30,000 edits?
Q: Has the Bible been edited and altered?, (See image).
There is misinformation being circulated among non Christians claiming that the Bible has been altered. This is simply not true.
One might tyically see this as a supposed justification
for saying the Bible cant be trusted. And that is absolutely false, the Bible is trustworthy and reliable.
Heres somethings to consider:
Where are those 30,000 changes? Which translation?
1. Have you examined the 30,000 suposed edits or are you having blind faith and trust in simply what someone else said(?)... but wont believe the Bible? 💁♂️
2. Do you realize you are doing the very thing you claim Christians do ("faith") 🙃. 👉 At least with Christianity it is based on factual evidence. So clinging to the "edited" myth 🤔 seems more like a cop out (as if seeking a quick way to dismiss the Bible, than it being an evidence based fact; perhaps so you can try to justify not believing in God).
3. Even with all the evidence available, if you did any proper basic research, you would find God, Christianity and the Bible are true. And also easily debunk the deceptive claim that ThE BiBlE hAs BeEn eDiTeD.
That assertion is a twisting of facts.
There are several Bible versions in English, for
various reasons.
*That (image) article is talking about that. It is Not about edited alterations (as in totally diff things said).
* you do know🤔 right, that 99% of people were illiterate until the Protestant Reformers & their printing press was made, so everyone could have Bibles, and in their own language.
So around 1500-1600s people were starting to learn to read and write. By 1700s in USA Christians had started schools to teach reading, the Bible, math and writing. That continued until 1930s+ with Christianity as the focus for Schools/education. Even colleges were basically Christian seminaries.
Most only got 4th grade education then went to work on farms of whatever their fathers trade was. Blacksmith, sailor, lawyer, horse handler, landworker, sheep and cow herder, butcher, etc. Then education moved to 8th grade. By the 1950s everyone was getting high school level education- 12th grade. Civil war & WWII were over, the industrial age of manufacturing was here, and there were more job options, etc. So having said that, it clearly shows there was a need for diff literacy level versions. They said the same thing, but in easier words vs complicated higher level english.
-this is one reason why we have diff english versions. Those versions say the same thing but their words are clearly different. They reach 4th, 8th and 12th grade reading levels. Helpful for immigrants learning the langusge and reading and writing it (it is still used today). The other reason is the versions follow either a thought for thought or a word for word translation. Again, ease of readability and understanding. Versions like NASB95 and LSB are for studying, while NLT is for easy reading.
These different versions do not alter Scripture.
They are proper translations from the manuscripts.
Example:
There are no actual edits that change what is being said, like:
"John went to go buy meat in Jerusalem while Mary prepped the rest of the meal." Vs "Mary slept while James sailed in Gailalee to enjoy the sunset". Those would say totally diff things. And Galilee would be a typo.
But translation changes (as explained above) are more like:
"Jesus asked the disciples if there was any food among the people so they could all eat." Vs "the disciples were sent by Jesus to see if anyone had food among the crowd, to feed them all."
So of course there would be word changes here. There are 12 words not in the 2nd version. But it says the same thing!
Real examples
👉Compare English Bible versions from 995 A.D to 2021A.D. (see John and Proverbs; see how Proverbs verse is different but the same).
Today, you can freely compare up to 5 or 7 versions using parallell Bible online and will see they all say the same thing.
If you want to look into this topic further .
(*or at least click to see the title of the info and decide to read or not).
There are differences because there are primarily three divisions of Bible translations.
There are primarily three divisions of Bible translations. There are formal equivalence translations, which are literal, word-for-word translations such as the KJV, ESV, CSB, NASB, and LSB(😀); there are dynamic equivalence translations which are thought-for-thought translations like the NLT(😊); and there are paraphrastic translations, which are paraphrases of the original, such as The Message (😬).
Formal equivalence are the most literal translations that are the closest to the original. In that sense, any formal equivalence translation would be the most accurate. So, those would be the "best" translations, particularly for a deep study of Scripture. Dynamic equivalence and paraphrastic translations may be excellent for giving an understanding of the text and promote readability, but since there is more interpretation involved in the translation, a formal equivalence like NASB & LSB would be the most literal translation.
This resource will help understand the differences between translations, if you want further investigation.
What about missing verses?
*about 18 verses listed in brackets in some versions. This is because after the dead sea scrolls were found, compared, and the earlier manuscripts were found to not have these. Which then concluded that some well meaning scribes had added those verses for clarification.
The one in John talks about the pool with superstition of an angel and healing the 1st one into the water. It was just like ancient times where they or korea or anywhere globally had thought ground deer antlers were good for this or that health issue. It is literally just calcium but people back then didnt know. So the water like any natural hot spring, it has health qualities, but isnt going to heal a cripple. But superstition found its way into a few things in Israel, and since God and angels are real and they (Israel) were the ones God communicated through, but had been silent 400 yrs; in that latter time some superstitions were made. But because of what their acestors experienced with angels they concluded that must be why people felt better after being in hot springs, that one in particular.
(Jesus did not agree with the man or speak on it, so it seems a superstition for sure. He was there to heal and it being that man for a purpose).
The scribe was simply explaining the superstition by adding it. But today Bibles take it out, or the Scribe, add a note about it. Most Bibles will put a note in the footnotes about that. But only someone who reads the Bible would know this.
Leaving them in or out > It does not change any doctrine or theology in Scripture. So even if theres talk of "missing verses"... theyre not missing as they were not in the earlier manuscripts.
English Translations
English Bibles are translated from the original languages based on comparing thousands of copies of the Bible in the original languages. Many of these manuscript copies were discovered after the KJV was produced, so we do see some minor variations between it and modern Bibles, such as extra verses. Most modern Bibles try to include a footnote when this is the case. Most of these changes are extremely minor, and none affects the meaning of any significant Christian teaching.
* There are several good info in the links in the above section, check them out if you havent yet. It is good to be educated on them.
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