and yet when your read them, they are different.
Only God could make such a remarkable phenomenon.
2007-12-15 08:57:03 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Unh huh.
Proof of this remarkable phenomenon is to be found where?
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2007-12-15 08:59:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 4⤋
I'm wondering where you're getting your figures, and how it is that you found the 'original'. I read Biblical Archaelogy Review pretty regularly, and study in other forums, and as far as I know, there are no 'original' parts of the Bible remaining. There are some old ones, and some other information from the time of Jesus. But it's not as if there's an origianl Bible in Aramaic lying around somewhere under glass that we can compare it to.
It's not a phenomenon. The translations that you are reading now are all similar because linguistics has evolved and is fairly reliable now. The problem is that the only thing we have to translate are translations and copies - and scribes are as human and falliable as the rest of us.
2007-12-15 09:05:13 · answer #2 · answered by Katie Short, Atheati Princess 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
And yet people still try to argue that it was written by some old people trying to control the people and take all their money!
I tend to think that there are quite a few who left their brains behind when they can't see the obvious, that the Bible truly IS the Word of God.
And, if you read these different translations side by side, you see that they really do say the same thing, just different wording, like "Go get the donkey" vs "Fetch the donkey", et cetera - different words, same meaning.
2007-12-15 09:06:03 · answer #3 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Oh come on....I hear about how bad the translations are all the time when I point out some of the horrible things it says. And that is all coming from Christians.
I always wondered if you had five year olds doing the translations since you hear it so often. I mean, I would have thought you guys would hire someone good....
2007-12-15 09:02:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
and how do you know that they are accurate to the original? Are you capable of reading the original? Do you think they are accurate because you were told so?
2007-12-15 09:49:53 · answer #5 · answered by jimbell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hahahaha,,
and what original would that be,,, ''The Vulgate''???
I think you'll find that modern theologians do not know if the original version of the bible still exists. Check out wikipaedia's discussion on the bible...
2007-12-15 09:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by Yoda 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm praying that's sarcasm. Our current copies are actually very different from the original texts. Great example "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" was NOT in any of the original texts. That whole story was added later.
2007-12-15 08:59:54 · answer #7 · answered by shiariryu 5 · 8⤊ 1⤋
God is having a little fun at your expense. But he doesn't insist that you try to figure out all 20 translations -- as long as you get confused over two or three of them, that's okay.
2007-12-15 09:06:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I hate to break it to you, but there is NO WAY that things were no changed or removed or added when the scrolls were handed from one king to another and one country to another. Things had to be changed because they don't translate exactly. They message may be close to the original, but the text has definitely changed.
2007-12-15 09:03:27 · answer #9 · answered by LDS Mom 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
they ALL are not 99.999% accurate
and that is the problem
the orgional translated to English
is correct
the rest are just mans own twist to satisfy himself
and it takes away its meaning and its words
thus taking away from the intent
and it is written this way
"IF ANY ADD TO OR TAKE AWAY FROM
LET HIM BE ACURSED "
2007-12-15 09:01:03 · answer #10 · answered by hghostinme 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Read the original in Hebrew at any synagogue.
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2007-12-15 09:25:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋