Bible Question:
I have been having a debate on another forum and need some facts about first Bible, which was it. Here is some dialog from discussion so if anybody has any help they can give me on what to say to this guy, feel free. 6.54 in reply to 6.47 Kate think as you will, that is your right. Fact there are hundreds more writings out there pretaining to God and Jesus. They were not cannonized by man. Then some was later taken away for expediency's sake. What is that all about? How does that not leave you with some doubt, was the first inspirations of Cannonization somehow wrong? Why is it the Catholic bible an earlier version a direct descendent from Peter , "the rock upon which my church shall be built" has a different set of Ten commandments than the KING JAMES VERSION? Who had the bible rewritten for political reasons despite what you have been told. Now the Jehovah , which is a false name , Witnesses are on their fourth bible. What the frell is their problem? Then you have all the rewrites of today into modern English so we can understand it. However if you take just the King James Version and compare meaning for meaning they are clouded. After so many rewrites how can each and every word of the bible be taken as inspired and which version is the inspired one and why. J.Robert Edwards. From: Norrie (NORRIEJ) Jan-15 10:48 am To: J. Robert Edwards (ROBJOTRNEW) (55 of 71) 6.55 in reply to 6.54 Eddie, the "Rock" that Jesus built His church wasn't Peter, it was the revelation that Jesus is the Son of God, He is who He claimed He was. From the time Satan beguiled Eve in garden, he has been trying to get man to turn from God and worship him. He does this by many means and one is perverting scripture. The reason the Cath have a different set of commandents is that they left out the graven images one because they have graven images coming out the wazoo. They just took the covet commandment and broke it into 2 to make it 10. That would be a good example of a perverted bible. 6.69 in reply to 6.55 Norrie your bible , I assume the King James version is as I quoted as to Peter. As to the other again the Catholic was the first bible so why is it wrong and yours right? I am not defending any bible, as such I am defending the inconsistences , and people thinking there's is the divine word of God , this is where all the wars come from. JRE. |
Bible Answer: Greetings Norrie! The very first "Bible", so to speak, was the original autographs- the original letters of Paul, the original copies of the books of the Old Testament, etc, etc.. The original "first drafts" or autographs, as they are called, are the source for all future Biblical manuscripts that have been handed down. After the time of the Old Testament, the Hebrew Old Testament was written in Greek, and that was called the Septuagint, which was completed in the third century B.C.). However, there was a very good collection of Old Testament scrolls found in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Council of Carthage in A.D. 397 was the first church council to list all 27 books of the NT. Jerome (ca. A.D. 340-420) translated the Vulgate, which became the foremost Bible translation used by the church (in Latin) up until 1611. The Vulgate distinguished the cannonical books from the ecclesiastical books (the Apocrypha), which had the effect of according them a secondary status. However, the Council of Trent (1548) recognized those ecclesiastical books to be cannonical, even though the Reformers rejected this decree. For more information, check out a long article in the Ryrie Expanded Edition Study Bible "The Formation of the Cannon" on pages 2084, 2085. Blessings to you, Nolan |