This is an interesting site. It is dedicated to the oldest version of the New Testament known to exist.
Christianity as an organized religion was put together around the year 360 and this bible dates from this period. The text is different from modern versions because the text was being revised and corrected considerably in this period. I am particularly interested in the Book of Mark and this version does not have the resurrection story that was added around this time. The book ends with the discovery of the empty tomb.
I have read where modern Christians tend to think the English translations of the Bible are the real Gospel and that God intended that the Bible should be read only in English so that ignorant people don’t get confused.
The translations of this Greek version (some of which was translated from Aramaic and Hebrew into Greek) will be added to the site as they are available. The result will be different from modern Bibles by a long shot.
My opinion is that the book of Mark is not the word of God, but the word of Mark, who never met Jesus, but perhaps was the nephew of Peter. In any case all of the gospel is second or third hand stories recorded hundreds of years after the fact. The Codex Sinaiticus at least gives a clearer view of the text that had only been around for 200 years at the time it was transcribed and had not had as much time to be tweaked.
Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.
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While I’m not a practicing Christian, I think the Bible has something in it for everybody.
My Masonic Bible has some intresting parts in it as well.
Jim Shannon