Quote Originally Posted by Psalm136:2 View Post
Hi City,
First let me tell you about the 66 books that was compiled and later came to be the Bible. The OT was written originally in Hebrews because obviously, that's the language of the Jews. Now thousands of years later, more and more people are speaking Aramaic, so some of the books were written in this language. When Jesus came, there are now 3 official language in Jerusalem, Hebrews, Aramaic and Greek which was the language of the invading Romans. Hebrews was slowly fading out.

The NT was written in Greek so that more people could be reached. Halos pawala na rin ang Hebrews this time. Again, thousands of years later, when the Romans finally realized that Christianity is spreading like wildfire, they accepted it, thus the Roman Catholic came into being. Scribes during those times were ordered to re-write the OT and NT into just one language, for obvious reason, wala pang CD recorder noon at mga computers to preserve the original books, so the first Bible was written in Latin (called the Latin Vulgate), the official language of the Roman Empire during those times, pawala na ang Aramaic at Greek.

Again, hundreds of years later, the bible was translated into different languages for the sole purpose of preaching the Word to every country. Walang dagdag, walang bawas, again because of the curse in the book of Revelation. Now some words may have been omitted or changed, mainly because those words don't have translations to other languages, kaya pinapalitan ng ibang words para mas madaling maintindihan ng mga tao in their own native language. But this doesn't mean that binago, dinagdagan or binawasan ang Bible, the context is still the same. Now if you don't believe me, try to read just one book of the modern Bible and compare the whole context with the Greek Bible which is still in circulation.

Some churches in other parts of the world still use the original Greek NT and some churches in the Middle East still use the original Hebrews OT. Don't quote me literally when I say "original" dahil gutay-gutay na to in museums somewhere. I meant re-written in the original languages.

What's my views on the new gospels found by scientists? Simple lang naman ang sagot ko, "All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfected, thoroughly furnished to every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Now if these newly discovered "gospels" run contrary to what the above verses say, therefore makakasama sa tao, di makakatulong sa kanyang buhay, except maybe head knowledge, then di sya Scripture. Yes, they're authentic, found to be thousands of years old, but this doesn't mean that they're God-breathed.

How do you know which one god-breathed?