How many bibbles do christians believe in? (reject, translation, America)

[linwood]

I think all you Christians are confusing him.


Secondboy, there is only one Bible.
It has been translated into many different languages and at least one King has altered it`s original contents in a version he had translated (King James version).
It`s original contents have been further altered by changes in different Christian denominations beliefs/dogma.

I have 5 different version of the Bible here and none of them has exactly the same words but they all seem to state essentially the same message with a few important differences.

All Christian denominations follow one of these versions of the Bible but many of them also have their own texts which are very important to their beliefs.
Kind of like the way there is the Koran and then there are the hadiths and writtten history of islam.
Only one is from god but the others are important because they come from a prophet or record the history of the denomination.

Catholics use the Bible, AND the writings of early church fathers AND the Catholic catechism.

The Bible holds a place of superiority among all these writings for most Christian sects.

Mormons use the King James Bible AND The Book of Mormon on an equal intellectual basis because they believe both are equally the word of god.

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by FeathersinHair

Just as a side note, if one is interested in how many bibbles another believes in, they might be better directed to the pagan sub forum. We are very interested, there, in the proper care and feeding of bibbles and their magical properties.

I heard of bibble about 10 years ago. Its a word from the native language of an artifical life-form called Norns. I forget what it means though.

[mormonman]

Originally Posted by linwood

I think all you Christians are confusing him.


Secondboy, there is only one Bible.
It has been translated into many different languages and at least one King has altered it`s original contents in a version he had translated (King James version).
It`s original contents have been further altered by changes in different Christian denominations beliefs/dogma.

I have 5 different version of the Bible here and none of them has exactly the same words but they all seem to state essentially the same message with a few important differences.

All Christian denominations follow one of these versions of the Bible but many of them also have their own texts which are very important to their beliefs.
Kind of like the way there is the Koran and then there are the hadiths and writtten history of islam.
Only one is from god but the others are important because they come from a prophet or record the history of the denomination.

Mormons use the King James Bible AND The Book of Mormon.
Catholics use the Bible, AND the writings of early church fathers ANDthe Catholic catechism.

The Bible hold a place of superiority among all these writings.

Well, I hold all of the Standard Works (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covanents, and the Pearl of Great Price) to be all at the same level. They are all words of the Lord through His prophets.

[linwood]

Originally Posted by mormonman

Well, I hold all of the Standard Works (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covanents, and the Pearl of Great Price) to be all at the same level. They are all words of the Lord through His prophets.

That is right Mormonman, the LDS are the exception .

My apologies.

I`ll amend my post to state that.

Thanks for the correction.

[James the Persian]

Originally Posted by linwood

Secondboy, there is only one Bible.

Really, which one's that then? I guess it must be the Ethiopian one as they have the most books and everyone else uses a subset. Our canon is smaller than theirs, larger than the RCs and significantly larger than the Protestants. Given that the Bible is a collection of books rather than a book, how can it be that there is only one? My collection includes all 4 Maccabees, but doesn't include Enoch (which the Ethioppians do). Victor's, being an RC, won't include all of the Maccabees but will contain other books that Protestants exclude. Please explain how there can possibly be only one collection of books when that collection varies in size and composition from church to church.

James

[may]

Originally Posted by dawny0826

The only translation that I'm not quite comfortable with at the present time is the NWT but I'm still researching the origins.
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The NWT is the one that i find to be a very accurate translation that gets back to the original meanings , one of the best i would say. but i also have many different translations. i have just noticed that the NKJV translation has removed Gods name Jehovah from psalm 83;18 but it was always in the KJV

[James the Persian]

Further to my last post, you can see the differences between the canons in the table produced here:

http://www.geocities.com/trvalentine...x/otbooks.html

Scroll down and you can't miss it. Further to this I would note that the table shows the Ethiopian narrow canon. To the best of my knowledge the narrow and broad canons are identical with respect to the OT but not the NT. Here the Ethiopian narrow canon agrees with the rest of us and uses the same 27 NT books whereas the broad canon adds a further 8.

James