Which bible does a typical Christian have to follow as there are many?
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I've studied both Hebrew and Greek (the original languages of the Bible), and I've seen that most translations are correct. Yes, there are "different" Bibles, but most say basically the same thing. Minor differences in word style occur any time you translate a document. \n\nThis doesn't include translations that are done with a particular slant, like the New World Translation, for example. But the King James, New King James, New International Version, New American Standard, Revised Standard Version, English Standard Version, etc are all good.
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Get yourself a Bible that is easy for you to read. You will stall out with the old English of the King James Bible. Just read as much as you want every day. If you only have time to read one verse, then so be it.  Just do it every day. Start at the beginning and put a book mark in after each reading. Don't worry how long it will take. Just enjoy it.
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They do actively seek to read their BIbles, i'm guessing most read it everyday and pray about it. Don't worry i think they know what they are doing ;) They don't follow blindly anyway, we know whats in the BIble , we know the characteristics of God, if a preacher teaches falsley i'd see it. Preacher don't preach about hate... you should go to church one time ;)\n\nPlease don't assume you know what Christians believe when you don't \n\nTHANKS :)
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The bible is designed for anyone to read it... but it can be hard to follow.. that's why we have churches. Just beware of the churches that bash every other church and "enforce" THEIR rules (most baptist churches)
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http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/\n\nI like how you said "Now that there are different versions of the book." Welcome to the 16th century.
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There are over 10,000 unique Christian cults in the US alone. You can study the bible for the next 500 years and you still won't be in agreement with millions of other people who have chosen a different interpretation.\n\nI was a practicing Christian for over thirty years, studied the bible and religion and I assure you the bible is a book of mythology and supernatural entities ("Gods") do not exist in fact.\n\nThose who claim they "know" what the bible "really means" are either ignorant, dishonest or delusional. No one knows what the bible really means as evidenced by the millions of different interpretation (one you just offered), most of which do not agree with each other.\n\nThere is only one principle shared by the majority of Christians and that principle is:\n\n"We are better than everyone else and we can sin all we want with no eternal penalty."\n\nThat is not a valid doctrine, it is childish nonsense.\n\nBut, to each his own.
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Anything Biblical...\nMary, Martha, Michael, Malachi...
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No, but if you don't you will be missing some wonderful books.\n\nThe New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same.\n\nThe difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.\n\nThe Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.\n\nThe early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.\n\nAfter the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint. \n\nThe books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).\n\nThe Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint.\n\n1500 years later, Protestants decided to change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon. The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.\n\nHere is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/\n\nWith love in Christ.
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i found a bible search c link below\nhope u find what u need.\n:)\nit's 1 of my favourites.
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There are four "accepted" Gospells, that you will find in the King James Version of the New Testement.  If you want to get into the Gnosstic Gospells ~ there are as many as 30 KNOWN Gospells, to include the Gospell of Mary, The Gospell of Thomas, and now the much publisied Gospel of Judas. \n\nHowever, if you really want to tie things up, I would recommend a book entitled "The Arm of Hiram" \n\n*WARNING*  Should you read the "Arm of Hiram" ~ you're NOT going to like what you're going to read.  In it, it ties the Shroud of Turin, the Knights Templar, The Freemasons, the Gnosstic Gospels, the story of Christ up in one neat little package.  \n\nThe Roman Cahtolic Bible, the Orthodox Bibles, and the King James version of the Bible was meant for the un-educatd, illiterate masses.  The Gnosstic Gospels were meant for the more initated, educated, and informed ~ that is to say the more enlightened people ~ thus the Illuminati.  Be careful of where you thread with this ~ The more your dig ~ the deeper you get.  And, it is deep.  Pity that the Libary of Alexander was destroyed by the Romans ~ which if you study Roman strategty ~ goes against everything that they did when the conquered a city.  The first thing they did ~ was NOT to burn a city's library ~ but to seize it and make it safe ~ so why did they burn the library of Alexander?  \n\nEverything in the Bible is indeed true ~ however its like reading the Cliff Notes version or at best the Reader's Digest condensed version.  Its as I said intended for the un-educated, the illietrate, the common man, the masses.  \n\nWhen you see the most base of televanglist on television ~ this is the most base of people appealing to the simplest of people ~ which is why Jessie Ventura ~ the former Governor and Navy Seal was quoated as saying "Christian's are simple-minded people"\n\nTo give you but a taste ~ we're not earthly beings having a spiritual expiernce ~ we're spiritual beings having an earthly experience.  Who we are ~  what we are ~ is not of this Earth.  We are all children of God, and therefore gods ~ which is why Christ spoke of having but the faith of a mustard seed ~  and you can move mountains.  (The Book of Seth)  We come to this world~ to learn, to grow, to experience ~ but the experiment has gone awire ~ and we have forgotten who and of what we are.  What we truly are. \n\nIt can be proven mathematically ~ that an person who is of an eighth dimesion can walk through solid walls, solid objects.  This isn't speculation, nor falacy. Its pure math. Which is the absolute language of the universe.  An eigth dimesional person (Discory Magazine ~ I forget the year and edition) can walk through solid object in a three dimesional world.  \n\nThere is also the "Physics of Immortainlity"  another book I've read. Probally out of print.  A physicist, with a PhD in Nuclear Physics, who was trying to complete Einstien's "Unified Field" theory and who started out as an atheist ~ became a Christian based upon pure mathematics and physics.  \n\nYOU THREAD WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO GO!
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The first one is the most popular verse in the bible; \n\nJohn.3:16\n"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"\n\nMatthew.26:2, \n"You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.\n\nMatthew.26:28\nJesus speaking; "For this is My blood of the new covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins."\n\nLuke.24:7,46-47\n"saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.'\n\n"Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,\nand that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."\n\nI think this should be sufficient and if you need more, just mail me.
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Praise God,welcome to the Family! My advise would to be DAILY in the Word(the King James Version Bible),pray daily,not just in church,keep your eyes on Christ,not on other christians,not on the world,dont care what others say unless they are quoting from the scriptures,you can NEVER go wrong by listening to the scriptures. Go to www.chick.com to continue your Christian growth,they have a lot of good christian reading material that you CAN TRUST.God's greatest blessings to you!
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You are very right.  When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev  22:18.  ; )  But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.).  Really it's all just a buffet.
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According to the KJV and most other tranlations that fall under the standard Bible approved Text..12\nThere were actualy 15 before crusifiction. (Counting Christ)\njudas hung himself leaving 14 then you have to add St Paul so back to 15 then you have to add Barnabas 16 (Acts 14:4, 14), probably Andronicus 17 and Junias 18 (Romans 16:7), Epaphroditus 19 (Phil., ii, 25), two unknown Christians who were delegated for the collection in Corinth (2 Corinthians ...\nNow i know you wonder how I came to the org number I did..\nJesus is the Original Apostile\nthen you add the 12\nplus Mary Mag ( she was not accepted by the old rules,to much power to women)\nand John the Baptist (while he lived)\n\nOf course there are people that (good Christians that will argue with what I have said) But believe what is revieled to you when you read the Bible ..Not what others tell you..
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What must we teach to help others to become disciples of Christ? Jesus commanded his followers: “Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28:19, 20) Thus, we must teach the things that Christ commanded. What, though, will help to ensure that an individual who is taught Jesus’ commandments will not only become a disciple but also remain one? One key factor is seen in Jesus’ careful choice of words. Note, he did not merely say: ‘Teach them all the things I have commanded you.’ Rather, he said: ‘Teach them to observe all the things I have commanded you.’ (Matthew 19:17) What does that imply?\n\n To observe a command means to “conform one’s action” to a command—to obey, or keep, it.\n\nWhat Jesus was saying here was:  A Christian teaches another person the Word of God, if they accept this teaching from the Bible & become a Christian themselves, then they are under the same commandment because Jesus said:  "For them to observe the same commandment" to teach & make Disciples also.
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The Bible lays it out quite clearly -\nBe honest, treat others the way you want to be treated, do not kill, steal, or murder, forgive others, love everybody - even your enemies.  Of course, there's much more, but that should be enough to get started.
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Hi Emily,\nI would start with one of the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke or John.\nWrite down the things you learn about God from what you have read. \n\nHere are some verses that are helpful these are the words of Jesus, who is God and the Son of God;\n\nMatthew 4:4 "Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'\n\nMark 10:15 "Truly I say to you ,whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all."\n\nLuke 6:20 And turning His gaze toward His disciples, He began to say "blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God."\n\nJohn 1:1 and 3:16\n"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.\n"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."\n\nRead the bible ask questions, check the answers against the Word of God.\nPlease feel free to email me if you have questions along the way.\n\nGod Bless.\nYou can look stuff up on\nChristianAnswers.net