Deep Thoughts: One of the oldest known bibles to be digitized

Monday, October 06, 2008

One of the oldest known bibles to be digitized

One of prized possessions is 140 year old Book of Mormon. It is a family heirloom I picked up from my great grandmother in the 1970s. I used it once to show a Mormon the differences between a modern version and my older version. I lost my friend a few days later. I was a Christian then. It seemed important.

The same thing will happen when people start looking at the Codex Sinaiticus. It being digitized, translated and then made available to the public.

For those who believe the Bible is the inerrant, unaltered word of God, there will be some very uncomfortable questions to answer. It shows there have been thousands of alterations to today's bible.

The Codex, probably the oldest Bible we have, also has books which are missing from the Authorised Version that most Christians are familiar with today - and it does not have crucial verses relating to the Resurrection.

My favorite line...

"When people ask me if the Bible is the word of God I answer 'which Bible?'"

This should be interesting.

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1minionsopinion · 865 weeks ago

I used to play around on the forums at unexplained-mysteries.com but it didn't take long before I was fed up with the inanity of trying to deal with people in the religion threads and their blind allegiance to their faiths. Some of them don't want to know the history of their favourite book. They don't want to believe it's been tampered with by people in powerful positions pushing agendas. They don't want to learn the truth about how their faiths evolved. They don't want to be put in a position where they might have to question its veracity.

I think this digital Codex project is going to be pretty interesting, too.

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J. K. Jones · 865 weeks ago

I doubt that the new manuscript will show variants which are not already documented in modern translations with a footnote.

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Mojoey 107p · 865 weeks ago

I doubt your statement. If the footnote says this verse was added in a later version of the bible, I'd be surprised. If the verse Let him who is without sin cast the first stone and it’s related passage is missing from the bible, a footnote cannot explain this signifigance. What would it say? We made this story up a few centuries after the orignial bible was assembled? Pay no attention… move along… there is nothing to see here.

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