Imagine...

[gemfyre]

What a different world this would be if the Bible had never been written...

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[shewholaughs.livejournal.com]

That's spooky. I've been meandering down that path mlyself this afternoon.

[berserkir.livejournal.com]

*hmmmm*

a lot less violence, more scientific innovation, gay marriage being acceptable...

sounds good to me :)

[sunnyshagg.livejournal.com]

Alot better IMO, but thats just me.

[just-laura.livejournal.com]

Or had been lost somewhere. . . or hadn't been censored and mistranslated. . .

[sycha.livejournal.com]

LOL! I hadn't given that any thought, but I'm not going to tease myself in wondering what if. I think I'd just get bummed at what could have been.

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

as one of my friends once said
"If Hitler had won World War II, would Israel be such a bad place to visit today?"

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

translated? for about 1000 years the bible was passed on by word of mouth. priest would be taught it verbally. amazing what 1000 years of chinese whispers can achieve

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

They meant "Celebrate"!

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

that punchline makes me laugh so much....

[nakedcelt.livejournal.com]

Not quite, I'm afraid. Not by word of mouth. Monks and priests could always read and write, even when they were the only people who could. But certainly, in the old days people copied things by hand, and there's plenty of room for things to get dropped out or misspelt or maybe one person would write a note in the margin and the next copyist would put that note into the text and then the next copyist would be none the wiser, stuff like that.

[just-laura.livejournal.com]

That as well. And I'm sure there are more.

It's amazing how many people don't realize the Bible wasn't written in English. ::facepalm::

[shrika.livejournal.com]

If the Bible didn't exist something else would have.