In the days of Plutarch there was an old ship perported to be that same one which Theseus himself had sailed upon on his voyage to slay the minotaur. The story of these Minotaur itself is either fiction or a tail evolved over long ages to include a monster at its center, but whatever the matter the ship that the philosopher saw in his day was said to be the very same…and that created a question…

How could that ship be the very same when it had had rotten planks replaced over the ages so that it then contained new material not present in the original?

The question has only grown more complicated since Plutarch aswell, other philosophers adding in their thoughts and questions to the paradox….making the original question of the ship of Theseus into the paradox it is named after.

Today the question is asked “If a ship of 100 planks has one replaced is it the same ship or has it become a different ship? If not, what if 50 planks are replaced with new ones, is it then a different ship? What if all the planks have been replaced with new planks? Is it the same or a different ship? And at what point would it become no longer the same ship?…Andvif that isn’t trippy enough, what if a new ship was constructed out of all the old planks? Which then would be the original ship?”

The same can be asked and really should be asked of our translations of Scripture.

If one thing is changed is it the same Scripture? What if two things? What if half of all is changed? How much can be altered before it’s not the same story?

And this is perhaps one of the most important questions we could ask ourselves aswell, because we know our Scriptures have been altered by the lying scribes.

We need very much to know what was changed, how much was changed, and how much remains.

What are the nature of these changes aswell? Was a an old plank exchanged for a new one…or were our sails exchanged for string? Was planking replaced or were our canon exchanged for tin cans?

When we set sail with this man-o-war, will we find that rot was replaced with new wood or that our sails can catch the wind and we don’t have any fire power?

These are things we need to know, because we sail over treacherous seas and we must be able to trust this ship.

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