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"New Age Bible Versions" by Gail Riplinger is a simple and easy-to-understand book about different versions of the Bible. It tells you about the King James Version, which the author thinks is...
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- Whitfield Harrington
Jan 31, 2019 · Great Three Minute Theology with Svetlana Khobnya answering: Why are there so many different versions of the Bible? Svetlana is a lecturer in Biblical Studies at NTC, with a...
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- Nazarene Theological College, Manchester
With so many versions of the Bible available in bookstores and at your fingertips, it’s easy to wonder, “why are there different translations of the Bible?” ...
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- For the Gospel
Nov 22, 2024 · The diversity of biblical options is as old as the Bible itself. For 2000 years, Christians have been making choices about the forms of their Bible, and there has never been a single one for the whole of the faith
- Do They All contradict?
- The Original Text
- Things to Remember
- Different Uses
Why are there so many different translations of the Bible? Go into any Christian bookstore, and you can find an entire shelf—sometimes an entire section!—of different Bible translations. There’s the King James Version (KJV), the New King James Version (NKJV), and the Revised Standard Version (RSV). There’s the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)...
But what about the various translations themselves? Don’t they render the Bible so differently from each other that we really can’t be sure at all about the original meaning? That’s a good question, but in reality, even when different translations use different words to render the same Greek or Hebrew phrase, that does not necessarily—or even very ...
Still, though, we need to go farther, because obviously not every verse in the Bible is quite as straightforward as Mark 10:50. Certain words and phrases are indeed difficult to translate, and in those cases, different translators will often disagree about how to render those words or phrases. But even in those instances, we should keep at least a ...
But one more question arises. Why are there different translations of the Bible in the first place? If the significantly disputed portions of the text are so rare and if they don’t affect any major doctrines, then why have people gone to so much expense and trouble to make all those translations? That’s an excellent question, and the answer comes d...
Jun 12, 2024 · Why are there so many Bible versions, anyway? How different can they really be? If you’ve ever compared a few translations side by side, you know the answer: they can differ greatly.
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Apr 6, 2018 · So, you see, selecting Bible translations is a complicated subject. Although I sample and use many versions when writing, I tend to use three versions more than others: The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), the New Living Translation (NLT), and The Message.
