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The scriptures don't adapt, only their interpretation.
I think I covered this with "redefining"
That's untrue, scriptures have been adapted many many times. There's no one agreed upon definition of what the Bible even is, varying significantly between different sects of Christianity, and even more as we broaden to other Abrahamic religions. There's near endless variations of the different texts. Translation, copying, and selection of which texts to include in a scripture is inevitably bound up in interpretations, they're inseparable. New ideas, biases, agendas, and shifts in meaning will work their way into the translation or copying of older texts or what sources to derive the translations from. Words don't stay the same over time in any language and are constantly shifting in meanings.
Now some religious people may say, God inspires the people who select what religious texts to use, their copying, and their translations, to ensure perfect unchanging meaning over time. But outside of invoking miracles this is an impossibility. But this is what people who take a literal interpretation of the Bible believe.
Barring miracles though, start with development and history section below if interested, but there's countless opportunities for the scriptures to have changed, and they are still changing. There's no way they couldn't, language itself wouldn't let it stay static no matter how much effort is put in to it, not even thinking of all the other factors and agendas that have changed them or what they even consist of many times over thousands of years. There's no one definitive Bible that sprang fully formed out of some vacuum, and even if that somehow occured it'd have to drift overtime with language itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible
Makes you wonder why God has the power to inspire people to correct issues but not the power to stop issues to begin with. Wouldn't an all knowing being know the exact problems his human pets would have?
We're using the word "adapted" in different ways. There may be no authoritative bible text but texts which are considered to be bibles don't change in response to their environment. They may be rewritten or translated but the originals are still the originals.
No I'm using it the same way. What I'm saying is there is no such thing as an "original" Bible text, and even if there was people don't all agree what those texts should be or which versions of those texts to begin from. And even if they did there'd be no way to perfectly preserve their meaning over the many of thousands of years they developed. And the re interpretations at every step along the way will influence how they get passed down and rewritten. Our current versions of all the many different religious texts are all a part of a long process of evolution, some even with common ancestors. Meanings, connotations, words, passages, entire books, and all sorts of things change at every step for many different reasons. They didn't just appear suddenly out of nowhere. Many started even as an oral tradition.
I never said there was. And the existence of more than one accepted scripture doesn't contradict what I said. Each of those scriptures will not adapt to its environment.
Again, we're talking about different things. You're talking about long periods of time where human civilisation develops, where scriptures are translated, reinterpreted, etc. into new scriptures. I'm saying that the King James Bible of the 1950s was the same King James Bible of the 1970s and didn't adapt in response to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
The king James Bible of 1611? The version specifically made to emphasize the divine rights and absolute authority of kings? Sure sounds a lot like the text adapting to the times to me. And do you understand the meanings and context of English from the 17th century? The answer is no, no one does perfectly, the meaning of that text to you will be different to someone reading in the 17th century than to you because the language has changed. Experts could make surmises based on other writings at the time. Ultimately though newer versions will need to be made, that will inevitably be bound up in the current religious interpretations and linguistics background of the one doing that. The texts change in response to our interpretation over time, they don't sit still, it's impossible. They are all an ongoing evolution that has been and is still happening.
So not the same scriptures then.
New texts being created is not the same thing as changing texts. People don't go around with a pen and update pages.
They do change, otherwise we'd have the exact same Bible as we did a thousand years ago which isn't the case. And if you read a Bible from a thousand years ago, it no longer means the same thing as it did to someone from a thousand years ago. If the hill you want to die on is, the shape of the letters on the page of a particular version's pages stay the same over time. Then fine. But a scripture is made of language which has to change over time. So for any practical purposes the texts are changing over time. Take any cursory examination at the history of religious texts including the Bible and you'll see morphing over time for tons of different reasons. Politics often involved! And our current interpretations, linguistics, and cultural understandings and contexts will absolutely inform how the Bible and any religious text (or any text for that matter) continues to change over time, just as it always has.
Again, we're talking about different things.
I'm making the time scales bigger to make the changes more obvious to you. But it's not something that has a start and stop point and suddenly our current version of the Bible froze in time never to change again. You said new editions don't count but then said people don't carry around a pen changing them. But that's exactly what the new editions are. You can't just read the old versions because that's a different language than it is now, you won't get the same meaning as what that language meant when it was written. You can try and translate to current language, but something will always be lost and changes will have to be made in some regard or other, especially for non current languages, and how you do that and the choices you make in that new edition will depend on many factors, including their own religious interpretations. Even fifty years ago English is a different language, just not as much as a thousand. Our current religious texts are continuing to change over time, just as they always done in the past, for many different reasons including the impermenance of language itself. And that process has happened many many times and is still happening. That's the point. If the text of scriptures stayed the same over time we wouldn't have so many endless versions of so many different religious texts, some of which even started out as the same story if you go far back enough. To say, the text of the Bible doesn't change, is just untrue unless you really stretch the definitions of what that would mean to a meaningless place.
I disagree.
I didn't say that. As you keep pointing out, there are many different scriptures which are referred to as "the Bible". Each is a different scripture.
Ranvier is completely correct. There is no definite version of the bible even if you went back to the original languages. If you add up all the text variations that are known as of today the number exceeds the number of total words in the NT. And when you add in translation issues the problem is endless. Plus all the stuff that looks like it was never in there originally, like the endings of Mark or the Adultress in John. The Bible is like a much dumber version of Wikipedia.