Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Supposedly, there were popes who actually burned the Bible, and other religious books when such books did not support their political aspirations. Then King James rewrote the whole thing as he saw fit. Western NT texts were recently compaired to the oldest known text, in Hebrew, I believe, and thousands of inconsistancies were noted. The Syrians use an ancient text, and there are material differences between the Syrian text and the texts we are using. Translation from mideast language, especially ancient mideast language, is very difficult in itself. That's a big part of the problem.

This, I got from a Catholic source, and it's hardly flattering to the history of the heirarchy. But mlsoft and the fundamentalists reject any theory but pure inerrancy. Anything but complete inerrancy is inconsistant with their literalist view.