where are the original bible texts, are they still around, can we see them and read them ourselves?
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It would be a major miracle if any original Parchments remain Today.   They were shared with all the existing Churches of the First Century A.D.. No doubt they would be in poor repair very quickly.\n\nThe Dead Sea Scrolls would be the oldest known copies. So far they have been very valuable in proving the accuracy of The Biblical Text.
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The original bible of Jesus was what we refer to as the Old Testament in the Bible, or the Torah, from which He quoted many times.  It's still very much around.
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Early copies:\n\nThe Codex Sinaiticus, is in the British Museum\nThe Codex Alexandrinus, is in the British Museum\nThe Codex Vaticanus, is guess where? Yes, the Vatican\n\nAncient Versions and Texts:\n\nThe Septuagint, an early translation from Hebrew to Greek\nThe Samaritan Pentateuch, not strictly a version but is the Hebrew text perpetuated in Samaritan characters\nPeshitta or Syriac, translation into common Syrian language\nThe Vulgate, translated into Latin\nThe Masoretic Text, the Hebrew text used today\n\nEarly English Versions:\n\nJohn Wycliffe bible\nWillaim Tyndale Bible\nMiles Coverdale Bible\nMatthew's Bible\nThe Great Bible\nThe Geneva Bible\nThe Bishops bible\nThe Douay Bible\nThe King James Bible\nThe Revised Version\nThe American Standard Version\n\nEnglish Versions since 1901\n\nThe Revised Standard Version\nThe Berkeley Version\nThe Amplified Bible\nThe Jerusalem Bible\nNew English Bible\nNew American Standard Bible\nThe Living Bible\nToday's English Version (Good News Bible)\nNew International Version\nNew King James Version\n\nAll these bibles, all these different versions, all these different authors, and yet they all say the same thing.  Hmmm, man-made?  Not likely, not practical, not mathematically probable.
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Nothing was "taken out" of the bible. Some things were left out, but they were never "in" to begin with. The bible is a hodge podge collection of writings from many different people. Not one of those people ever meant for or expected their writings to become part of a holy book. Some of them are freaking letters, ffs, written specifically from one person to another, not for the purpose of being scripture. One day a bunch of priests got together and decided that some of it was "the word of god™" and some of it not. How do decide what's "the word of god™" and what isn't, you ask? You don't. You do what they did and pick whatever suits your agenda (power, money) and leave out the rest.
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Was the Old Testament originally written in Hebrew?\n----YES\n\nWas the New Testament originally written in Greek?\n--------YES, although Christians claim there was, originally, a Hebrew version. The fact that it did not survive shows that the Greek version was more important to the early Christians than the Hebrew, indicating the degree to which they were assimilated into Greek religion and Culture.\n\nHow difficult are these languages to learn?\n-------Hebrew is easy, i cannot speak for Greek. I teach people to read (vocalize) the Hebrew text, not to translate, just to pronounce, in just 3 hours.\n\nHow beneficial would it be for me to learn them?\n------if you dont want to rely on someone else's translations, it is vital that you learn them!\n\nAnd where would I get a copy of the Bible in both English and Greek/Hebrew\n--------I recommend the Koren Publishing Company's translation. The Koren Publishing Company is in Jerusalem, so, unfortunately, they called their translation The Jerusalem Bible, which, in the U.S., is the name of a Catholic translation, and they are not the same thing. Most Barnes and Nobles have the Koren translation, which has the Hebrew on the left and the English on the right. Unfortunately the English still sounds like something from King James, but at least the translation tried to be literal. Of course, this is only the Hebrew Scriptures, and a Greek/English, i know nothing about.\n\nI would urge you NOT to get what is called an Interlinnear translation. All they do is take their copyrighted translation and match those individual words to the Hebrew that they want translated that way, regardless of whether or not it means what their copyrighted translation says.
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On the contrary my friend...\n\nThe writings you mention date from after the time of Christ (and after the writings of the NT gospels).\n\nThe NT gospels were authenticated by immediate disciples of Jesus Christ.\n\nLater writings from 150-1000 years after Jesus were NOT authenticated by the disciples of Jesus Christ (the ones who had actually spent time with Jesus, and so were eyewitnesses of the things he said and did).\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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The Bible In Basic English, 1965, by Cambridge University Press.  But let's vote on it to decide if it is true. :)
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where do you find what in the bible?  This question doesn't make any sense.
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Of course, we believed that the original Bible that given by God to Moses had already vanished in this world but if it can be found, we cannot follow what lies inside it because the born of Quran executed other Holy Books including Bible.\nWhy we should believed to a book that have been spoiled by reckless people, they manipulate everything, the changed every contents ? We could not consider Bible as the Holy Book anymore... Too many version of Bible and we don't know which one is the right ones !.
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Today there's nothing strange about them: they are public, everybody can read them and judge for themselves. Even on the internet. Apocryphas, gnostic, pseudopigraphics, you name them. They were only interesting as long as they where "hidden" or "banned" by narrowminded christians during centuries. I read 'em, almost all, and there's absolutely nothing sensational about them. Most of them are as boring as the Bible itself.
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Read it for yourself and decide. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/_pdf/GospelofJudas
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the bible is rewritten a lot\nit was changed a lot\n\nits now FALSE\nif you need evidences \njust contact
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I don't think there are actually writings original to the mithras sect anymore. I believe the information is mainly from secondary sources.\n\nI could be wrong, though--and would liek to know of a good translation if anyone out there is aware of one!
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I wish to read it but only the original bible not the translations. I like to read each and actual words as sent by God not by humans.
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Nope.  \n\nSecularists especially, use these "Didn't the (whatever Bible story) get copied from (whatever extra-biblical source)?"  all the time.  These have been discredited over and over again, yet they keep coming back.\n\nWhile it is true that there are similar stories in various other ancient texts, they are also very dissimilar.  You can look to the Amarna Letters, Babylonian Theodicy, Elba Tablets, Hammurabi's Code, Ishtar's Descent, Ludlul Bel Nemedi, Mari Tablets, and innumerable others, and find stories that are similar to the Bible's.  That hardly allows for them to be sources.\n\nKeep in mind also, when the Flood occurred, it was world-wide, and every ancient civilization recorded it.  These are also descendants of Noah, who abandoned YHWH as God, and followed idols instead.  The veracity of the story remains.  You can look to other stories in the same vein.
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The Bible is only a version of what happen, that is why they call them versions.  There are many eyes that seen what happen and many different versions.  But only a few that are widely popular.  People see things differently in every aspect and that goes with today as well.  It is history, but only a version.
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That is an easy one!\n\nFind a Christian Bible.\nFind another book.\nCheck if that book is found in the Bible.\nIf it isn't there then obviously it was left out.\n\nHow hard was that?\n\nThe Egyptian Book of the Dead? Nope, not there.\nThe Tibetian Book of the Dead? Nope, not there.\nWar & Peace? Nope, not there.\n\nWhere did you get this silly idea that the Bible was supposed to contain every single book in the universe and that the mean ole' Council of Nicea left all those millions of books out?