Does anyone believe that today's Bible has missing parts from the original?

Answer 1

Wow I have a pretty good answer for you actually..my answer is from a similar question that was proposed, so some of it might not make sense:


OMG..don't you all see that having so many different versions of the Bible indicates a corrupt religion? Many authors, editors, revisors, etc. of the Bible only changed/deleted/added verses to appeal to Christians so they would remain faithful (in other words through lies) and to appeal to people who are interested in converting (the same way). Converting through lies and putting in what people WANT to hear is corrupt. For all we know, the all-loving peaceful Bible could have had some ugly verses that were deleted or replaced with more peaceful ones so that Christianity could not look like a culprit or evil religion in the future. CORRUPTION!

An imperfect, flawed religion indicates that it is disqualified as being the true religion.


When you said, "I think people are seeing the question they want to asnwer, not asnwering what has been asked..."

Well, thats kind of like the Christians changing the Bible into what they want their religion to be like (aka allowing more freedoms, making bad deeds seem less impactful, etc.), not seeking the truth or caring about what is really meant for them.

Answer 2

Missing Parts Of The Bible

Answer 3

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Does anyone believe that today's Bible has missing parts from the original?

Answer 4

Your question is invalid: there ISN'T an "original Bible."

What xians call the OT does not, to my understanding, include everything in the Jewish Torah, from which there are ancient books that have *also* been excluded, much like your own Apocrypha . . . I believe they're called the Pseudigrypha or something like that.

Plus, the xian OT excludes the centuries of collected rabbinical commentaries---again, I'm not sure what it's called---that are the *real* heart and practice of Judaism.

Finally, the NT as it exists now was assembled at the Council of Nicea, from many more potential candidates---nearly 150 "gospels," and I'm not sure how many "epistles"----than made it into the final canon. More's been left out from early xianity, in other words, than has been preserved.

Answer 5

Missing Pieces of the Bible: Lost Books Fill-in the Blanks Updated Version

Answer 6

I believe that through the providence of God, the Bible was preserved for us in modern times. I believe that if you get one of the more accurate translations, then you have all that God intended for us to have.

If God is God, then he could, and would preserve His word for all generations to follow.

There are not just a few, but there are thousands of ancient manuscripts that the Bible is translated from.

In addition to these, there are many ancient versions of the Bible, translations of the Bible into other languages, maily Latan. These versions date back into the second century.

Early Christian writers also have also spoken of the word of God, as have other historians. These documents give us glimpses into the scriptures that were available then.

All of this ancient evidence points to the fact that the Bible we have today is complete and over 99% accurate, with the small inaccuracies being minute details that do not change the substance of the text.

Choose for yourself a translation that strives for word-for-word accuracy, such as the KJV, ESV, or NASB. Better yet use 2 or more of these more accurate translations for comparison, and you can be assured that you have God's Wrod!

"According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue." (2 Peter 1:3)

Answer 7

Missing parts, missing books, yep. Bible is just a little bit of info from the Kabbalah. 'Nag Hammadi' is more of the bible. And yes, you cannot translate anything from it's original language, 100% correctly, into another without losing some of its meaning.

Answer 8

The Bible or the Catholic Canon of Sacred Scripture originated first in the old testament from the Jewish writings called the Septuigent the new Testament writings were collected from writings mostly in Greek, some in Aramiac . .. and all put into Latin which is known as the Latin Vulgate. The Latin Vulgate has 73 books, compared to teh 66 books of the protestant kjv . .. before the advent of the printing press most people couldn't read, they went to Church to hear readings and learned from being taught by a person and from images in stained glass windows etc . .. When the printing press and the protestant so-called reformation occured they widely distributed a revised version of the Latin Vulgate and removed the dueterocanonical books, retranslated the Catholic Canon of Sacred Scripture and removed aportion of the book of Esther which are some of the modifications to the original form of the Bible.

This began a change religious practice which denied Sacred Tradition as well. Those things which were part of CHRISTian practice for 1500 years before someone decided it needed to be reformed. And so this began the present day "apostacy" or falling away, into an idea of "personal interpretation" and a denial of "Sacred Tradition" which is why you have so many CHRISTian protestants all saying they can know the TRUTH for themselves, by reading the Bible like a lost man reading a map to find their way . . . but without a guide they do get lost, and then if posioned against their brothers in CHRIST become hateful of them. It is what JESUS refered to the phariees as "blind guides" . .. people not knowing where they are going but using the Bible as a road map to try to get there, and leading their flock with them to whereever they get . ..

In the book of acts there was a wise man who said:
Acts 8:30  And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?
31  Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

The begining of wisdom is to admit you don't know then come to those who do know and ask to be taught.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE TRUE CHURCH who's roots are in the crucifixion . .. JESUS is the seed which died and produced THE TRUE VINE which is, was, and shall ever be THE FULLNESS OF THE TRUTH OF CHRIST who is literally present in THE HOLY EUCHARIST.

LOVE your neighbor as yourself.
Amen.

Answer 9

Yes, I believe there are missing parts based on the discovery of over 50 texts in Eqypt in 1945:

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html

Answer 10

"Yes, the Bible is human, though some, out of zeal which is not according to knowledge, 1 have denied this. Those books2 have passed through the minds of men, are written in the language of men, were penned by the hands of men, and bear in their style the characteristics of men."