The accuracy of the bible

Only recently I noticed that there are quite a few passages from the bible where people say they were added later on.

1.John 5:7 for example which mentiones the trinity.

John 7:53- end of chapter 7.

Luke 16:19-31

I also found this here on the net:

Matthew 28:19 (New International Version)

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

In the original manuscripts, this verse never mentions the son or the holy spirit. The early Church added notes about it and it managed to find its way into many english tranlastions. It's misinterpretations like this that make me wonder.

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What do you think about this?
This concerns me a bit since I'm not a scholar and I cannot say anything about it. I don't like it when others say "This was not in the bible and this also..."
I mean in order to be able to trust the bible you have to be able to trust every verse otherwise you can simply pick whatever you like and neglect the rest or when you don't like a verse you can always come up with excuses like "I feel like this verse might have been added later on...."

Basically it's the same as with the KJV/new age bibles problem. These christians say that the bibles which we have today still contain the important things but they are not God's word anymore since there are so many difference between the different manuscripts and so on.

For example this here which I found on the net:

To take one example of how the manuscript evidence entirely undermines the foundational premise of a Bible code, the Dead Sea Scrolls, our closest textual witnesses to the original Hebrew Old Testament, have a markedly different way of spelling. In just a few verses there might therefore be dozens of letter differences due only to spelling convention (recall in English the word “color” vs. “colour”). The Hebrew text used by Bible code researchers is much younger than the Dead Sea material, and does not account for the ancient spellings. The significance of this can be dramatically illustrated. One Bible code proponent, Grant Jeffrey, claims to have found dozens of coded names associated with Jesus in Isaiah 52:13-15:12, the Old Testament prophecy of a suffering Messiah. In just these fifteen verses, there are 115 letter differences between the text Jeffrey uses and the Dead Sea Great Isaiah Scroll because of spelling differences.

How to deal with such claims? I cannot check this or disprove it since I don't even have the knowledge to.
But in order to trust the bible you have to be able to trust it 100%. What sense would it make to dig in the bible and to spend time thinking about what a verse might mean when in the end you can't even know wether the verse is translated correctly? This makes no sense at all!
And so often people say that there are verses in the KJV which are translated wrong or at least could have been translated better.
But if God didn't protect his word and if what we have today is only a bad copy which contains the general message but where all the niceties have been lost then we had nothing to rely on. This cannot be. This makes no sense to me. Didn't God say his word is pure? Think about it. What do we have from inspired original scriptures which are long gone when our bibles today are no longer accurate? The long gone original manuscripts don't help us at all. This is like being in the store without money and at home you have plenty of money. This doesn't help you. So this really makes no sense and why should an omnipotent God not be able to protect his word?
I also don't like the thought of everybody having his own bible version, this is ridiculous. The pastor uses his favourite bible and the people in church all have their own favourite bibles. This doesn't work in my opinion. Or having dozens of different versions and then comparing all versions with each other.
Sometimes the same verse sounds totally different in different bible versions. When our bibles today are not longer 100% accurate then bible reading seems so futile to me. This is like trying to find a friend and driving around with your car searching him when you don't even know where he might be. Totally senseless.

 

When you read a verse and cannot even be sure wether this verse is genuine and also translated correctly then it becomes kind of senseless to even think about this verse, doesn't it?

 

Quite minor?
When you compare the KJV to new bible versions like the NIV you find more than 300 differences! This isn't quite minor in my opinion.

http://www.soundbiblicaldoctrine.com/sbd1_000035.htm

These verses do not appear in the NIV at all:

Matthew 18:11; 23:14.
Mark 7:16; 9:44; 9:46; 11:26; 15:28.
Luke 17:36; 23:17;
John 5:4.
Acts 8:37; 15:34; 24:7; 28:29.
Romans 16:24
1 John 5:7.

Is this minor?

 

Are you paranoid or what?
I am not trying to cause trouble but it seems like you cannot even be debated with on such subjetcs. You say these are minor differences, they are not minor! I want to know what you think is "minor".
Gosh...
I really do think you're paranoid. Most likely everybody who isn't of your opinion is trying to start trouble. That's really sad.
And how do you dare calling me a liar? I am from Germany.
You know what I don't even want to talk to people like you.

 

I think you don't even get what the problem is. The problem is not that the main content has been changed. The problem is words being changed or verses being left out. Do you think God like this? Or do you not care as long as the main message is still correct? The you can as well read a Chick tract it also tells you what to do to become saved....

But I already notice that it's senseless trying to talk about this here.

And by the way the german bibles are also corrupted. They have the same differences which also the NIV has except the bibles which are based on the TR such as the Luther bible from 1545.

 

What you have found are not minor!
those are serious matter to the true believers.
I hope you will find the answer by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The first step is to pray God to give you the wisdom and insight.
What I notice is that Satan works everywhere in the world to blind the people. I hope you will find yourself clouded by some invisible power on this issue. KJV differs from the most modern Bible and especially from "Die Heilige Schrift" von Brockhaus Verlag Wuppertal.

You can find it differs from KJV in thousand verses. Some of them you mentioned.
What about
- Ephser 3:9 (ohne oder durch Jesu Christ)
- Apostelgeschichte 3:13, 3:26 ( Ist Jesus Knecht od Sohn?)4:27 auch
- 1 Tim 3:16 ( Der geoffenbart worden ist oder Gott geoffenbart worden ist?)

I hope you will be serious on this issue, and only God can give you the clear direction, and if you find the answer from God, your joy will be enormous. </font>[/QUOTE]Amen! It's not minor at all.

Take a look at this! I know that the site looks a bit strange but look at the differences between NIV and KJV. These are huge differences.

http://www.av1611.org/attack.html

@ DHK

In Germany it's just like in the USA. Everybody has his favourite version. You cannot say that they have a standard. You ask me why I'm concerned about the KJV? Cause the problem is exactly the same in Germany. It's also TR vs. the other texts. It's exactly the same problem as with the KJV vs. newer bibles.
I even compared the NIV to the German Elberfelder. Exactly the same things are missing!
The German Luther bible from 1545 is the same as the KJV from 1611, only in German. They are both based on the TR. But besides the Luther bible we do not have many German bibles based on the TR. The only one which comes to my mind is the Schlachter bible.
Actually I do not think the KJV is hard to read and I'm German. The thou and thee's are not really a problem. The only problem I have is that my vocabulary is too small I would have to look up many words. But I don't even have to read the KJV I can as well read the German Schlachter bible.
But nevertheless the topic is interesting and also important. I am looking for answers, that's all. I realize that both sides have good arguments. The KJVists have good arguments and the others also have good arguments. Personally I would really like to believe that the TR is right and the other texts are corrupted. This would make a lot of things easier. Every christian having his own favourite bible seems strange to me. And how do these differences between the manuscripts fit together with what the bible says about itself? The bible says that it's pure and God said that he will protect his word. How can we say he protected his word when we have different bible versions with huge differences? Where verses are missing? How can you totally rely on your bible when other bibles are different? How can you totally rely on a verse when you cannot even know it's correct? This doesn't work. Imagine you read the bible and you find a verse which totally fits into your situation, maybe a verse which contains a promise and then you want to totally rely on this verse and proclaim it. How can you do this when at the same time you can also ask yourself wether this verse is even real or wether it might have been added later on or wether the translation is correct?
Do you understand now what I mean? These are very important questions.

Read the page and look at the differences. Isaiah 14:12 for example. Lucifer is taken out. You get the impression that whoever fall from heaven is the morningstar. Later in revelation you read jesus is the morningstar! What impression does this give you? Jesus fell from heaven!
And you think this is minor?

Or what about hell,grave and sheol?

Imagine you want to warn somebody and tell him:

Either you repent or you go to the grave!

Do you think this will impress this person at all? Of course not.

Hell is a scary word. This impresses people but not grave. Why do they do this? Why do they water down the bible? This can only have 1 reason in my opinion.

 

Oh man, you are so funny! Seriously. How in the world do you want to know what "a german" would know and what not? This is ridiculous! You are really being paranoid. Of course I know Jack Chick. I also have tracts from him at home. Chick even has a german site www.chick-gospel.de
I can only shake my head at your assumptions and at you implying that I'm a liar and only wanting to cause trouble.
I think from my posts one should see that I'm only seeking the truth.

But on the other hand I'm also honored because obviously my English seems to be pretty good since you think I'm not even German.

 

the av1611 site is a KJVOist website. KJVOism is a scripturally false doctrine. I see now where you are comign from. You have been poisoned by the false doctrine of single-translation-onlyism. You need to abandon this belief before it does more damage to you faith.

If it is your belief that any "additions" must be avoided, then you must stay awy from the KJV. Why? Because the source texts of the KJV are more recent than the source texts of man of the so-called "modern versions". Therefore, following your logic, the KJV source texts added the verses in question.

It is inconsistent logic to stick to the KJV out of concern for "additions". </font>[/QUOTE]Which version puts more glory to Jesus?
The KJV or the NIV where dozens of things are removed? Now tell me which version would you rather choose? Let's say the KJV has been added to then Satan was pretty dumb cause he did a pretty counterproductive thing since these additions are not negative.

 

Does this mean that since hell is a wrong translations preachers should stop warning people of hell and should start warning people of going to the grave?
Everybody goes to the grave.

Grave,underworld,sheol,pit.

All these words are harmless compared to hell, they have no effect on the people. I don't understand that you cannot comprehend this.