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verdverm01/21/20252 repliesview on HN

How do we know the truthfulness of the original text that was written hundreds of years after the words were originally spoken?


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rtkwe01/21/2025

It's asked about what a specific version of a text says and gets that wrong. It doesn't particularly matter how correct or carefully copied that scrap is, the machine can't faithfully reproduce or quote a particular version. In fact it made up a quote that doesn't exist in any version of the Bible the author could find at all.

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jimbokun01/21/2025

If you are asking that question seriously check out the recent Rogan podcast with Wesley Huff. Has the usual Rogan conspiracy theory pontificating, but also some good discussion about the history of how we got the Bible we have today.

First off, the claim that the original text was first written 100s of years after the words were spoken is completely false and isn’t taken seriously by anyone in the field.