"We live today in a dangerous world in the middle which is religion." ""When we accept God as your savior change your soul change your life. "" "Nowadays, not only economy or political influence events but faith." "And believers are more convinced than ever." "I believe every word in the Bible ..." ""God said it ..."" ""It is established."" ""I believe."" "They believe the Bible is the Word of God and faith can justify anything." "But how is the word of God?" "It's time to check." "Who wrote the Bible?" "My name is Robert Beckford." "And are philologist." "Study does not mean religion for living." "In recent months I searched for the origins of the Bible." "To find out who worked the Bible and he wanted to achieve." "It was an amazing trip." "He took me places that I have never been." "I found out who wrote the bible and who later rewrote it." "It made me doubt my Christian faith." "To understand why you need to know from where." "I started this trip in another place," "I went home to talk to mom." "This is where I grew up." "Every week I came here with mother to take part in traditional prayers." "The Bible was an important part of my childhood" "In today's lesson" "I want to show you something." "Raise your hand to those who think they know what it is." "I saw a mother trying hour to teach children about the story of Jonah." "This is very important to me that is what I learned about the Bible." "I learned to read as the word of God." ""I want to go there"" "and to tell people not to be so bad." "The Bible says what you said, you think, you did and are happy for this, because if I have this" "I would be a doctorate in folologie but," "I would have a Ph.D. in drug trafficking or prostitution." "As I grew" "I tried to get this simple belief." "But studies have taught me that will not be so easy." "Stories about the creation of and about the Garden of Eden were more symbolic than accurate." "And if the Bible is less exact, on what basis can we?" "It really is the word of God?" "So I lived like a schizoid life, and now I think it's time times to get into a camp or in other or to find a way to bring them together." "I need to know who wrote the bible." "And the best place where to start is where it all began." "At the beginning, God created heaven and earth." "And the earth was void and without form." "And God said, Let there be light!" "And they made light." "Evening and morning the first day." ""Old and New Testaments"" "After both traditions, Jewish and Christian first five books of the Bible," "Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, were written by the prophet Moses in the Sinai desert." "Go to the desert in the footsteps of Moses because there begins bible." ""At that time Moses fed the sheep of letro, father or priest of Midian," "And departed with the flock in the wilderness came to the mountain of God, at Horeb" "And the angel of the Lord appeared to him a look of fire coming out of a bush." "It looked and saw the bush burning flame, but bush is not consumed. "" "Here in the desert silence this story is credible." "If you hear the desert mentioned in the bible means something particularly significant took place here." "Being here makes me feel important, a sense of revelation." "It is a place where people have kept silent as a consequence the fact that they have heard God's voice." "Maybe we should take the Moses story as accurate." "The Christian in me wants to believe that Moses wrote the bible, that in this environment, he heard God's voice, and was able to write things." "But the historian in me wonders if is possible that someone can write right amount of literature about so many topics in this place." "If Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, it is a lie." "That would mean that religious people were taught to believe something completely false." "Historical truth is one of the fundamental aspects of the Bible." "Much of the history involved." "Archaeology is one of the methods of historical verification." "And Jerusalem is full of it." "Here, immediately after the Second World War archaeologists began to uncover what today is known as the "city of David."" "Today, the area is a border between Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem." "Just above the old sites the Jewish community is new." "At first glance, exactly like a heap of stones" "But if the Bible is true history these walls were built by kings David and Solomon to defend their kingdom's capital, which stretches from Iraq to the Mediterranean." "So here would be wall palaces rear camera?" "Exactly." "People lived and built under the palace;" "as we see is a roof under which people lived." "The area was always David's close." "who can prove that the Bible is a historical record and that this land is their land." "How important is it for Jews in Israel demonstrate that there were walls of David and David there?" "Here was the beginning." "When we arrived here we started to build country and Jerusalemwas most important." "That's Jerusalem foundation, one that we." "So it all starts here with these stones?" " Yes." "Not only stones ..." "I mean ... see only stones, but the legend is our basis of our land, our country." "This was the royal city of David, and as mentioned at home." "And for the first time, it seems archaeologists confirm the Bible stories." "But not all archaeologists are convinced you can dig up traces Old Testament by excavation." "One of the leading experts for years works on the ancient site of Megiddo, big trouble with the idea that the Bible is a history book for the land of Israel." "When people came here to Megiddo (Colina em Israel) or other holy places on earth idea was to seek evidence for biblical stories, to look after ornaments to look after the event." "We have a biblical story, took all the biblical story as truth, and they really just wanted to decorate this beautiful discoveries, monuments," "I mean ... nobody has ever thought of power Archaeology to verify the events that occurred to give III millennium." "So biblical archeology covered Old Testament history." "Exactly." "Biblical archaeologists believed they found evidence the great kingdom of David and Solomon, who the Bible says that existed in the tenth century a.c" "If you take after the book kings is more than what is written in the Old Testament." "Israel Finkelstein says, simply do not match the data." "We are now in place now called Solomon's Megiddo gate." "manifestation of the greatness and charm united monarchy." "However, gate dates viii century a.c and Solomon supposedly existed in X century" "So are the two centuries between Solomon as a historical figure, ... And was not Solomon ... and the gate, much later" "Biblical archaeologists have done so" "Solomon gate dating completely wrong?" "Solomon's Gate, like other monuments, because the entire system of layers dating and monuments from the time of the united monarchy, shortly before and shortly after, was, at least in my opinion maybe wrong." "This is a bomb." "Archaeologists say now a completely different story about the origin of the Jews." "No great kingdom and the Bible no exodus of Jews from Egypt, only small villages scattered on hills, north is developed as a kingdom called Israel south, another named Judas." "Capital is Jerusalem, but is not as it says in the Bible." "First, look at Jerusalem, and what you see is not a big city, or capital of a great empire," "What you see is a small village, the number of people ..." "Village?" "Village with few inhabitants, almost nothing more than scrap and nothing." "Also, more importantly, to have strong story, well developed and thoroughly, you must have evidence of inscriptions." "Archaeologists do not provide such evidence .." "Science comes from inscriptions, writings ..." "All this happens much, much later centuries after the times David and Solomon." "More bombs." "We lose not only King David and Exodus, while acting and the story of Genesis." "Promise of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all have now a question mark on their right." "One is to consider a story like Adam and Eve as mythical because there are also stories, but if Finkelstein is right, and I believe he has, it is more serious." "I decided to solve the problem closely studying the book, the text itself." "What it claims to be?" "A unique testament to the word of God?" "Or is just another literary piece?" "Archaeologists have exploited the idea that moderate" "Old Testament is accurate records of ancient history." "But do not tell us who actually wrote the bible." "To this we must go back to the text." "When read carefully, is a jumble." "For example, the story of creation in Genesis 1." "God created heaven and land, animals and fish, and finally creates and human species." ""And God created man in His own image the image of God made them, male and female. "" "In Genesis, Chapter 2, says the same thing again." "But this time begins with the creation of Adam, and then the creation of Eve." "This is not the only incident like this." "There are two stories about the flood, and two codes of Moses." "So if Moses even wrote that you can not ask where you want to go." "to be careful!" "In Deuteronomy it seems that Moses wrote about his death before it happens." ""Moses the servant of God." "died in the land of Moab, according to the Word of God. "" "How can write about death before it happens. "" "Of course, not the first person to ask these questions." "How can write about death before it happens. "" "how likely is it?" "In fact, it is unlikely, because Moises could not write about his own death" "At least one time ..." "Rabbis who are already wondering if they are part of the Torah that Moses wrote them." "But only in the nineteenth century" "I found a learned German, called Velhausen, that the idea that actually are four literary sources." "I am surprised by the calm with which Jull talks about it." "Four different sources?" "Moses did not write it at all." "And the faithful have been deceived for centuries." "But it's true." "There are four initial sources of the text." "And each has a style and an order .." "Scholars have attributed one point each version." "Jahweh J or because his name dumenzeul Jahweh." "E, it called the Elohim." "P or priestly source." "And D, after the book of Deuteronomy." "If I read the first five books" "What characteristics would identify of these four sources?" "What I find in J, for example?" "Of all, J is the story best." "Are developed, are detailed containing much movement." "J shows God in dealing with people directly." "In Exodus 3, variant J." "God himself liberating the people of Egypt." "Says: "I came to save them from Egyptian soil" "But the alternative is, God used angels and dreams in relation to men." "So there is no mediator between man and God in E." "So you burning pyre." "Because God could not speak directly to Moses." "To use a mediator." "So find the burning pyre variant E." "P variant that is priestly, shows a lot of issues, including law" "Business priesthood, sacrifices, problems like this." "In variant D, we focus on monotheism." "See the differences between the variants we have?" "I was taught to read the Bible as a unique story." "Now we learn that writing does not agree the very nature of God." "Once we say that God speaks directly tells us that once was used intermediaries." "In other words, another Old Testament, indeed." "If this is true, church has taught us for centuries" "Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible." "There is a contradiction?" "Not necessarily." "Because of the history yet written in some periods people who believed in their God." "And when you put it all together." "experience suggests that every one experience are okay." "because it is the same God." "Basically, any variable is more valid than others." "Somehow, all together provide a better understanding of God and relationship with God." "It is clear that the Bible means a tremendous job of editing." "Instead we have a single author, Moses, has four different versions anonymous, J, D, E and P and coming from different parts of Israeli society." "Moreover, there are different opinions about God's behavior." "And above all, theologians and scholars have known this for some time but details have not yet come to church." "And wonder "why?"." "But what I want to know is who brought together these four versions." "Even more intriguing is "why?"" "Archaeologists try to uncover you could be merged four sources of the Torah, called the Hebrew Book of Moses." "Many of the buildings of the city of David were built in the late century BC viii" "In these layers of eight centuries" "Archaeologists have found a lot Jewelry with registration, used to seal letters and property marking strong evidence of the spread of knowledge book complex necessary for creating a book." "At the time, northern kingdom of Israel" "Empire was swept by Assyria." "Little Judas southern kingdom has acquired rights." "In Jerusalem, the capital" "Yahweh is God." "But even after the bible there were other religious cultures." "Is this environment which created the Torah, a book to divide and unite collective with different traditions and religions." "One of Israel's Biblical experts member of the synagogue in Tel Aviv." "It is believed that much of the Torah, five books of Moses, also known as' we have right here was written in the seventh century." "Much could be written sooner but it is somewhat semi-final form of the VII century a.c" "Evidence from Zakovitch of Arithmetic," "Book of the Old Testament, which, according to scholars, was written before 586 a.c," "Judas kingdom was destroyed when .." "When I read something VII VIII where it is considered that Judas was lost forever notice that the author of these meetings, actually make a great mosaic." "He uses different traditions of the Torah." "documents to form the J, E, D and P." "and all I can discern, traces of the four versions in this portion, for example," "These are verses descent from heaven ' and here, combining traditions of Exodus, traditions of the Book of Numbers.," "To tell the story of Israel," "Amounts author intentionally choose episodes from all four sources uniting them into one story." "Everything begins to law." "Both the text and study and archeology shown once." "Old Testament as we know, comes at the end of the eighth century, or VII century a.c" "But why come together four different writings?" "." "Why in Jerusalem?" "Bible itself says:" "Jerusalem's king in those times called Ezequias" "Religious revolution he began." "with a new conception of God." ""The high places and broke broken images the demolished statues, and broken idols of serpents made by Moses. "" ""And it was dedicated to God"" "So, other cultures lezechia removed and introduced monotheism, belief in one God." "And the Bible had to take this idea .." "These are two great kings, one was lezechia, another Joshua.," "Kings of Jerusalem decided which is legitimate and not." "It could not worship God anywhere I wanted, there was no room for different temples all over the country." "But it was a particular place, Jerusalem, where to worship God.," "So the bible is about setting the one God., and a single temple in Jerusalem." "But originals." "some posts contain stories .." "So why not the Bible writers were eliminated?" ".." "Whatever text was written?" ".." "people think is a sacred text, ought to keep them." "Even if he had not agreed with him." "ought to keep them." "But who I actually wrote?" "It is the blanket Intellectuals thin?" "who knew the traditions, who knew of other options ..." "Others have interpreted ... when not agreed with them ....," "So let's say that a person wrote a piece , in his time., then comes a person who represents the school priests not agree with what was written of those before him, and write his version, performed," "and it happens so on. '" "And so the Torah has increased continuously became increasingly more like a snowball.," "The issue is not who wrote the bible., but he rewrote it ..," "The four versions were revised edited and improved, to suit a particular point of view, political and religious ... monotheism in Jerusalem ..," "What I once thought it the word of God .., now beginning to look like ..," "Stalin's Russia." "I want to know more about King Ezequias." "the man who transformed the Bible." "a political manifesto for monotheism.." "Certainly knew something about interpretation ....,." "The time of lezechia, most feared conqueror of Assyria" "British Museum in the heart, there is a dramatic sculpture" "Assyrians attack on a city of Ezequias' town, Lakish." "The episode is mentioned in the bible" "But also in Assyria records" "Thus, we can check." "After the sculpture was a victory for the Assyrians." "Were here ...." "The Bible says that the Assyrians went to the capital jerusalem ." "All Bible says that, since no one knows what reason" "Assyrians disappeared in the night receded," "thus was a victory for Judas, and lezechia." "But Assyrian writings" "Jerusalem not mention at all." "But we know from Assyrian sources as lezechia had to pay pretty hard tribute vessels, precious gold and silver to bribe, to buy more time.," "So in reality, were spared only because" "Assyrians had to pay." "And that is not appearing in the biblical text." "You absolutely right." "Are differences and problems of interpretation." "In one case, Assyrians needed for their interests." "they did this on all the walls of the palace, they do not mention what was lerusalimul happened," "In terms of Judas, it needed to transform it into a great victory." "And the big winner appears lezechia." "All this happened after more than 2000 years." "Judaism's Bible promotes lezechia," "Judaism but not so how to know today." "Is a monotheistic religion." "He cleaned house and get rid of all the admired but certainly not Judaism" "You are practicing in this Synagogue." "Surprising is the system tithes and taxes, who maintain the temple." "Are passages in Deuteronomy which suggests that if people pay their taxes and make sacrifices in Jerusalem," "God bless you.," "This is the idea of concentration of cult?" "Yes, of course." "There are people who wanted to promote ideology of Deuteronomy." "Of course, this was how the to convince others that this is the method which are blessed." "So the Old Testament writers were clear." "Services paid by the temple and God will see good man!" "This bargaining is still old a force in religion today." "Like many evangelical churches," "Foundation Ruach, of Brixton, put emphasis on giving money to the church and write in the Old Testament and will result in a reward." "... This year open-door keep this decree until they go through open doors." "Everything God has promised you you have." "The Bible commands us to give." "When I say "give" understand that it will return." "We are upset, we join together and we go over again." "Everything comes back." "There are some implications because obey God's word." "And so, not only is spiritual but also practical." "But there is a difference between Brixton and lezechia cult of Jerusalem." "In Brixton, religious practice is not everything is you are giving yourself, to give of your time, of your knowledge, and put money in the charity box." "This idea of salvation through sacrifice does not appear in the Bible's lezechia" "But to get there, however, for another upcoming re-writer of the Bible." "And this is based on disaster held late VII century a.c." "After lezechia, another King Losi is great hope of the Jews." "In 609 a.c, he comes to Megiddo, then known as Armageddon." "The world has survived since then due to religious meeting between Losi and Neco, Pharaoh of Egypt." "We do not know exactly what happened here" "We do not know exactly where happened" "But the problem is" "Meeting has ended tragically for Neco simply" "I Losi killed at Megiddo." "This was a terrible blow to Judas," "Biblical Authors and Ideology." "King Losi, the kingdom's history as Judas," "After describing their" "Hope to return the Israeli center," "Return to the kingdom, v. a.m. d." "was suddenly here in Megiddo macerlarit, and everything has collapsed." "In less than a generation, lerusalimul temple will be destroyed population and banned." "And the Bible have a new mission." "Had to offer hope for the future." "It was at the start of messianism, and the idea that following King David's line will come in the same place where last was slaughtered by Neco." "So the idea of Armageddon begins here in 609 a.c." "Jews no longer had control of their land, were exiled, suffering as servants." "But the Bible continue to grow." "Now, proclaiming the Messiah and the new world which will bring" "Old Testament as we know it today finally take shape." "Israel's population now counts around 6 million" "A fairly large proportion of first-generation immigrants." "Since 1989, more than 1 million people become new citizens of Israel." "But most are not considered immigrants." "It is considered to be exiled back to the promised land." "Not the first time Jews return the Holy Land." "In 516 ac, after more than 50 years of exile in Babylon" "Jews returning to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem." "Today, what remains of the temple is the subject of worship the Israelites." "This place is full of contradictions." "We have a wall and people who consider it sacred ground, feeling that God is present here;" "We were told that the same God builds, the temple is made by human hand." "It is a place of devotion, love deeply religious." "However there are soldiers in the right wall, arms, praying." "Can you imagine people in arms, entering a church to pray." "It is a place of incredible contrast and tension." "Modern Zionism is based on the book." "As in his book Jeremias, predict where the initial return the exiles from Babylon promises in the Bible is based the establishment of Israel." "Jewish exile experience identity change," "Also change and the Old Testament." "At 516, started last rewrite of the Bible" "It contains material written in exile far from land of Israel." "and themes that suffering and decay." "How can God allow defeat and torture and subsequent exile in the land of Babylon?" "Now is a book that studies" "The distressing issue." "And operates theme not triumph but the appearance of terror." "Why is the bible a universal card." "How come?" "Next stop: the altar book on Jerusalem, and one of the oldest manuscripts in the world." "My name is Robert Beckford" "I came to see ..." "New visions do not come from books of Moses beginning with the Old Testament but the prophetic books that find them to finally especially Isaiah." "Significantly, the oldest existing copy of the whole Bible, is a copy of the Torah, is the book of Isaiah." "In it, Isaiah gives a new dimension to Bible:" "ideea de Mesia si un Eden nou." "Isaiah comes with remarkable ideas" "Eden is to appear at the end of the world." "The idea of all people, not just Israel" "I came into Jerusalem in search of God's word." "Isaiah lived in VllI century ac, before the exile." "He believed that a new world will be brought the great messiah or chosen." "For Isaiah, the Messiah is the person who coming from the house of David, the end of the world." "And during or as I will be a factor between lianas and ground he will judge people and other peoples in peace." "During his exile," "Isaiah's book was continued by someone else." "In this process, there is a new idea." "Israel recovers from suffering and rejection." "This idea was a way to address the issues." "How God allowed Jerusalem exile?" "We suffer to pay for peoples sins." "This why we suffer." "Peoples sins is worship idols." "And we are punished for their sins." "But it's not only about the suffering peoples to pay for them they have a mission and is something common to many verses" ""I send my people Israel in the world to enlighten, to teach" "God himself to be the God of all peoples ... "" "and continue this idea." "The idea of a mission and a Messiah" "I think that's when" "The Bible is a universal document." "Ceases to be a book just for Hebrew, but offering hope for future is a book for anyone because we all want a future in peace and safety." "The idea of one man suffering not only for your deliverance, but all, is extraordinary." "Teachings is the idea of Martin Luther King." "So what next?" "How far goes the Bible?" "How much can be improved and modified?" "In 1947 it made a great discovery." "A Bedouin shepherd found some ancient scrolls closed in a cave in the Dead Sea." "Judging writing scrolls were created" "100 years before the birth of Jesus Christ." "by a group of Hebrew, called esenieni, too intransigent to rewrite the Bible itself." "This parchment is a revised edition and reedited the Torah, the book of Moses." "And contains all the contradictions occurring in different variants." "Why the Dead Sea scrolls part of the Bible today?" "The Man I Went to Moses, without any respect." "But you know, for the rest of Israel" "For them, the canon was established, no other prophecy or revelation." "Any effort to continue revelations biblical period, creating new revisions and new books, will be rejected." "So rewriting ended." "It is amazing how the holy books are created!" "This synagogue as in any synagogue in the world" "Torah scrolls are kept in holy places." "And they are privileged texts." "You can comment, but you can not change." "By the year 100 ac, the Jews decided it is their bible." "But once you have accomplished the sacred book, can not choose which parts are and are not word of God." "This can lead to dangerous places." "A voice from heaven was heard to say:" "'Abraham' s address to paradise. "" "And the voice from heaven said:" ""This is a better place for Adam and Eve."" "a place that can accept the physical existence, culmination of spiritual existence, entry into paradise. "" "We are on our way to Hebron." "I will meet there with a rabbi," "Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum," "Rabbi Jew is a Jewish settlement." "I'm looking for" "I know how to read the Old Testament." "As with Genesis patriarch Abraham is buried in Hebron so west of the city is holy both Hebrew and for Muslims." "Current Tomb of Abraham" "Hebron was built by the Hebrew king." "He later became a mosque." "Now the building is also and synagogue." "The Jewish community here was expelled during the 1929 raid." "Only after 1967, Jews have returned." "As Zionists, they believe that their right here is established in the Hebrew Bible." "We believe every word in the bible written and will remain for future generations." "Torah describes in detail in chapter 23, Book of Genesis, buying on the field near the grotto," "Abraham negotiating with the Hittites and Efron buying this place." "Faith is inside everyone," "Sometimes faith is dominated science and technology depending on occupation, but deep down" "Every Jew knows and believes." "Later that evening, wedding took place in the market." "But there is more than a family event and religious is also deeply political." "The groom is the great-grandson parents of one settlement." "Here, as Abraham's tomb walls of true believers," "God said: "This is their land."" "Once the Arabs have expelled children here in shame." "And yet here we are, gathered here for prayer." "And hopefully, with God's help that one day Hebron will be full of Hebrew ." "In Hebron, there is no compromise about reading the Bible and who you think wrote it." "Maybe you have heard that are taught who claim that the Torah has four sources, not just one." "How did you react to that?" "Are not aware of such opinions, but it is very sad when someone does not want to believe and can be so naive that you do not believe the divinity of the Bible which was given by God by Moses, the Hebrew people." "It is very sad because these are our core beliefs and principles, throughout our existence and essence of the Hebrew people." "Based on those principles and on that belief the divinity of the Torah." "Is there a connection between your return here on earth and what the Bible says?" "Sure is a connection." "We live now by prophets" "God spoke to Isaiah" "God has promised in the Torah and the prophecies of scripture" "Jew as people will come someday from distant lands, freeing themselves from persecution, and see, when I arrived in the State of Israel" "Hebrew lot coming from the four corners of the world." "It is noted that fulfilling prophecy took place during today." "And when it comes to barriers Bible we are guided by the Bible and the divine promise." "Do not know how a rub." "But that bother me did not want to argue opinions scholars" "I really felt sorry for those people." "Not considered somehow superior?" "Or is naive." "These people have dedicated their lives working on the text and trying to understand." "And find someone to ignore in this situation is very upsetting." "Most Hebrew in Israel disagree with fundamentalist and Simcha and settlers." "But I think people like him and his read the Bible as a book imperialist thus justifying the policy." "At a short distance over the hills are people who are completely opposite to settlers, but who believe the same Bible stories." "Now I'm on my way to Basque, under Palestinian control." "Is separated from Jerusalem by a massive wall." "The reason I go there is the sacred Hebrew exodus story is important and for Palestinians." "And they are Christians." "Bethlehem was a sign of Christian love since the Gospels were described birth of Jesus there in a barn." "But the biblical story goes much further:" "It said also that it and place birth of King David." "Nativity basilica is a Greek Orthodox church" "Here, every day, the bible is excited not in Greek but in Arabia." "It was built in the fourth century by Queen Helena and rebuilt in the sixth century, and retains its original shape." "Excluding the Old Testament Jews" "Christian Palestinians it once excluded" "Exodus story, one of the stories core of Judaism and Zionism." "Do not feel you accept story oppressor." "and if necessary, will you ever free?" "What is today a Christian to live in Palestine occupied by someone who uses this book just to say as I have no right to be." "Now look in the other side." "No, because that book says:" "no man, even if the book says Jews but yes as God's people to seek release." "And we are God's people." "We are not people of another God." "Nucoria is Protestant Lutheran," "Nasta friend is Greek Orthodox for both, this flexibility extends beyond their own bible." "I sense, as Palestinian that there is no separation between the Bible, New Testament, the Koran ..." "This is the land of the Palestinian people" "One can interpret the exodus story as part of the history of our great-great-grandfathers all, Hebrew, Muslim and Christians on this earth, or you can say that is one of the stories a people who lived in these regions." "But all are connected." "This connection is witnessed inspirational power of the Hebrew Bible." "It never ceased to generate new ideas." "In fact, even when the Old Testament was finished just one new idea appears among writers parchments of the Dead Sea." "Contact can be found in parchment called "Gratitude."" "In it, a desert fanatic described himself somewhat which would seem incredibly familiar to any Christian." "He says about himself" ""I live in paradise, surrounded by angels"" "So Jesus himself describes in the New Testament considering it with divine powers suffering but at the same time." "And this combination of divinity and suffering." "was unknown in the Old Testament." "This is when the Old Testament meets the new one." "Making Judaism is the beginning of Christianity" "New Testament writings is a completely new project." "Based on Old Testament but uses a new revelation." "When I was a child," "I was taught to read the New Testament" "As a writings as disciples of Jesus." "Was an accurate accounting of his life and death." "and was the fulfillment of divine promise" "The Messiah has come so far." "But giving a part of the Old Testament teachings" "I have to be critical of what I learned." "It is the gospel true?" "How accurate is it?" "I need to discover who wrote the New Testament." "I made a trip to the Holy Land and found that Old Testament writers work" "But millions even the most powerful man on earth" "U.S. President George W. Bush" "I think the New Testament is built on a foundation more solid." "Is, they say, worthy of trust account which has really happened these days a man." "I want to know if this could be true." ""Via Dolorosa" " Jerusalem 2000 years before a Jew named Jesus walked on the road to death." "Bible says so, so these people came here to go on its trail." "Then as now, people thought" "Jesus himself was prophesied in the Old Testament." "Why people do that." "I mean, is history for people." "Should work and behave, must live according to what I think is true." "Jesus wanted them to believe in Christ promised" "Greek word, meaning Messiah" "Bible itself and hence will document the history." "If someone has not cross and would like ..." "Tomb of Holy Church is the culmination." "Is the most important settlement of Christianity." "Why?" "Because people believe what the Bible says, all happened here." "The ordeal of the crucifixion of Jesus ... stones that were embalmed ... and, of course, grave himself" "Renaissance location ..." "It is very exciting to be there." "But at the same time, realize that all these boils down to what the Gospels say what witnesses saw." "Never in my most strangest dreams" "I would have thought I'd become stepping on holy ground." "So the bible for you," "New Testament stories is a source of reliable what happened?" "Now yes." "It is a big step for me may come to the Holy Land and be present here." "New Testament story about Jesus and are correct?" "Absolutely, absolutely." "And what was true then is more alive today." "Look what he writes in the New Testament." "Not as long as the Old Testament." "Are 21 letters" "Book of Revelation and the epistles of the apostles," "In that early church history." "And there are the Gospels, New Testament myth" "Therefore all those pilgrims go to Jerusalem." "Because they believe in the Gospel 100%." "Consider them a true record of the disciples" "They record accurated everything they have seen or heard" "First Matthew, Mark, Luke and then John." "But it didn't happen at all." "In fact, the occupation of writing the New Testament started, not the Holy Land, but, with everything else, and by someone who never met Jesus Take." "His name was Paul." "And 14 letters of the second half of the New Testament are attributed to them." "Finally, a biblical writer with a real name." "Paul has performed much of the writings" "Today in Turkey." "Even if we know that was first who wrote about Christianity" "Paul started in the next years of Jesus death as a fanatic Jewish settlements, that even persecute the early Christians, that according to his biography," "New Testament book of Acts Aportolilor." "But the story changes ... radius blinding vision of Jesus later ..." "Paul was a completely changed man." "Now he believed that Jesus and asked staff lead Christian message" "Jewish world" "Aryans by the Roman Empire." "He started off, heading west and arrived in this place, Ephesus." "Paul arrived in Ephesus boat" "So it came by boat little further on where we are now." "In fact, it was water behind us, because around here it would reach port." "So Paul would have landed there and the way it had come to town." "Ephesus was the site like any other city Pagan poor, full of idols em worshipping temples full of people full of people who buy and sell" "Only at about 2:00 when I got here this place teeming with hikers which does not differ much how was the time of Paul." "A temple and a shopping center always full of tourists." "But being there, I felt" "Paul had as much courage." "Paul had courage just converted, but not hide immediately reach a large city, to spread the Gospel, even if it would turn people upside down." "I like to think of Paul as something." "like a boxer which continues to be made K.O." "but continue to rise, and to take the punishment but the struggle continues." "Is willing, is enthusiastic passionate for faith is a fanatic," "Gospel is a fanatic." "Fanatic is a bad word today." "But then, seems to have been" "As I urged Paul to write." "That would not have bothered to investigate the story about Jesus." "He wrote a book instead of the early church rules." "It began as a movement ... he went around the country looking for churches in different cities in different cities." "Could not be everywhere at once." "Therefore, the means by which addresses churches, when a problem occurs, was to send a letter." "Paul is a mentality like Old Testament prophets." "He feels the word of God says, word of the Lord for a particular situation and, especially, feels like writing with God and Holy Spirit." "Paul is responsible for many writings" "New Testament, more than anyone." "writing in Greek and paper asternand knowledge about anything" "The importance of obedience to government to the holiness of love." "But God was not the only influence in his work." "Almost certainly, all the letters of Paul were written by a scribe, not by Paul himself." "We know this because, even before I Corinthians, Paul says:" ""Hi I'm writing this with my own hand"" "that means that everything appears before is written by someone else." "How did we know that the scribe wrote and I laughed things that should not appear there?" "Scribe was allowed to have an effect, may from time to time have an influence." "the content and style of letters." "It is very difficult to distinguish" "Adding Paul's scribe." "After two years here, Paul and scribe or your left Ephesus and were headed to Rome" "And I'm going there next to me too." "My opinion is that Paul was a key worker, a servant." "Thus begins all letters" ""Paul, a servant of Christ."" "Paul is a host of Jesus, wants to tell the gospel message and is willing to do anything," "Regardless of the method." "Paul arrives in Rome, city of power and then be powerless." "Is thrown in jail and persecuted." "Then he realizes what it means to be downtrodden." "In the late 60 AD, here in Rome" "Paul began to be persecuted by authorities who fight himself part of wave of persecution of Christians." "But the terror of those days has created an extraordinary ideas, something that has not crossed my mind Paul ... to write the story of Jesus." "I read about the birth of Jesus" "Christmas story." "Most people think there is one story in all the Gospels," "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John." "Not so." "Matthew's writings have star in the east and story of wise man, but writing about angels, no manger and shepherds." "Are from Luke." "And in Luke's account, there is no story about the birth." "Jesus began as a youth." "And in John's account, the same thing happens but in a completely different location." "They raise all sorts of problems, first is accuracy." "That is, if a crime occurs, and the police have four different stories of eyewitnesses will ask if any is true and others false." "Second question:." "Do these people were there?" "were really eyewitnesses?" "or only if a Christian version?" "of Chinese stories." "Four different stories, same event." "raise lots of questions." "To find answers you must turn right at the beginning." "The walls of the church in Rome was an ancient catacomb." "Here, first persecuted Christians and secretly buried the dead." "It started at 34 after the death of Christ .." "looking for scapegoats when Emperor Nero the great fire of Rome." "He pointed his finger towards Christians and at his word, began crimes." "Many believe that the first gospel appeared in this community persecuted somewhere around 70 dc" " Mark." "We do not know exactly who is Mark." "Not to sign the book finally writing "I'm here, that's me ..."" "But there are clues in his gospel." "It is quite possible that Mark like many other Christians in this period persecution felt on his skin." "It is very realistic in presentation, you can smell the dirt and blood the Gospel of Mark that because of persecution." "Mark also wanted to write the first gospel, trying to give him a sense." "And who's the best way than to write the story first real martyr of this new religion, Jesus himself." "Maybe Mark saw what persecution, but you know, first, about Jesus himself?" "The problem is, we see the Gospels do not know if they are true." "No records archaeological independent to demonstrate these things." "Nobody saw these things, nobody wrote anything, from what we know." "So most have to take on trust." "I do not think Mark was blank." "Do not say anywhere "I did that, I did that ..."" "says he never even witnessed." "But still found in the Gospel of Mark interesting traces of the first people who revolted with Jesus himself." "People like Peter, Jacob and John, have spoken to people, and these traditions have come somehow to Mark." "How to write the first gospels were based on these is like a stroke." "Then you realize that many accounts of Jesus not even appear in the manuscript of Mark, no birth, no pain, no resurrection." "Finally, there are fewer records of events han a guide to rely on their powers it says that suffering and persecution are the best ways to God." "Mark is the creative genius who gave birth to the writing process of the Gospels." "In a way, is just a fact arrogant, confident, to say that you write an authentic version of events." "think that has a propaganda purpose." "Great idea Mark has dropped." "10 years or more later, in ancient Syria, another man decided to write the story of Jesus." "but, this time campaign is about another kind of Christ." "Most people would think" "Matthew's Gospel was written by Matthew, tax collector, one of the 12 apostles." "When you look closely at the document notice that the gospel does not seem product of an eyewitness." "So who is this character?" "What are the most important things about Matthew?" "Certainly, it is a Hebrew writer, know the habits, ways and laws of Judaism." "Rather than take it over again," "Matthew began by copying portions of the Gospel of Mark." "and then rewriting it with additions." "In the ancient world there were no copyright laws and could children things." "And Matthew did so, sometimes word for word." "There is plagiarism?" "I must say that," "If Matthew were writing today" "Did you have brought to court for plagiarism." "There's no doubt." "I think Matthew is trying to replace the Mark" "I try to take over." "Matthew believes that the image of Mark about Jesus not exactly." "He knew that Jesus was a Jew, and Jew knew that Jesus was more than inclined to describe Mark." "So now comes and I reiudeizeaza Jesus, making them more "Jew."" "Thus, Matthew adds the story of Christmas" "Judgement on the mountain and Lord's Prayer," "However Jesus is moving toward the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies." "Perhaps that is why his book reaches headliners in the New Testament." "So Matthew is the first seller" "Jesus the Jew?" "I think so." "Think like make him Jesus son of Abraham," "David's son, describing him as Moses." "Most people read this gospel as history." "And you suggest that it is propaganda." "How did you come together as Christians?" "Is neither one nor the other." "Just because something was slightly twisted, just because someone wants to tell a different story a different group of people does not mean it has no sense of history in it." "From this point on sfarsfitul century dc" "Gospel has been established language." "It is only to be learned" "Like Luke, an educated man from Greece" "Luke focuses on attracting Bible the main trends of the Roman Empire writing not only the gospel, but the book "Acts"" "describing the spread of Christianity from Jerusalem to Rome." "Luke wants to tell the world that it is honorable Christian religion is good." "Try to say:" ""Maybe these things seem bad ... about a Jew carpenter and about ... "" "He says "No, Christianity is honorable."" "It's like working middle class civilizeaza in a way that you can not believe." "It's something, right there in the heart of the empire." "Luke and paves the way to transform Christianity a religion of the Roman Empire." "Creating the last gospel, the clearest, was written by a Jew named John." "He was expelled from the synagogue Ephesus," "At the end of the IV century" "Writing speeches for more unreal about Jesus," "John reaches a specific point of view." "What was needed and the fourth gospel?" "Suppose that John wrote the gospel because it was dissatisfied in some way by the other." "I guess that was not liked in the other was not correctly described the picture of Jesus." "Jesus of the Gospels divine is not even enough." "Somehow not rewrite history?" "I think the author of the Gospel of John certainly meditated on these events and was thinking about how to separate and reformulate them for their time." "In fact it is in these events, he feels this way," "I think it's seen as being inspired the Holy Spirit to write those things other authors of the gospels that they have failed." "That seems totally opposite of what" "I was taught to believe the child and what I saw after a few days to all those pilgrims meet in Jerusalem." "So my question as faithful is whether these gospels are just simple stories." "One of things I learned from being in Rome is that you can not read word for word gospels." "Not meant to be read as stories of eyewitnesses without knowing what actually happened." "But perhaps we need not." "But if we see these texts as a collective attempt to understand what happens in those times," "Their through reflection on the life of Jesus, so we can see that some books of faith;" "they are intended to communicate the faith." "It seems to me that if you read the Gospels as historical is as dangerous like reading the Old Testament in this way, because you do not understand what it is actually." "We return to England talking with someone who has turned a villain of the underworld a reborn Christian, simply reading and thinking in the New Testament gospels." "For me, fighters and drug traffickers and drug addicts and gangsters and villains should read the Gospels about Jesus." "Former felon Alan Mortlock is" "As he says, an evangelist of the underworld." "Now is the promoter of boxing in North London and says that after 14 years word of the Lord saved her from a life of crime." "Boxam When I was a street fighter, and violence were problems they enter, even at a young age." "Jail for what you did?" "Bodily injury and personal attacks." "You can hardly see a man of God." "but that is about to change." "In December 1990, Alan had a vision." "In the middle of the night, something woke me up." "And when I woke up on the right side of the bedroom" "I saw a fog, like smoke." "And in the mist I saw his eyes, nose and mouth a man who looked down at me." "I was scared." "It was like I had a 38 mm Smith temple, trembling human hand and so, and I'm looking at hand and thinking like if he sneezes." "And if she sneezes I would fly head on his shoulders." "What happened to my bedroom it gave me even more, because I knew it was something supernatural." "Since that day, the Bible became most important book of life of Alan." "But what about my research" "Rome on the Gospels?" "Alan really needs to read as historical records?" "Bible to me is the hand book code lifestyles." "And I think if you want to learn something about life should live life and to know people and have the Bible as a bedside book." "you can help, as a man." "For me, the book of my life." "Who wrote the Bible for you?" "It was God or man?" "God." "It was God ..." "The man's a physical ... but for me ..." "I think God was the inspiration" "He spoke to people ... is the word of God." "Bible for me is the word of God." "This means that when you read the New Testament read it as the word of God?" "As word of God." "So think, for example, Matthew was a disciple who wrote what he saw?" "Yes, I think." "I think so." "Yes." "If I say that they were written years, decades after Jesus lived, and not by eyewitnesses?" "I do not think so." "God showed me and came to me and showed me is real." "If the Bible is, and I think that is the word of God then I think Matthew was there where he says he was at that time." "Not matter to me." "And there is a lack of consideration for teachers whatever they say to me, Matei was there." "I would never criticize the faith of Alan." "Anyway you look at it, is considered certain." "But still you wonder if these issues of religion have provoked suspicion the Anglican church membership, people like Bishop Durhamului." "Tom Bishop, who wrote the Bible by yourself?" "The Bible is certainly a creation of people, men and women but, equally, Christians have always said it is a divine book which" "God gave her to write what they did." "And this, of course, you throw directly in the middle of classic theological questions how people and God may be responbible the same, while" "So Jesus comes and human and divine." "That is the mystery of the Bible." "If none of the authors is not eye-witness it does not decrease the authority and credibility?" "I think that even if no gospel was not written by eyewitnesses we can reach back in time very easily and efficiently to the real Jesus." "Cults often we forget how it works, because we live in a world of print culture, communicated culture crowd, and in such cultures kind of stories told by people especially stories about changing life are told again and again and again" "Until a part of themselves and all these stories tell community and, bang, you have a coherent story rather than" "The fact that everyone knows." "I believe what you say is that when a read, a read that as truth about Jesus's deeds;" "it worked for you is real water?" "Ah ..." "I do not know exactly what ... is an expression with several meanings." "Yes, I am pleased to say that happened, because they know that God can do what he wants to do." "And, of course, our culture has remembered something   Of course we do not like to walk on water." "That's our bad luck ..." "We can handle what is there." "Each author has a perspective and the point of view, Sometimes different." "Is correct if you say they misunderstood the Gospels?" "All the authors have written a perspective a particular point of view, like ..." "If you set a videocamera o record everything happening on the street" "You can see something exciting;" "is a good chance to see boring things, tracasante, monotonous." "Of course, selecting and arranging, and if you want to call it misunderstood, well, as long as we realize that all the time, in other words, there is no manipulation" "so that tells her look essentially meaning look, and yes, it is understood that you see them but this does not mean that happened or that Jesus did not say." "It's time to go beyond this sterile, useless idea whether it was a snapshot of time, whether someone has invented later." "Is more than that." "strong words ... but of course this belief as the Bible is above reproach, is largely due to the overwhelming authority of the book itself." "And I can not help thinking how can this." "This is one of the main printing of stutter in the UK today." "later than the second century DC when thousands of scribes copied the original manuscripts the New Testament gospels or letters, again and again and again, then the only way to publication." "But the great leap of the machine today is that the Bible is one book with a limited number of chapters and a precise order, always the same." "I think most people would be deeply shocked and amazed to learn that the Bible actually is not that book." "Eventually, the Holy Scriptures." "And usually means holy or fell from the sky, times of God on Mount Sinai." "But the real shock is that about 2000 years after Jesus, are only four Gospels, which opens the New Testament but a lot of gospels and letters all are different interpretations of events and all wanting to occupy a space in the Bible." "So, for writing the Bible there are a few steps." "starting with a lot of texts written on papyrus, using different languages, and ending with the Bible a best-selling modern, glossy cover, people available in English, in stores." "Not all were able to read scripture then, only 10% are literate." "We need to remember that most people from that time have heard read aloud bible." "Stiutorii book have read it and studied it, and priests, but people have heard it being read aloud themselves and not accessing the card." "Leaders of some cities were the main teachers in town to teach people about the Bible and to instruct about parts of the Bible that they recognize, others not." "Thus, formulating an agreement on Scripture" "Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, the letters of Paul and others." "But backstage, various bishops worked hard to hide or to discredit everything seemed heresy, views bordering on dangerous." "Then in the early fourth century DC" "Technological development has helped" "Establishment of a New Testament Canon or a list of books." "During this period, there is a transition from papyrus to animal skins, more useful to create great books." "thats important.... to gather all in one volume, as a story, composing Christian scripture." "Contains everything you need to know." "312 DC the Roman Emperor Constantine converted" "Christianity and suddenly became faith's most powerful man on earth." "He has authorized 15 bibles, forcing those who decided to confirm what's left or not." "In almost a generation, canon, the list of books of the Bible was established that, so with it today." "Here is copy of one of the first Bibles," "THE Codex Vaticanus." "It is the oldest complete manuscript of the Bible." "Is the culmination of centuries IV this is canon, it is the Christian Bible" "Greek Old Testament, New Testament Greek put on paper to be read in churches as the word of God in these churches." "So it not only contains Scripture but is also a valuable book in itself." "Know that this is a real time to read and study." "It's fantastic" "Is priceless?" "The original is, yes ..." "This is a copy ..." "But original is priceless." "Can be estimated." "Last year only one page of John Evanghlia" "Century III, cost $ 400,000." "Regardless of value, yet the idea that bothers me" "Today's Bible Codex Vaticanus and might not be the complete story, that something good may have been lost, something essential." "Whenever it draws up a book are always discussions about what should be excluded and what should be included." "And always be arguing about it." "I know because I was in an editorial board, and I experienced this." "So be very suspicious when it comes to compilations, including the Bible." "Although it was signed, sealed and distributed 1600 years ago," "I think everything is worth learning and what was excluded, and what was included." "know that does not appear in the Bible." "Multitude of gospels and scriptures" "Which remained Outside The Bible remain hidden some buried for the next 1500 years or more." "Over time, remain shrouded in mystery, darkness and scandal." "How can it be made part of the counter-culture?" "Or say something about Jesus something that people in power simply did not want to hear?" "In Boston, SUA, un profesor academician" "He spent the last 10 years working on a evanghlie found, a scroll of papyrus which appeared in Egypt in 1896." "Person who sold them said they that was discovered by a peasant a niche in the wall, close to the Ahmi, somewhere in the middle of Egypt." "But this is not at all true that no document could not resist outdoors for 1,500 years." "We believe that robbery was any graves, something not quite legal and appears on the Cairo antiquities market was bought by a German learned and taken to Berlin." "The manuscript itself proves to be" "A copy of the fifth century DC the story from the beginning of II century life of Jesus." "And why was not included in the Bible is it was written, not in the name of Peter, Thomas and John, in the name of Mary Magdalene whom I learned that repentance was a prostitute." "She was an important disciple of Jesus, was a Jewish woman, coming from the village of Magdala, hence the name of Magdalena near the Sea of Galilee." "It was the first resurrection martot and the first apostle of the resurrection message across to the other apostles" "Gospel of Mary, written by her disciples century II" "I angered the early church leaders." "Contains, they said, heresy shocking views contrary." "What upset him even more was that says that women like Mary Magdalene suited to lead the church men." "Canon itself was made to exclude was a tendency to push women to plan two." "But evidence shows us again and again women were apostles." "But adding to the New Testament texts is quite selective." "And tends to texts that complies idea of exclusion of women from driving." "It was not enough for religious authorities to exclude the gospel of Mary Magdalene in the Bible" "I had to break and reputation, using an old trick," "Campaign sexual misery." "Is a lack of evidence in the New Testament gospels or any earlier texts, about the fact that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute." "And that's the dominant image that we have today." "But if you read the text is not there." "Escaped by the mere fact that are too many Mary in the New Testament and it is confusing to us." "One of them, not Mary Magdalene, him angry Jesus in the Gospel of John, then in Luke, a so-called sinful woman" "I was also angry at Jesus." "So the confusion was "cooked" near century V DC" "And for the next 1500 years" "Mary Magdalene was the woman sin." "History is always told by winners." "and the new testament is a compilation of books that won the battle for orthodoxy." "By what you say, understand that the Gospel of Mary failed because of politics." "Politics is always involved." "Power relations are involved." "Who can say: "That would be like to live!"" ""So you should think!"" ""So you should be!"" "They question the orthodoxy and heresy." "Who managed to reach the New Testament canon?" "They have deep implications about who is in power." "Shocked to find so chauvinism heart Bible" "I think we should blame the people who founded the church." "New stop: a meeting with head of the Papal Biblical Institute at the Vatican." "Today, people swear on the Bible in court, others put the place of honor in their homes." "Why do you think people use the Bible itself?" "I think people making those pages written as sacred that have in themselves a kind of authority and physical, written words of God have some sort of power or something sacred in themselves." "But Who Gives man the power to decide if word of God or not?" "One of the big reasons come from heretics, those who believe differently than what is presented as the standard of faith." "Talking about heretics is like" "You talk of freedom fighters." "For a fighter for freedom can be a nice new man" ", but for someone else may be a terrorist." "Not really, for a heretic, church that is not the judge what is lawful and the unlawful text?" "Yes, of course." "People who accept some books not accepted by everyone, having to be told that they do not appear on the official list of books." "And books written by women are included in the canon?" "As far as I know not." "You councils, meetings of the men school, power, influence, studies to determine what should be in the canon." "Is this a work of men rather than of God?" "Well ... at a time, were men who used instruments of God to produce these things." "The Holy Spirit is to ensure there is a right to church doctrine." "So say the Holy Spirit was present, considering the confusion, ignorance even prejudices, the formation of the canon?" "Well ..." "I think we have a group of people where confusion, ignorance and prejudice are present and this is a human reality." "But, fortunately, did you a large group of people working together, final result is mainly the result of Holy Spirit." "Sounds like a "come what may."" "Of course, there must be something more dramatic, more powerful what is the Holy Spirit to change this group of people with influence." "Holy Spirit works in silence." "But one passage even at the end of Revelation of St. John" "I kept coming to mind." "Until the last word in the entire Bible threat can be read by anyone who thinks that to spoil the book." ""It will anyone adds to them" "God will send upon him sentences that are written in this book." "And the words will bring someone in this book," "God will remove him from the tree of life. "" "Up to this point, it seems to me it just means that canon formation a group of people rich and powerful text component and they decide who they want to include in Orthodox and who want to exclude." "Where is the Holy Spirit in this?" "You know what I think?" "Spirit is a word today." "Spirit gives the ability see ignorance, confusion and prejudicatile involved and to raise questions on legality and accuracy of what happened." "This job is for me the spirit:" "power to read between the lines." "This policy reaches the IV century Rome." "And to get to my bible," "English, as it is today the authors ask us drafting arguments, and even bloodshed." "Bethlehem." "After Matthew's Gospel, is the birthplace of Jesus Christ." "But there is another reason for it is a key place" "My journey for "Who wrote the Bible?"" "In the fourth century DC, the list of books of the Bible was more or less stable but continued rewriting their content." "By the 380s, a man named Jerome came here in Bethlehem, the pope ordered." "He went through Ebru and soon after, settled in a cave in this church to work." "Its aim: to lead bible new audiences, down the dirt streets of his home in Rome." "Jerome is important that translate the Bible a popular western language, Latin." "This means that it becomes more accessible and can be read by more people." "He did what print media is later and what the Internet is today namely, revolutionizing access to the Bible." "Jerome's translation is profoundly wrong but will dominate the next century." "Many of those who read the Bible, anyone from west read Jerome's version of events." "But the man who wrote the story may most famous and always read the Bible more begins with 1000 years later and for me, much closer to home in Oxford." "By late 1300, complete Bible books have been together for a thousand years but were not translated into English." "By then, the only ones who could read the Bible were experts in Latin." "And there were too many." "But things will change." "One group of scholars decided to translate the Bible" "Into English." "But, then, was a dangerous thing to do." "It was an act of rebellion, where you risk your life." "During 1370, a scholar named Joanne Wiclef rejection inflicted among church settlements." "Have many ideas fighting, one of them according to which clergy should not have the right to own property, but the icing on the cake was his idea Wiclif Bible." "Wiclif consider both British society and the church should be reformed and furthermore be issued by the influential church in Rome." "Wiclef and realized that to push english people to change things should have access to the Bible in their own language, a language they could understand." "And it was not just of religion." "It was about who controls whom in medieval society." "Medieval era you can not separate politics from religion, and was very active Wiclif religious point of view, and also active politically." "Wiclif believe that governance must be the people by the people and for people just as it appears in the New Testament." "Then why not take ordinary people access to the New Testament and see those ideas themselves." "The problem was that this topic was taboo." "The last thing the church wanted was to give ordinary people power to come with their own interpretations what the Bible says." "But Wiclif incited the rebellion." "Although much has not translated itself, has pushed others to find their own way for Jerome's Bible and to publish the first English Bible." "This is not one's personal Bibles Wiclif" "Bible is a personalized, ie, a bible and his circle made by Wiclif." "How rebellious was to have possession of something?" "It was illegal to produce a Bible in English was illegal to possess a Bible in English." "If You Have a copy of it near the fireplace in your mansion, police would come and you have problems?" "You do not show it to anyone but friends." "Pope Martin was so disgusted by the ideas of Wiclif, that in 44 years after his death ordered that his bones be dezgopate and burned in public." "But another translator of the Bible in English will suffer worse." "And his ideas were formed as taught by the clergy here in Oxford and is a long way to Protestant England." "His name is William Tindell." "There is no doubt that" "Tindelll was inspired by his example Wiclif, but Tindell was convinced that his translation Wiclif was not sufficiently accurate." "And not relied on what Wiclif try improve in many respects, but took it all over again." "Unlike Wiclif," "Tindell access option New Testament in Greek and the Hebrew version of the Old Testament." "And just to work after the Bible's mistakes Jerome" "Tindell able to stand in front of the originals and put their creative talents to work." "This is a copy of the New Testament's Tindell, first direct product of New Testament Greek and printed in English." "It was produced in mass cheaper than Wiclif's personal version." "Teaching of Bible translation used Tindell is universally recognized as a huge well, not necessarily in terms of translation technology, but also in how they use English." "Words such as "salt of the earth"" "that expression is of Tindell's time." "In the mid-1520" "English Bible ban was so inflexible" "Tindell that went on contient." "But there was no escape." "In octombie 1536" "Catholic authorities caught him." "He was hanged and burned at the stake." "But Tindell's words have survived." "I argue that any English version used today" "Tindell's ghost haunts them pages." "Just before his death Tindell, become accustomed to have a Bible in English, in England." "Protestant country was now but the elite was preoccupied with fighting continuing religion and decided it would be much better" "If it was their bible." "So in 1604, King James ordered a new translation." "comprised 85% of Tindell's words and adding the royal seal of approval." "King James translators gathered 54 including the best scholars in the area to creat this new translation" "What wins in this king?" "Need to generate religious opinions." "King James did not want the kingdom be destroyed by religious controversy," "He wanted this new Bible to bring religious peace and harmony." "King James Version was the policy?" "." "No doubt that King James had political reasons but the order has ensured that policy there are rival factions translation in those committees." "The idea was that we could meet England in the Bible." "King James version remains the only accepted English Bible from 1611 until World War-I." "It is still a bestseller in the world translation and evolution continues." "Now there are many modern versions" "Wicliff and Tindell's." "Written for the audience when, there is a bible of Scotland a bible of hip-hop even a young bible." "If you think modern music remix have an original version then processed by 20 different people." "Regarding the Bible thousands of processing the original text." "So modern translators people are last in line which were reprinted and processed bible." "And when it comes to Bible translation, is nothing new under the sun." "My journey was nearly finished." "I brought back in time thousands of years but ask the question that" "Now matters more than ever." "And will tell you why." "Freedom and fear are at war." "U.S. President George W. Bush claims to live by the Bible." "And 20-30% of American voters are evangelists who believe that God wrote it." "Even before the elections," "Bush knows that if it gathers together will be another four years in the White House." "Christians in America" "I pray that if God" "God bless America and if not, God will not bless America." "Now I'm on my way to a Baptist church in Georgia to know a preacher which has been called the spiritual mentor of the president." "Bush has known since 1988." "What Does the Bible for George Bush?" "I think he believes in God's word, that is a source of guidance." "God said, is written" "I believe it" "The most important source of knowledge about good and evil, right and wrong, meaning and purpose to human existence, is to reach people." "I was asked yesterday by a liberal if I suggest the president to change something," "I would say yes." "As flood Iraq with U.S. troops." "Not 120,000." "but 500,000." "It's good for the Bible mystique to mix with foreign policy?" "Sure." "Biblical Truth is true ... if it is really true Sunday and Monday true 24 hours a day" "7 days a week and should apply all aspects of our lives." "For a Christian, be involved in armed conflict means must be authorized legitimate authority." "I do not think legitimate authority for U.S." "is UN." "If they want to agree with us, well, if not, ..." "I do not care." "That Bible reading makes a better president?" "Christian is, I think yes makes a better man, a better husband, a better senator, a better wife, a better father, a better mother," "Best lawyer makes you a better person." "During this trip I researched who wrote the Bible and theologians who say I met you should not take the New Testament word for word, that was written after decades after it happened, so you have to be a little more flexible ..." "I think not." "I do not think it's smart study is not, it's about faith." "Most people who talk about bible concern by the code Napoleon," "Guess ... the Code Napoleon are guilty up your innocence is proved." "I Regard the Bible ACCORDING to the shared" "You're innocent until proven guilty." "Is the word of God proves not to e." "Theologians who believe the biblical text was written thousands of years ago, is not accurate and can not be based domestic and international policies." "Answer them?" "Bullshit." "You asked a direct question, will give an honest answer ... crap." "Dangerous crap." "When you believe in the Bible and follow its path," "God bless you and you grow." "When you sit to judge Scripture this is a theology of death." ""I want to thank you all for your hard work ..."" "60 days later" "George W Bush had an election victory." "Many believe that preachers like Richard Land public and religious connection with Bush's bible did win." "It was an agonizing trip for me from my roots where, whatever you do, not to question the Bible." "First, the so called code of Moses proves to be the work of many people." "Then find out as much of the Old Testament policy is ruled ancient as well as divine inspiration." "And the New Testament proves to be a work of misunderstood written by people who were not present the events they describe, all gathered influential editors which have ensured that exclude matters not like." "But my mother always taught me" ""Stay Smart, despite education!"" "I mean ..." "Use your experience to resolve what is right in your face." "If it would have to apply my trip," "Who wrote the Bible?" "well, I learned that Biblical origin is mess." "And is confusing because life is imperfect." "If we find God in our life imperfections of my life, where can we find God in the text mess." "Who wrote the Bible?" "Is a complex question and require some thought." "And I suggest this to me as to trust in the world today must ask questions and never have the veil drawn over the eyes."