Posted by:
Plaid n Paisley
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Date: May 10, 2018 10:35AM
From a blog I read just yesterday:
"Bible producers only want to make money. With the exception of a few public domain versions that have been produced recently, all translations are made to make money. Not to spread the truth, to make money. Even the Navajo Bible.
And that brings me to my main point:
If you believe the Bible you can buy on the shelf of your local Wal-Mart is 100% inerrant and 100% the Word of God, you’re going to have a bad time.
Because when a company’s motive is to make money, usually for the stockholders who don’t actually work for the company, that is where their heart will be. Not in producing the best English translation, but in making the best English translation they can sell in a leather-bound edition for about $100. If a translation is produced by a committee that has a salesperson in it, the salesperson is going to have the final say, plain and simple.
And in spite of the best intentions of the scholars and linguists and historians on that committee, their work will still have to be something the salesperson can sell.
And I guarantee that every single translation, every single one that some company holds the copyright for, there is at least one passage and probably several, that is purposely mistranslated to fit the beliefs of the target buyers rather than being an honest, true translation into English. Every. Single. English. Bible. On every shelf in every retail location."
https://christianitywithouttheinsanity.org/2018/05/09/opinion-if-you-believe-the-bible-is-the-inerrant-word-of-god-youre-going-to-have-a-bad-time/