Quote from: CoinCube on June 28, 2017, 12:46:13 AM

Quote from: Risk Mgmt on June 27, 2017, 09:16:02 PM

Thank you CoinCube -

Appreciate the feedback. Here are few facts / Questions to ponder

1) How many different versions of the Bible are circulating?
2) What does the word Version suggest
3) The Bible is not just a Book. It is a selection and compilation of many books
4) Its been re-written edited by MAN / WOMAN
5) copies of People's translations / editions -- meanings concepts edited

If you still feel my opinion doesn't meet the facts....I suggest you advise me which Bible you prefer out of the 100 different versions.
I will locate that specific bible - and present you more facts.

Having said all this...by no means do I suggest that Christianity is a false relgion. What I do suggest is that its core teachings / original founding principals from the original bible - are no more...and the original founding principals have been broken.

You suggest that these holy texts are fluid changing dramatically from generation to generation on the whims of various commentators. The evidence points to the exact opposite conclusion an amazing and shocking fidelity over thousands of years.

You ask which biblical text I prefer. I have not settled this question definitively yet but if forced to make a choice today it would be the following:

https://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-English-Tanakh-Jewish-Publication-Society/dp/0827606974

As I showed above there is solid evidence that this text has been transcribed faithfully with 95% accuracy for the last 2000 years. 95% is not 100% so I acknowledge that minor errors may have been introduced over untold generations of manual transcription. However given a proven 95% fidelity over 2000 years I am confident that the core message remains intact.

Hi CoinCube

Thank you for the information - I'd like to make clear, that I think highly of all three Abraham
faiths - so please do not think I'm trying to be disrespectful.

Having said that - I'm of the mindset that one still needs to keep critical thought process in place to decipher any corruption. The Tanak JPS version - I take it to exclude the NT - meaning you don't follow the NT?

Anyways - see below

"The New Jewish Publication Society of America Tanakh, first published in complete form in 1985, is a modern Jewish translation of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible into English. It is based on revised editions of earlier publications of subdivisions of the Tanakh such as the Torah and Five Megillot which were originally published from 19691982. It is unrelated to the original JPS Tanakh translation, which was based on the Revised Version and American Standard Version but emended to more strictly follow the Masoretic text, beyond both translations being published by the Jewish Publication Society of America.

This translation emerged from the collaborative efforts of an interdenominational team of Jewish scholars and rabbis working together over a thirty-year period. These translators based their translation on the Masoretic Hebrew text, and consistently strove for a faithful, idiomatic rendering of the original scriptural languages."

So if I understand correctly - scholars based the JPS off other REVISEd or re revised material.
Have you ever played the Chinese whispers aka TELEPHONE game? Should you open your text JPS tanakh - within the first few pages before the start - (which most skip) is publishers/ editors disclaimers clearly stating the work being to the best ABILITY of the team. Even with Tanakh there are many editions/ versions .

Read the preface - it confirms my position that original content has been corrupted.
Just another new TEXT With NEW Translation With aid OF PREVIOUS RE REVISED Texts backed by Constant CONSULTATION / REINTERPRETATIONs of OF Jewish authorities. We're not even talking about KJVersion.

if the Original was present - we wouldn't need 1000 diffferent versions / re-revised materials / editions etc etc