Has the Bible been corrupted, altered, edited, revised, or tampered with?

You need to ask?

Yes it has, yet there is still traceable rhythm and pattern. It is all screwed up when the new testament comes in

Everybody seem to forget that Africans have their own Bible. We have included Prophet Enoch, wich the Europeans did'nt include him in the Word of God(Bible). Our language and lituragy does not change. We can assure you that the Bible is not corrupted.

The Holy Scriptures are one of the two great foundations of the faith and here is what our church holds and teaches concerning it. The word of God is not contained in the Bible alone, it is to be found in tradition as well. The Sacred Scriptures are the written word of God who is the author of the Old and New Testaments containing nothing but perfect truth in faith and morals. But God’s word is not contained only in them, there is an unwritten word of God also, which we call apostolic tradition. We receive the one and other with equal veneration.



The canon of the Ethiopic Bible differs both in the Old and New Testament from that of any other churches.
List all books. As a whole, books written in the Geez language and on parchment are numerous. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament that will bring the total of canonized books of the Bible to 81.



These are the following

A. The Holy Books of the Old Testament

1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy
6. Joshua
7. Judges
8. Ruth
9. I and II Samuel
10. I and II Kings
11. I Chronicles
12. II Chronicles
13. Jublee
14. Enoch
15. Ezra and Nehemia
16. Ezra (2nd) and Ezra Sutuel
17. Tobit
18. Judith
19. Esther
20. I Maccabees
21. II and III Maccabees
22. Job
23. Psalms
24. Proverbs
25. Tegsats (Reproof)
26. Metsihafe Tibeb (the books of wisdom)
27. Ecclesiastes
28. The Song of Songs
29. Isaiah
30. Jeremiah
31. Ezekiel
32. Daniel
33. Hosea
34. Amos
35. Micah
36. Joel
37. Obadiah
38. Jonah
39. Nahum
40. Habakkuk
41. Zephaniah
42. Haggai
43. Zechariah
44. Malachi
45. Book of Joshua the son of Sirac
46. The Book of Josephas the Son of Bengorion



B. The holy books of the New Testament

1. Matthew
2. Mark
3. Luke
4. John
5. The Acts
6. Romans
7. I Corinthians
8. II Corinthians
9. Galatians
10. Ephesians
11. Philippians
12. Colossians
13. I Thessalonians
14. II Thessalonians
15. I Timothy
16. II Timothy
17. Titus
18. Philemon
19. Hebrews
20. I Peter
21. II Peter
22. I John
23. II John
24. III John
25. James
26. Jude
27. Revelation
28. Sirate Tsion (the book of order)
29. Tizaz (the book of Herald)
30. Gitsew
31. Abtilis
32. The I book of Dominos
33. The II book of Dominos
34. The book of Clement
35. Didascalia

In the past, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church had not much opportunity to expand and propagate the above, noted doctrine and orders of the church inside and outside the nation; this is because of the different circumstances prevailing in the surroundings of the country. Because of the advent of European Colonialism upon its neighboring African countries and the great monetary support that other religious groups received to convert Africans. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church had no other choice but to defend on and preserve all here Christian legacy. Henceforth, she was unable to raise her apostolic voice louder among her African brothers and sisters. Nevertheless, the sense of freedom that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church maintained for centuries being, the torch of freedom to all Africa has enabled Africans to be aware of their freedom.




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Last Edited by Haile Menelik on 05/05/2010 07:30 AM

Esther is a Talmudic tale.

Major prob as I see it is 400 year old translations just don't cut it in fact, religions like rapture cults were created by poor translations

Africans have their own bible? Im not sure what that means.

There are more Africans than Europeans on this planet, and your saying all have one specific bible?

Africans represent the founders of every religion on earth, they fought amongst each other for religious dominance sense ancient times

What makes you believe that Esther wasn't written during the time its placed?

it's a piece of fiction, plegarized from earlier genesis
tales from the Hetites, Babylonians, Egyptians and others of
that early Bronze Age mind set.
Time has come for human kind to update its mythology to match its current knowledge and understanding.

Alright. Show us which of the following was poorly translated.

-Biblical study of the Rapture-

Why is it called "rapture"?

The word "Rapture" comes from the Latin word "Rapturo", which is simply a translation of the Greek word "Harpazo". The word "Harpazo" can be found 13 times in the New Testament.

Verse in question which contains the Greek word Harpazo:

1Thessalonians 4:17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [G726 - Harpazo] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

What does "Harpazo" mean?

Caught up -G726- Harpazo
1) to seize, carry off by force
2) to seize on, claim for one's self eagerly
3) to snatch out or away

AV — catch up 4, take by force 3, catch away 2, pluck 2, catch 1, pull 1
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With the above understanding now in mind, please read the following:

1Thessalonians 4:13-18
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1Corinthians 15:51-58
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Proof would be nice.

A lot of the old testament up until the time of exodus was borrowed from the Egyptians while the Jews were in captivities. The laws after exodus that were given to the Jews were the laws of the Egyptians.

Like?

The Etheopians are just another Roman Orthodox branch. The Romans have always had apocryphal books not acceted as canon by mainline Christianity.

I will answer your question with a question.

Which version are you talking about?

That's contrary to what archeology has recently shown, and to the way history works.

The Hebrews actually played an important role of spreading technology and history throughout the ancient world, you need to do your history son. Hebrews most likely took Sumerian letters to Egypt, giving Egypt writing.

Yes, it has been altered and corrupted. In order to find a compromise between the Roman pagean religion and Christian beliefs and build the successful RC empire. Early Christian texts about reincarnation and vegetarian diet were ruled out of the Bible.

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"We have proved again and again, the writings are not the production of Christ or of His apostles, but a compilation of rumors and beliefs, made, long after their departure, by some obscure semi-Jews, not in harmony even with one another, and published by them under the name of the apostles, or of those considered the followers of the apostles, so as to give the appearance of apostolic authority to all these blunders and falsehoods." (Faustus, Contra Faustus Manicheun)

Fundamental Christians teach that the Bible is without error and written by God himself, through Moses and the Prophets. Our purpose in exposing the contradictions in a supposedly perfect text is to pave the way for acceptance of truer Gnostic texts.


FROM CHRISHNA TO CHRIST

By Raymond Bernard, Ph. D. (Contains Many Photographs from the rare book, Monumental Christianity By Lundy.)

This unique volume gives the true history of the Original Gospel of the Lord of Love and Master of Compassion, from which the Four Christian Gospels were Derived - A New Light on the Origin of Christianity.

It is the purpose of this book to show that the origin of the Christian religion consists in the teachings of Chrishna, savior of Ancient India, which he enunciated to his Hindu followers on the banks of the Ganges 5,000 years ago, and that these doctrines were introduced to the West during the first half of the first century by Apollonius of Tyana, who received them from his Himalayan teacher, Iarchus, during his studies in the Far East.

Apollonius introduced these doctrines among the Essenes; and those who accepted and followed the teachings of Chrishna which he brought from India became known as Chrishnaists or Christians. The doctrines of Chrishna, which were the foundation of Brahmanism, which religion Chrishna originated, were expressed in the sacred book of the Hindus, the "Bhagavad Gita" or the Song Celestial. They included belief in an immanent deity who dwells within all living creatures, plant, animal and human, and who suffers when they suffer and has joy when they are joyful. This pantheistic conception of God led to the doctrine of reverence for all life or universal compassion, which led to the practice of harmlessness and non-violence to any living creature, which meant vegetarianism and pacifism.

This philosophical and humane conception of God and the humanitarian practices that follow from this conception stands in sharp contrast with the later anthropopmorphic personal gods of the Jews and Christians, who were conceived as having a human form and, in the form of Jehovah, to have human passions, including baser ones of revengefulness, jealousy, etc. Also, being conceived as a being apart from his creations - animals and human beings - whom he fashioned from the "dust of the earth," he is not the indwelling deity of Brahmanism. The man-god of Judaism and Christianity gave man mastery over the lower animals and not only did not forbid him to kill and eat them, but encouraged and insisted on such killing in sacrifice to him in the form of burnt offerings. And, in the Old Testament, he also encouraged warfare and murder of those who refused to accept him and who worshipped other gods.

It is therefore clear that the later Western conceptions of deity are quite barbarous in comparison with the pure and humane doctrine taught by Chrishna. In his work, "Buddhism and Christianity," Arthur Lillie claims that the Essenes, who were the first Christians, derived their doctrines and practices from Buddhist missionaries who came westward during the third century B. C. during the reign of King Asoka, finding converts among them; and this explains the similarity of the life of the Essenes with that of Buddhist monks. Lillie's conclusion, based on long and careful research, is that the earliest and only authentic original gospel, or Diegesis, came from the Essenes and that all that is anti-Essene in the four best known gospels is accretion.

As we have mentioned, the influence of Buddhist philosophy also reached the Essenes through Pythagoras and Apollonius of Tyana, both of whom studied in the Himalayas and Tibet under Buddhist sages. The Essenes, or the first Christians, were therefore converts to Buddhism and Chrishnaism (Buddhism being a reformed revival of the original doctrines of Chrishna which had since degenerated at the hands of the orthodox Brahmanical priesthood); and the Essene founder of Christianity, Apollonius of Tyana, was a disciple of a Buddhist teacher (Iarchus), who combined Buddhism with western Pythagorean doctrines.

In his book, Lillie shows that Essenism, or Original Christianity, represented an occidental version of Buddhism, and that this was the origin of Christianity, the Christian gospels having been originally Hindu gospels devoted to the life and teachings of Chrishna and Buddha, the name Chrishna being changed to Cristos or Christ, with the name Jesus added, it is claimed, that two centuries before the present era, Buddhist missionaries introduced these teachings into Palestine and appeared in Egypt within two generations of the time of Alexander the Great. This led to a mystic movement among the Jews, who took up these teachings as they were brought to them by the martyred Jehoshua Ben Pandira, historical founder of the Essene sect among the Jews, who studied in Egypt, where he derived his doctrines which were opposed and persecuted by the orthodox rabbis. In Egypt, those who accepted these Buddhist doctrines were known as Therapeuts; in Palestine, Nazarites or Nazarenes. They were also called Essenes. The Pythagorean Greeks affiliated themselves with this movement, as also did the Levitical Hebrews; and all followed Pythagoras as their leader. Thus, when Apollonius of Tyana appeared among them, fresh from his studies in the Himalayas under his Buddhist master, teaching doctrines that were a synthesis of Buddhist and Pythagorean teachings, he was enthusiastically received by the Essenes and hailed as the long-awaited Teacher of Righteousness and their leader.

APOLLONIUS THE NAZARENE (MYSTERY MAN OF THE BIBLE)
A Startling Historical Discovery Based on Ancient Records Rescued from the Alexandrian Library Prior to Its Having Been Set on Fire by the Roman Churchmen, Concerning the Unknown World Teacher of the First Century, Leader and Teacher of the Essenes, Who First Introduced Among them the Gospel of Chrishna, Hindu Savior of 3000 B.C., which he Translated from the Sanskrit into the Aramaic as the Original Gospel (Diegesis) which, three centuries later, was elaborated into the four Christian Gospels by Roman Churchmen at the Council of Nicea, held in the year 325 A. D. By Dr. R W. Bernard (B.A., M. A., Ph. D. )

THE GREATEST FRAUD IN HISTORY A Startling Revelation of What Really Occurred at the Council of Nicea, Called by the Degenerate Roman Emperor and Homicidal Maniac, Constantine, When Apollonius of Tyana, the True Founder of Essenian Early Christianity, was replaced by a Fictitious Figure Put in His Place, More Pleasing to Constantine, Whereupon He Made the Doctrines of the Persecuted Essenes the Imperial Religion of Rome and Turned his Legions from Putting to Death the Early Christians to Massacring All who Refused to Accept Christianity in its New Romanized Form.

This manuscript also contains the Life and Private Correspondence of Apollonius of Tyana, The Teacher of Righteousness of the First Century Essenes and the Unknown Founder of Essenian Early Christianity.

This translation can be interpreted as a metaphysical explanation of evolving in consciousness, it can be used by churches to suggest a physical event to provoke fear

It's the complete opposite, you have your history backwards Study the Hyksos, Habiru.

Study King Ezana. Do a quick google search on him. And you will see that he is the Constantine of Africa. He originates from my area.

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Last Edited by Haile Menelik on 05/05/2010 07:56 AM

KJV. The most accurate of them all.

Provoke which kind of fear? Fear of meeting Jesus face-to-face? That does not scare me. What scares me is that there are many people that do find that scary.

I don't disagree that the Ethiopian Church was the first christian church in history, but the point remains that Africans have never adhered to one religion, they are split into countries that divide into various religions

Fear that if you don't follow church clergy, you wont be included in the rapture..

But today sense the work of martin luther everyone has a right on their own rapture theories...

Mine is that nothing suggests that this is a physical event, but a spiritual event. Much like the The Celestine Prophecy

The bible has been altered ... but the meat is still there

for those that are hungry for truth ... can find it



www.biblos.com

the most accurate is the Geneva Bible 1560

Lol. I'm sorry, but that's funny. I guess I won't be raptured then, huh? I don't follow "church clergy."

like the food and cleanliness laws. There are hundreds of them in the old testament.

THAT statement is just total bullshit.

There's really nothing new about being cleanly. I suppose you would have to be more specific in order for me to get a clearer picture of what exactly you mean.

You can say so; can you prove so?

According to Catholicism yes, they are a very strict church, what are you ignoring 500 years of christian history?