There is no mention of a day of rest in any of the oldest sciptures it is belived to have been added by a scribe(the Bible was copyied by hand before the invention of the press)who wanted a day off. BCBUDBOY
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There is no mention of a day of rest in any of the oldest sciptures it is belived to have been added by a scribe(the Bible was copyied by hand before the invention of the press)who wanted a day off. BCBUDBOY
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it, thou shalt do no work...'Quote:
Originally Posted by BCBUDBOY
I am by no means a well versed in the Bible , but yet I am puzzled by this small conundrum.
All other commandments start out by saying "Thou shalt not.."
And yet this one, the 4th one, starts with "Remember..."
Why remind someone of somthing unless, somday it may be forgotten.
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Oh really? Do you have copies of these "oldest scriptures"? Besides, even the oldest scriptures were written down after the legends had been passed down by oral tradition for many many centuries, so of course they should be taken with a grain of salt.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCBUDBOY
But it seems pretty clear that the ancient Jews did believe the world was created in six days. The world used in the earliest Hebrew writings we can find is indeed yom, which means "day". And the same earliest copies we have do contain lots of references to keeping every seventh day holy—this is no surprise, since a seven-day week was also observed by the Babylonians and it is likely the Jews borrowed the idea from them (and interestingly enough, the Jewish and Babylonian creation myths also have many similarities). The ancient Hebrews didn't exactly have expert geologists and astrophysicists, so there was nothing to suggest to them that the Earth as we know it took billions of years to form. Can you really blame them for guessing wrong?
Or mabey its different because it was written by someone else.The are older writings than the one you quoted and they don't mention the sabbath BCBUDBOY
I belive the Vatican has most of these,I read a book of translations,they took every verse in the Bible and gave 4 or 5 translations 2Greek 1 Hebrew one in the oldest recorded text,and one I don't recall. The chruch has offically changed the Bible twice.There are over onehundread cannonized(accepted as true) sciptures,the bible is made up of less than a dozen of them. BCBUDBOY
So your saying the only thing I can do is Jesus?Quote:
Originally Posted by xsw2
I'm really going to need a credible source before I believe that. The Old Testament is chock full of mentions of the Sabbath, many of which are central to the point of the story. And from what I can find, the Nash Papyrus is the name of the document which contains the earliest known record of the Ten Commandments, dated to about the second century BC, and it seems to include the commandment about observing the Sabbath.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCBUDBOY
http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_...mmands-JQR.htm
Could you please direct me to these older writings of yours? I think I'm going to believe the expert-Biblical-scholar-with-historical-documents guy before the Internet-message-board-posting-rumors-without-evidence guy on this one.
Yes, that's you. I can see your name above your post too.Quote:
BCBUDBOY
It also seems the Dead Sea scrolls (not quite as old as the Nash Papyrus, but just about the oldest biblical fragments we have) mention the Sabbath:
http://www.openscrolls.org/cgi-bin/t...llegro&page=32
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Originally Posted by Mark Bryan
Define a "True Christian" .
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Originally Posted by Solistus
And why did God need to rest? Does he get tired and need sleep?:confused: