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Old 09-23-2010, 04:36 PM   #18
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A lot of contradictions can also be explained away with translation problems. Even reading a copy of an ancient Bible written in Latin (which is itself a translation of a text which was most likely a translation of a text written generations after Christ died) produces a clearer picture. This isn't to say that there are no contradictions but that a massive amount is lost in translation, such as different words for different kinds of sons and different heavens, and every time it gets translated to a new language more gets muddled up.

Also when trying to find the central ideas or get the closest that you can to “the truth” you can look to find where accounts agree. Picking the one out that is different tells little, just that someone has a different story to tell, if all accounts are different then that shows something, if only one account is different then it is an outlier, just like in statistics. There are people who deny the Holocaust, that have been in books and on tv but that doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen or even that we can’t know for sure that it happened, I can only hope that in the future those few people aren’t enough to cast doubt in the minds of scholars as to whether or not it happened. This isn’t to say that the Bible is the truth, I myself am not a believer, just that you don't have as much of an argument as you seem to think.
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