Looking at the different responses I got for my last question, I notice that people with opposing views often quoted from the same source - the Bible. So which version is the correct interpretation of God's views? Who has the final say?
2006-08-23 11:20:28 · 17 answers · asked by 8bo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Personally, I like the New Living Bible translation. It's in plain language and very easy to understand.
People will both quote things from the Bible when they have opposing views. Just like anything, a quote is just a quote when it's taken out of context. You have to read the entire passage that the quote was taken from to get the correct meaning of the quote.
God has the final say and I'm sure He'd be happy you're reading the Bible at all. I used to read the King James Version of the Bible but it was just reading. Once I started reading the NLB translation, things started to make sense and have meaning. Good luck in your search for the correct translation for you.
2006-08-23 11:25:12 · answer #1 · answered by Shopgirl9337 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How short sighted some of us are. The Bible says the same thing in each version. It does not say something different because the word choices are different. I also like the New Living Translation. I use it with the amplified and sometimes with the Catholic version, not to get a different meaning, but to more fully understand. We are to understand God's Word and follow it, not interpret it. The language is what is interpreted. The Word is true, o matter the language or the version. That is powerful.
2006-08-23 18:43:50 · answer #2 · answered by the Goddess Angel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings,
I would have to say that the Authorized Version is the one to go with. That is the King James Bible. Why I say that is if you look in the front of the bible you will find copyrights in all other versions of the bible for the content between the covers. When you look at the King James Bible the only copyright found is about how it is formatted and laid out and not on the content. This would make sense as God wants His word to be received by as many persons as possible and would therefore not care how much or how often it is conveyed to them either by quotes or by copying it and handing it out. Afterall what would God need with money, He created it all and it all is His anyway.
2006-08-23 18:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by cobravetor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no correct interpretation of the bible. It is a book written by dozens of authors over thousands of years. It expresses completely contradictory views. If you care to read into it enough, you could make the following cases:
1. The bible supports slavery.
2. The bible outlaws slavery.
3. The bible forbids abortions.
4. The bible condones abortions.
5. The bible condemns divorce.
6. The bible allows divorce.
That's just a few examples. And let's not even get into the difference between old and new testaments. If this is the absolute truth according to God, I think God needs some psychiatric help.
2006-08-23 18:26:27 · answer #4 · answered by Danzarth 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
While there are different versions of the Bible, they say the very same thing. Now interpretation is a different matter...there is the same problem with the Quran.
However, there is truth in both the Bible and the Quran; the secret of interpreting the bible and also the Quran is to ..'prove all things and hold on to that which is true.'
2006-08-23 18:28:29 · answer #5 · answered by Roxton P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I subscribe to a method of teaching based upon the original languages in which the Bible was written....hebrew and greek. It is astounding how words were interpreted for purposes of translation. Frequently a greek or hebrew word does not have an exact translation, so the word must be viewed in it's original context. Also, most words have multiple meanings, depending on current culture....what does gay mean now versus 100 years ago.....the Bible was written by 40 men over 1500 years...many of the writers had never heard of nor read the other writers. Original is best.
2006-08-23 18:27:24 · answer #6 · answered by scott n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Browse through 'em all and see which ones resonate with you.
I own six different printed Bibles, plus seven more electronic editions, including one in Hebrew, one in Greek, and one in Latin.
My preference in the Catholic Bible is the Douay-Rheims edition, with commentary by Haydock.
Mu preference for the Protestant Bible is the Companion Bible, original King James Edition, with commentary and appendixes by Bullinger.
The content of the two is actually remarkably similar, but the commentary is totally different.
Once you get familiar with the Bible, you can instantly determine when some hot shot translator has been messing about.
The different editions vary widely in readability and in the amount of liberal (and even false) translations.
2006-08-23 20:38:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, there ain't no god if by that definition you are thinking of some old man in a beard, creating the world in 7 days --- that's fairytales and myths of middle eastern shepherders. Secondly, one "revealed truth" has about as much value as any other, since they are all faithbased, so the koran is just as legit as ithe bible, and either of those is about as good as any other from any part of this planet..... Supernaturalism in any form is all faith based----by definition. The final say, is science, DNA, evolution, astronomy, genetics, and repeatable experiments.
2006-08-23 18:30:44 · answer #8 · answered by April 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the final interpretation of the bible is your own interpretation unadulterated by the mouths of men seek the essence of the scriptures not the words
2006-08-23 18:24:46 · answer #9 · answered by sean b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. The Christians dont even know the answer to that question because there close to 25,000 different manuscripts of the bible and NO two are alike
2006-08-23 18:24:07 · answer #10 · answered by Erni S 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋