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the Holy Spirit says it is in the New Testament,-which is the last 4 books of the bible.Would you trust a God,that said 1 wrong thing?Yet many educated,highly intelligent people,have been convinced by research and study,that the bible is as the author said it is",INFALLIBLE"!Consider this:If your wrong in your assement about the bible-you have a lot to lose!If your right about it and know it absolutly,you have alot to gain!

2007-06-27 17:07:24 · 18 answers · asked by Wellll... hello then! 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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The color of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse . . .
translated "pale", should be "green".

The word "eon" (in the Greek) should be translated "eon" or at least some word that means a period of time. Instead, it's translated "world" quite often (incorrectly).

The word "dikiaoma" should always be translated "righteous nature or righteous character". Instead, the KJ translates it condemnation, judgment, justification and a couple other words. How can the same word mean those three different things, c'mon.

I mean, the Tyndale bible is the work of one man, and it's a helluva lot better than the KJ. The Geneva Bible is far superior, and earlier!

Face it, the KJ is an inferior work that got alot of press because it was the official government bible.

2007-06-27 17:09:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

There are no editions of the Bible that are flawless. Look into the history. Books were thrown out. Pieces of it were put together from different parts of the book like a puzzle. Books were hidden when christians were persecuted and killed. (Read the Gnostic Codices). Before the Bible was let loose to common people, it was incredibly edited for content. Also it was written two centuries after Christ was crucified. However, the new testament has wonderful guidance for how to live life. I believe in God as I understand God. We understand each other just fine. No troubles.

Blessed Be

2007-07-05 12:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by Linda B 6 · 1 0

THE KJV IS EXCELLENT BUT NOT PERFECT.

That said, let's look at a few facts.

The original 1611 KJV had 8500 marginal readings, many of which expressed doubt about the meaning or wording of the text. On numerous occasions, they simply had to ‘flip a coin’ and put something in the text! The translators were humble men, who wanted to alert the reader when they just weren’t sure what the Hebrew or Greek text meant. It is only the omission of these marginal readings that has given some folks the illusion of certainty.

Between 1611 and 1613, a revision with 300 differences between them emerged.

Between the KJV version of 1611 and that of today, Edgar J. Goodspeed, an American biblical scholar and linguist, estimated changes "in at least 75,000 details."

2007-06-28 10:08:43 · answer #3 · answered by Victor 2 · 1 0

The Bible was translated from the Dead Sea Scrolls. They are written in ancient Greek and Hebrew. Any time any language is translated from one to another it looses value to some degree. Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are missing due to aging, water damage, or have never surfaced. I am not discounting the Bible. I believe in God and know the holly spirit anointed the men that translated it. God has trusted man with his heart completely, we keep letting him down with knit picking this and that. Doesn't it say we should trust God as His Children? Why is that so hard to understand? Do u trust your earthly parents? I am a christian. I know God the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit are real. I pray God quickens your spirit so you actually experience his love, father-ship, and trust. I have studied some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. As one reads the text you actually sense the presence of the Lord.

2007-07-05 23:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by Laura F 3 · 0 0

If you are so worried about one little sentence being incorrect because of translation you are missing the total boat on the Bible. The Bible is simply humans way of containing an infinitely gigantic god being who tries to get us to know Him. We are very very small if we actually think that if we try to search for inacuracies in the Bible, which Man wrote as God directed then the Bible is impossible to be true, we are missing it. Perhaps if God is real (which I believe he is), we should use the Bible as a guidepost, and not some Book heaped with all these inacuracies, and try to get a picture through reading and studying what God may be saying to you personally. I think that God is very large, and to large to be contained in one small group of 66 Books. HOwever, i do believe that what God says to us through the many prophets, and writers, and poets, and historians, and judges, and kings, in the Bible should give each of us a close up and meaningful dipiction of what the creator really is like and who He is.

2007-07-05 19:46:20 · answer #5 · answered by pansyskunk 2 · 0 0

Consider this: that Bible says that insects have four feet.

Game, set, match--the KJV isn't infallible.

By my simple proof, I know that I am right in saying that the KJV is NOT infallible--in fact, it took me all of five seconds to find a mistake. There are MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of insect species! How, HOW, I ask, could a god who supposedly created every last one of them get such a simple fact plainly WRONG?

P.S. "If your wrong in your assement about the bible-you have a lot to lose!"

True, but that goes for you too--what if you interpreted it completely incorrectly, and/or the Qu'ran was instead the right book, or the Vedas, etc. etc.? "My god or no god" are not the only two possibilities. For this and many other reasons (check my source), Pascal's Wager fails.

2007-06-28 00:09:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Are you talking about the spirit of the message in the New Testament, or the literal translations? Remember, man wrote the message, and language is only a tool to covey thoughts and concepts, open to interpretation by the listener.
If your question and opinion as written here were to be translated a hundred times, it is unlikely to be anywhere close to what you are trying to express. As a matter of fact...what are you asking???

2007-07-05 11:08:04 · answer #7 · answered by crittersitterjenna 3 · 0 0

The KJV is based on manuscripts that are not the oldest in existence as known, other versions, such as the New Revised Standard Version, are. The older the manuscripts, the more accurate the translation, since as the Catholic church knows, the Bible is inspired inerrantly by God in it's ORIGINAL, UNEDITED manuscripts. The KJV is not the original, but other versions are closer, and thus, more accurate.

2007-06-28 00:12:27 · answer #8 · answered by Christine S 3 · 1 0

If it were infallible, then there would be no argument as to what it says and means. Many Bible-believing faithfuls argue about the meaning of passages. For example, when it says "Jesus comes up out of the water," after his baptism, does that mean he came up from under that in which he was dunked, or that he walked out of the water in which he was standing?

2007-07-05 21:10:30 · answer #9 · answered by LadyRainstorm 2 · 0 0

All versions of the Bible are riddled with obvious contradictions--pump the word 'contradictions' into any search engine--then stand back for an avalanche of material that show that the ancient writings in the Bible merely reflect the lack of knowledge in the times they were written in.

2007-06-28 00:16:43 · answer #10 · answered by huffyb 6 · 2 0

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