Earliest Surviving Christian Bible

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BBC: Historic Bible pages put online

See it at: http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx


BBC: ... oldest known Bible ... is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What's left out?

"Mr Ehrman was a born again Bible-believing Evangelical until he read the original Greek texts and noticed some discrepancies. The Bible we now use can't be the inerrant word of God, he says, since what we have are the sometimes mistaken words copied by fallible scribes. .... Fundamentalists, who believe every word in the Bible is true, may find these differences unsettling."

An aside: not that it really matters and not that it is at all relvant here, being only tangential to the unsettling aspect of things, but King James I, the one who had the King James Bible created, the one we all know so well, may have been quite flamingly gay or bi.

Back on track: Brush up on your Hellenistic Greek, there. And your Codocology and Paleography, too.

To will implies delay, therefore now do;
Hard deeds, the body's pains; hard knowledge too
The mind's endeavours reach, and mysteries
Are like the sun, dazzling, yet plain to all eyes.

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
gives me the strength of ten!