Talk:Bible

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As a believer, I believe that although of course the books of the bible were written down by humans, the Editor was God. So I don't think it is concievable that it would have been written on a Wiki. Also, as a Roman Catholic, I believe that the New Testament is part of a wider tradition which is preserved by the Church. The New Testament is the part of that Tradition that was written down by people very close to the Apostles. See Also Dei Verbum (in German)

I agree Tyluthan 21:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Also Tom Kreitzberg wrote some good stuff on this subject on Why. See [1] -- AonghusOhAlmhain

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I would agree, and yet disagree. The idea behind wiki is that it is an open collaboration: I quite like the idea of the Bible as open collaboration. The openness speaks to me of risk: wikis, especially high-volume wikis, are often vandalised by those who do not care for the project. If the Bible is not just the black and white on the page, but is also the interpretation of it in sermons and daily life, then God's risk of his word in our hands is quite clear. In a wiki, even though many people are working together for the project, there is a consensus that drives through. When I think of the many writers of the Bible, writing for different times and in different styles, I am amazed at the singularity of the architecture of the whole, as if some divine consensus has been blowing through every page towards the goal. I believe that inspiration is still with us: not to write new books to staple onto the backs of our Bibles, but to direct our use of these powerful words to our daily lives. Gareth Hughes 09:22, 21 Mar 2005 (EST)

Quite an interesting though, Gareth, I never thought it before. The bible is one of the oldest and one of the most elaborated off-line wikis. Its refactoring has been off-lineishly slow but over the thousands of years there was some work done on it. Martin Luther, with his multilingual experiment then had released some elementary mental software bugs and gave a kick to bible refactoring. I think I had looked if there is a bible-wiki - they might have it on their wiki. But we might as well have the Koran or other holy books here, all on one wiki, with common recent changes, helping and correcting and understanding and respecting each other. That would be cool. One of the few cases that I'm not worried about license issues btw. Let's import the bible. There are these useful talk-pages on Mediawiki. I'm looking forward to it. MattisManzel 02:59, 22 Mar 2005 (EST)

See also the Wikipedia article on Bible.

I have added a template based on the wikipedia one. Friso Yoyon Schaap 14:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)