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To: kosta50; HarleyD; stfassisi; mas cerveza por favor; Kolokotronis
You know, and I mean this kindly, but if there are people like you who are scholars in critiquing different versions of scriptures, surely it wouldn't be hard to write a corrected version now would it?

Which makes we wonder why are Protestants coming out with different versions of the Bible almost every year?

To be fair, there are also several "new-approved" Catholic Bibles too.

2,811 posted on 11/21/2010 10:07:09 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: OLD REGGIE; HarleyD; stfassisi; mas cerveza por favor; Kolokotronis
To be fair, there are also several "new-approved" Catholic Bibles too

Well, change is not exactly foreign to Roman Catholics.

2,814 posted on 11/21/2010 10:52:27 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: OLD REGGIE; HarleyD; stfassisi; mas cerveza por favor; Kolokotronis
One more thing: NAB is the preferred Vatican English version, not an official one. I have had a discussion with some Catholics on this topic a while ago, and it seems that calling something an "official" (as opposed to approved) Catholic Bible is a quicksand.

Being approved doesn't mean it's official (go figure). In other words, a translation can be approved for reading but not for doctrinal development, just as in the Orthodox Church. The "doctrinal" scripture must be understood in the original language, namely Greek and Hebrew; for the OT, it is Greek when there is a conflict between the Greek and the Hebrew versions (i.e. Isa 7:14)

2,815 posted on 11/21/2010 11:01:33 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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