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No they didn't, in fact they found that the earliest manuscripts in existence have been corrected at least 20,000 times. The overall theme of the Bible may be in tact, but that doesn't mean every verse is accurate, or that certain chapters/concepts haven't been changed. King James admitted to altering his Bible and making it more Christianized as well as making certain themes align with the Church of England, and 70% of his comes from the Tyndale Bible which was altered to attack the Catholic Church.
We have thousands of examples of it being altered. The English translated Bible is not dictated by God.
Nah, everyone who is on a mission to prove the Bible wrong always use those talking points.
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Most of the biblical manuscripts found at Qumran belong to the [SIZE=-1]MT[/SIZE] tradition or family. This is especially true of the Pentateuch and some of the Prophets. The well-preserved Isaiah scroll from Cave 1 illustrates the tender care with which these sacred texts were copied. Since about 1700 years separated Isaiah in the [SIZE=-1]MT[/SIZE] from its original source, textual critics assumed that centuries of copying and recopying this book must have introduced scribal errors into the document that obscured the original message of the author.
The Isaiah scrolls found at Qumran closed that gap to within 500 years of the original manuscript. Interestingly, when scholars compared the [SIZE=-1]MT[/SIZE] of Isaiah to the Isaiah scroll of Qumran, the correspondence was astounding. The texts from Qumran proved to be word-for-word identical to our standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95 percent of the text. The 5 percent of variation consisted primarily of obvious slips of the pen and spelling alterations (Archer, 1974, p. 25). Further, there were no major doctrinal differences between the accepted and Qumran texts (see Table 1 below). This forcibly demonstrated the accuracy with which scribes copied sacred texts, and bolstered our confidence in the Bible’s textual integrity (see Yamauchi, 1972, p. 130). The Dead Sea Scrolls have increased our confidence that faithful scribal transcription substantially has preserved the original content of Isaiah.
It is ok for a man to love one another but that does NOT INCLUDE SEX. Gay marrage is not acceptable as God said no man should lie with the same sex as it is not natural. It is an abomination and that will never change. God is the same yesterday today and forever.
If the Bible can be used as a justification for busy bodies to f-up people's lives and restrict the rights and freedoms of free people in a democratic society, then the democratic process should be used to amend the Bible as the people see fit.
What's that you say, you don't think people should vote on what goes into religion? Well how about religion stays out of politics and we'll call it a draw?
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There are plenty of other commonsense and ''non-religious'' reasons for outlawing murder and pedophilia.... gay marriage not so much.
BTW, the ''what's next'' argument could just as easily be applied to enacting laws based on religious dictums (i.e., where does that lead and where does it ever stop?).
Watching the clip it seemed to be a harmless tongue in cheek statement meant to enhance the topic he and his guest were talking about, but as usual the righties have taken the piece of conversation totally out of context in their frenzy of hate toward Mr Morgan,sky is now falling fast and furious over in rightie land. deport,execute,terminate. Must hate Piers Morgan!!!
Nobody hates him. We just recognize him for the idiotic joke he is.
The joke's obviously on you, and you don't get it.
I wonder if Piers Morgan is really Carmilla The Duchess in Drag...
Damn, I think you guessed it Mr.XXX .
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