Right, and you disbelieve, but I did want to get it on the record that God said that He wrote the Bible, not man.
Right, and you disbelieve, but I did want to get it on the record that God said that He wrote the Bible, not man.
OK, but every version of the Bible we have and has ever existed, all the way back to the Hebrew texts, was transcribed by men, who are fallible. The question is which version or translation is the
closest to the word of God, which is something we don't know, but only believe.
Here's an interesting article comparing some of the english translations:
All Those Translations!
Translators have certainly (but unintentionally) taken some liberties with the Scripture over the centuries. One Greek word can be translated to mean several different things in english, and can completely change the meaning of certain passages. Many passages are almost indentical in every version of the Bible, but some are not, and it's up to the individual to make a determination of what the correct translation is or, more importantly, meaning is. That's one of the aspects of faith.
Look up the term "self reference"
"The book says the book is true" doesn't hold up logically. But, to each his own. Peace