What would the bible be like if it was written today?
963793
The main focus will be PC.  God forbid someone should write what they believe is the truth if it by any chance may be offending to those who don't believe in the Bible!
929694
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.
1032310
yes because it is written in the bible
763549
They change with the different bibles and the different translations and the different languages.  You would have to go back a half dozen languages and about 3000 years ti find "the" ten commandments.
995083
It would actually be the other way around.  The new testament is where Christianity draws its teachings from. The old testament is escentially a good place to draw lessons from, but for the most part it is agreed upon that it shouldn't be taken literally.
946159
God didn't lie to the bible writers - THEY MADE IT UP\n\nThe bible writers are the liars\n\nHere's another thought - if we found a science book from the 1st century, do you think it would be of any revelance now?
781772
Just remember that back then there were no computers, cars or whatever we have nowadays, so them people not having anything to do started to write their dreams and their thoughts, that's how the bible originated, have hundreds of books but just a handful made it..☺
429664
Well God is active even now. Only the difference is that it is not reported anymore. Just think that at any given point of time there are more than 200 factors at work, trying to wipe out human race and destroy this planet (germs, space bodies, weapons and ofcourse men!).\nThen why is it that we still exist? Rack your brain and you'll get the answer.\n\nBible was not written by God. It is just an interpretation of facts according to several different people. All of these stories regarding Jesus were initially expressed in the form of several gospels, of which many were discarded (see gospel of Judas, gospel of Mary Magdalene) and those of Luke, Mark, Mathew etc were accepted.\n\nSo bible did not ARRIVE BY FAX FROM HEAVEN\nIt was written by us so Ver2.0 is also our responsibility.
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The Bible in it's present form didn't exist until hundreds of years after Christ's crucifixion. Until that time Christians had the same scriptures that the Jewish nation had. But they didn't practise Judaism, they practised Christianity.\n\nSo, if it was just the Bible... then Christians would have practised Judaism.\n\nThe New Testament wasn't the foundation of Christianity. Christ was.
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the bible has been changed
465149
Remember that the Bible was continuously rewritten "translated" by men, Need I say more?
787473
None if your reading the KJV.
165814
If you use the bible as your history book. Otherwise there's just speculation of what could have happened 2000 years ago.
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Now, imagine a book... \n\nwritten by over 40 different authors \nwritten in 3 different languages \nwritten within very different cultures \nwritten on 3 different continents \nwritten over a 1,600-year period \nwritten by kings as well as peasants, philosophers & fishermen, prisoners & doctors \nwritten on hundreds of controversial issues \nWhat kind of book would we have? \n\nYou might think, “a mound of inconsistency so confusing as to produce an all time worst-seller.” But add one element — GOD overseeing all these authors — and what do we get? The Bible, the best-selling book of all time. \n\nThe Bible’s Claim \nThe Bible claims to be actual communication from God to humanity. Notice these biblical passages:\n\nAll Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 \n\nAbove all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21 \n\nThe Bible claims to be the very Word of God (verbum Dei), indeed, the very words of God (verba Dei). But this claim often raises a number of objections. \n\nObjection #1: The Bibles we have today are nothing like the biblical books as they were originally written. \nThis is a real concern people have. The question of whether or not the Bible was God’s Word 2,000 years ago is irrelevant if the Bible we read today is substantially different from what was originally written. Until the invention of the printing press around 1450, all literature was hand-copied and scribes could make mistakes in copying. It’s hard to know if errors are present with many ancient works simply because few early hand-written copies exist. But this is not a major concern with the biblical documents: \n\n1. There are over 24,000 surviving partial or complete manuscripts of New Testament books today. By comparison, the next largest number is for Homer’s Iliad, with only 643 surviving manuscripts. We have only 7 copies of Pliny’s History and only 10 of Caesar’s Gallic Wars―but we don’t hesitate to trust them. \n\n2. Furthermore, the New Testament has unusually early manuscripts compared with other ancient literature. Our earliest copy of Pliny’s History dates to 750 years after Pliny’s death. A lot can happen in 750 years. And the earliest copy of Gallic Wars was copied 1,000 years after Caesar’s death. By contrast, some early New Testament fragments date to within 30 years of their first writing, as with the John Rylands papyrus found in Egypt. There simply wasn’t enough time between the original writing and our earliest manuscripts to allow for much corruption. \n\n3. There are over 84,000 quotations from the New Testament (mainly from sermons) dating to the early centuries of the Church. In fact, even if we didn’t have a single manuscript of the Bible today, we could reconstruct all but 11 verses of the entire New Testament from material within 150 to 200 years from the time of Christ. \n\n4. Similarly, with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1950s, we now have copies of the entire Old Testament from before the time of Christ―complete copies of every book except Esther.\n\nModern translations of the Bible (New International Version, New American Standard Bible, etc.) are translated directly from these earliest biblical manuscripts. \n\nObjection #2: The Bible is just a book of fairy-tales. Its account is not historically reliable. \nWhile there are letters and songs and laws and doctrinal teachings in the Bible, the most common genre within the Scripture is history. Observers point out that the Bible is an historical document in that it consistently gives accurate information on the geography, chronology, people, places, customs, nations and even
190601
Of course the Bible has errors, the Synoptics (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) don't even agree on what time of day Jesus was crucified.  The Bible was written by MANY differeny people and there are bound to be things that are inaccurate and just flat out wrong.  The Bible was written by people, not God, and there for it is a statistical impossibility that none of those people made absolutly no errors over a periond of two thousand years.  To me, the Bible is for inspiration and for insight into a lot of spiritual topics, but it is by no means without flaws.  To believe that the Bible is without flaws is a very, very rigid way to look at it and if someone doesn't think so, there is plenty of proof otherwise.  And those who always quote and espouse the stuff in the Bible usually can't come up with anything interesting theologically on thieir own.
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We were ALL born in to sin and since they rejected Him back then, I highly doubt that there would be much of a change today. Actually, I think it would be worse on Him now because of the different variances of religions worldwide.\n\nChristianity is scorned today and we do NOT suffer like Christians did "back then." He knew what He was doing when He was here 2,000+ years ago. People's hearts have hardened with sin worse now than ever before.
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for 2,000 years, there's always been a "contemporary" period. And that means in the year 2150, those people will think they are "contemporary" and we are near-ancient.\n\nSo the real challenge here,.. are we so much different in this "contemporary" period as say... those folks were 200 years ago?? Does the Bible (typically) address outside events, or rather the nature of man's heart, his need for relationships, even with his maker, and how to cross over from sin and error to righteousness and success?\n\nThese things are 'timeless', - no matter how modern you think you are.