If the bible is the work of God, how come it had to be changed when the new testement was written?
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lol poetic licence my friend they had to jazz it up to make it a BEST SELLER
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I would like to clarify the difference of translated and changed. Translated is when something is written in one language and is copied or written into another language that one can understand. And when something is changed it means that it is totally worded different from its original text. The bible has not been changed. It has been translated.\nFrom what I found there has been over 400 versions of the English Bible since the King James Bible was published in 1611. Starting with the Revised Version (1881); to the American Standard Version (1901); to the Amplified Bible (1958); to the Living Bible (1967); to the New International Version (1973); to the New King James Bible (1979);
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The New Testiment was written by the followers of Jesus' disciples(followers).  Essentially, Jesus's disciples went into the world to teach what Jesus had told them and they gathered disciples of their own.  Jesus' disciples told their own disciples what they had learned from Jesus, and those people wrote the New Testiment.\n\nThe New Testiment, and the various books that have been left out of the New Testiment, were written entirely by people who never met Jesus, but who recieved the teachings of Jesus through his disciples.\n\nCertainly some of the books in the New Testiment and those that were left out of the New Testiment were written to fill personal needs or political needs to show Jesus to be what a specific group of people needed him to be.  But, I doubt that anybody ever wrote books of the Testiment for fun.\n\nYou need to keep in mind that the Testiment was not written by a group of people who worked or colaborated together.  It was written by a variety of people spread all around.  When the modern church was being formed, the New Testiment was made of several books that church leaders knew were being read by Christians, although several popular texts were left out because the church leaders wanted to keep a unified vision of who Jesus was.
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agreed, the Bible has become a modern day idol that people worship\n\ni have faith in god and all this jazz but some people w#nk on it too much\n\nthings been copied by people and they made mistakes and people dont wanna admit theres some mistakes\n\nfrom greek to latin to english like 50 people translating and copying things got messed up\n\ntheres a picture in the book im reading that shows a page where the guy is saying in the margin to the previous guy that hes a fool and a knave for rewriting from the orginal text
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If you notice, everyone seems to have a different idea to so Fundamental a question. Everyone seems to have a different view. People can have different interpretations of the same book and this is the case of the Bible. Also the Bible has been passed on from one generation to the other by scripts who rewrote the book and made altercations on the way. No Original bible as such exists, the one we have now is a continuosly revised edition of the first. And the bible was not written in the presence of christ which is clear however you look at the fact. All Religions lead to the same end, heaven. As long as we have faith in our hearts, we dont have to worry about anything else.
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Why because its sacred and we believe it the word from God. and if some one would change it we would be following what others say or think not God. and even 1000 years has past it has never been changed.
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Wow! Some of the people that gave you answers should learn to be a little more excepting of other religions! Mormons probably think that their veiws are a load of crap too! Anyway, I think that you are over looking the fact that changes in the bible did cause a bit of controversy. And I think that maybe since The Book of Mormon hasn't been changed alot in the past (if at all), then they don't want to ruin such a holy and unchanged thing.
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i thought he quit\n\njust remember every time some one quotes a bible without telling you how they feel about it they are simply cutting and pasteing a document that has undergone changes by man from copy to copy \nthe last page of revelations in the king james version was actually a translation from a greek translation in 1611 of a latin version from the greek but from a greek copy,\nunlike the rest which was all from the greek new testement that had been publishes in 1520 or so\nthe old testement pretty much has been the same since the dead sea scrolls\n\nso dont trouble yourself over a christian troll who cuts and pastes
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Interesting question. \n\nOdd, how in the Old Testament that God is portrayed as vengeful and angry, and in the new, he suddenly seems to change his mind...
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No. god decided to contradict himself by taking away free will for a bit, so he could get the humans to write his book for him.\nAnd of course, that's ignoring all the inconsistancies in the new testament, like made up prophesies and the evidence to support that the old testament was actually copied from ancient Sumerian stone tablets...\n\n:)\n\nTY, shawny  :D
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No. \n\nThe original language documents have not changed. The Dead Sea Scrolls helped prove this. The scrolls testify to the accuracy of the people who copied and recopied the Scriptures over the centuries. Despite minor errors, they show us that the Bible has not changed since the first and second centuries.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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It most certainly can! All that was said in the Bible can still be applied today. Some things did change from the Old to the New Testament, but both are still very much valid. The Bible is our guide to life! Read it, study it, meditate on it! I guarantee you will grow from it! God bless!
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Because Jesus saw that the law was needing change because Jesus knews that in the OT always the law was different. IS interesting because may be Jesus knews something about the Jehova, is posible Jehova was a Super Natural Being that tried to show to the people the real meaning fo God but the problem was that he people was believing more in the things that was seeing that the thigns that was dont seeing. In the New testament Jesuschrist teach to believe with faith, and God dissapear leaving us the Holy Spirit, giving us the possibility to have the power that other had before, because now the Holy Spirit can to be with us making us more close and close to our Master Jesuschrist being like Him. With the new Law JesusChrist show us that we can to be like him, trying to be perfect like our father is perfect, but always with limitations. IS possible to be like Jesus? Yes, but the only difference is that the Resurection will be possible through him and our bodyes will be restored, but dont in physic cncept, would be a deep transformation, like he many times explain in the Bible. IS interesting, we could to think that Jehova was a Super Natural BEing and JesusChrist could to be a Reincarnation of Jehova givin his blood for people that death before in Jehova hands, because was so evident in the Bible it, when Jehova thaugh to the people kill other people if was doing innapropiate things. Is very interesting How Jesus gave His life for us, because we could think that is so strange think that Jesus is a reincarnation of Jehova making himself human. We could think that Jesus like the son, in theory of Jehova, could gave his life to us to show us that the real path to God will not to be more death and revange, or may be he was showing that God was searching make us understand the real concept of love. IS so strange that God was changing the rules, may be Jehova was trying to make somethiong in our minds, like the real concept of God and the Human Beings needed other different methid to understand the good and the bad things learning with more drastically ocnsecuences. May be the human beings are evolutioning in manyu concepts, not only in our DNA may be in our spirits and now we have the Holy Spirit, may be the reincarnation is possible, and is the same like the resurrection, but i think JesusChrist said smoething very important about this Generation. May be the reincarnationa dn the possiblity to have other chances and other lifes is the real award and present that JEsus gave us to be more and more perfect every life until the end of the time where we will be evaluated in our divine plan? is a quyestion that may be I will create in yahoo questions and answers.
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You're not mistaken, the New T was not written by Jesus, most of it was written by diciples of diciples, like Paul who never even saw Jesus. There are more then 3000 versions of the new testment coz so many priests, monks and popes added, 'corrected'  and took off whatever they thought they would\n\nThere was no 'giving' ceremony marking the New T which is very much out of the tratdion of what we new of GD through Judaism.\n\nThe OLD Testmnt originates from the Torah.\n\nThe Torah was given over to the Jews at Mount Sinai, the Jews numbered 600,000 men, counting those only over the age of 20 and under 60, which there are is a reason for, namely that those under the age of 60 wherent involved in the sins in the desert, and those under 20 hadnt winessed its aftermath. Here are some passages from the Torah...\n\nExodus 12:37\n37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. \n\nNumbers 11:21\n21 But Moses said, "Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!' \n\nUs Jews hold our Torah jealously for fear of translation and consqnt misinterprtation. This occured when the Christians 'hijacked' our Torah converting it and all its meaning in their then pagan mindframes, which it still embodies of you look a bit better at christianity. The muslims made a similar hijacking though they didnt mix it too much with pagan beleifs.\n\nAnyways what im saying is, if you read the Bible in Hebrew, yes it is reliable, all of our Torah's after 3200 years are word for word, letter for letter the same...\n\nIf you count the letters in the Hebrew bible there exactly 600,000 of them, one for each Jew that received it.
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Yes. When the dead sea scrolls were discovered in 1947 the scholars compared the book of Isaiah to the King James Version of 1611 to see if there were ANY differences. Well, there were. Tons of differences. Lots and lots of words were different. How many? 47. That's right. Only 47 words were different. From 450 B.C. to 1947 A.D. the copying of scripture was so accurate that only 47 words were different in the book of Isaiah! And NONE of the words affected ANY meaning or theological meaning of the book. Yes. I believe the Bible is the Word of God.
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Cyanne, think!!  The Dead Sea scrolls show that almost the entire Old Testament had not changed a single word in well over two thousand years.  Of the thousands of New Testament manuscripts in existence, there are very minor discrepancies (eg. the second half of Mark 16 - was it added later?) but the underlying content can be demonstrated as being unchanged.  Those who claim the Bible has been 'changed' repeatedly simply do so as a crutch to avoid considering the claims made BY the Bible.\n\nAs for apostles and miracle workers, the Bible states that God is the same yesterday, today and forever.  GOD is the same; however, the way He works changes.\n\nThe passages in Paul's letters referring to spiritual gifts make no distinction between 'miraculous' gifts and 'natural' ones such as administration.  No-one claims that administration should have disappeared from the church, so why miracles or prophecy?\n\nThe scriptural arguments on both sides are complex, but the bottom line for me is that the Bible gives no indication that these gifts should disappear.  If they were supposed to be gone from the church, the Bible would tell us!
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Notice, too, how other translations render this part of the verse: \n\n\n1808: "and the word was a god." The New Testament in an Improved Version, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome's New Translation: With a Corrected Text. \n \n1864: "and a god was the word." The Emphatic Diaglott, interlinear reading, by Benjamin Wilson. \n \n1928: "and the Word was a divine being." La Bible du Centenaire, L'Evangile selon Jean, by Maurice Goguel. \n \n1935: "and the Word was divine." The Bible—An American Translation, by J. M. P. Smith and E. J. Goodspeed. \n \n1946: "and of a divine kind was the Word." Das Neue Testament, by Ludwig Thimme. \n \n1950: "and the Word was a god." New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures. \n \n1958: "and the Word was a God." The New Testament, by James L. Tomanek. \n \n1975: "and a god (or, of a divine kind) was the Word." Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Siegfried Schulz. \n \n1978: "and godlike kind was the Logos." Das Evangelium nach Johannes, by Johannes Schneider.  \n\nThese versions make more sense than the King James because how can Jesus be with God and BE God at the same time? Also, if Jesus IS God, then that would contradict John 1:18 where it says: "No man has seen God at any time."