Which version? do some versions contradict other versions?
2006-09-28 05:07:10 · 22 answers · asked by martin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NO.
The bible is a collection of parables. They contain great wisdom but have been worked and re-worked extensively to further the greedy ends of a lot of corrupt popes and rulers throughout the ages.
It would be tantamount to basing your knowledge of New York City based soley on Spiderman Comic books from the 60's and 70's.
2006-09-28 05:11:20 · answer #1 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I believe everything in the Bible. Word for word. The issue really boils down to this. Either God has made His Word completely inerrant and all sufficient, and something we can trust, or He didn't. If the Bible is not trustworthy in its details, then why bother at all?
Ultimately, either man becomes the arbiter of what is true in the Bible, or God meant what He said. As Paul says, "Let God be true, and everyone else a liar. As it is written: "You are right when you speak, and win your case when you go into court." (Romans 3:4)
As far as versions, most versions do not contradict each other, although there are some that give you what the translator thinks a passage says, rather than a true translation that lets the reader decide.
There are translations that are literal word for word translations, and others that are thought for thought translations. Then, there are paraphrased versions that are the least accurate. The paraphrased versions include The Living Bible, and The Message. These would be the least accurate.
For myself, I have a few proof texts to insure that the translators didn't take liberties with the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. One of these is Isaiah 7:14. If they have translated the Hebrew word "almah" as "virgin," then it's likely to be relatively faithful. If they translate "almah" as "young woman," then it's not faithful.
The reason I say this is "almah" can mean either one, depending on its context. But, when the scholars who originally translated the Hebrew Scriptures to the Greek (the Septuagint), they had two Greek words available for the translation. The one that truly means "virgin" is "parthenos."
This is significant, because Isaiah 7:14 was considered a Messianic prophecy. There is nothing miraculous about a "young woman" giving birth. It happens all the time. But for a "virgin" to do so, is unheard of.
2006-09-28 12:33:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe everything in the bible, and I thank God I do. What a difference it has made in my life, to stand on the rock of His word.
Bible "versions" are really just the same manuscripts translated into more modern English. Except in one or two cases. For instance, the New World version is a bible translated by the Jehovah's Witnesses. They actually take out and insert their own language to back up their beliefs. I think the Mormons also have a translation that pretty much does the same thing.
You can't go wrong with the NIV, the King James, the New King James, the Revised Standard Version. Treasure to be mined!
2006-09-28 12:12:09 · answer #3 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. I believe everything in the Bible.
I have a parellel King James and Amplified, and I love it! When I first got saved I had to put King James aside for a whole year. In that year I mostly read the NIV. Then, eventually, I just had a craving (for lack of a better word) for the King James. By this time I was familiar enough with the scripture that the archaic language wasn't as much of a distraction as at the first.
I haven't seen any contradictions between the translations to speak of, but I have noticed that some ways that some translations say some things fall a little flat in my spirit or seem a little weak as compared to the King James. When that happens I just go to another translation.
2006-09-28 12:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by Carol L 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, everything.
I like the KJ and others as well.
Versions that contradict, for example, are the Jehovah's Witness version, The New World and The Book of Mormon
2006-09-28 12:15:29 · answer #5 · answered by Red neck 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do. I read both the King James version along with the NIV which is easier to understand.
2006-09-28 13:19:31 · answer #6 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe *everything* in the Bible in the sense that I believe the Grinch stole Christmas and learned compassion. I believe in the morals of the stories told within the Bible. Some of it is like a documentary, other parts are poetry, and others are traditional fables passed down from generation to generation for the sake of teaching morality.
The Bible is a SPIRITUAL manual, not a SCIENCE manual.
2006-09-28 12:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe everything is in the Bible for a reason and it is up to us to figure that reason out.
None of the "wise" people in the Bible figured out that "thou shalt not kill" didn't go together with stone people at the city gates. It took Jesus to bring some Biblical logic to put an end to that concept.
Jesus said we can do all the things he didn, that including coming up with logical Bible concepts to support the correct way to be.
God shouldn't have HAD to show that to us with the 10 commandments, we should have figured that out on our own. We had enogh examples.
To this day we still don't understand what the Bible is trying to show us!
2006-09-28 12:22:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Word of god is spoken (breathed), and the bible is the inspired written account of it. See II Timothy 3:16-17.
However, the writing of it is not the only inspired step. The reading of it must also be inspired, or you will not understand it correctly.
To understand the scriptures correctly takes the work of the Holy Spirit in you and in those who influence you.
Job 38:36
"Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind ?"
2006-09-28 12:15:20 · answer #9 · answered by Just David 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is about all i believe from the Bible.
Matthew 10:34 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
I don't know if they exactly contradict, but the following are different versions of the same verse...
KJV - Isaiah 45:7 - I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
NKJV - I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and create calamity;
I, the LORD, do all these things.'
NLT - I am the one who creates the light and makes the darkness. I am the one who sends good times and bad times. I, the Lord, am the one who does these things.
NIV - I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.
NAB - The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/versions.pl?book=Isa&chapter=45&verse=7&version=KJV#7
2006-09-28 12:10:12 · answer #10 · answered by AiW 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes, I do.
I don't believe one version is superior to another. For many years, I would only read King James. But, now I read NIV.
2006-09-28 12:09:30 · answer #11 · answered by Char 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋