how many kind of bible in christian?
By forester1985
@forester1985 (999)
Indonesia
5 responses
@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
17 Nov 10
Thr King James Bible was the main bible for the average christian for years. Then the decided to take all of the Thees and Thous out of it to make it more up to date and easier to read. Well, that started the ball rolling. Now everyone has ideas on how to make it better and easier to read. They also have "re~translated the bible". I read the Hebrew and most of these bibles fall far from the true Hebrew.
Then there are the Mormons and the JWs and the catholics etc., who have their own bibles and translations. Christians can not be lumped together like they were all alike. They are not.
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@forester1985 (999)
• Indonesia
17 Nov 10
the king james bible? where that bible now? it's exist now? JWs? do you mean jews? it seems you are protestan right?
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@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
16 Nov 10
There are many kind of bible in Christian and there are many different teaching for others religion as well, it is because when something being past down by mouth, there will be slightly deviation from the original one and when times goes by, the deviation will be greater and greater and that caused more different kind of teaching in many religions.
@forester1985 (999)
• Indonesia
17 Nov 10
then you are christian or not? can you mention several kind of bible for me? where is the "original" bible now? it still exist now?
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@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
18 Nov 10
Bible is a collection of books and letters. The original copies do not exist anymore. In the ancient days people used to write on animal skin, papyrus etc. and these materials don't last for ages. Therefore what later people did was to make duplicate copies from the original ones. These duplicate copies will also get rotten or spoiled later on. So when these duplicate copies got old they made other copies again. And thus the books got passed on. Now we have different chemicals to preserve old materials. But in the ancient days things were different.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
19 Nov 10
In western christianity there are two branches, the catholic and the protestant. The catholic bible has three or four (?) books in it that the protestant doesn't (history between . There's quite a few different protestant 'translations' but they're pretty much all the same with the same books, chapters and numbers of the verses, etc. and they say the same thing but in slightly different fashion all the way from the old english with thee's and thou's and "eth" at the end of every verb to casual present day english.. but verse to verse, etc they're alike..
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
20 Nov 10
The Bible is a collection of books/letters. And these were written over a period of long long time. And since in the ancient days writings were done on papyrus, animal skin etc the original writings will have to be copied in some other materials sooner or later. So that way original manuscripts do not survive anymore. But original manuscripts do not survive even for other ancient writings too.
@forester1985 (999)
• Indonesia
19 Nov 10
how about the original bible? I heard it not exist anymore, that's true?
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
18 Nov 10
Christians have different versions of the Bible. For example, certain translation use English of Elizabethan era whereas other versions will use modern translation. If Elizabethan version says, "thou shalt not commit murder" and the modern translation says "you shall not commit murder" we say they say the same thing but in different language. Christians don't say we have many kinds of Bible; we say we have different versions of the Bible.
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
18 Nov 10
That's true. However, I must admit that sometimes translator struggle to get the right meaning of the original language and sometimes they struggle to find the appropriate English language. And therefore certain variation could sometime be there. But the meaning remain the same more or less. Translator sometimes used thought for thought translation and sometimes word for word translation. And it happens this way with every translated works.
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@forester1985 (999)
• Indonesia
18 Nov 10
hmmm... I understand now, the bible is just have some different version, but the contain are same right?
@kerriannc (4279)
• Jamaica
17 Nov 10
The devil will never stop working against the work of God and so there will be more bibles in this Faith. What we should do is not look at the bible but build a relationship with Jesus Christ and He will show us which bible we should read. Hugs and blessings
@forester1985 (999)
• Indonesia
18 Nov 10
I think the most important is the essence of the bible teaching, as long as still doesn't deviate from the God's teaching, It will be good.
