If there are so many believers on God's word, why do you think someone would like to censor the Bible?
81904
because there will always be bigots and non-believers.
1018526
I believe in God just not the bible, how dare anyone claim to know what God thinks, I have more respect for God, there are hundreds of archaeological finds proving that the bible that exists was put into place by church hierarchy that had ulterior motives for including and not including what THEY wanted in the bible, only someone who had ALL the original texts and could read them in the original language that they were written in would have a good understanding of what the ancient religious leaders had in mind, and who's to say they were God inspired, insane asylums are full of people who hear God
1076804
Because a LOT of the world population DOES NOT believe or care about a book written by men centuries afterJesus christ's life.\nGet real, the bible is JUST a book, no more, no less!
283349
There are many millions of people who believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God. millions who regard this book as a torch that conquers the darkness of death, and pours its radiance on another world. They forget that it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart. They forget that it is the enemy of intellectual freedom. They forget its ignorance and savagery, its hatred of liberty, its religious persecution; they remember heaven, but they forget the dungeon of eternal pain. They forget that it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart\nIt is now not only admitted by intelligent and honest theologians that Moses was not the author of the Pentateuch, but they all admit that no one knows who the authors were, or who wrote any one of these books, or a chapter or a line. We know that the books were not written in the same generation; that they were not all written by one person; that they are filled with mistakes and contradictions. It is also admitted that Joshua did not write the book that bears his name, because it refers to events that did not happen until long after his death. \n\nBasically it does not matter how you translate it. It all boils down to what you believe and can live with. If you believe the Bible is inspired by God, then read it and make your own decision on which translation suits you.
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Absolutely ... It doesn't take much of an open mind to see that there was over 50 Coptic text left out of the Bible. Some of the authentic and valuable text was even BURNED in an attempt to hide it from the people.\n\nOne answerer was correct in saying it was because they were in disagreement with the rest of the "BIBLE" and the faith....that is what the false faith had developed by then. Since the scripture disagreed with their "limited understanding...they rejected it. They certainly would not have wanted the insignificant members that was not supposed to know anything ... especially to know the truth.\n\nIf the bishops and priest had been more after the truth, they would have based their religion on the truth and evidence found in these text, not base their text or Bible around their beliefs. They made th religion first...then all these text started to surface and they did not want egg on their face.  Then your whole religion becomes based on lies. as is the case here.\n\nIt was simple...they  were supposed to know everything and no every one else was supposed to be stupid.\n\nThey are still that way.  You can see it in their reaction to all the question coming up.
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Because they cant read the original Hebrew for the Hebrew Scriptures, or the original Greek for the Christian's New Testament. Therefore they must rely on someone else's translation. \n\nRemember that modern translations are copyrighted, and the organizations that translated them make money when every book of their translation is sold. The KJV is so old, going back to 1611, that it has no copyright anymore, so it is free. That is why it accompanies many, if not all, computer Bible Programs.\n\nAlso keep in mind that the KJV was the only version available, and then the only version acceptable, to many denominations of Christianity for a very long time.\n\nPlease also remember that the person or organization who does a translation is biased, and their translation will reflect their own theology, regardless of whether or not a verse in the original actually says what they claim it says. No translation is totally right, and some are better, and some are worse, than others.
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Because each faith has changed it to whatever they want to believe.  The original scripture has been translated so many times incorrectly that I doubt it bears even the smallest resemblance to the actual wording.  And whenever anyone tries to give insight into that, the Christians persecute them, not wanting to alter the beliefs they've held for so long even if it means getting the truth.  Sad.
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I guess they don't want people to notice the inconsistencies and nonsensical things that become blatantly obvious whenever you analyze organized religion, and particularly the Bible.\n\nIt's all fine as long as you accept every word in those "holy books" without thought. But as soon as you question just a little bit, the cards start to fall. You're eventually left with two choices: Decide that God in some way defies logic, or reject the book as false.
412409
The Bible has a lot to say agains those who teach God's Word falsely.
304680
That is awful.  People who never go to church, never read the bible, and curse all the time are not saved in my opinion.  If they are really saved they'll have the desire to read God's word, meet with other christians, and wont want to say evil words. They are just one of those people who claim to be something, but really are not.
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Some people place an inordinate focus on a handful of passages from the Bible (which, as far as literature goes, is terribly overrated) that condemn homosexual behavior as an "abomination."\n\nBecause the Bible is full of contradictory nonsense, what people often do is they pick and choose which parts they will listen to. Like the part about stoning one's children to death if they talk back to you - no one really pays attention to that, or to the passage about how eating shrimp and lobster is an abomination. That would just be too inconvenient.\n\nSo when people already don't like gay people - which is what they pick up from this wonderfully homophobic culture of ours - all they have to do is flip open the Bible and find the passage in Leviticus that agrees with them, and then they can feel perfectly justified in their bigotry. Indeed, they often begin to force this hatred upon others, such as with that awful Fred Phelps and his grotesque little cult in Kansas.\n\nHere's the thing, though: if people do not choose to be gay, but in fact are born that way, what would that say about God? And what would that say about the Bible?\n\nReligious people will either plug their ears or run fleeing from anything that threatens their dearly-head beliefs. It's how they organize their entire thought process about the world and the other people in it, after all. So there is no way they could ever acknowledge that the Bible is mistaken, because God doesn't make mistakes. And if being gay is a mistake, then it must be because people choose to be that way.\n\nBut I look at it like this: those who take the Bible as the inerrant and literal word of God are choosing to be ignorant. Which is also why they continue to think the Earth is only 6,000 years old, was created in six days, and Adam rode a pterodactyl to work.\n\nGive me gay over stupid any day. Cheers!
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A better answer would have simply shared the BIBLE's point of view on the matter and allowed the listener/reader to decide for himself what God's thoughts are on the matter. An offended person would be offended at the divine Author rather than at the answerer.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050715/article_02.htm
949210
Because they don't want people to see them changing the Bible and concocting false teachings.  www.equip.org
1089429
I agree with you 100%  Many of the morons who proclaim their atheistism have no idea what the bible has to say.  Also, so many say that Christians twist the meanings of the scriptures to say what they want to hear.  The the Atheist are 10 times worse.  The ones that actually do read the Bible can take an absolutely beautiful verse and twist it into something Hannis.  They are also notorious for taking things out of context, and picking one verse out of a complete story to bash.    It is also very interesting that some of these Atheist spends so much time reading the bible...that's the real kicker.  I have absolutely no interest in Pagan Cults, I do not believe and don't care too.  I leave it at that.  I don't read their books, and challenge their beliefs, I just ignore it.  Most of the proclaimed Atheist on this Q&A challange and read the Bible because they want to beleive in God, they just need our help to get on the right path.  As you can see there are more athesist crawling on the spirtuality and religion section than Christians.  If they didn't crave the Good News, they wouln'd follow this section.
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I don't think that people understand his message and they take it way out of proportion. I saw a show on TV that says everything in the bible isn't true because back then no one could read or write anyways. Personally, I don't believe in the whole crock of it.
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E X A C T L Y.\n\nbecause people do not want to hear the truth- they want to sugar coat it- add to it- or water it down so it pleases them....The bible even warns us of those people- in Proverbs it says "do not add to His words, lest he rebuke you and call you a liar"\n\nThey make up a god to suit themselves- they are not even speaking of the one TRUE God when they make stuff up- they are making a god to please them...
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Depends on the person...some people don't believe in the bible at all so why would they pay attention to it