Changes Due to English Evolution Affect Integrity of the Bible

Martin Luther was suspicious of the pope and the Roman Catholic church so he took action. At this time, the Bible was just beginning to be translated and the commoners did not read it. The pope read the Bible to them, which gave the pope the power to manipulate the minds of the commoners. The pope could lie about anything he did not like in the Bible. Martin Luther did not agree with this, for he believed that the church should be able to read and interpret the bible on their own. The catholic church believed that you can win the gift of

The King James translation created a majority of the phrases in the language today. The King James Bible provides life lessons. The metaphors in the King James Bible had a huge impact on its readers. King James main goal was to create a Bible easier for the people to understand.

As Scott Duvall and Daniel Hays state in Grasping God’s Word, every copy of the Bible today is a translation, “unless everyone wants to learn Hebrew and Greek (the Bible’s original languages)… (Duvall and Hays 23). This being the case, people may debate which translation is more accurate; however, the best way to understand the Bible is by reading several different translations and comparing them to one another. The main reason several translations helps people grasp the full meaning of Scripture is because some translations are word for word, which is the formal approach in translation and gives a reader the closest possible words from when the text was written. On the other hand, the more functional approach in translation is thought for

The bible we have today is written in a language we all can understand. I have never imagined that it took many sacrifices (human lives) so that we could read the word of God today. I think God permitted those people to use the bible in such a way so that we would all understand its value and why we need to have one and

Around 200 BC, the Old Testament was translated from Hebrew, the language of the Jewish people, into Greek. This translation enabled the common people to read and understand the Scriptures. After Jesus’ resurrection, the apostles wrote down the account of Jesus’ life and ministry in the Gospels. They wrote in Greek because it was the common language of the people. The letters written to the churches that sprang up all over the world were also written in Greek. As the years progressed the common language shifted from Greek to Latin. As a result, the common people could not read or understand the Scriptures in Greek. Therefore, Athanasius decided to translate the Bible into the common language of the people. Since Athanasius’ translation

John 3:16 states, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” This translation is one of many located in the most influential bible known today, The King James Bible. Printed and Published in 1611, over 4 centuries ago, the King James Bible remains the most known and used published bible in the word. However, many trials and errors occurred before the well-known version came to be, including the original Hebrew and Greek versions, The William Tyndale testaments, and the Geneva Bible.

Some Christian people expect the Bible to form to the way they are currently living their life. This has been an occurrence all through time and not just a present action. Once they realize the Bible doesn’t form to their lives they try and make the Bible reasonable and change it in away that suits them. The Bible tells a story about how the world came to be what it is today, and the history behind humanity that shaped who we are. Making the Bible reasonable is a form of domesticating it and making it fit the world today. When people try and make the Bible reasonable they are trying to shape it to the current world and the standards that are currently popular. They do not care about the history behind the Bible they only want to focus on what

The King James version of the Bible affected many things and had a major impact on society and the English language. It was created by King James to benefit and fill a request given by the puritans to King James. It took seven years to write and it became the English standard version of the Bible. The King James version includes a lot of formal and poetic language to describe stories and events in the other versions of the Bible. It taught the Bible in a different way making it easier for some people to understand and believe in the stories and truths of the Bible. This version is the most influential version of the Bible. It is also the most referred too and the most popular for many groups of people. Overall it is a descriptive and creative translation that combines truth with poetic art and beautiful language appealing to many different groups of people.

The strengths of the King James version of the Bible are that it is the earliest translated version of the Bible (Harris 2014). The translation was written in a time when prose and poetry were at their highest peak in history, so the writings were speckled with colorful, poetic mental images that were meant to influence the reader. The weaknesses of the King James version of the Bible were the poetic rhythms make it difficult for people who study the Bible to decipher the true meaning behind the original writer’s words. The terminology from the 1600’s was completely different from today’s and became out-of-date as time passed. Above all, the the translation lacked the influence of the ancient Greek manuscripts that have since been discovered

There is not always an exact translation from language to language nor is the grammatical structure the exact same. Combined these two challenges and one gets a complicated puzzle that requires time and deep knowledge to crack. It makes it especially difficult that that languages over the years develop and change and since the text of the Bible is ancient it makes the task of interpreting that much harder. There are also words that will not translate over so the translator has to find a substitute for the word that will lack the depth and meaning of the original. Despite the challenges that the difference in language creates it is still possible to translate the Bible and worth the effort. Those who are not fortunate to know the original language have resources to do word studies to better understand the meaning of the

The term “Bible” is an interesting one as it potentially encompasses many different entities. There are thousands of versions of the Bible, many arranged and presented in a variety of ways. They vary physically & in content, and as I recently discovered aren 't necessarily Christian. Below I delve into a rather interesting version of the book published in 1976 by HarperCollins (in conjunction with the American Bible Society). Good News Bible is a compilation of the Old Testament and the New Testament in their entirety (the American Bible Society had actually made their version of the New Testament available a decade prior). This information is made easily available in small print on the first few pages just as in most relatively modern books. The society was founded in 1816 and its goal has always been to make the Bible more intelligible. The stories contained within the Good News Bible don 't deviate from those that most Christians are accustomed to, however, the way which these stories are conveyed is rather unique. The book is written in simple everyday English and it is comprehensible to nearly everyone with even the slightest grasp of the language. The basic elements of the book (including cover, binding, paper, font, headings, maps, paper, illustrations, chronology, etc.) are all incorporated deliberately and make it apparent that Good News Bible is intended to make reading the Bible a far less daunting task. Good News Bible is distinctive, because it embodies a

The process by which the English Bible, as it is known to the English culture today, was compiled is an extraordinary thing to see. The Bible consists of two parts: the Old Testament and the New Testament. The process by which both Testaments were written and then canonized into one book transpired over a period of many years. Once the canonization of the Bible officially came to an end, it was translated into English. Since then, many versions of the modern Bible have been made. Since the individual books of the Bible became scattered as they were written, people set forth to preserve God’s Word by compiling them into one

I don’t have a problem with either the old or new translation. Mark Twain’s famous quote, “It’s not the parts of the Bible that I don’t understand that bother me, but the parts that I do.”

One thing I found out was that the bible has sold more than 2.5 billion copies and translated more than 2,200 languages and/or dialects. As David Crystal stated in his book known as "Begat" he finds out that the King James Bible and the English language has been counted 257 phrases from the

Think of the last time you saw an English Bible. It was probably not too long ago. Most Christians take it for granted that there is a Bible in their language. Usually, most subconsciously believe that the Bible in their language just exists, and almost always existed and came about peacefully. Of course, any Christian who takes any time to think about it knows that this cannot be true. This is the case with most Bible translations; the first English Bible did not come about peacefully. In fact, the process of translating the Bible into English was not only a difficult task; it was life threatening. To understand the enormity of the undertaking one must understand the history of England at the time. During this time in European history, the Catholic Church ruled the people, having more power than even the king. The church required that all Bibles be in Latin, a language only scholars and clergymen could read. Using the ignorance of the people the Catholic Church enforced laws and sanctions that were unbiblical. In order to protect the power of the church, it was considered a grievous crime to have even a sentence of the Bible translated into English. The church even executed many on this account, calling it heresy and burning perpetrators. This was the case with nearly all of Europe until Martin Luther, who started the protestant reformation in Germany. This led to a shift in belief among Christians and the Catholic Church losing its grip on Europe, England however, was