Bible revision question?

Question

The King james bible is said to have had 400 text revisions 26 years of the release date of 1611. Someone also told me that the book of Mormon has had almost 4000 revisions in less than 200 years. Why is this so?

Answer 1

Another good reason to know the Bible is the correct one of GOD's word.........

Answer 2

First, who sits around counting revisions? What a complete and utter waste of time. If they had read the Book of Mormon or Bible to understand the Gospel truth that it contains, they would have stopped such a senseless activity immediately.

Second, even the anti-mormon revision counting critics, Gerald and Sandra Tanner, admit that the changes were largely grammatical and spelling revisions and not changes to doctrine.

Finally, the way to know the truth is by reading it, pondering and praying about it, living it, and receiving a witness from the Holy Ghost of its truthfulness.

Answer 3

I think your "4000" number is a bit exaggerated, but some changes have been made to the Book of Mormon. Nearly all changes are minor, grammatical and spelling corrections. Remember, Joseph Smith was a farm boy, and the King James translators were scholars. Too bad they didn't have spell check back in the 19th century.

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Answer 4

The issue concerning revisional editions of the KJV since 1611, is much less vital than the issue of what doctrines base its text. And while textual changes do exist among editions since 1611(mostly spelling updates), the impact of those changes are minor, especially when compared to other modern versions. The question is thus not whether there have been slight textual changes in the KJV over the years, but whether the verses that exist in today's KJV(the 1769) are substantiated by classical language papyri.

Answer 5

The King James Bible is from a different set of manuscripts than most translations today. The reason is money. This country was basically started with the kjv but since most homes had one certian people had to come up with away to sell more and thus we have different translations of all kinds in the hope that all Christians will by one of each. We have no known reason to need any other Bible than the KJV but other translations are coming out all the time, its all about the money, King James got together the best theologians of his time and they translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek from the best manuscripts they could find. Stick with the KJV, it is the Word of God and always will be. But of course remember that you have to find the Old Authorized King James Version. Be careful what you buy because people are making changes all the time to make it sell. May God have mercy!!!!!!

Answer 6

The book of Mormon was concocted by a lunatic. It has no Biblical truth. It has had to be revised in order to start making some sense - still a lot of work to go.

The Bible in all of it's versions has updates as languages become clearer. Scholars work quite diligently to make sure that English translations best communicate what the writers intended.

Answer 7

The "New worldwide version" (NIV) is in lots of circumstances called the "almost inspired version" for the reason that's extra of a theory-for-theory translation than an precise literal translation with allowances made for grammar. very in lots of circumstances the subject concerns revolve around gender. Examples comprise unique references to "brothers" that gets translated to "brothers and sisters" or "sons" that gets translated "toddlers". i'm beneficial arguments could be made in protection of Zondervan's translators and employing inclusive language. actual the NIV is the 2d maximum simple English language translation (trailing at the back of the KJV regularly for copyright subject concerns. We use the NIV in church, yet i'm extra vulnerable to apply the ESV, NASB, or the recent King James. There are a minimum of a dozen different English language translations obtainable ((twenty first Century KJV, American wide-unfold, Amplified, simple English, modern English, Darby, Holman Christian wide-unfold Bible, Lexham, The Message, NCV, TNIV, youthful's Literal Translation, Wycliff) and it will become a private determination interior the top. As for inerrancy, I say beneficial. the situation isn't with the inerrancy of the bible, yet with the translation into languages. it rather is the reason there are a lot of translations.

Answer 8

The mormons are a bit whacky and the bible revisions are simply stating the same message in a different way. Gods word remains the same in the bible.

Answer 9

Not revisions, so much as corrections. Correction of grammer, spelling, clarification of outdated terms, and corrections of wording in a few verses to make them mroe in line with te rest of the book.

Answer 10

When the Book of Mormon was originally written, it was absent of most punctuation, capitalization, and line breaks. Chapters and verses were later added to make it easier to reference.

Very few words have been altered.

Answer 11

4000?? No...that's too many, that's like changing every 5 words, but there have been some ...

The many are changing "God" to "son of God"....I dunno why though. And any reasons as to why would be speculation.

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Bob...apparently that skeptical eye never told you that the bible is NOT changed, but in the foot notes is where the changes are located.