The BBC Reports:What is probably the oldest known Bible is being digitised, reuniting its scattered parts for the first time since its discovery 160 years ago. It is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What's left out?
The world's oldest surviving Bible is in bits.
For 1,500 years, the Codex Sinaiticus lay undisturbed in a Sinai monastery, until it was found - or stolen, as the monks say - in 1844 and split between Egypt, Russia, Germany and Britain.
Now these different parts are to be united online and, from next July, anyone, anywhere in the world with internet access will be able to view the complete text and read a translation.For those who believe the Bible is the inerrant, unaltered word of God, there will be some very uncomfortable questions to answer. It shows there have been thousands of alterations to today's bible.
The Codex, probably the oldest Bible we have, also has books which are missing from the Authorised Version that most Christians are familiar with today - and it does not have crucial verses relating to the Resurrection...
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The Bible has a rich history of being attacked by so called new discoveries of old texts. In relation to the resurrection it is interesting that Jesus rebuked his eleven apostles for their "lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after He had risen." (Mark 16 verse 14). Amazingly verse 15 then records He said "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation." It should not be surprising that the world stubbornly refuses to believe in a book that claims to have been written over many centuries under the supervision of the Holy Spirit. It makes prophetic and spiritual claims for itself that insists on offending human pride into even greater stubbornness but, amazingly, it can graciously and totally disarm all resistance within a second. It claims sovereign authority to demand obedience and it wields a two edged sword to divide truth from error. To imagine it can be thwarted in its eternal purposes by human ingenuity is blind folly. "Therefore the world does not know us, because it does not know Him." 1 John 3 verse 16(b)
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