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photon · 03-17-2005, 11:05 AM

It depends on what translation you are looking at...

If you are talking about the King James translation, at the time it was made (early 1600's I think) the oldest known Old Testament text (hebrew) was only a few hundred years old, and the oldest known New Testament text (greek) was 600 years old.

Since then there have been many Biblical manuscripts found.. Some of the NT ones date back to within 100 years of the original texts. The mentioned Dead Sea scrolls dated back to as far as 175BC and all together were almost the entire Old Testament.

There's been exhaustive analysis of these old texts against newer texts of the same language and the amount of change is suprisingly small, and mostly limited to spelling errors, style changes in the languages, etc.. There's a ton of info on this out there.

Newer translations try to take newer findings into account and update the translation into modern english. Anyone who's watched a movie with subtitles when they know both languages knows this can be very difficult.

But anyone who seriously studies the Bible makes an effort to go back to the original Hebrew and Greek.

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photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	It depends on what translation you are looking at... If you are talking about the King James translation, at the time it was made (early 1600's I think) the oldest known Old Testament text (hebrew) was only a few hundred years old, and the oldest known New Testament text (greek) was 600 years old. Since then there have been many Biblical manuscripts found.. Some of the NT ones date back to within 100 years of the original texts. The mentioned Dead Sea scrolls dated back to as far as 175BC and all together were almost the entire Old Testament. There's been exhaustive analysis of these old texts against newer texts of the same language and the amount of change is suprisingly small, and mostly limited to spelling errors, style changes in the languages, etc.. There's a ton of info on this out there. Newer translations try to take newer findings into account and update the translation into modern english. Anyone who's watched a movie with subtitles when they know both languages knows this can be very difficult. But anyone who seriously studies the Bible makes an effort to go back to the original Hebrew and Greek. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.