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Originally posted by: Bossk
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I think that is a matter of opinion. Many people have many different interpretation of the Bible.

And that is exactly the problem. Which one do you subscribe to? And how can you discount another person who interprets it a different way? That's just sheer ignorance.

Many Christians of today are too often attempting to pick and choose that which they believe. This leads to the "salad bar" type of Christianity, meaning: "Well I'll take a little bit of heaven, but I don't believe Christianity is the only answer, I believe in the salvation spelled out in the New Testament, but I don't want to accept the rules". They cannot have it both ways. This type of thinking is dangerous from a doctrinal standpoint, as it tends to allow people to equivocate between diametrically opposed religions. For example: Buddhists and Christians: Neither is better, they are both equally valid.

There are new testament manuscripts that date back to well before Guttenberg. The amount of Tacitus and Josephus historical manuscripts is pretty much miniscule compared to NT Greek Manuscripts. There's a mountain of New Testament manuscripts. While yes, there was probably some "wiggle" room that found it's way into the oral Hebrew tradition, it is generally accepted that the majority of the material in the Old Testament was handed down reliably.