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Sugarbear19,
PART 1 -(All posts taken from different web sites combined that are Accredited seminary schools and colleges that had the identical material written).
You said "a) How can you trust a single word in that book when you ACCEPT that parts of it are changed from its original state?"
I will list some historical facts about the English translations of the Bible and maybe this will help give an understanding as to why some people claim the Bible has been changed.
Prior to 1445 there was no printing press.
? It took 10 months to write one Bible.
? A 1407 English law forbade English translations.
? Then came Gutenberg, who invented the printing press.
? Imagine, there were over 5,000 New Testament handwritten manuscripts. The first translation was by Wycliff, with a secondary translation from Latin to English.
Tindale printed in 1525 illegally.
? He translated the Greek New Testament into English (Not the Old Testament).
? Tindale said, I vow to make the boy who drives the plow in England to know more of the scriptures than the Pope does.
? He smuggled Bibles into England in sacks of flour.
? God's enemy, Tunsdale, burned Bibles.
He paid a Pakistani man to buy Tindale Bibles so he could burn them. He didn't know the Pakistani was a friend of Tindale. He told Tunsdale that the price was four times the actual cost. So for every one that Tunsdale burned, Tindale produced three.
? Ten years later in 1535, Tindale was captured and burned at the stake.
? His dying words were...Lord, open the eyes of the King of England.
The Coverdale Bible was published in 1535. In 1537 came the Matthews Bible.
The Great Bible was printed in 1539.
In 1560, the Geneva Bible was published.
In 1568, the Bishop's Bible.
In 1611, the Authorized King James Version was published.
The English translations mentioned were either secondary translations, partial translations, or were translated by a handful of individuals.
In 1604, King James authorized the work to begin in translating the Word of God into English.
This became known as the Authorized King James Version. On grounds of age and scholarship, this translation has been the authority in non-Catholic congregations for 4 centuries.
The King James was translated from Hebrew and Greek and compared to the translations that preceded it.
Approximately the same time the King James Version was commissioned, the Catholic Pope directed an English translation of the Bible to be made and is known as the Douay.
This was a secondary translation.
The Douay was translated from Jerome's Latin Vulgate, which Jerome had translated from original manuscripts.
The problem you have with a secondary translation is that if the original had an error, you automatically inherited it.
The effort that King James, the head of the English-speaking world, embarked upon was colossal.
Between 50 and 60 of the English-speaking world's finest language experts were:
? Taken from three different educational centers: Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster.
? Then divided into two groups: Greek and Hebrew.
? Further divided into three different segments, making six different committees.
? Then the Bible was divided into six different parts, including the Apocryphal books.
As a footnote, the Old Testament Apocryphal books are still found in the Catholic Douay.
The answer to why they were removed from the King James Version is rather simple.
The Old Testament was given to us by the Jewish priests and rabbis.
The Rabbinical order would not endorse the Apocryphal books as Holy Writ.
In other words, they did not endorse them as God's inerrant Word. The Puritans rejected them as well. Consequently, these non-sanctioned books have been removed.
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