lucifer

[fleckboy]

i am researching about the book of lucifer, and stumbled across a reference on the net that the bible has been rewritten and that some chapters and verses have been left out. does anyone know if this is true and why would they of done this.?

[goldenboy]

look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha

[neenynanu]

The Bible isn't one book - it's lots of them, written by different people at different places both from before and after the time of Christ. After Jesus died, his followers (who were mostly Jewish at the time) had many different opinions about who he was and how to change their religious practices in accordance with his teachings.

Some religious leaders called the council of Nicea met up about 300 years after Jesus had died to put all of the books about him and the religious texts from before his life into one book which supported one view (which everyone would have to follow) about who Jesus was and how he lived. There were books which suggested that Jesus was just a normal man (not the son of God) and others which the council thought had been made up which weren't included in the finished Bible but still make up the Apocrypha.

Bits of the Bible have also almost certainly changed over the last 2,000 years because the people who wrote out the books had to copy them all out by hand and will have made mistakes.

[Clanad]

Actually, the Council of Nicaea, June 19, 325 A.D., was called for only one purpose. The Council soundly defeated the heresy of Arianism which sought to teach that God the Father had created Jesus and therefore the Son was not as important, so to speak, as the Father. From the Council came the Nicene Creed, still in use by most branches of Christianity today... "God the Father and God the Son were consubstantial and coeternal and that the Arian belief in a Christ created by and thus inferior to the Father was heretical". Among other things achieved at Nicaea were the agreement on a date to celebrate Easter and a ruling on the Melitian Schism in Egypt. There was no debate or thought of any disagreement on the meaning and validity of New Testament Scripture. The fact of Who and Why the Word (John 1:1) was had already been well established by the powerful testimony of eyewitness and recorded in the Gospels and the early writings of Paul.
While it is true there are minor scribal errors in both the New and Old Testaments, scholars agree they have no affect on clearly understood meaning and the New Testament is found to be 98 percent error free when newer copies are compared to far older copies...
As the reference to apocryphal writings suggests, they were much later in origin and clearly "different" and fanciful in their mythological nature... The Roman Catholic Church includes them as historical reference value...

[heathfield]

Quite a bit here too.

[pugwashjw]

The bible has been translated many times and scholars worldwide have gone over it many times. The present Bible gives us all the fgacts we need to know God's plan. It has not changed ever since He created Adam and Eve. And He has promised that He will protect the integrity of the Bible. Revelation 22;18��I am bearing witness to everyone that hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone makes an addition to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this scroll; 19�and if anyone takes anything away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God will take his portion away from the trees of life and out of the holy city, things which are written about in this scroll.
This does require faith but completely overcomes any problems in translation or adding or subtracting any books from the Bible.

[Cobra.]

Just watch Constantine