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Who's to say whats been embellished, or even added completely. (fiction) How have different languages effected translations. What egotistical religious or political leaders authorized a new translation for their own ends. (king james for example)
I always take a bag of salt with the Bible, I need that many grains.
One of the most provocative ways to look at the bible is to study the ancient civilizations that the stories from it are based on. Only archeological finds in the last 100 year have revealed the histories of our ancient cultures, starting with the Sumerian. Zacharia Sitchen wrote a series of books titled "The Earth Chronicals". In which he reveals alternate "interpretations" based on the evidence left behind by the cultures that first recorded those stories. What a different picture those paint.
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