"Supposedly, there were popes who actually burned the Bible, and other religious books when such books did not support their political aspirations. Then King James rewrote the whole thing as he saw fit. Western NT texts were recently compaired to the oldest known text, in Hebrew, I believe, and thousands of inconsistancies were noted. The Syrians use an ancient text, and there are material differences between the Syrian text and the texts we are using. Translation from mideast language, especially ancient mideast language, is very difficult in itself. That's a big part of the problem.
This, I got from a Catholic source, and it's hardly flattering to the history of the heirarchy. But mlsoft and the fundamentalists reject any theory but pure inerrancy. Anything but complete inerrancy is inconsistant with their literalist view." ===============================================================
harry...
Please, don't get me started on the popes and the papacy -- I doubt seriously if you have a lower opinion of them and the institution than I and according to Scripture, many, if not most, of them are enjoying a special place of agony for what they did here on earth as the "vicor of Christ", a position that in itself is most unscriptural in my opinion.
Be that as it may, King James did not "re-write" the Bible -- he merely had it translated from the Latin Vulgate, itself a translation from the original texts of Hebrew, Greek and a little Aramaic. The translation was fair at best (we now have much better and more reliable sources to work with) but the biggest problem with it today is that the english language itself has changed quite a bit so that words often have come to have very different meanings today than at the time of King James. The New King James is a good translation, as is the NIV, both being easy to read and faithful to the original, but my personal favorite remains the NASB, which is as close as you can get to a word for word literal translation from the original languages into english.
Your view of inconsistencies in the original texts is far overblown, with few disagreements of any significance.
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Is my Bible really free from errors?
Properly understood, the doctrine of inerrancy—the teaching that the Bible contains no errors—applies only to the original copies of the biblical documents. The original writings came directly from God through human authors.
The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic (cf. Genesis 31:46; Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26; Jeremiah 10:11; Daniel 2:4-7:28), and the New Testament was penned in Greek. After the Old and New Testament books were written, scribes produced and distributed copies of the original manuscripts. They took painstaking care to craft those copies by hand, long before the days of the printing press.
In God’s providence, we no longer have the original documents. They disappeared over time. What we have available now are copies of those original documents—copies produced over a number of centuries. By comparing and analyzing those copies through a process called textual criticism, we are able to determine what the original manuscripts said and where variations crept into the copies. That process has confirmed that God has accurately preserved His Word for us.
The "Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy" correctly notes:
Since God has nowhere promised an inerrant transmission of Scripture, it is necessary to affirm that only the autographic text of the original documents was inspired and to maintain the need of textual criticism as a means of detecting any slips that may have crept into the text in the course of its transmission. The verdict of this science, however, is that the Hebrew and Greek text appears to be amazingly well preserved, so that we are amply justified in affirming…a singular providence of God in this matter and in declaring that the authority of Scripture is in no way jeopardized by the fact that the copies we possess are not entirely error-free…Similarly, no translation is or can be perfect, and all translations are an additional step away from the autograph. Yet the verdict of linguistic science is that English-speaking Christians, at least, are exceedingly well served in these days with a host of excellent translations and have no cause for hesitating to conclude that the true Word of God is within their reach.
While you can’t handle the original documents today, you can have confidence that most English Bibles faithfully represent what was contained in those documents. God has providentially preserved His Word for subsequent generations despite the best efforts of many of His enemies to eliminate it.
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