Our present day translations of the Bible ARE reliable

[MysticPhD]

Originally Posted by Cyber Munchkin

Big AMEN, Coon girl !!

Oh, how much of our own human reason we have to get rid of, how much human planning we have to become divorced from. Unbelief is a terrible hindrance. - Smith Wigglesworth

I would tend to agree that it takes complete ignorance, lack of reason and minimal intellect to blindly accept the ancient ignorance of our primitive ancestors as the best interpretation and understanding of our God that is possible!

[june 7th]

Greetings, everyone!

This is just a reminder that all please remain on topic. The OP is very specific in the point it is making regarding reliable biblical translations; if you disagree, please explain why, but also please do so by remaining on topic.

Thanks!

Am re-posting the OP below, just as a reminder!

Critics say that because we don't have the original texts of the Bible we therefore can't trust the accuracy of our present day translations. They say that the Biblical text has been corrupted. This is an invalid assumption. Here's why.

One reason we know that the Bible has been translated correctly (aside from the translations that have been purposely altered) is because of Lectionaries.
Lectionaries were used in church-services of the early church and contained selected scripture quotations that were copied from the original texts and were used by the pastor of a given church during his message. These Lectionaries are far more ancient than the manuscripts that are available to us today.

Thousands of these Lectionaries have been found and can be seen in museum's. There are thousands of these Lectionaries with about 86,000 quotations of various Bible passages. And there are only minute differences between our Bible translations and the Bible passages that are contained on these Lectionaries which again were taken from the original texts.

There are other reasons we can trust the accuracy of our Bible. The science of Textual Criticism being one of those reasons. For more information refer to these links:

Manuscript Evidence for the Bible (by Ron Rhodes)

Stand to Reason: Is the New Testament Text Reliable?

AlwaysBeReady.com - Has the Bible Been Corrupted? By Charlie Campbell

We have available to us in our modern day Bibles, the Word of God, with only some minor variances that do not affect the doctrinal content. For instance, differences in spelling, or word order such as Jesus Christ instead of Christ Jesus. There are some copyist errors that crept in, but again nothing of significance.

As I said earlier, there are some newer translations that have been intentionaly changed to make them more acceptable to certain groups. I think there is a Bible translation that's aimed at young people, for instance, that I hear butchers the Biblical text. But that's another story.

[Ironmaw1776]

Originally Posted by Sciotamicks
And older...like what Origen did. He purposefully butchered the word of God to push his Universalist ideals. The church took care of him, rightfully so.

Originally Posted by Ironmaw1776

Do you care to prove what you have said in the above? Will you offer evidences of what you believe to be Origins butchery of the biblical texts?

I didn't think so ... People who commit the sin of bearing false witness against others usually have no evidence, as those they accuse did not do what they accuse them of in the first place.


If anyone was guilty of butchering anything, it was Jerome who admitted to having literally butchered Origens words when translating his works and when he penned the Vulgate. Talk about butchering the scriptures during translation ...