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Originally Posted by SlowFade
I believe that the original manuscripts are inerrant. All translations, including the King James, have their errors.
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Originally Posted by mizpeh
Right, they are all errors related to copying or transcribing of men.
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Originally Posted by nahkoe
Study the Hebrew.
I'd much rather trust the original language than goosebumps...
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We don't have the original Hebrew texts, either, and the copies we have have errors, too. Same goes for the Greek NT.
And the claim that all the errors we have in today's copies of the Bible (regardless of the language) came from human error in copying, translating, etc. has major problems:
1. It disproves the scriptures that claim God will preserve His word. (Maybe those are some of the errors we are talking about!)
2. It leaves us with
no basis for knowing what God's word really is. Scholarship has done an impressive job, but there are still gaps and discrepancies.
3. I seriously doubt that this alone can explain
all the errors and contradictions. Unless we are to accept that some of the errors we are talking about are actually mistakes in the canonization itself. Maybe the original manuscript of Exodus isn't inspired after all, or Numbers, or James, or Genesis.