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Originally Posted by Sean
The fact of the matter is there are no "original" manuscripts of the N.T. left. The way we can know that the Lord has "preserved" His word is because there are over 5,000 hand written copies and copies of copies that say the exact same thing in various languages of the world. The Bible was very meticulously copied and preserved by various groups all over the world. The Catholic church only "canonized" the N.T. to make the books the "official" N.T. They did NOT control all of the loose copies that were everywhere in the world. They only controlled a small portion of them and "modified" them before and during the reformation. These are know as the "Latin Vulgate". They are not used as part of the "received text"(5000 plus copies) that was used to give us our KJV of the bible in 1611. The KJV was simple the 1st "legal" English language version to emerge from the reformation.
What I am saying is that the Lord has "preserved" his word to nearly all languages in the world with over 5000 "witnesses" (before the printing press). You and I can trust this "cloud" of witnesses with our very lives.
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For the most part, I agree. However, "translations" have been errant. For example:
Genesis 49:6 (KJV)
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Most don't realize what is really being said here because it was translated incorrectly by the translators of the King James Bible. It actually reads:
Genesis 49:6 (ESV)
6 Let my soul come not into their council;
O my glory, be not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.
There are passages that are even more difficult to translate.
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