If the Bible is a true word of God, WHY is updated after every 10 years?

Answer 1

The Bible is not updated. A translation may be.

A few of the reasons that there are so many translations (not versions) of the Bible are:
+ The English language is very complicated. It changes all the time. English is different in different countries. English can be different in different neighborhoods.
+ Biblical scholarship improves every day.
+ Archeology learns more and more about biblical times every year.

The original language documents nave not really changed. The Dead Sea Scrolls helped prove this. The scrolls are important because they testify to the accuracy of the people who copied and recopied the Scriptures over the centuries. Despite minor errors, they show us that the Old Testament has not changed since it was compiled.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Here's a neat link I just found that explains the origin of some of the English Bible translations! There are others.

I don't understand your use of the word "update." People are putting the Bible into new formats on the internet and translating and transcribing it into new dialects all around the world Every Day, because Jesus said that would take place before He comes again. But there's also a curse at the end of the Bible for anyone who adds or takes away from "the words of this book," so no Bible believer is going to admit to "updating" the source documents for all those translations. However, about a century ago a couple of men claimed to have "discovered" more authentic versions of the ancient manuscripts, and their revised presentation became the source document for "all" subsequent translations and paraphrases in "modern speech." With the increasing sophistication of scientific ways to uncover the truth of things, millions of believers believe the original source documents to be the valid ones, and the 1611 King James Version of the English Bible remains an international best seller.
Meanwhile, just the resilience of the subject, the fact that anybody cares, tells me there's something valuable here somewhere, to be found or to be hid.in the great controversy between good and evil.

Answer 3

Without going back and reading every version ever written,which would require you to learn several languages you cannot see most of the changes. There have been many,for instance the most famous and verifiable is the old testament,which is based upon the Jewish Torah which mentions Adam having a first wife named Lilith,this of course is never mentioned in the Christian version. Also the Torah has a whole different interpretation of hell than the Christian version. Then of course there is the need to at least reword those chapters which cause problems when knowledge disproves the current interpretation. For example for centuries the Church taught that the sun revolved around the earth,of course science eventually disproved this idea,after several scientists were executed teaching it I might add,the church did not actually rewrite the passages that taught them this idea so much as they just reworded them.
And of course the most famous rewrite in history would be the King James Version,every word of which was approved by its namesake regardless of what scholars and interpreters had to say,so much for the unchanging,inspired word of God. And since it was written by kings no wonder it tells you so many times to obey all authority and to never want what others have etc,nice little slave manual is what it really is.

Answer 4

i agree with most that have answered but also to add, language changes. There are new meanings for everything. If you read shakespeare there are translations (not updates) of that also. Certain words such as "gay" has different meanings today than it did 100 years ago... think about it....

Answer 5

Bible is nothin but a stupid old book with all kinds of thoughts which r idiotic 2 everyone
Its not a true word of god, but a false word of some motherf***** of that age
Bible holy book i don't thing so
Bible a piece of trash - no doubt

Answer 6

Just the wording and meaning are changed only when it's really politically expedient to do so.

For instance, some bibles now proclaim the evil of being a homosexual, but the word wasn't even created until some time in the 1800's.

It still ignores scientific advances that prove much of it false.

Answer 7

Friend, The bible is the word of God, Man likes to update things, because they try to do it to fit the time period we live in, Not even knowing That God Changes Not, & he is the same Yesterday, today, & forever.

Answer 8

Oh common, how can you believe it was writen by God. The Bible was written so many years or centuries after Jesus death. And don't you think that Jesus should writte the Bible? It would be more believable.

Answer 9

Updated? Updated to what?! You need to a Bible, there's nothing different I just bought a new one and it has the same writings in it, that my old one had, and my old is 14 years old and my husband has one older than that and it has the same writings.

Answer 10

It is not "updated" ever. New translations and interpretations come out based on scholarship, opinion and (unfortunately) bias. But the Bible hasn't been changed for millenia.