Question fo chrsitians and jews about their books?

Question

this is an honest question with no intent to ridicule.

im just wondering why youre religions chaNged the scriptures u were given

in islam the Quran is unchanged fromt he day it was recieved.

i know that their are many different versions of the bible and it still changes. my question is why?

PLEASE DONT FIGHT WITH ME IM NOT TRYING TO CONVERT ANYONE I JUST WANNA KNOW WHY AND THE EXPLANATION.
thankyou.

im sorry but i have to add that u are wrong in that the Quran has never changed due to the fact that men and women have memorized it preventing this from occuring.

the Quran has never been changed. and u will convince no muslim that it ever has for our rules are all consistent. and have not chnaged over time as the christians and jews have...i.e. allowing alcohol which was no tin the original bible.....

Answer 1

Yes...this gets me too.
Basically, different books of the Bible were written by different people. Once Christianity became popular everybody wanted to read the Bible for themselves, but not all people could because they weren't all educated to read the language, so people began to translate them....the sad part is that in any language there isn't always going to be a word that will mean the same thing. Like it Hebrew there are like 5 different kinds of faith...they all mean different stuff, but its still translated into one word....thus causing confusion. But its still better than not getting to read it at all.
What I don't like about the new stuff coming out is that they're trying to change things to be 'modern' but when they change the word to what THEY think it means they actually change meanings without realizing it.
I'm a Christian, and I will have to admit that it has be translated and retranslated over and over...it makes me sad to think of all the stuff that Christians are taking wrong cause others change it :(

Answer 2

Okay, so I've been studying Hebrew and Greek for about ten years now (off and on), and I'm trying to learn to read Latin (that's coming along better than the other two).

From what I've found so far, very little of the Bible has changed. Sometimes words are rearranged, but in comparing the oldest copies of each Testament in existence now (pre-1st century for the Old, early 2nd century for the New), they are nearly identical.

However, changes are NORMAL when a book in translated into many different languages, as the Bible has been. BUT the meaning of the Bible has not changed.

And no, alcohol was never forbidden, though getting drunk was and is.

The reason there are so many different versions of the Bible is because everyone is different. Everyone has their preferences. Personally, I like to read the Bible in a more "modern" version of English. English has changed more than just about any other language. It's CONSTANTLY evolving. If a person who speaks English now tried to communicate with someone who only spoke the English of six hundred years ago, it would be really difficult for them to understand each other. But if a person who speaks Greek now tried to communicate with someone who only spoke the Greek of TWO THOUSAND years ago, they'd pretty much have no problems understanding each other. Greek, Hebrew, and many of the Arabic languages have barely changed. English has.

For instance, when I speak in Middle English, modern English speakers have trouble understanding me unless they've studied Middle English.

This is why the Bible has "changed." I hope this helps.

Answer 3

The Torah scrolls found in synagogues are copies of earlier scrolls, as were the earlier scrolls. Modern Torah scrolls are the same as ancient scrolls.

To the best of my knowledge, the rest of the Tanakh hasn't changed, either.

For your question about "many different versions of the Bible," that can only be addressed to Christians, as "the Bible" is THEIR scripture. The scripture of the Jews is the Tanakh.

The Christian "Old Testament" is mostly the same as the Tanakh, with several rather glaring translation errors and some rearranging.

Answer 4

the quaran wasn't written until centuries after the bible and mileniums after what is known as the old testament. the bible has been translated into several languages. i personally use the king james version and try to study the original hebrew and greek meanings of key words. i hold on to what i have and what God has revealed to me. i do not agree with all the versions out there. i do not know that much about the quran but have read that it too, had changed once after the original. surely it is written in several languages. i do know one thing, God said, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away. God is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Answer 5

SEE!!!You started with that SAME old tired lie!! We ALL know that the original HEBREW & GREEK is as orginally written! No, no fight intended but you just can't get away with that one anymore! So I don't speak Arabic and i get a qurqn TRANSLATED to english?,,Is not the original lost? So should I TRUST th' IMAM who speaks? Did it ever occur to you that languages can change? English does, so we update our books, HEBREW doesn't, te Greek either, so your point is MOOT! ,,,So you've been TOLD again, yet you gon' come back again, like...you FORGOT! Dude! the MEAT of the matter is the "message" & who is the LIAR! Take heed to Gal 1:6-10!!!!!!! So you have the explanation AGAIN! SO? memories FAIL, and dude tell me that the ten commandments changed, And no we won't waste our time trying to convince you of anything,,See you brought the MESS to us! And as usual you get nowhere, except with the unlearned, or in the JAILS!!! Alcohol??,, DRUNKENESS!!!!! IS COMDEMNED! Now address Galatians 1:6-10 the Christian world s WAITING!!!!!

Answer 6

The bible has been changed over the years, because men want to force their own views on others. Go back and look through the changes that have been made to the bible. It's usually from someone in power who disagrees or thinks something is wrong. Not god, but some insecure guy who needs to make others agree with him.

Edit: For those naive who don't think the bible has been changed.

One example, that King James made. He changed, "Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner (one who poisons) to live." to "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."

I'm not saying Christ never existed, or that there isn't a God, but if some people think the bible today is word for word the same as it was written, really should do some research. And it isn't all from translation errors, as the above example shows. It is from people who wanted to press their own views into the bible.

Answer 7

The Jewish Bible,the Catholic Bible,the Protestant Bible and "Other Bibles "are significantly different from each other. That is why i have never used the Bible as a reference to the truth.So many things have happened since the Bible was written ,so if you trust the Bible word for word you are living in the past.There have been apparitions of Jesus and Mary over the last 1000 years. All religions, except the Catholic Faith, refuse to believe in them.

Answer 8

First of all, if you think the quran is unchanged, you are sadly mistaken. And we won't EVEN get into the contradictions Mohammed made. What do you think 'radical Islam' gets its ammunition from?
Secondly, an intense study of the Dead Sea scrolls has shown that today's versions of scripture is 99% ACCURATE. The scrolls date, what, 2000 years ago? That seems to me pretty good. And any good scholar will be able to see what has changed and what hasn't.
Now let me give you some advice....man has changed through time, YAH has NOT. All of us, whether we be jew, christian, muslim, or purple-polka-dotted, WILL RETURN to the original Torah values and commands. Yahshua TAUGHT THAT. So you will be able to say BYE BYE to your Ramadan, and christians will say BYE BYE to 'xmas', and jews will say BYE BYE to Purim and waving a chicken over their heads. IT ALL HAS TO RETURN TO TORAH THROUGH YAHSHUA.
Hopefully you will understand this. I'm not trying to fight with you either, just save you from the fire that is coming.

Answer 9

What do you mean by "changed"? There are several translations that result from different interpretations but that is because words are often very difficult to translate from one language to another - especially Greek to English.

Answer 10

The Bible wasn't changed. That's a lie they tell you to keep you happy with the Koran.