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Pastor Melissa Scott, like her deceased husband, Dr. Eugene Scott, is undoubtedly a brilliant linguist and uses those skills to wow uneducated TV viewers into believing that since she is so erudite, then it only follows that what she is preaching MUST be the Word of God and absolute truth, but that is simply not the case. Were she to spend hours on TV conjugating and declining all the verbs in the Illiad or Odyssey or other similar myths, would one also assume that THEY are ultimate Truth or the Word of God simply because she translated them with such skill?

The fact is that Jesus didn't walk the streets of Jerusalem with a neat little Morocan leather bound book called the Bible, consisting of exactly 66 smaller books. There are no original copies in existence of either the Old Testament or the New Testament. Archeologists and historians testify that the Old Testament was compiled and written hundreds of years after the stories recorded took place (if they took place at all) and there is absolutely no historic or archeological evidence of Noah's Flood, the Exodus, King David's kingdom, the glories of Solomon or any of it.

Likewise, archeologists and historians validate that the gospels were not written until perhaps 90 AD long after the deaths of the apostles and so were most certainly not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke or John or any eyewitnesses of those events.

Early Christianity was largely the invention of Saul of Tarsus, known to us as Paul who was not an original apostle of Jesus and not a eyewitness to any of his miracles or preaching. Nowhere in his writings did Paul make mention of virgin births or Bethlehem or visits of maji or in fact anything relating to Jesus earthly life, baptism, ministry or physical existence on earth. He strictly presented Jesus as a non-human, spiritual divinity not unlike the god, Mithra.

It was only 50 years later that Church Fathers saw the need to add a human dimension to Jesus to make the teachings more real, personal and believeable. So they created a birthplace, geneology, and events and miracles which took place, not somewhere off in a distant heaven, but here on earth in actual identifiable and historic locations. The Gospels are the repositories of those fabricated facts and were simply attributed to four of the original apostles just to give them some kind of authenticity.

So just because the Bible makes reference to real places and the reigns of real kings and pharoahs,that does not necessarily mean that the stories that they attach to those places and kings actually happened, any more than the fact that the Illiad and Odyssey mention real places too, yet the stories attributed to those places are entirely myth and fiction.

During the time of Jesus there was no Bible, just hundreds or miscellaneous spiritual writings in the form of scrolls; nothing had been grouped together into one book. So we do not actually know which scrolls Jesus (if he existed as a historical person at all) would have considered as valid scripture.

It was not until the 4th century AD when Constantine, a pagan Roman emperor, in an attempt to solidify and consolidate his empire by means of this new and popular religion, called together the Council of Nicea and instructed the Church Fathers to codify Christianity and come up with some kind of Bible as the ultimate authority. So the Church Fathers chose out of the hundreds of writings in existence, 66 scrolls which supported their teachings and condemned as heretical any writings which either did not corroborate their teachings or which directly contradicted their teachings. And that is how the Bible came into existence.

So no amount of clever translation or knowledge of ancient languages on the part of either Dr. Eugene Scott or Pastor Melissa Scott, proves that such a questionable document as the Bible, with such a questionable authorship and without any historical or archeological evidence or proof, is in actuality The Word of God.