What The Heck is The Bible Talking About: Is It A Riddle?
By admin in The Bible | 15 comments
It is not applicable only with the Bible. In fact holy epics in every religion have certain difficulties and these are parts of original text. It may be true that entire holy scriptures are perfectly inerrant but it can be adhered only with the original writings. Though, all of us claim to have the holy copies on our bookshelf but those are just duplicate copies and all those have ample chances of spelling errors, repetition, omission and many more.
King James Version of the Bible is one of the most popular versions of Bible but it is translated version and hence we find here some errors as well. Language is really the biggest one problem. The prime reason is differences between writing style of ancient Hebrews and modern man. For instance; ancient Hebrew have used only capital letters, did not use vowel and words are not separated from each other. So, the word structure is like jumbled puzzle and quite tough to unlock.
Translation of idiomatic expressions is quite tricky. Sometimes, exact translation might not be possible and its representation in speech pattern may convey bit differ messages.
Difficulties in the interpretation of Bible do not end here. Hebrews have used alphabets instead of numbers. So, sometimes words suggest numerical meaning and it becomes a riddle for us. Apart from all these difficulties, there is an interesting fact that most of the copyist’ errors do not affect original messages of the Bible.
The Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New Testament uses hundreds of different figures of speech which are quite tough to identify. Somehow, if it could be possible to recognize then it does not be possible to covey full meaning in other language.
For instance: “Hitting the bull’s eye” is a very common term in English but the literally translation in other language leaves funny meaning.
A non English speaker translator may use “God’s sheep’s child” for the term “the lamb of God”. Uses of the word like “sister” for lover in songs of Solomon 4:9 is simply the mistake of translator because in Hebrew there are a many identical words which have different meaning and the word sister is just a sample.
Question by John I: I don’t read but want to know the Christian Bible.?
I hate reading can’t stand it. I want to learn the bible though and get the knowledge from it. Is there a certain movie that is just like the bible? How did god expect the people who can’t read to read the bible? Christian bible by the way. confused for after the birth of jesus….disbelief of no solid proof. helpppppppp
Best answer:
Answer by MK6
Sorry, – the pop culture can not do the same depth as found in the bible.
But if the Bible was not written down, – what medium would we have that would last at least 2,000 years?
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SANTA 666 | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Read this
http://www.jhuger.com/kisshank.php
It’s all you need to know about religion.
Gary F | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Being able to read is not required. In fact, you are probably better off illiterate if you want to remain a good Christian.
Hammer Brother | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
This website basically annotates all of the crap in it.
Dogstar, Rockstar | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Watch Dogma, that will tell you everything you need to know.
Jeff Spicoli | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Here you go:
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/142086/detail/
Eashoa Msheekha | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Get it on tape and listen to it…You can find them at any Christian Book Store
jeshurun | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
If you go to http://www.Watchtower.org, I believe you can listen to the Bible on this site.
If not, you can go to a Kingdom Hall and order the Bible on MP3, or ask one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, they love to help others understand the Bible.
wise man on top of a mountain | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
I know people that have never read the bible, but they know the old testament stories very well. They just watch movies about it and hear about them.
L.007 | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
hah there are sparknotes. Use those.
jeffd_57 | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
There is no movie or collection of movies that contain the entire Bible, but you can get a spoken Bible on CD or cassette which you can listen to.
Besides that, most churches have a Bible reading as part of the Sunday Service, so you can go there and listen to a chapter or two being read out each week.
Fabio | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
There is no movie that can summate what the Bible has to say. Try reading 1 or 2 chapters at a time and think about what your’e reading. As far as solid proof read Tacitus, Josephus, and the letters of Constantine; these are non-Christian writings about Jesus. Remember that we even use B.C and A.D. to measure years.
Gloria | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Try this http://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/ambassador/free-audio-bible-download
or google free audio bible and choose from one of many that you can listen to instead of reading.
ekripizzle | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
You can listen to the Bible online. http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/audio/ has a few audio bibles for free that you don’t have to download.
You could also watch the Jesus Movie at http://www.jesusfilm.org/film-and-media/watch-the-film
It is not the same as reading the Bible, but a good source to look into nonetheless.
Mel | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
No way!!!
Butterflies | Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Do you want to know the Bible, or understand the Bible?
It is very easy to get hold of the Bible on audio, but it will not help you to understand the Bible. For this, you really need to get down to reading it.
If there are any specific questions you have, you can always contact me and I will try to help you. I have been a Bible Student for oveer 25 years and it is my “job” to help people understand it as I am also a Bible Teacher.