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Originally Posted by good samaritan
I believe the translation of the Bible was just as much inspired as the original text. If we trust that God would accurately give the original then we can believe that He would accurately have given the translation. It is really a matter of faith. For that matter, How do we know any of the Bible is accurate and not just another ancient book like all the rest? FAITH. I think most of these ideas are just propagated information that is floating around on the web. If a person gets the idea that a little maybe false; it opens up the idea that any and all could be false.
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Brother, I see this as blind FAITH. Not being able to admit that the Bible we have today is a product of much human manipulation is a mistake.
If God inspired the translations, then why are there so many? An inspired translation would be the only necessary one to have. And guess what? The KJV isn't that one.
Consider that there are actually missing pieces of the Bible. Entire books of the Bible are lost forever. The Book of the Wars of the LORD, the Book of Jashur, the Words of Iddo the Seer, Paul's other letter to the Corinthians, Peter's other letter to the Laodiceans, and etc.
Gone for good. Why didn't God preserve these into the canon, so they could be translated under His inspiration?
Listen, the Bible is a tough nut. It can take any and all critiques and challenges. And so can we, or rather, so we should be able to.
If we can't withstand our faith being sand-blasted by some scholar's claim, and if we think any challenge to the Bible is merely internet malarky, then we can't fulfill certain aspects of the Scriptures.
Truth is designed to be the world's punching bag. You can bang away at it for as long as you want, but in the end, you'll wear out, and the truth will remain.
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If a person gets the idea that a little maybe false; it opens up the idea that any and all could be false
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If a person is never once challenged, or refuses to be challenged on the veracity of the Holy Scriptures, then their faith is weak, and they aren't ready for much of what's actually in the Bible. All a person can then resort to is "But the Bible says...", while all the while never really knowing, deep down in the guts of the soul, that what's actually in the Bible is worth the effort to find out if it's true.