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World's Oldest Bible Going Online
99luftballon writes "The British Museum is putting online the remaining fragments of the world's oldest Bible. The Codex Sinaiticus dates to the fourth century BCE and was discovered in the 19th century. Very few people have seen it due to its fragile state — that and the fact that parts of it are in collections scattered across the globe. It'll give scholars and those interested their first chance to take a look. However, I've got a feeling that some people won't be happy to see it online, since it makes no mention of the resurrection, which is a central part of Christian belief."On Thursday the Book of Psalms and the Gospel According to Mark will go live at the Codex Sinaiticus site. The plan is to have all the material up, with translations and commentaries, a year from now.
Truth is that they just like it because the King James Bible has more of the sort of blood-and-thunder language that appeals to these sorts. The old-fashioned English it uses sounds kinda scary to the modern ear and that's how they like it.
hmmmm "NT" ... I wonder what that stands for ...
Nice Troll?
Cite your sources?
The general feeling is that the Roman Catholic Church's main dogma is the "the doctrine is the truth" so if something seems to be the truth outside of the doctrine, it is dangerous and should be fought.
This is what apologists refer to gently as "Protestant propaganda," or just "nonsense."
Maybe you're thinking of Southern Baptists? The Bible occupies a much less important position among Catholics; there are the basics we accept out of it and then you have the discussion with coffee and donuts and THERE is where you learn. Ergo archaeological "proof" is not some Holy Grail like it is for the Fundamentalists; we don't need everything to be a true historical event, we don't need the Prodigal Son to have existed to understand what the moral of the story is, etc. See Lorenzo Albacete's talks on Job--Catholics learn things like the concept that shared suffering always ends in an expression of grace and love, whereas...well, Fundies like to quote chapter and verse and then bug out. Slightly different approach.