How many times the Bible changed? If it was changed so why we believe it??

Answer 1

Considering the oldest documents date back to about 200 B.C., and the oldest available documents are used in any translations of the Bible, there's no middleman and we can get as close to the original texts as possible. As for alleged "changes," can you give some examples? People make this claim all the time, but I haven't seen anyone come up with any proof that the Bible has been substantively changed.

With regard to the oldest possible documents being used for translation, it's like that game that kids play where a bunch of them sit in a circle and whisper something all the way around the circle to see if what they say stays the same by the time it gets back to the first person--but the closer you get back to the first person, the more accurate things are. There are so many ancient documents dating to around the time of Christ that it'd be ludicrous to think that those documents would not be reliable with regard to Biblical content. For that matter, why do we accept the works of Homer or Plato or other ancient authors with so many fewer ancient copies of them, but try to deny the validity of the huge number of ancient Biblical manuscripts which are well-corroborated among each other? Seems like there's tons more proof there for the consistency of ancient Biblical manuscripts than anyone can reasonably try to deny.

Answer 2

The bible has been changed and edited a few times, the plain and simple truths were twisted and now many passages contradict each other or don't carry the original meaning. This happened because pagans and nonbelievers altered the passages to make bad things more acceptable. They erased things they didn’t want to hear (who wants to hear "you are doing the wrong things in your life"?) the reason people still use it today is because they are the words of Christ and the prophets, it may have been messed with but there is still plenty of great doctrine there for us to learn from and feel Christ’s love as we read.

As a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints (LDS or Mormon) we believe that another book was written during the same time as the bible on the American continent called the book of Mormon. There is a scripture written about it's coming, I believe in Joshua saying there would be 2 scrolls the book of Judah (the bible) and another record, and that the two would be the fullness of the gospel working together. The book of Mormon does just that. It is another testament of Christ, and tells about how he came to visit the people of the Americas (Jesus said "other sheep I have") when he was asked where he was going on the mount of transfiguration.

The best thing about the book of Mormon is that if you read it and pray with a true desire to know if it is true or not, you will get an answer. You don't have to believe anyone that says because you will feel it, God promises through his prophet (and editor that lived a thousand years ago) Mormon that if you read and pray God will speak to your heart, you may even feel it burn within you.

We members of the LDS church cross reference the teachings from the bible and book of Mormon to see the whole meanings. It becomes very clear what the scriptures mean and we don’t need to try to guess. Lots of churches do that, that’s why they disagree. Nothing our church does goes agenced what the savior himself taught and despite what some people say, we worship Christ and are baptized by immersion (the same way Christ was) we believe in doing work for the dead, which peter mentions in Romans I believe, we believe families can be together forever and that we can repent of our sins because of Christ’s atonement. We have sacred temples, just like those in the scriptures and the same work is being preformed there to seal families together. We have the priesthood (the power of god on earth), and I have seen miracles with my own eyes just like ones mentioned in the bible! These are the things that are in the bible that we do that others do not do.

Email me for more info, or check out lds.org, the missionaries from my church would be happy to help explain better. They are really nice guys -not pushy, I promise.

Answer 3

to be honest, the Bible has been changed way too many times. I personally only use the King James Bible. There are many reasons for this, but to state just a couple of them.

1.) Because EVERY single version of the Bible has been taken from the King James version. So, why not just read the one everyone else is copying from???

2.) Because the King James version is the only version that was translated word for word from the original Greek, Hebrew and Chaldee texts. "every jot and every tittle"

http://www.bibletexts.com/kjv-tr.htm

Answer 4

When the dead sea scrolls were discovered, scientists compared the writings with our modern day Bibles and found very few differences. Most of them were due to gramatical errors or copyists mistakes. Very few changed the meanings and even those that did, the messages were still very clear throughout the surrounding scriptures. The very worst change which has been made by humans as far as the Bible is concerned has been the removal of God's personal name. In the original writings, it was used nearly 7,000 times. In the New King James, it no longer exists at all. How sad a tribute to Jesus who said, "I have made your name known...." in his prayer to his father. God is fully capable of preserving his word and we can trust that all right hearted ones will search diligently and find him no matter what translation they use.

Answer 5

Listen carefully, tho I doubt you will believe. It hasn't changed from the original texts. I have a parallel New Testament Bible that has the original texts - you know like they were when found - in Greek on one side with English word above the Greek, and the King James Version on the other side so one can compare and there is very little difference.

My husband (pastor) has one as well, and also the original Hebrew - same kind of thing. He has a working knowledge of Greek and Hebrew and says there have been very few changes, most of which are in the Hebrew because there is no punctuation in Hebrew.

Answer 6

Nobody is the same, so nobody reads the bible the same way as another person. Everyone changes its meaning slightly according to how they understand it. That's how things change and evolve over time -- especially the culture which influences the context of how the bible is understood.

Answer 7

If talking to someone that isn't fluent in English notice how many times they say "how do you say" or "let me think of the closes word" OK ....NOW that's the same problem Hebrew hes when being translated ...Get a Strong's concordance of the Bible and find out true meaning.

Answer 8

Many times their have been different translations of it but the message is still the same.
The biggest thing we forget is that the bible started out when mankind was still nomadic and pagan in nature and the stories were passed by oral means from one generation to the next. before writing was invented so that the stories or books would not change due to a faultily memory.

Answer 9

The Bible has actually changed very little, contrary to what Dan Brown and conspiracy theorists like him would lead you to believe.

It's true that many centuries ago there were decisions about whether to exclude certain books such as the gospel according to Philip, but even the most liberal groups that everyone thought were nut jobs were opposed to that one (the one supposedly quoted, and not even close to accurately, in the DaVinci Code).

In fact, the Bible is the oldest known text to have multiple copies in existance that date as old as it is, and the translations of the original scrolls are still so accurate to what you can buy in the local book store, you'd be astonished!

Answer 10

How many times the Bible changed? None!

Always have a bible with a concordance, to take the word back to the original!