Dovina19 Aug 2005
I donât think itâs been butchered very much at all. The old manuscripts that have been dug up recently show that not much has been changed through miscopying and bad translation.
Maybe youâve been reading âThe Da Vinci Codeâ by Dan Brown, which promotes the notion of Bible butchering. The book opens by saying that he has written a work of speculation, not necessarily history. Then he asserts that the Nicene Council selected the New Testament books form literature in circulation at the time, and that other selections could have just as readily comprised a different Bible. In this way he writes a bible with almost no credibility, and proceeds with his bogus hypothesis.
Actually, the books we call the New Testament are pretty well grounded in history. You may argue with what they say, but hardly with whether they come down to us essentially unchanged.