Christians, bible question!?

Question

Ive read alot of people on here who are claiming to be christians, but claiming not to believe the whole bible becuase of it being translated so many times....

My question for all of you is, Do you not think God is big and mighty and holy enough to perserve his word as he says he will in Psalms? Why would God make it mandatory for someone to know about him and to seek him diligently, and love him for all that he is, and not even give us the imformation we need in order to do so?

I believe alsolutley 100 percent the bible has been perserved for us in the KJV. God wanted us to have his word, and he preserved it for us. He can do miracles, but he cant stop man from messing with him word? He used men to make it what it is now. People always say "Well, those men were bad, they were non believers blah blah blah"... My answer to that is, cant God use who he wants to do his work? God doesnt have to use a saved person to do what he wants done.

Answer 1

Will you marry me, Erika? ...good question.

Answer 2

Please don't be offended by what I have to say. If you believe in the Bible 100%, then good for you--honestly; all I ask is that you respect those who do not. So long as you promise to respect others, even if you disagree, then you need not read the rest of my answer.

There are different explanations. My favorite comes from Daniel 12:4. I believe that the discoveries of non-Canonical texts found here and there is what will increase our knowledge.

The second explanation is as follows:
Mankind has always had access to the truth, even though the truth may change forms. Christians expect the Jews to have given up many laws to follow Christ and the New Testament teachings, just as Muslims expect Christians to give up Biblical teachings for Qur'anic teachings.

Somewhere in the Qur'an, I forget where exactly, I believe it says something of the effect that to change books on the religious was a tough test, to distinguish between those who knew the Bible and those who knew what the Bible taught--when the Bible was allegedly changed, the latter would recognize that the Qur'an promoted the teachings of the true Bible and would therefore turn to Islam. While I disagree with parts of this, still considering myself Christian and not Muslim, there is some interesting legitimacy to Qur'anic claims.

It is most interesting to note that at approximately the same time the Bible was being canonized--which is when it was most likely to be changed--the Qur'an was being revealed to Muhammad, almost as if God knew. I personally think all Christians should read the Qur'an, even if they don't believe it was divinely inspired, for it does provide a very interesting insight into early Christianity, most of which no longer exists, arguably such as Ebionitism.

To be sure, I do believe that God will ensure His message is preserved. However, it may be present at different levels at different times. To those whom more is entrusted, more is expected (see Luke 12:47-48). I've even thought that the Jewish commandment to preserve anything with God's name upon it (derived from Deuteronomy 12:1-3) quite possibly was meant to ensure the non-Canonical texts were not destroyed, which is why we now have the Nag Hammadi and Oxyrhynchus collections, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

But believe what you may, respect others and their beliefs, and acknowledge that God knows best. I cannot imagine that a just God would punish us for something beyond reach--still, it is not my place to say.

Answer 3

Of course, we must have faith that the scripts were preserved through God's will. The Bible says that; are those insecurity statements? Naw. The Qu'ran has insecurity statements though, like, "I swear to you this is true" and what not, but not the Bible.

But the KJV! That's not even the same language as we speak! Sure, it's got the same words, but a completely different prose than nowadays. Our use of the English language has changed, so should our texts.

By your argument, you should be learning Ancient Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew and using those translations. I don't understand why KJV would be better than a modern translation. Our understanding of ancient languages have improved since then, too.

Look up the story of the Ethiopian eunich, I'm pretty sure he was reading the King James Version.

Christianity's message is love, and that message shines through regardless of what translation you prefer and how legalistically you tear it apart.

Answer 4

true enough the KJV is probably for the standard for the english launguage, but the new KJV is just as critically translated and far easier to understand, even easier to understand is the New International Version, all three are very good bibles to study from, there are a number of versions that are good for study and will not lead you away, when I study I study from a number of these versions at the same time, seeing the same things said in different ways often times opens up a far greater understanding than trying to get it from a version that is hard to understand because no one has spoken like that since the 1600's when it was written.

Answer 5

Do you not think God is big and mighty and holy enough to perserve his word as he says he will in Psalms?

YES!

This is a result of common sense AND faith.

If you believe that God is all powerful--how could his word possibly be wrong? First faith, then miracles.

Answer 6

God didn't write the bible...... the catholic church got some of their people together, evaluated scripture, scrolls and manuscripts and based on their opions of what was right, they decided what went in the bible and what was left out.

So, naturally christianity being still in its infancy, presented a huge oportunity for greedy "holy" leaders to draw and manipulate the mass, and telling them this is the word of God, you don't follow that, you go to hell. In which back in the early days of christianity, it was phrohibited for a common man to read the bible, he had to have it read and interperted to him by an appointed holy man, and of course wemen were not even encouraged to read. What a fantasticly easy way to manipulate the masses to push and enforce their rules, their morals, and fill their pocketts.

A prime example is the Spanish Inquisitions, where they forced people to acept christany, the bible, as their way of life. They tourcherd, and masacured those who chose to keep their religion, or those who didn't agree with the views and demands the church was making using the bible to enforce their demands.

Its been seen in history time and time and time again, where people use the bible to get what they want from their following. Good example, the The World Church of the Creator, Christian Defense League, Christian Separarist Church Society, Westboro Baptist Church..... etc - these are some of white supremecy groups and extreemist groups that all use the bible to manipulate their followers to do their will, live out their hate and justify it with the words of God, in the bible!

I belive God does do miricle and is all around us. I don't believe alot of the stuff in the bible, esp about God demanding 10% of a persons income to support the church, or wemen being inferior to man, or that its ok to divorse your non beiliving spouse - but its a sin to divorce a fellow believer, just to name a few issues that don't settle with me that the bible claims to be God words.

Since when did God support or condone prejudgice against wemen, race or enthic background? Since when did God support HATE a fellow man/woman because of their sexuality and condone their death?

This is not the God I love, respect, admire and hold a close relationship to, my God is love and peace, I don't need a book compiled by a bunch of sexually frustrated, sexist monks and bishops to tell me how live my life for God, that is a personal deal between God and myself..... and nobody else.

http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/purpose.html

http://www.tgia.net/Links/Information_Sites/White_Supremacy/white_supremacy.html

http://www.religioustolerance.org/wcotc1.htm

http://www.cdlreport.com/

Answer 7

Amen. Everything you said is 100% accurate and I couldnt have said it better myself.

The Bible is an interesting and highly complex creation in that is so paerfect theologically, it makes the hair on the back of the encks of scholars stand up while studying, yet it has imperfect enough to allow the unbeliever to have doubt. This is part of the way god sifts through his believers to see who actually believes and who gives up at the first sign of dificulty.

Answer 8

These people are claiming to be christians but thier beliefs based on the book of the catechism. Scholars agree that the name "Christian" was given to the followers of Christ and not
the followers of Mary,Pope,Saints and dogmas of the Catechism.

Many have fallen away from the truth because they are misguided to believe in the false doctrines of evil men that have corrupted God's truth.

Answer 9

I am not certain why you have concluded that the KJV is the most accurate. There are some glitches with translation because there is a difference in the languages. However, the overall message is clear.

Answer 10

The Bible has been preserved very accurately, critics and scholars admit this. We have over 5000 greek new testament manuscripts to prove modern new testament, also the dead sea scrolls (100 b.c.) prove the old testament accuracy. Jesus Christ said that his words would never pass, I believe what Jesus says..

Answer 11

I agree with your first two points, but on your last one i find that in general it is best to use several bibles to find different interpretations on the meaning of the word and hopefully get a more accurate picture of the true meaning.