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Apparently there are more than 400,000 variations in the Greek manuscripts that are the basis for the New Testament. Which means there are more variations then there are words in the New Testament itself.
Truly incredible that God, in their infinite wisdom, sent us this message, which we’re evidently not able to decipher.
I think you meant to post this to /c/dataisunreadable
Zoom.
You have all (almost 500) sources in the bottom half. If it’s unreadable you might be opening a thumbnail, check for the full resolution of the image.
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I wish they highlighted the most important contradictions, ngl I don’t care about contradictions about some old guys number of sons, some Christians admit the bible is a source, like all historical source, and the authors make some mistakes. But for example Alex O’Connor talks about how the contradiction in the gospels of whether or not Jesus went to Egypt or to a temple or something, which fulfills some Messiah prophecy, indicating Luke (Or whichever Gospel author wrote it) was intentionally lying to make Jesus seem more like the Messiah. Also an explanation of why each contradiction matters. This seems more like a boring gotcha than something to learn about.
Not sure what goes into creating this, but wouldn’t it be marvellous if we could created these for political parties. That would shake out the BS fruit that can grow there and give a clearer fidelity view.
If you remove all the contradictions from all the religious texts you’ll get the true word of god which was also written down in a dragon scroll by oogway. \s
Please tell me there are ones for the Quran and the Bhagavad Gita
I’m not sure that the OP is being exclusive, just shading what they have. Fair point though, every religion will have similar. Now I’m thinking there would be useful for every political party too. Would certainly share the trees.
Bhagavad Gita is not the equivalent for Bible. In fact a “Bible”, i.e. a singular holy book that governs everything - doesn’t exist in Hinduism.
You can kinda sum it up in: -love thy neighbour, but also kill them.
Almost as though there were multiple revolutionary changes to the underlying religious philosophy between the various books, most notably (but certainly not exclusively) between the Old and New Testaments.
Well sure, but it also says god never changes.
(Ok memeing aside: sure there’s plenty of layers and nuance to go around but that doesn’t take away that there’s still far too many people who take this book too literal, too serious and are ruining other lives by doing so. If it was treated for what it is, a piece of history, then this conversation wouldn’t be necessary)
I wanna see a version that is just Old Testament. One that is just New Testament. And then versions with and without revelation.
Grey bars are new testament
Yeah. But I wanna see one without the lines coming in from the Old Testament or going out to the Old Testament. Kind of just want to see new and old separate.
The Bible would have made a better JRPG than a religion.
It’s a book written by hundreds of different author in a 600 years span (and collecting far older traditions) in three different languages. It’s surprising there are not more contradictions.
That’s not the problem. The problem is the abundance of assholes using selected parts of the Bible to manipulate others while conveniently ignoring other parts of the Bible that contradict them. They choose what parts they want to hear, and then act like they’re unassailable edicts that came straight from God.
Cherry pickers, every single one of them.
Oh, and that changes from day to day, minute to minute. It’s not consistent in any way. The only consistent part is their surety of existence of something that does not, and never did, exist.
The problem is the abundance of assholes using selected parts of the Bible to manipulate others while conveniently ignoring other parts of the Bible that contradict them.
This has absolutely nothing to do with contradictions or lack thereof, though. You can just as easily cherry-pick something that has no contradictions.
That’s non-sequitur.
Disagree. If the document was completely logical & self-supporting, then there’d be no need to cherry pick as anything said would be consistent with the whole. You could highlight certain aspects, but that’s not cherry-picking.
If the document was completely logical & self-supporting, then there’d be no need to cherry pick as anything said would be consistent with the whole.
You’re assuming that the entire document has a single message, which is absolutely not a given. Simple hypothetical:
If the Bible said nothing more than these things:
- Abortion is bad
- You should tithe 10% of your income to the church
- The earth is 6000 years old
And you were someone who was on board with the first two but not the third, it’d be cherry-picking to call yourself an adherent of the Bible while citing your belief/agreement in/with the first two while ignoring the third, even though none of the three things above contradict each other.
I can not understand how someone can blindly believe in a book they KNOW was rewriten infinite times. They say it’s the word of god but it was also edited by all sorts of kings and popes, can we edit the word of god? How can people not think? I’m not talking about faith but this sick following of a fucking book
Black and white answers are the pinnacle of evolution. 🤓
Are there major contradictions or not?
Yes. Yes, there are.
Why? It’s fictional.
Call that black and white, or any other color you want. That’s just reality.
Water is bad: flood, drowning, monsoon, cholera victims. Water is good: drought, famine, dehydration victims. Pretty major contradictions.
What you posted are judgments.
Water is H2O. Anything else is a contradiction.
Any way to make it smaller?
I’d love to see one with the old and new testament references highlighted in different colors
Also the ones where Paul contradicts Jesus.
