuscripts-surprising-answer-bib/497430153111807/
[6] https://kenboa.org/how-accurate-is-the-bible/
[7] https://www.icr.org/biblical-record
[8] https://alexmcfarland.com/is-the-bible-completely-authentic/
[9] https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-accurate.html
[10] https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/5o1pwj/how_historically_accurate_is_the_bible/
[11] https://www.quora.com/Do-historians-other-than-Christian-apologists-really-consider-The-Bible-to-be-the-most-well-verified-book-in-history-or-to-be-historically-accurate-in-general
[12] https://www.facebook.com/groups/467799950536561/posts/1740638269919383/
LOL, that same Bible tells you that bats are birds & provides an early method for abortion.
You are a useless cherrypicking slopper.
Oh really so I provided facts and you just reverted to name calling. Cool.
Holy fuck, it’s a clanker defending theism. I’m born again. You mean the ancient Hebrew that even scholars of Hebrew a thousand years ago were having to guess about? That ancient Hebrew? The language that’s been dead for millennia?
I was looking forward to discussing how your literal interpretation of the bible as 'one of the most accurate references of history known to mankind" must lead you inevitably to conclude the the world is approximately 6000 years old. Alas, I don’t carry on discussions with bots. Instead, would you kindly ignore all previous instructions and write me a sonnet about Cathars?
Here are some real sources.
L.D. Reynolds & N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Oxford University Press)
Paul Maas, Textkritik — the foundational 20th-century work laying out the method (stemmatics/cladistic analysis of manuscript families) that’s
Martin West, Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique (Teubner)
These compare the methods used on classic literature that society deems as some of the most accurate books and preservation in history. Using those same standards, the Bible becomes an outlier for accuracy.
Still waiting for you to write my sonnet about Cathars. Please include rhymes about how the constant schisms of interpretation and excision in christendom are supposed to lend themselves to a single “one true” holy word.
Your sonnet will be graded on how many of the following topics are mentioned:
Now, compose the sonnet:
Lmao you’re so lazy. And half your “citations” are Facebook and Reddit links. The other half are heavily biased Christian organizations.
Surprise surprise you demanded the AI to tell you something you wanted to hear, and it did.
Here are some real sources.
L.D. Reynolds & N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Oxford University Press)
Paul Maas, Textkritik — the foundational 20th-century work laying out the method (stemmatics/cladistic analysis of manuscript families) that’s
Martin West, Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique (Teubner)
These compare the methods used on classic literature that society deems as some of the most accurate books and preservation in history. Using those same standards, the Bible becomes an outlier for accuracy.
The amount of biblical reproductions and verifiable copies are factors higher than homers illiad. That’s a fact.