“The Bible was purposely edited and written to conform to the prophecy.”

manama

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Everyone on this site keeps talking about KJV being the epitome of perfection, people outside of the internet keep telling me that some other version is the correct one and so on. But multiple version existing itself is a flaw. We aren't talking about which version is correct or not. If a version was created with changes, thats still change in the Bible which makes the point true that some editing has been done.
 

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I wonder if I should pull David Wood and Christian prince here

LOL JK
 

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The books of the Old Testament were written from approximately 1400 BC to 400 BC. The books of the New Testament were written from approximately AD 40 to AD 90. So, anywhere between 3,400 and 1,900 years have passed since a book of the Bible was written. In this time, the original manuscripts have been lost. They very likely no longer exist. Since the time the books of the Bible were originally written, they have been copied again and again by scribes. Copies of copies of copies have been made. In view of this, can we still trust the Bible?

The Holy Scriptures are God-breathed and therefore inerrant (2 Timothy 3:16–17; John 17:17). Of course, inerrancy can only be applied to the original manuscripts, not to the copies of the manuscripts. As meticulous as the scribes were with the replication of the Scriptures, no one is perfect. Through the centuries, minor differences arose in the various copies of the Scriptures. The vast majority of these differences are simple spelling variants (akin to American neighbor versus British neighbour), inverted words (one manuscript says “Christ Jesus” while another says “Jesus Christ”), or an easily identified missing word. In short, over 99 percent of the biblical text is not questioned. Of the less than 1 percent of the text that is in question, no doctrinal teaching or command is jeopardized. In other words, the copies of the Bible we have today are pure. The Bible has not been corrupted, altered, edited, revised, or tampered with.

Any unbiased document scholar will agree that the Bible has been remarkably well-preserved over the centuries. Copies of the Bible dating to the 14th century AD are nearly identical in content to copies from the 3rd century AD. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, scholars were shocked to see how similar they were to other ancient copies of the Old Testament, even though the Dead Sea Scrolls were hundreds of years older than anything previously discovered. Even many hardened skeptics and critics of the Bible admit that the Bible has been transmitted over the centuries far more accurately than any other ancient document.

There is absolutely no evidence that the Bible has been revised, edited, or tampered with in any systematic manner. The sheer volume of biblical manuscripts makes it simple to recognize any attempt to distort God’s Word. There is no major doctrine of the Bible that is put in doubt as a result of the inconsequential differences among the manuscripts. - from Got questions

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From CARM.org

This is a common misconception. Some people think that the Bible was written in one language, translated to another language, then translated into yet another and so on until it was finally translated into the English. The complaint is that since it was rewritten so many times in different languages throughout history, it must have become corrupted . The "telephone" analogy is often used as an illustration. It goes like this. One person tells another person a sentence who then tells another person, who tells yet another, and so on and so on until the last person hears a sentence that has little or nothing to do with the original one. The only problem with this analogy is that it doesn't fit the Bible at all.

The fact is that the Bible has not been rewritten. Take the New Testament, for example. The disciples of Jesus wrote the New Testament in Greek; and though we do not have the original documents, we do have around 6,000 copies of the Greek manuscripts, some of which were made very close to the time of the originals. These various manuscripts, or copies, agree with each other to almost 100 percent accuracy. Statistically, the New Testament is 99.5% textually pure. That means that there is only 1/2 of 1% of of all the copies that do not agree with each other perfectly. But, if you take that 1/2 of 1% and examine it, you find that the majority of the "problems" are nothing more than spelling errors and very minor word alterations. For example, instead of saying Jesus, a variation might be "Jesus Christ." So the actual amount of textual variation of any concern is extremely low. Therefore, we can say that we have a remarkably accurate compilation of the original documents.

So when we translate the Bible, we do not translate from a translation of a translation of a translation. We translate from the original language into our language. It is a one-step process and not a series of steps that can lead to corruption. It is one translation step from the original to the English or to whatever language in which a person needs to read. So we translate into Spanish from the same Greek and Hebrew manuscripts. Likewise we translate into the German from those same Greek and Hebrew manuscripts as well. This is how it is done for each and every language into which we translate the Bible. We do not translate from the original languages to the English, to the Spanish, and then to the German. It is from the original languages to the English or into the Spanish or into the German. Therefore, the translations are very accurate and trustworthy regarding what the Bible originally said.

Comparison Chart
The following chart represents a compilation of various ancient manuscripts, their original date of writing, the earliest copy, the number of copies in existence, and the time span between the originals and the copies. If the Bible is singled out to be criticized as unreliable then all the other writings listed below must also be discarded.

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The Bible doesn't have any apparent problems that Islamic scripture doesn't have in spades. Muslims are so proud of the notion that the Quran is unchanged, which is easily proven false, that they don't seem to wonder why the hadith are allowed to be such an unreliable, contradictory mess. And it's not like hadith are just commentary. A good deal of Islamic doctrine is from the hadith, and if there's a troublesome one, don't worry, there's another one that says the opposite, or abrogates the previous one. No wonder so many of them are disputed or deemed "unreliable". Imagine if Christians were still arguing over which verses of the Bible to accept as God's word.
 
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Red Sky at Morning

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The bible wasnt and never will b edited butt there are plenty of missing books that need to be found and forum'd about
I think the question of missing books raises some interesting points...

There are some books that are referred to as authoritative which have been lost to the sands of time, e.g:-

2 Chronicles 9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visions_of_Iddo_the_Seer

At the other end of the spectrum, there are other books which take on the names of significant Biblical figures in order to lend their writings credence, e.g. the Gospel of Philip from the Nag Hamadi Library...

https://newrepublic.com/article/107506/top-three-heresies-gnostic-gospels

Somewhere in the middle are texts that crept their way into the Catholic canon, mainly by virtue of the support they lent to various ideas helpful to Catholic doctrine, e.g. Tobit...



Finally there are books that had been lost that have been unearthed and have a profound message for our day, e.g. It seems that “Gad the Seer” might have turned up!

 
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The Bible doesn't have any apparent problems that Islamic scripture doesn't have in spades. Muslims are so proud of the notion that the Quran is unchanged, which is easily proven false, that they don't seem to wonder why the hadith are allowed to be such an unreliable, contradictory mess. And it's not like hadith are just commentary. A good deal of Islamic doctrine is from the hadith, and if there's a troublesome one, don't worry, there's another one that says the opposite, or abrogates the previous one. No wonder so many of them are disputed or deemed "unreliable". Imagine if Christians were still arguing over which verses of the Bible to accept as God's word.
I needed no extra books or writings to know the Lord. It was His word that drew us and His Spirit that filled us and sustains us. Satan and his agents will do all that they can to disrupt and put to question the Body of Christ. But He that is in us is stronger than he that is in the world. I have seen too many answers to prayer and teaching by God Himself....You must be born again!
 
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