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The Bible is getting a makeover
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POSTED: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 6:27pm
UPDATED: Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 3:45am
TYLER-The top selling bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years. The New International Version will undergo some tweeking. But many are asking why?
The committee on bible translation is a group of scholars and translators who will be modernizing parts of the sacred text. And this isn't the first time the text has been revised, but the past few attempts left some very angry.
The new edition of the New International Version of the bible is coming out in 2011. According to Biblica, the Colorado-based ministry that holds the NIV copyright, says the intent is to update and improve the text.
The last time it was tried, there was a lot of ballyhoo.
But this time around the NIV's overseers announced that the revision process will be more clear. And many prominent pastors including Senior Pastor of Grace Community Church in Tyler, Doug Clark, is okay with the changes.
"I think it's a good idea to try to keep pace with cultural translations and gods words are going to be gods words and its going to talk about Jesus and the Bible and our need for it," Clark said.
Today more than 300 million NIV bibles are in print worldwide and the translation accounts for 30 percent of the bibles sold in North America.
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CHANGING A WORD USUALLY DOESN'T CHANGE THE MEANING UNLESS IT CHNAGES THE WHOLE MEANING....IF I SAID T-SHIRT...AND IT WAS A DRESS...OK THAT IS CHANGING THE MEANING...IF I SAID T-SHIRT WITH STAINS AND HOLES AND LOOSE THREADS, AND IT SAID IT WAS A "WORN OUT" T-SHIRT...THAT IS NOT CHANGING THE MEANING OF THE WORD,IT IS THE SAME THING.THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE......
Yes - as you all know, the Hebrew people wrote the original Bible in Rennassaince English. Pure common sense.
I saw Billy Graham on tv once change the words some of the birth of Christ (no "swaddling" clothes, for example). So.... he's just another evil doer that cannot be trusted.
Brandon you said it better than I did.I,m not very smart just have comon sence.They had better study the Bible because The Lord is comeing back one day and the United States is in a heep of trouble if it doesn,t straighten up.And I go by what the King James Version says.The world was created by God and we were given His Word to follow. Don,t change it.
Why does it matter? No one seems to read it anymore Which is why this nation is falling apart.
Wow. There are some really misinformed people here.
Funny that the King James version hasn't been changed since translation. Just sayin', that's all.
the lord said do not change one word of the bible.rewriteing the bible is a sin because they are changeing the words to what they think it means.there is only one bible The King James Version .
Elaine,
Are you serious? Do you realize that the King James version of the bible was written in 1611? It is widely regarded as one of the worst translations that we have. The fact is unless you speak Greek, Aramaic, or Hebrew the bible MUST be rewritten for anyone else to understand it. The problem is that translations are subject to mis-interpretations.
I DON'T SEE WHY YOU WOULD ALTER THE GOOD LORD'S BOOK THAT TELLS H0W HE CREATED MAN KIND,AND ALL THE OTHER LITTLE CREATURES, PLACES, ETC. SOUNDS TO ME LIKE SOMEBODY WANTS OTHER PEOPLE LIVING BY THEIR STANDARDS AND NOT THE GOOD LORD'S. BUT FOR THOSE WHO ALTER THAT BIBLE BEWARE FOR YOU COULD BE ALTERED IN THE END. YOU'LL SEE.
The word "Bible" should be capitalized. It's a proper name and the title of a book
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