What is the real translation of the Bible?

@Taski5 (35)
Philippines
February 4, 2007 6:49pm CST
There are really big versions of the bible, which is the real one? Are mislead by these versions? This is critical, right?
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6 responses
• Philippines
5 Feb 07
I was also looking for translations but I found versions. This encouraged me to translate. I am a Christian, a child of God, baptized into Christ on October 1, 1989 and I belong to the Church of Christ founded and headed by Christ as shown in Acts Chapter 2. I am given the gift of knowledge and understanding Bible Greek and I translate the Word of God from Greek to English PLAINLY - Greek word into its correspond English word with additional words for grammar purposes written in italics so that readers may delete them as the wish. I have already published THE WILL New Testament (Greek to English), GENESIS & EXODUS (Greek to English), ELEMENTS of SALVATION, The Right Way, GOD, ORIGIN, TRANSFER into PERFECTION, GREEK-ENGLISH (Grammar & Vocabulary), WORDS in THE WILL New Testament, and others shown at http://www.lulu.com/arseniajoaquin I have seen the versions being circulated worldwide and they are generally admitted to be 80% NOT translations. My translations are 99.99% translations and I see the truth, beauty, and sweetness of the Word of God. I hope these books could also help people understand the Word of God and be saved.
@luzamper (1357)
• Philippines
5 Feb 07
May God bless you for your endeavors. Translation is not an easy job all the more because you are translating the Word of God. That is a very sensitive work.
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• Philippines
5 Feb 07
Nice to know that a Filipino translates the Holy Bible. I hope that God will bless you and let you finish your translation work.
@kiwimac (323)
• New Zealand
5 Feb 07
All translations of the Bible are Godly and good. But some are better than others. I would suggest something like the NIV or NLT for those whose English is as a second-language, for those fluent in English I suggest the NASB.
• United States
13 Feb 07
I once came across a website list of all the challenges, or most, which atheists have to put forth concerning the bible. I then started a web parge to answer the 300+ challenges! But I soon lost interest (that's how worried I was about it). Some of the challenges could be answered by some of the same answers - such as "that was likely copied from men's records" (geneologies) "and indiscrepancies can be expected" or "the gospels are eye witness accounts and all eye witness accounts differ in small details; and what do we think when they don't?" - And example of a challenge this one answered is, two different accounts in the gospels written by two different men, both accounts said "they went to Jerusalem and Jesus cursed the fig tree" but then account/memory said "the next morning when we returned the fig tree was withered from top to root" and the other eye witness said "later that day we walked by and the fig tree was completely withered" - Now the important thing about this particular memory of this event both writers witnessed (or the person they interviewed witnessed, was how Jesus used the withering of the fig tree to teach a strong lesson on the power of faith with prayer.. Whether they returned to the park of Olives later that day, or the next morning, doesn't really matter. But some thing we need to scrap the whole bible because two men remembered the event slightly different. Another answer to many of the challenges is "the bible was inspired by God, like the gospel writers were inspired to write their memories, and it wasn't a word for word dictation! Although Moses, we can say was inspired to 'remember' things which occurred way before he was even born :)) Now another thing bible challengers will say, is something like "Gilgamesh wrote about a big flood way before Moses did, therefore it means Moses plagarized Gilgamesh" - This is not so! For if you and I both remember an event and I write my recollection of it (or my handed down from my ancestor's version) before you write yours, does not mean you stole my idea, but we had a common memory and wrote it at different times... 'Legends' and handed down stories of a world flood occur in all lands. Moses' lacked some of the more outrageous features, like cyclops, well... we know if something is written from being handed down, we know how people will embellish.. This is the same for the claim that many pagan religions speak of a mother and child 'gods' and many predate Jesus and his being birthed of a virgin.. so again, it is said that christianity stole these ideas from pagansism. Not so! All nations were there in the persons of Adam and Eve, in the garden when God first promised to send a rescuer, "born of a woman" - it's as simple as that. The nations handed down this memory.. Here's one more interesting pooint. The first and oldest known artifacts, which have been found in all lands, is of a 'mother goddess' - was this or these 'mother goddesses' begun as vague memories of Eve, "the mother of us all"? I think all bible versions pretty much agree on most things, tho I think there is one, maybe two mistranslations, and that's where a hebrew/greek concordance comes in handy, so we can look up the absolutely original word used, my favorite example of which is the hebrew word "sheol" - what it meant so long ago, and what we now have come to think it means..
@Taski5 (35)
• Philippines
6 Feb 07
We are always watched especially by other religions and even atheist. They ask how can you understand and follow the word while there lots of versions and interpretations of it. There are things that are really crucial in this book that even divide us into denominations. Unlike their book they claimed that these were the very words that was spoken by their god, and it has not been changed or translated. This means the Latin or Greek version is nearer to real one. These maybe not the real language of God I suppose but its the one we have as the oldest versions so it maybe a version closest to the original one.
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@manong05 (5027)
• Philippines
5 Feb 07
I assume you mean which translation of the Bible is faithful to the original because all traslations are real. If we are looking for most faithful translation, that's very difficult. First, we don't see the original. Some people say that that translation is the best, this translation is full of errors, how can they tell?Personally, I believe, all translations are helpful. If we read many translations as we can, we will be able to understand more the contents of the Bible. Translation from a language to another language is a very difficult task. Some words just can not be translated literally,you need a whole sentence to do it. I'm sure those of us who are using english as a secondary language understand this difficulty.
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
Only persons who reads the original script can say its the better one. We who do not understand the original language of the bible could not be able to identify the real one. For me, that is the reason why many christian religions came to exist. It is because of the difference of their translation of the bible. Different translation, different ideas and therefore different beliefs.
@rbtakses (21)
• Philippines
5 Feb 07
Today, the Bible is the most widely translated book in history. Over 90% of the human family have access to at least part of it in their own language. We are particulary grateful for an accurate modern-language translation, the NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, now available in whole or in part in over 40 languages.
@ReyM21 (281)
• Philippines
23 Feb 07
I think different versions of the Bible is not the point here (KJV, NASB, NIV, NLT, etc.); there is also the Message Bible which caters to simple/plain explanation. For me, as long as the thought is explained, then it serve its purpose. The Bible is the word of God, right? and it's main objective is centered on God's love-- (1) that there is a God who love His creation so much that He redeemed it so that they will become part of His family and kingdom-- (2)and for that purpose be realized, He gave His creation a set of rules for them to follow in order to accomplished #1.