Greg Koukl - The Bible's Been Changed

Taken from our blog, Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason answers the question "The Bible has been translated many times over, so how can it be reliable?" For more information, visit http://www.str.org.

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[95TurboSol]

Thanks for the videos greg! Always insightful!

[iToyRobot]

great video

[Tobytrim]

What utter rubbish!!

There are mistakes ( geographical ones for example) that weren't even corrected till the KJV in 1611. There are certainly corrections made for the vulgate to help it's validity, and Erasmus had to draw passages from the Vulgate, to complete his Greek "Textus Receptus" because there wasn't a complete Greek version in existence.

Even the earliest snippets of the bible are too latteday and contaminated by "devout fraud", forgery, and interpolation, to be of consequence!

[MagenticAdam66]

Here be a curiosity to wad in your pipe and smoke: there be "phenomenon" of "back masking, or reverse speech" whereby recorded speech (in any language) may be played backward and analyzed for sounds which also appear to have speech-like qualities. For instance, innoccuous words of an Obama speech played backwards may render a fairly good rendition of "Satan is Lord". BUT, no matter the language, e.g. French, Italian, German, any reverse speech which appears coherent, is rendered in ENGLISH!

[MagenticAdam66]

Translation errors, and obvious scriptural inconsistencies, absurdities, and contradictions in the bible are only the tip of the iceberg. On what authority are the newly discovered ancient gnostic, agnostic and orthodox texts excluded from taking part alongside the existent 66 books? It's a bloody can of worms isn't it? Each man has to make his own decision as to the validity of the overall, not upon Truth, but upon his gut instincts, his intuitions. An infallible scribbling God? Hah!

[JohnSlade25369]

only problem is the greek wasn't the original translation

[badpanda84]

" The apostle Paul himself warned the readers of his epistles that certain men would creep in and preach heresies and a gospel unlike what he was teaching them."

What you mean like the roman catholic churches teachings -- which ironically put the bible together in the first place

[Bosingr]

@badpanda84 And it's been found that many of those questionable(at best)"gospels like the so-called "Gospel of Judas" or "of Mary Magdalene" or "of Peter" "of Thomas" etc were written well into the 2nd century, in some cases very late in the 2nd century long after those people had actually died.

Watch the Lee Strobel video, Case for Christ, Gnostic Gospels vs Synoptic Gospels here on YouTube.

[Bosingr]

@badpanda84 Who decided which books should be canonized?

A council who lived much closer in time to the writings of the various books, both legitimately inspired and those not. People who carefully analyzed the content of the writings to see which were consistent in message and spirit to the writings of the real apostles. The apostle Paul himself warned the readers of his epistles that certain men would creep in and preach heresies and a gospel unlike what he was teaching them.

[bombsawaydrums]

@badpanda84 Watch "The case for Chtist." They touch on that subject.

[badpanda84]

Translations isn't the only problem.. the real question is who decided which books to put in the bible in the first place --

[TurboD16z6]

really.. 13 books went missing.. from 80 books to 66books.. and so on..