Before you settled on your choice of bibles, did you study all the other 40 or so versions of bibles?

Question

Read the Coptics versions? Orthodox versions? Greek ? Mormon? Jehovah witnesses? Nag Hammdi versions?

How do you KNOW that you have the correct version IF you did not study each one, compare it, and check for consistency?

What criteria did you apply to reject all the others and choose one?

Did you do your own homework or do you rely upon preachers?

Answer 1

There are far more than 40 other "versions" of The Bible out there.

Mormon and JW "versions" are not worth the paper they are printed on... The mormons do not even teach out of their "bible" it is so full of error... and J. smith claimed it to be directly dictated to him by God even... They now claim to be KJV followers... which is not true. but, as the Lost and Decieved of Satan(LDS) are not of the Christian Faith, their teaching is false anyway...

There are no inerrent texts of "The Bible" in existance today. All are copies of copies ofcopies of translations that man has been mucking around with from the begining... as to the "modern" english "translations" ...any of them that rely on the questionable motivation of the works by Westcott and Hort are less than reliable. The NIV being the worst of the "main stream" ones in use today. Many so-called translations are nothing but paraphrases and not sutable for study...

I did not own a Bible on the day of my Salvation. I believe I was led by God to the one I read most frequently from.. I went into a store that had hundreds of different Bibles. I did not know one from the other, I just knew I needed a "bible". I looked at many different versions... and none seemed to speak any thing to me... some I could not even bring myself to open when I picked them up... the vibes, As we called them when I was a bit younger, were not right. and I even felt cold go through me touching some... When I picked up on that was just a plain blcak one with no fancy cover It was like warmth and glowing feeling within me... I opend it randomly and it fell to the 23rd psalm... I knew instantly that this was the Bible for me... I am firmly standing by my 1611 King James... I do use the New American Standard version(updated) as a study as well... and I have a hard cover study Bible in KJV as well.

The Message so-called bible is an abomination and should be consingned to the fires of hell... I did not get this from any "preaching"..this is my own opinion after reading it... it is trash at best...

I am not qualified to speak to translations into other languages.

Answer 2

I have not read all these bibles, but I have read the standard Christian Bible (NSIR version, NIV, King James, they all have the same thing) and believe it. I have studied the beliefs of these other religions - yes other because they ARE NOT Christian - in their own religious training. I did not study what other people SAY these religions do, I went right to the religion to see what they teach and why.

After all this, I have come to reject even the Catholic Bible as being partially founded in myth to rely solely on the Christian Bible. If your preacher says, don't study but listen to me, you need to run. The Christian Bible clearly states that you are to study the Word and learn its Truth. That is another reason why I have found it to be believeable. Yes, some passages do not always seem to make sense, but once I learn what the hebrew or greek word used in the passage means, or I take time to re-read and disect the passage it becomes clear and nothing in the standard Christian Bible has ever contradicted itself or proven false in any way. visit www.khouse.org for a download of Chuck Missler explaining how we "got" the Christian Bible and other great study courses on different books of the Bible. I use his lessons to help me fully understand the Scriptures as I read them.

Answer 3

I studied the english translations that I could get my hands on. For literal interpretation I go to the King James because it is based on the oldest actual text. For ease of reading, I go with the New International Version because it's more fluid and less cumbersome.

I didn't get into the languages outside of English. I'd like to!

Answer 4

I use the New International Version (NIV) and the King James Version. My pastor mainly teaches out of the NIV version, so that's the one I use most. I haven't really studied any of the other versions in depth. However, I plan to purchase a parrallel bible that allows you to reference several interpretations. A good parallel bible is called "Today's Parallel Bible."

Answer 5

It is true that there are some very poor translations of the Holy Scriptures and some are clearly superior to others in avoiding archaic terms, including cross-references and running headers, and in restoring the divine name.

However, the important thing is to work to get to know the thoughts of God, and it is possible to begin to do that with almost any bible. Even if you don't have a bible, there are several available online, or at no charge.

For example:
http://watchtower.org/bible
http://www.watchtower.org/how_to_contact_us.htm
https://watch002.securesites.net/contact/submit.htm

Answer 6

I use the KJ (and even old english KJ) as my base to compare. And personally found NIV to be lacking in quality and validity and consider any preaching using NIV to be wrongly inspired and at times invalid.

There are too many things left out of NIV and too many verses that litterally and subjectively both contradict KJ.

My own religious view that those who rely on NIV will be doomed to making mistakes in their faith because the NIV does teach certain things to be exact opposite of KJ and therefore opposite of gods word.

Answer 7

Did homework. However I don't know Greek :) Still doing.