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Actually the King James version was based on the Greek New Testament that was published by Erasmus in 1515 and repleat with errors. Erasmus himself lamented this fact in later life.

I reccomend reading a book called "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Erman.

The Catholic Bible was compiled by Jerome in the 4th Century A.D. and became the Latin "Vulgate" (or "Common") Bible from which modern Catholic Bibles are still printed.

All textual witnesses from which all Bibles are printed, however, have been subject to textual errors (Scribal slipups etc.), interpolations (where someone just adds something to it, like the Joanine Comma or the first 5 verses of John), revision (like the 10 commandments) and outright editing.

Personally, even though I'm Protestant, the closest thing I can find to a "Correct" Bible in print today is the St. Joseph New American Bible.

2006-10-13 23:58:40 · answer #1 · answered by raven_21633 2 · 2 0

There is no one "correct" translation of the Bible. This particular translation was done by a committee and is out of date in terms of recent biblical scholarship. Remember too that the books of the Bible were all written at different times by different communities of people and that they were translated through at least two languages or more before they came to English. Never get hung up on the "correct" version because that idea is a tar pit of intellectual stagnation. If you have faith, use the mind God gave you.

2006-10-14 06:54:55 · answer #2 · answered by Isis 7 · 1 0

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