Bible Changed?

Q:  Was the Bible changed?

A: no. Here's why....

No one who works with Bibles, Translations, Israel antiquities authority, archeology, history or Historians will agree with that assertion. 

In fact, we can look not only at the 1,500+ highly credentialed people who take seriously textual criricism, "language" and manuscripts who translated the Bible into English >>over the years, but we can look at those translations ourselves. And the ancient manuscripts, and eariest church pastors (Apostles era) to prove it. 

In addition we can look at the manuscripts, and interlinear (original languages next to the English translations) , but also anyone who is Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic would easily refute any translation over the years if one had had it wrong.

The Scriptures today agrees with all the 1st and 2nd Century pastors and what are called Early Church Fathers. We have their writings, and they quote heavily from Scripture. 

We have by AD 500, the Bible translated in 500 languages. 

During reformation era, we have starting in 

995 AD: Anglo-Saxon (Early Roots of English Language) Translations of The New Testament were Produced.

In 1384 AD: Wycliffe is the First Person to Produce a (Hand-Written) manuscript Copy of the Complete Bible.

And since then numerous translations into English, and numerous revisions (based on newer findings from dead sea scrolls, fragments or to clarify, with specific reasons. *Not due to altering or editing). 

The ESV was updated 2007, 2011 & 2016.

Since then we have had revision or update of NASB from in 1977, 1995, and most recently in 2020, according to the best scholarship available at the time.

The purposes of updates is to increase accuracy, clarity, and readability. Every aspect of vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, and meaning was carefully reviewed during each update. The result is an accurate translation that clearly communicates the Word of God in contemporary English.

And in 2021 a new translation was published called the Legacy Standard Bible. It is a literal word for word translation from the manuscripts, (it is basically a better version of NASB95). It had over 90 people on the translation team. You can learn more about it at lsb.org, (and find it physically at 316publishing, gracebooks.com, and on digital Bible platforms, and at Logos). 

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