Why are there two different versions of the holy bible?

Question

well no disrespect intended, but i mean every other holy book has only one version, take the torah or the koran. Was the new version the words of god or jesus aswell, or just some rich religious people who would be benifited with the new edited version. As far as i know the new version was made many years after jesus's time. If so, then why do billions of people follow what may not be what god had said in the first place, nor jesus. Is this not what the old time bishops intended, or where they really just commited to blashphemy. Makes you go "hmmmmmmmmm", it does.

to "Troll Boy?", ive been doing some research and there are no reproductions or revisions of the Koran or the Torah to suit the people or the place of worship, and i do not speak of translations (meaning change when translated i know), i speak of the different versions, i mean if one calls himself a christian, and has 200 bibles to choose from, he would not know what to pick. One answer says there are many different churches with different bibles, i was not aware of Jesus publishing the bibles editied in many ways to suit the church or the people it ended up at. He had One bible, and if you call yourself a christian it should not matter if you are catholic or what not, there is only one bible. By now i guess its hard if not impossible to say which is the original.

to "chooselifeexo", the new testament was made after Jesus's death so its obvious that it is not the word of god but rather that of man, or else we have a situtation with an unknown prophet who gives us the second book to complete the word of god.

FOR THE FINAL TIME, I DO NOT SPEAK OF TRANSLATIONS, SO STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME UNDERSTAND THAT MEANINGS CHANGE IN TRANSLATING!!!

Answer 1

There is no definite version of the bible. The bible has changed many times throughout history to adapt to the needs of government wherever christianity spread. Because the original church of christianity did not charge followers or had no financial benefit to the government the leaders ended up changed and modifying the bible. The most famous modification of the bilbe is when Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire 'Paganized' the bible so that it had more than one divine godly figure. Thus making Jesus the son of god (none of the original first christians ever believed in jesus as the son of god) and inventing the holy spirit. Emperor Justinian was always thought to be a great christian emperor. He never accepted christianity until he forced at his death bed. He paganized christianity and christmas. Many of the modifications of the bible have been documented throughout history.


Their is no account on which the Torah has been modified and i am not sure how it could have been. It is a very old scripture and the Jewish people are very serious about keeping it original.

The Quran has not been changed despite the Shiite major sect that split off from the Sunni's. Attempts had been made to change the Quran but none of them succeded.

Answer 2

Let me explain it and see if it helps. Like the Torah and Koran.. the Bible is translated into other languages. The Bible still contains the same books the Jewish Torah uses and has the New Testament as well, and is also translated into many different languages. For the most part, they all give the same message. You wont read a verse in one that says something completely different in another, though, the language itself may be different. There are a couple Bible versions that have blatantly been changed by the translators (the NWT by the Jehovah's Witnesses for example) but they are not accepted as The Word of God in any other denomination.

The original text is always best, whether it be the Bible, the Torah or Koran, neither is more "untouched" than the other. The Bible however did have 8 books removed by the Canon but, it is still readily available if you want to read those as well. If you do, you wont get a whole different message than the standard Bible.

Answer 3

The reason that there are 2 differnt types of the bible is becuase after the protastatns broke off from the catholic church a nations king could choose the religion of the people so when the king broke off the people had to become that religion. But some didnt want to and pulled from a similar event in history which could be found in the book of maccabees. Which told of the jews being persecuted and fighting against a ruler who wanted to change what religion they where. So to stop the pop. from rebeling the kings took out that book from the old testament as well as other verses and chapters.

Thats why the catholic church has a differnt bible from the protastents as well as the fact that its difficult to translate accuratly from one lang. to another.

Answer 4

Each time the Bible was translated from one language to another, things were changed---either on purpose, or because of words not meaning the same in the different languages.

Here is a very good example, and a major part of Christianity is based on it:

Referring to the Septuagint--

The Greek translation that we have is not the one done by the rabbis. Naarah is found in many places in Torah, always means a young woman (perhaps virgin perhaps not). Betulah is found in many places in Torah, always means a virgin.

By mistranslation---Mary, mother of Jesus becomes a virgin.

Answer 5

There are actual numerous reasons why there are lots of variations of the Bible. * some human beings believe that they are able to do a extra suitable interest of translation than the final individual or team of translators. * each so often the languages that the Bible replaced into translated into replace into archaic and very nearly unreadable with the help of the final public. * when you consider that we've not got the originals of the books of the Bible, some human beings believe that employing distinctive manuscripts might yield a extra suitable translation or one that is closer in intending to the perceived unique. * some human beings believe that different translations do no longer placed across the the terrific option meaning of the manuscripts, that the translators did a foul or biased interest. * besides, there are distinctive tactics and varieties of translation -- literal, paraphrase, liberal, poetic, etc.... And there are in all probability different reasons. yet it relatively is why we would desire to consistently no longer be counted upon any single translation for figuring out doctrine. the worldwide-extensive-internet has many, many Bible web sites with diverse translations accessible. So there is not any excuse for many folk with get admission to to the internet to no longer analyze numerous translations whilst examining God's word. .

Answer 6

The Bible has one basic version unchanged over time. Unfortunately, many Christians and Muslims don't bother to review what the original language says when they think something it says runs counter to what Catholicism says. I reject the idea that the Qu'ran is much different. Don't you?

It is so simple for Muslims to say "The dead sea scrolls prove nothing or they are faked, and so forth" but, will they accept the same line of questioning about the Qu'ran?

Watch out for the truth, friend, it is a sword which lashes out "severally."

Answer 7

Are you talking about the Old and New Testaments? If so, it's not 2 different versions; it's actually God's complete Testament to mankind. The first on builds up the Christ, foreshadowing his coming. The second is about his coming and the church.

Answer 8

Do you think ev erybody reads from the original koran? Do you think everybody reads arab languages. No they are in english french german. Just as the bible. The bible is now in common english although translated from the original tongues or scriptures.

You are lost in your evaluation of GOD's WORD.

Answer 9

There are several versions of "THE Bible", and the "Holy Bible" is one specific version of the Bible for protestants. Catholics have another Bible, Mormons appended one book to the Bible, etc.

The main versions, however, are the Catholic Bible and the Holy Bible, which are different sets of books.

Versions of the Bible are called "canons".

Answer 10

The KJV bible is the correct one. All others were reproduced in a "easier to understand" version but they are really produced to acquire new patents to make money on them. Those new versions are no longer the word of God because they have changed the meaning of God's word so much that it has become the word of man, which is the word of satan.