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British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online
Peace Corps Library writes "BBC reports that about 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible, the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, have been recovered and put on the Internet. 'The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures,' says Dr. Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library. 'This 1,600-year-old manuscript offers a window into the development of early Christianity and first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation.' The New Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus appears in Koine Greek, the original vernacular language, and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. For 1,500 years, the Codex Sinaiticus lay undisturbed in a Sinai monastery until it was found in 1844 and split between Egypt, Russia, Germany, and Britain. It is thought to have survived because the desert air was ideal for preservation and because the monastery, on a Christian island in a Muslim sea, remained untouched, its walls unconquered. The British Library is marking the online launch of the manuscript with an exhibition which includes a range of historic items and artifacts linked to the document. 'The availability of the virtual manuscript for study by scholars around the world creates opportunities for collaborative research that would not have been possible just a few years ago.'"
Okay you can safely mod me down.
...Why is this news again? I forgotted.
There's a misspelling on page 3.
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Is it copyrighted? And if not, why not>.. we must allow the original authors and their heirs to make a decent living from this document. I hereby declare that I will be lobbying congress for a 1600-year extension to the current copyright period.
I always wondered what the Greek word for "sodomy" was..
God is my favorite fictional character.
Religion is beautiful from artistic and literary standpoints, but everything goes wrong when people actually believe that shit.
J.S. Bach wrote some good shit in God's name as he fooled around with maids in the wine cellar and beat up his bassoon player in a streetfight. Fortunately people no longer need to evoke god in order to have an audience appreciate their art. In fact, quite the opposite. Christian "rock" music? WaHAHAHAhahahah! And the Muslim shit ain't all that good either, unless you like buzzing and droning yourself into a hateful trance.
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You can believe in Jesus as the embodiment of God on earth without a material resurrection. You can experience the direct presence of God - as directed and refined through Jesus' perfect realization of the Holy Spirit - without a material resurrection.
God is alive, and all else is dead in contrast.
Material resurrection is for scholars, theologians and other ignorant classes of people, who are attached to their own material beings at the expense of their spiritual reality. Consequently they value a material resurrection as a superior state, tho' it represents an inferior condition.
To them, they look towards an afterlife that differs little from the present material life, except in enhancement of those qualities in this life towards which they have attached a superior value.
There is no material correlation to the experience of a next world. No one is waiting for you, other than God. No one will be reunited, except for the spirit with God.
Other than this can only be described as paganism.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
Why would Paul write so strongly about the resurrection even in prison? Heck, why would Paul leave his life of luxury as a Jewish leader stoning Christians if he didn't experience something supernatural?
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When information is power, privacy is freedom.
In other words, it's a moronic, childish argument.
It's an argument about which invisible sky fairy to worship - how could it not be?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Hey, now, no need to mod me troll - I wasn't talking about your religion. Your religion is obviously the one true word of God. It's only everyone else who are poor deluded saps worshipping invisible sky fairies! Their faith based in circular logic is an obvious fallacy, while your faith based in circular logic is righteous. I mean, if you had poor critical thinking skills, you'd know, right?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.