Jesus created Adam the first man in 4194 B.C. And in the 7th generation of man, Adam told his great great great great grandson Henoch about the creation. And I believe that in the 36th century B.C. Henoch wrote down what Adam told him firsthand in a book. Henoch was godly and walked with Jesus, and Jesus raptured him. And God instructed certain godly men to write down his words in a book in order to pass his words on to the future generations and to the children that would come after. The Lord God Jesus professed that, Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. |
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---Eloy on 10/31/09 |
destiny
your wrong
if you have faith you believe yahsua who is the word of god, through the holy spirit will guide u to all truth
"not by might, nor power (or tradition), but by my spirit"
yahsua said that not all truths have been revealed to us as yet |
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---glen on 10/30/09 |
you dont, but if you have faith then you just have to believe that what we have in our bible is what god intended for us to have. |
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---destiny on 5/11/09 |
The Hebrew Bible was written between 950 BCE and 400 BCE.
It was translated to Greek in 200 BCE when the the Greek emperor wanted to learn of this "Living God". He employed 70 Hebrew priest and scribes to translate the 39 books of the Hebrew bible into Greek. It supposedly took them 70 days hence the name Septuagint Bible or Alexandrian Bible. In some religions, there are other books added to the 39 canonized books they are called the Apocrypha. |
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---George on 3/25/09 |
The Bible was written under God's inspiration during a period of more than 1000 years from the time of Moses through the first century AD. The NT was completed within about sixty years of Jesus resurrection....The Holy Bible is God's word. I hope you are having a pleasant day.++ |
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---catherine on 3/11/09 |
The Scripture was written in the Middle East in ancient Hebrew from the 36th century B.C. by Henoch in 3507 B.C. (ref: Gen.5:1+ Ex.17:14+ 31:18+ 32:15,16,19+ 34:1,4,27-29+ Deut.6:4-9). The N.T. began to be recorded by Matthew in 5 B.C., and finished by John around the 3rd decade A.D. The 1st English Bible based on the latin vulgate was transcribed by John Wycliff in 1380 A.D. And William Whittingham with his colleagues translated the 1st Bible from the Hebrew and Greek in 1560 A.D in Geneva, Switzerland. You can purchase a copy of the Geneva Bible in some reputable Bible Book Stores and also online. |
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---Eloy on 3/11/09 |
Septuagint was first translation made of Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. Two hundred years before Jesus. Translated from a Hebrew Old Testament text-type that is older than the Masoretic text, from which most Old Testaments are translated today. Sad, for the apostles had access to both the Septuagint and proto-Masoretic text that was in existence in their time. They quoted from the Septuagint.
You have probably noticed that many of the Old Testament passages that are quoted in the New Testament don't read the same in the New as they do in the Old. However, if you were using the Septuagint Old Testament, they would read the same.
According to scroll publishing. |
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---Trav on 3/10/09 |
so from what i can tell, no one on this planet know for sure what was the very first bible, just proving that organized religion can interprate the bible to mean whatever works for them. i really dont understand how there can be more than 1 bible, didnt know god wrote so many versions. when does the next addition come out? |
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---Carla on 3/9/09 |
Sorry Leslie, but if your Bible only has 66 books, then you know you are not reading exactly as the first Bible.
Luther was a Catholic Priest. He had the original 73 books Bible.
When He left he took 7 books out of the OT, because they contained information to back up several beliefs that he no longer believed.
He tried to get rid of the letter of James in the NT. But, thank God his Reformer friends stopped him. |
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---Nicole on 7/26/08 |
Bible(Canonized)and Christ-like reply |
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---Ajonuma_obed on 7/25/08 |
You are asking a question that takes a small book to answer well. Are you concerned with OT or NT? How we got the number of books down to 66? Are you just interested in the history of English Language translations? In general any modern text is better than older text, KJV and the like because we have a greater number of source documents to use then 14th - 17th century translators did. A good place to start would be the Encyclopedia Britanica. It won't cover everything, but I will give you a space to start |
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---phia4633 on 12/19/07 |
Important point: No english translation has ever been made from an original autograph, Greek or Hebrew.
Does variant = error? |
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---JohnE on 3/23/07 |
david, all Bibles written after 1611 contain errors, the best and most accurate English translation is the 1560 Geneva Bible. You could also get a copy of the Hebrew and the Greek scriptures, and then compare them to your English versions to see the discrepancies. |
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---Eloy on 6/2/06 |
pt 1: John Wyclif, in 1380 A.D., published the First English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. In 1526, William Tyndale was the first to use the original Greek scriptures to translate the New Testament into English. And in 1530 A.D. he also was the first to use the original Hebrew to translate the Old Testament scriptures into English. To date the best and most accurate English Bible is the 1560 Geneva Bible. |
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---Eloy on 6/2/06 |
pt 2: The actual temple Scriptures were collected from around the Mediterranean, from Palestine, and the Middle East. The Aleppo Codex is the oldest known complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, handwritten in Tiberias of Palestine in the early 10th century around 915 A.D. by the scribe Shlomo Ben-Buyaa. A copy can be found in the Keter Yerushalayim, The Jerusalem Crown published in 2001 A.D. |
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---Eloy on 6/2/06 |
pt 3: The Aleppo Codex is the most authoritative manuscript of the Massoretic text of the Bible, the most accurate, and sacred source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization. And I favor using the Original Greek Constantinopolitan Texts for the New Testament biblical source document. A copy can be found in the 1841 The English Hexapla reprinted in 1999 A.D. |
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---Eloy on 6/2/06 |
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pt 4: To date the best and most accurate English Bible is the 1560 Geneva Bible. It was this Geneva Bible, the "Thanksgiving Bible" which the pilgrims brought to America upon the Mayflower and settled in the English colonies of Massachusettes and the east coast, and on this- Thee Bible- in which the Bible knowledge of the Puritans was built up during the Civil War. |
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---Eloy on 6/2/06 |
i just can't get myhead round with some of the things i read in this bible. The other thing is that how can it be accurate when something was written many many years later down the line. Were there changes made? if so should i be having these doughts??..please help |
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---david on 6/1/06 |
Jack, I did mot mean to imply the Text never had more them 66 Books as the LXX does an there are a lot of other good period writings out there besides those. James Charlesworth published two good volumes. Martin Luther did not think Revelations should have been included in the Bible. Both Daniel and Revelations are classic examples of Apoplectic Pseudepigraphic literature. |
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---phia4633 on 6/22/05 |
Hi Bloggers: I really like these answers about the beginning of the Bible. What came to mind in addition is that there are fragments of scripture found in recent history-remember Qumran? They are verifying what has already been included in the Bible. This is so exciting! Those wonderful scholars are still piecing the fragments together. If I were younger, I would like to be one of them. Glorious! |
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---Elsie on 6/21/05 |
Phia, most Christians world-wide (and throughout time) will say that the Bible has MORE than 66 books.
Moderator - Which other books? |
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---Jack on 6/21/05 |
Your question assumes that the Bible appeared in the form we know it today all at one instance, like modern books.
It didn't.
It was a process of centuries.
The history of the composition and transmission of the Bible is too complex for 85 word blog entries. Libraries have been written about this. Scholars have devoted their lives to finding out the story.
It suffices that God Himself was in charge in every step of the way; His providence is evident in the process. |
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---Jack on 6/21/05 |
The first english translation of the whole bible was by John Deuteronomy Wickliffe, 1324-1384. Then William Tynadale 1525, King James Version 1611. A revised version was 1881, American Standard Version 1901. But you need to get a bible that you can understand. |
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---Rebecca_D on 6/20/05 |
You will have to study where our English Bible came from.
The Greek Septuagint goes back to at least the 3rd Century B.C. The Greek New Testament goes back to at least A.D. 100.
Remember what we have now is a copy of the Word of God. Some copies are much better than others. And, the Bible says that if this Gospel be hid it is hid from him that is lost. |
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---Elder on 6/19/05 |
The O.T. was mostly scribed in Hebrew, and the N.T. in Greek. The 1st English Bible was John Wyclif's 1380 A.D., based on the Latin. The best English Bible on the market is the Geneva Version of 1560, from the Hebrew and Greek. i would not use anything after the King James Version of 1611. A copy of the original Hebrew is in The Jerusalem Crown of 2001, and the Greek in The English Hexapla of 1841. Alternatively, you can use the Textus Receptus found in the Interlinear KJV by George Ricker Berry. |
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---Eloy on 6/19/05 |
If you have doubts about anything that you read in an English version you can check what words were used in the Hebrew, for the O.T. and the Greek, for the N.T. There are computer programmes that make this very easy giving you a line by line literal translation from the Hebrew or Greek into English. You can then work out from this which of the English versions is the most accurate and it ight help you choose which version you wish to use in future. |
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---F.F. on 6/19/05 |
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