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If you’re reading the KJV you’re reading a false version
The oldest surviving text is generally considered to be the "Kesh Temple Hymn" or the "Instructions of Shuruppak," both of which date back to around 2600-2500 BCE. These texts are written in Sumerian cuneiform and were found in what is now Iraq.
Yes. This is because Christianity is the largest organized religion in the world. 31% of the world identify as Christian, if you include all the various branches. There are roughly 2.3 Billion Christians. It should be remembered that popularity is not an indicator of truth.
That would be true of people in other religions as well.
You are certainly entitled to hold this belief. Most of the world disagrees with you.
Huh? What are you talking about? I can't think of any atheist who thinks their life has no meaning. As far as survival goes, they are doing just fine.
I think it is only Christians who think they need to be saved. I certainly feel no need to be saved.
My friend this is just flat out untrue. All the words are not only in English, but a dialect of English that is no longer spoken. Job 21:29:"Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens?" Say WHAT? This is utterly incompressible. (It's not important what if means, so don't bother explaining. The point is that no one today can understand it. You pretty much have to translate it into modern English to get what it is saying.
It's really too bad that Christians cannot read the text in the original languages. They lose so much of what is actually in the text. Not only are there words for which there is no similar word in English, but the Bible is chock full of puns which cannot be translated. It's really too bad that Christian parents to not begin teaching their kids Hebrew and Greek from an early age.
In Christian Bibles, yes. But if you get a Jewish Tanakh, it will use the Hebrew titles. For example, the book Christians call Genesis, Jews call "Bereisheet" (בראשית).
This is true of your Protestant Bible, but is not true for any other group of Chrsitains. The Catholic bible has 73 books. The Eastern Orthodox Bible has 79. The Ethiopian church has 81.
True... I would be missing so much of the theological nuance and the subtle references in my own religion's ancient texts, if I were to read them only in translation... And I don't even believe that those texts are of divine origin, nor do I hold them to be authoritative to my life. They're only other people's ideas of the divine, which I use for reflection and inspiration.
Perhaps because the original does not need to be improved upon. Haven't you noticed that when a sequel to a great movie is made, its just never as good as the original? Come home to the Tanakh!!!!! LOL
Bereisheet is indeed a Jewish text. Genesis is the Christian translation of it.
I agree that there are similarities in the Creation stories, the Flood story, and the story of the Tower of Babel. But that's it. Those stories are such a tiny portion of Genesis. So tiny, that it really isn't accurate to say that Genesis is not a Jewish text.
Corrupted? That is a very poor choice of words. It is perfectly natural when stories are passed on orally that they evolve. Each story teller adds their own twists. When I tell a scary story around the campfire, I always change it in some fashion to make it more interesting and more scary. That doesn't mean my version is corrupt.
Later religious Books are not necessarily improvements, they are just additions and updates.Perhaps because the original does not need to be improved upon. Haven't you noticed that when a sequel to a great movie is made, its just never as good as the original? Come home to the Tanakh!!!!! LOL
I totally agree with you. If I go out and sit under the oak tree planted by a squirrel 8 years ago, I find peace. When the raccoons visit at night they remind me of how connected we are. When I see the hawks soar overhead I no longer feel confused. There is no written text in the world that has more wisdom that the natural world just outside my door.
I fully agree. Also, love matters. I love all my animals who keep me company, indoors and out!
But history is history and Imo the Bible was not written for the modern age in which we live.
I believe I know the truth of God but I did not get it by reading the Bible. The Bible is not the only Holy Book that has ever existed.
The Bible takes more then just one day to read it. The Bible actually takes months and even years to read and fully understand it. When one comes to verses that do not understand then they need to ask one that has the knowledge so that they do not make up in their own heads a meaning of them. All the Verses go together in the word. Only one who has true knowledge can understand that.
Some would even say it has 73 books inside it. Or even 79!
That is because those have never truly counted the books. Those who say what the bible has but has never counted the books to see are ones that cannot count. So if you want to know how many are in the Bible just open up the introduction that gives all the books in it and count them. It is not that hard. If you can count.
Actually I have counted them and in my bible there are 73 books, plus portions of several others that the 66 book bible does not include.
