Oh I see what you mean. Well, after being translated many, many times, as well as being hand copied, and so on, so it would NOT be exactly the same.
I know the same happened with the Bible, and any work that has been around that long. Nothing can survive being hand copied and hand translated for hundreds of years without being altered.
~Lordbob
haha still not quite what i meant....
ok for the Iliad there are.... somewhere between 200 and 700 original copies of the entire thing.....
for the Bible there are 24,000 for just the new testament with very few alterations between them the are 99% the same...... all 24,000!
Manuscript Evidence for the Bible (by Ron Rhodes)
so you can see how its very easy for it to be fact :D
Interesting read. I didn't read the
entire thing, but I read most of it.
I will point this out: Just because all of them are very similar, that does not mean it is fact! For instance, if you were to search for something on the internet, you might find 1000 stories of a myth, all very similar. But none true.
I am not saying that the Bible is false, I am just pointing that out.
Now, people tend to revere their holy artifacts, as well as their faith. For the Bible, whoever believed in it would no doubt take care of it. So all those monks that copied down all those manuscripts would have them all very similar. Aside from the obvious spelling or wording mistake.
My point is that just because something is very popular, well known, and similar all over the world, does not make it true!
Keep in mind here, I am not trying to say there is no god or whatever. Just pointing out that I can't just blindly believe the Bible is fact.
~Lordbob
