[PetriFB]

Scriptures of the Bible are born from the influence of God. The message of the Bible is condensed in this:





God announces Himself to mankind. He has prepared salvation for sinners through Jesus Christ. Through His word, God teaches basic values of life, according to which it is good to live. God announces coming events by way of His word. God announces in His word the way to the source of eternal life.



Central to the Bible is the Description of Jesus Christ



The Bible describes the phases of the nation of Israel and the life wandering of individual persons and their relationship to God. The Bible also includes the feelings and thoughts of people, including their pleasures, griefs, failures, successful choices, and so on. However, in all these different dimensions we can see God and His will. The Bible announces the Word of God to mankind, because the Bible is His word. The centre point of all in the Bible is God and salvation, which He has prepared. This salvation is in Jesus Christ.


The Bible



In the original language of Hebrew, the Bible has no vowels, because it was written only with consonants, since Jews were able to read and to pronounce the Scriptures of the Bible just as they are pronounced. Jewish scribes, during 400 B.C., added vowels to the Old Testament. However, the message of the Bible was not changed, but vowels eased the reading of the Old Testament for those whose mother language was not Hebrew. Also in today’s Israel, many printed texts appear without vowels because Jews can read a text in their mother language without vowels. The Old Testament has been written in Hebrew and a few verses are also in the Aramaic language, which was the common language during the time of Jesus Christ. The original language of the New Testament is Greek, which is a very wise decision on God’s part because Greek was the common language of the world at the time when the gospel was first preached. In this way, the gospel spread quickly around the world. Since none of the original Hebrew or Aramaic text has been found, we have to stay in the Greek language as the original text of the NT. But if sometime in the future we might find Hebrew or Aramaic texts of the NT, which are proved to be original texts, but until this happens, we must stay in the language of Greek as the original language of the NT.


Translation of the Bible



Translation of the Bible is not a problem, because all texts can always be translated into some other language. Most translations of the Bible are extremely accurate. The message of the word of God is intended to be preached to the whole world. That's why it is translated extremely accurately into every language. But there exist also so called liberal translations, which are not as accurate in many places.



A translation of the Bible is not a replacement for the original text, because a copy is always a copy. But the translation doesn’t prevent the Bible from being the word of God. For example, translations of the old King James Bible and James (Jay) P. Green’s literal translation are really close translations to the original text.



Liberal translations have been translated according to the principle of dynamic equivalence, which means that the word in the original language has not been translated literally. Instead, the liberal translation attempts to convey the thoughts of the Biblical writers and is in many places the interpretation of translators. In this way, liberal translations earn the title of “liberal translation”. It is absolutely clear that this kind of translating destroys much of the content of the original text of the Bible.

[TheBigDog]

Is it safe to say that the word of God was delivered to paper by men who heard the words of God? And it is their skill with language and their interpretation of what God told them that we rely upon as the starting point for the word of God?

Bill

[PetriFB]

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

Is it safe to say that the word of God was delivered to paper by men who heard the words of God? And it is their skill with language and their interpretation of what God told them that we rely upon as the starting point for the word of God?

Bill

It is the truth ....

[ughaibu]

As there is neither evidence nor reason to suppose god exists or that any particular book records the "word of god", this thread should be in the strange claims forum.

[PetriFB]

Originally Posted by ughaibu

As there is neither evidence nor reason to suppose god exists or that any particular book records the "word of god", this thread should be in the strange claims forum.

Read Bible and its prophesies and you will see that it is word of God ....

No man bring so accurate prophesies as is written in the Bible ...

[ughaibu]

I'll agree that isn't a strange claim, it's just rubbish: http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/proph/long.html

[PetriFB]

Originally Posted by ughaibu

I'll agree that isn't a strange claim, it's just rubbish:

You have right to your opinion......some others are thinking another way ...

[ughaibu]

Quite, an opinion that a book is the word of a supposed god belongs in strange claims.

[PetriFB]

Originally Posted by ughaibu

Quite, an opinion that a book is the word of a supposed god belongs in strange claims.

I understand you, because you don't wanna believe,,,,,,, I want ......

[ughaibu]

Okay, you want to believe, so what? If it's a matter of potential interest to psychologists, post in the social sciences forum, if you want to expound on the beliefs that you want to experience, start a blog.