responding to common objections to bible

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Aren't you forgetting a bunch of other religious/philosophical texts now? The first who springs to mind are those of the ancient chinese... And the code of Hammurabi, of course.

Rhy only works in the context of the Latin West, in that context he is correct. There has generally been a strenuous effort to faithfully copy the Biblical texts, rather than to doctor them.

*cough*

What about salvation? you only need to compare King James Version (KJV) to the New English Bible (NEB) and you will run into reformation bias on this particular subject.

In his defense, Rhy is a proper fundamentalist, he probably doesn't consider those substantive differences.

Also, the Norwegian Lutherans just turned the virgin Mary into the "young woman Mary"... And her virginity is kinda important to the catholics, isn't it?

That's actually a fault with the English translation of the Latin - Mary is described as a "maiden" in the Bible, which means the same as virgin is Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and most other Europeans languages. The reason being that young, unmarried, women are supposed to be virgins.

So big wup on that one - may I suggest trying again?

Good points of contention are Jesus' final words on the cross, and their precise inflection.