Your Bible has been corrupted and changed over the decades and millennia

Recently I sat down with Dan from Questioning Christianity and we talked about a whole host of issues, among them was Gospel authorship and anonymity.

[YeshuaSaves]

The telephone analogy doesn’t even fit for other reasons like:
1. The gospels were WRITTEN while the telephone game has people speak to each other. There is quite a difference.
2. In the game you have to quickly whisper into someones ear without letting others hear and you only get one chance to transmit that message. The writers were able to literally see with their own eyes the words as many times as needed so there is no mistaking what was written vs what is quickly whispered.

The telephone game only works if we follow the telephone game rules and does not even apply to real life conversation much less the copying of the gospel manuscripts. Big L for that argument. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[samuelotache]

Can you do a video on the apparent contradiction between the nativity in Luke and Matthew gospels?

[morlewen]

The multiple lines of transmissions did not prevent the alteration of the text. The self-healing or self-coerrecting powers were low. Today, we have passages in the NT that were added later. Not many but still significant. I completely agree that the huge amount of copies in later centuries gave us the possibiliy to indenty the alterations. But here is the crux. You need to have a certain amount of complete copies (or at least many many overlapping fragments) of a certain book in a certain time period and from many distant places to identify alterations compared with the Urtext of that time period. But we do not have that amount of copies for the first and second century BCE. In deed we have almost nothing for this early time. That makes it impossible to reconstruct the Urtext. We can get an approximation by prosuppositions and extrapolations but not the original text. I do not expect a completely different Urtext but it is highly probable the a passage here and there was added or omitted in the early stage.
You could compare it with the book "Kinder- und Hausmärchen" by the Grimm brethren. First publication was 1812. The second edition was 1815. If you have only copies and fragments of copies of the 2nd edition you can perfectly recvonstruct the 2nd edition but you will completely miss out the alteration compared with the first edition.
As long as we do not find dozens or even hundreds of manuscripts from the 1st and 2nd century we can get only approximations of the Urtexts of different NT books.
Were paasages in books of OT and NT altered ? Yes, nobody will deny it. It is too obvious. The core doctrines of Judaism and Christianity are quite perfectly transmitted. The rest not so much.

[justbobshalfhourshow]

The veracity of the Bible was accomplished in the same way as cryptocurrency is done today by DLT or distributed ledger (scripture in this case) technology. Instead of the computerized blockchains of today there was the monastery's and churches, etc. that performed perhaps an even more precise method, as Gods word was so much more important than the fortunes of today.

[elijahlyngdoh]

@WessHuff Pls Answer this Question cause I don't know where to Get Answer!!!

In Luke 15:11-32 Prodigal Sons,

I've Heard some Scholar name J.Sanders said The 2nd Part Of The Story Verse 25-32 where it's about the Older brother, It's Added Later By Pre Lucan Tradition not from Jesus!!! What's Lucan Tradition and Is This

Also Is this entire Story In The Early Manuscripts and Is it Authentic???

[nikostheater]

The issue with the telephone game argument is that portions of the gospels were mentioned in the earliest writings of the church fathers and the very early writings of Christians. It’s known what the gospels said, is not a guessing game, because of the plethora of manuscripts in Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Syriac from the late 1st century up to the first Codices.
The argument of corruption or alteration is stupid in its face, designed to dupe the idiotic ignoramuses.

[John.]

If you hold to the critical texts, then yes it has been changed. The NIV is way different than the KJV. They come from two different lines.