Would you trust them to take out passages if they claimed they were being guided by the Holy Spirit?
2006-12-30 05:44:37 · 21 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How do you (if you do) trust the ones that have already been made?
2006-12-30 05:48:55 · update #1
Are you kidding? I don't even trust the original editors of the bible!!! Who know how much was left out or twisted?
2006-12-30 05:46:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mary Lou 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I wouldn't. Not take anything out from it, anyway. The Holy Spirit would not make someone remove from The Bible, but possibly add to it. However, if something is added it should always be prayerfully studied and compared to see if it contradicts anything else The Bible says.
As for trusting the prior edits..I can not trust that everything that 'was' taken away or added was fully of the Spirit, although I do believe that God has influenced it in every way possible. The reason I trust the Bible is because it makes perfect sence to me, and I know that if man has added or taken away what he shouldnt have, God will not hold my lack of understanding that against me because the knowledge was kept from me against my will. ;)
Blessings and Love
2006-12-30 05:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by intothecrimsonsky 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all the bible is the fictional work of ancient people. The ideas expressed in it are based not on a God but on the socially accepted ideas at the time! To say that any book that was written thousands of years ago would be relavant today is down right silly! The ways that we view the world just based on scientific understanding has changed in ways those people couldn't even have dreamed possible! Our reality would to them be complete fiction! For this reason alone there is NOTHING that people from that time could've ever dreamed up that could relate to reality as we know it!
2006-12-30 05:51:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely not. Edit no. Translate from original manuscripts, yes.
One reason why I am baffled by those who claim the King James Version was inspired. (Which wasn't a translation, but a revision of the Bishops Bible and other Bibles). What, did the Holy Spirit make a mistake the first time? Was God not able to fulfill his promise to guard his word?
Oh, and as a student of Textual Criticism, I'm baffled by statements such as Mary's and Iblis's who obviously haven't looked into the science of it. We're more sure of what the Original, Archetype Bible said, than we are even of Homer's works - see the Wikipedia source on what textual critical scholars themselves say (NOT Bible scholars, but scholars who study ancient documents and "what they said".
EDIT: To answer your additional details - I am a student of Textual Criticism. We are more sure of what the Original Bible said, than any other document in history. That's not per Bible Scholars. That's per textual critical scholars. If we deny that's what the Bible originally said, then we have to deny the works of Thucydides, Homer, Xenophon, Herodotus, Tacitus, etc. We have papyri that date to only 20 years after the original, and we have THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of ancient, ancient documents and copies, that make the King James Version look like a completely new version.
2006-12-30 05:51:32 · answer #4 · answered by raVar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-06 05:24:43 · answer #5 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't trust today's church leaders to *read* the bible -- they've already come up with so many contradictory "interpretations" of the bible that there are thousands of christian sects, each one with mainly minor doctrinal differences from all the others, and all of them claiming *their* particular interpretation is TRUE and all the others are FALSE.
Besides, how can you fix by editing a book that is already cobbled together from hundreds of unreliable sources, full of contradictions and errors, and based entirely on superstition and myth for which there is no evidence in the real world? You can't...
How anyone can believe in a "god" who is supposed to have spelled out his plans and rules in such a ridiculously error-filled book is beyond my ability to understand...:(
2006-12-30 05:49:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any Church leader that would want to add or take away from the Message of God, wouldn't be a true born of God Christian, filled with the Holy Spirit.
It is written to test the spirits to see if they come from God. Do they deny Christ came to earth and dwelt among us? Do they lead to other gods? Do they deny the Father & the Son? Do they deny that what Jesus did on the cross is sufficient payment for our salvation? That salvation is of faith in God & Christ and not of works should anyone boast (religious pride)? Do they deny the Holy Spirit and the gifts of God? (The Holy Anointing is the seal of God on those born of God.)
The Holy Spirit doesn't add or take away from the Holy Bible. The Holy Spirit reveals the truth in the bible and reveals more truth in the bible. The Holy Bible is Gods Book that He loves to reveal things to us in.
When you read in Revelation to the 7 churches, Jesus reveals that He hates the doctrines that add to His Word. These doctrines tempt the church people to believe false things of God and lead to idolatries & fornications.
2006-12-30 05:54:41 · answer #7 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I wouldn't trust them. Just as I don't trust any translators of the Bible from the past or present.
I still do my own studies of the New Testament in the original Koine Greek with a lot of "helps" (Concordances, Analytical and Greek-English Lexicons, etc.)
People all make mistakes, including me. So no, I wouldn't rely on others to make a once-and-for-change-Bible.
2006-12-30 05:53:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thanks For Your Question
But unfortunately the Bible has been edited and edited for several years and that is terrible I mean does God words need editing ?!
That's why us Muslims describe it as corrupted and not 100% pure gods words anymore because the words of historians and translators has gotten into it sadly
2006-12-30 05:50:04 · answer #9 · answered by abouterachess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Why would the Holy Spirit go back on its word? And how would you be sure they are telling the truth?
2006-12-30 05:51:31 · answer #10 · answered by apersonwholikescheese 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋