Christians, do you consider this wrong?

Question

do you think it is wrong for people to change the Bible to fit their own needs and desires? and if yes, do think it is wrong for people to follow these people and read from these Bibles?

i have many Christian friends who say that the Bible has been changed, so they can eat pork, and do other things, that originally they could not do. i am Muslim and it is haram(very bad) to change the word of Allah, so i was wondering if it is bad for Christians too. because for us once you change the word of God it is no longer the word of God, do you agree?

i don't want to debate the Quran or Bible itself, i just want to know the Christian stance on people changing it. because i know Thomas Jefferson wrote his own Bible, so did King James- i can't remember the reason why he did, but i do know he did, and so did King Henry i can't remeber which one. but people still read from these books and consider them God's word event though these people have changed it.

OMG, you guys just don't get that i am NOT talking about dietary laws i am talking about changing it so you can get divorced and stuff like that. i don't want to read a quote from the Bible either, read the questions that i asked.

i am not talking abotu translations, because the Quran is translated and i don't see a problem w/ that. i am talking about changing it, not translating.i didn't know that all King James did was translate it, my world history teacher in the 9th grade, who was catholic, said that he changed it

Answer 1

You're right it is wrong to change the bible, I'm not christian, but I know that the ORIGINAL bible came from Africa, and the whites translated the bible to fit them. Whites and blacks in America try to change the bible to fit them which is wrong. People change, but God's words remain the same.

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He translated the bible, but as years went by the bible was constantly changed by whites(not King James), and they claimed that King James wrote it. Many books of the bible were destroyed by whites when they went to Ethiopia as well many years ago.

You might disagree with me, but I've read the Qoran and Bible and they both have same meaning just different wording. Christan's always act like they have to change things to fit them.

Look at an old bible from the 1950's and a bible from 2007. In the old bible it states Jesus had hair of wool and burnt skin. Now it says Jesus had white hair, and brass skin. This is just an example. Till this day the bible is still being changed

Answer 2

I believe changing the spirit of the WORD is a grievous offense.I would be too scared to face GOD in the afterlife if I changed. Jon actually addresses this in Revelation 22:18-19.

18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

There is a difference in changing the Bible and translating. Changing it to fit your beliefs can be dangerous. Translating it to appeal to the masses is a good thing. Very few people can actually read ancient Greek and Hebrew. I do not know anything about Islam, but you probably have translations from the original language as well.

As for the pork issue, eating pork was a Jewish dietary law set forth by GOD in the Old Testament. GOD permitted Christians in the New Testament to eat pork. Christians did not change the Bible just so they can eat pork.

Answer 3

I strongly disagree with changing even a single word of the Bible. King James went against the Catholic Church and translated the Bible into English and William Tyndale was killed for doing it. The Pope like Muhammad didn't many cruel things, but King James just wanted it translated from Latin into English so England would have a Bible in their language. I read this Bible today.

Answer 4

"do you think it is wrong for people to change the Bible to fit their own needs and desires? and if yes, do think it is wrong for people to follow these people and read from these Bibles?"

Yes and yes.

"i have many Christian friends who say that the Bible has been changed, so they can eat pork, and do other things, that originally they could not do."

I think these Christians don't understand the Bible. Christians were never told they couldn't eat pork, Jews were. Christians have never been under any dietary restriction.

The Bible hasn't been changed in this respect. A Jew who accepts Christ as savior is not bound by all the O.T. laws that were specific to the Jews. Christians are, of course, still "bound" by the generic laws - the 10 commandments for example.

Answer 5

Personally, I think that the Bible is the living word of God. If we read it with an open heart and mind, God will reveal the true meaning to us despite any "changes" that might have been introduced by people that translated the original texts.

My Bible (including several of the versions you mentioned) still says (in the old testament) that it is wrong to eat pork...and I think that medical science has offered a pretty good explanation for why God doesn't want us to pollute our bodies with "unclean" food.

If you look at all the major translations (and the Torah and the Quran), the message of God seems consistent through all of them. God created us, he loves us, he wants us to be happy on earth and he wants us to live with him in eternity. Everything else is just rhetoric. I believe in a forgiving God who knows what is in my heart...if I make a mistake when I am truly seeking him, he is quick to forgive and forget. If God wants me to stop eating pork, I believe he will convict me of that as I read his word...but perhaps, at the moment at least, he has more important things he wants me to be concerned with in my life than what I eat.

Answer 6

I have some problems with The Zombies. There is no such animal. Some but not all of these games are inspired by Satan himself. He loves lies,Murder,Sex and Getting Christians away from GOD. But then if He does that/ They were not much of a Christian to begin with. So 86 the Church, and Zombies? Drop those. Whatever happened to Donkey Kong? Super Mario? God Bless Ya, Chicago Bob imasinner There is more joy in Jesus in one day. Than there is in the World 365/24/7 I know, I tried them both. Numbers 6:24-26

Answer 7

Christians believe from the teachings of the Bible (Old and New Testaments) that God made a covenant with the Jewish people which included dietary laws (such as not eating pork) and other issues such as the Sabbath. The Jews were commanded to obey the laws in the Old Testament. Jesus ushered in a new covenant which included gentiles (non-Jews.) Gentiles are not required to keep the ceremonial Jewish laws in order to be in a relationship with God.

Answer 8

Salam Majnoon jan and congratulations on your endeavor to study other religions. You are, by the help of God, on the right path. Please note that the bible was lost after Jesus. It then was gathered together sometime from 90 to 300 years after Jesus was departed. Therefore, the authenticity of the book has always been under question. As you read bible and compare it to Qoran, you see that Qoran is the word straight from God himself. But bible is not so. The old testament is Torah. many stories like story of Joseph are pretty much exactly the same but few little differences.

Answer 9

Anyone changing the holy scriptures is wrong. period.
But another topic is interpretation of the Scriptures.
Don't Muslims get advice on the Koran from imam (a fatwa)?
I read somewhere that an IMO said that a woman could work with men that were not her family if she breastfed them all like 5 times or something like that. Isn't that basically changing the words of Allah? or at the very least, manipulating them to fit OUR needs?

Answer 10

Your friends are correct because they know scripture. In the new testament, God said to Peter, who also said he could not eat certain things, "do not call unclean anything which I have made clean". Gentile believers were never under the law that God gave the Hebrews. If you would spend time reading the bible you would understand that Jesus basically gave us two commandments; to love God and each other. He said in these two, all the other commandments are fulfilled.

Just as Jesus said....it is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles it, but what comes out of it.