Conservatives plan to change bible

You know why you can’t find a non-biased source? Because no one cares. There are many translations of The Bible, each with their own little nuances and only a handful of versions have actually been translated without any government or political influence.

If they want to create a version they think is truer, why does it really matter? It’ll be sold as a seperate version and do well or fail on it’s own merits. If churches feel it has more in common with their church’s teachings, beliefs, and constitutions then they’ll read from it, if not they’ll ignore it.

Go read some of the proposed changes. They’re not nearly as bad as you’d think.

Yay for being Jewish!!!!

NuRayZ said:

its the simple fact they are doing it for the reason they are. It’s one thing to want to create your own translation. It’s another to purposely manipulate it because you think it’s to liberally biased as is.

Again I ask, why does it matter?

It’s not like the majority of liberals are Christians anyway, what do they care

Nickname said:

MasterP said:

It’s not like the majority of liberals are Christians anyway, what do they care

Judging purely by actions, I would say be hesitant to call the majority of conservatives Christians…

 

BTW, bible translations can change the way some things are interpreted in the bible but it does not dramatically change the source material. So unless this group is planning to like cut out passages or something along those lines, this is no different than any other bible translation.

 

Just compare the first verse of the bible using a couple current translations:

Quote:

1In the beginning God

 

created the heavens

 

and the earth. [a] 2The earth was barren,

 

with no form of life; it was under a roaring ocean

 

covered with darkness.

 

But the Spirit of God [c] was moving over the water.

 

Quote:

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

 

2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

 

Quote:

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

 

Quote:

1-2First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

 

As you can see, while the NIV and King James versions are both very similar, the Contemporary English Version strays a little and The Message is like reading something completely different. But in the end, they all say the same– That God created the Heavens and the Earth, and that it was initially an empty slate of nothing.

 

My point was, of course, that even though translations vary dramatically, as long as they get the core message across (note: core message of the Bible is God loves us), then let people choose whatever translation is most comfortable for them.

Understand that while for the first two versus there may not be significant changed but the further you progress into the Bible, the more likely you will see differing theological perspectives. The Bible is a holy text. Re-interperating it over and over for “ease of reading” takes away from meanings and can lead to drastic changes. (ie. the change from Monotheistic to Polytheistic with Jehovah’s Witnesses}

I read the oldest version I can find that is not in Latin or Hebrew because there are parts of the Bible ARE differant and actually take away from the text and it’s meanings as a whole.

Everyone should just listen to Immortal.