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[the_Gaudess]

I’ve noticed that different Bibles (Catholic Bibles with Catholic approval) say different things. I was just curious how this could be, I thought the Bible was without err? How can the the Church approve a Bible that says something different from another Church approved Bible?

 

[JesuXPIPassio]

I’ve noticed that different Bibles (Catholic Bibles with Catholic approval) say different things. I was just curious how this could be, I thought the Bible was without err? How can the the Church approve a Bible that says something different from another Church approved Bible?

I’m not sure I follow your question. Do you mean to ask how come the words are different?

The words in different Bibles might differ, but they are all the same in essence. They all mean the same thing, but just use different roads to get there.

All different English-language Bible versions have been translated from other languages (Greek, Hebrew, etc.) In translating, the translators may have chosen different words and different ways to express it, but they all pretty much just mean the same thing. Take different Bible versions, look at the same chapter side-by-side, and you’ll find there isn’t any disagreement at all.

 

[cceerpp]

I agree with JJ.
The word by word and also phrase by phrase translation of the Sacred Scriptures by Scholars may differ due to their wordings.
Godwin A. Delali

 

[Ron_Conte]

I’ve noticed that different Bibles (Catholic Bibles with Catholic approval) say different things. I was just curious how this could be, I thought the Bible was without err? How can the the Church approve a Bible that says something different from another Church approved Bible?

There are thousands of Bible manuscripts, in various languages, which have an influence on the final text of a modern Bible translation. These manuscripts have tens of thousands of variations in the wording of the text. The result is that different versions of the Bible will sometimes have substantially different wording.

The Bible as the Word of God is without error; whatever the Bible is asserting as true is in fact true. But any edition of the Bible can have copyist, printing, translating, or editing errors that are particular to that edition. Such errors are not of the Bible, but of the copyist, printer, translator, or editor.

 

[the_Gaudess]

I’ll post within the next day or so the different variations that disturbed me a bit, wondering how the differences/omissions are justified. It made no sense to me, but I don’t have the verses on me at present.

 

[tobinatorstark]

some words do not mean the same as they once did. As in the Douay-Rheims as opposed to the NAB. There are good footnotes in the Douay-Rheims on what mean what and also good sites on the web on what words mean what today. The protestant King James is almost like the Douay-Rheims. For some it may be hard to read, but it is up to you. Find a translation that inspires you to be close to God. Mine is the Douay-Rheims. I don’t believe in knocking other translations of the bible, but I do find the Catholic ones inspire me the most

 

[Jolly_Joe]

I’ve noticed that different Bibles (Catholic Bibles with Catholic approval) say different things. I was just curious how this could be, I thought the Bible was without err? How can the the Church approve a Bible that says something different from another Church approved Bible?

Well they shouldn’t. Often if you run into a passage that that seems to be the case it’s because the language of the translation and you differ so you are giving the words a meaning different than the translator intended.

Idioms are especially that way. I know a lady that the first time she met her husband to be in England, he asked her out for a date and said he would come by and knock her up around 7.

Well to him knocking someone up meant that you would knock on the door, in her English knocking someone up meant to get her pregnant.

Now she of course understood that she understood the phrase differently so she asked and found out what he meant.

In any case, that’s the most common difference. But realize too that as knowledge has changed there are indeed cases where an older Bible can be teaching something that is a bit of a mistake as far as the language because our knowledge of language is never perfect.

We talked for instance about the use of the term unicorn in basically all older translations and how they thought the animal referenced was a rhinocerous, the single horned rhinocerous, because they basically did not know what the Hebrew word meant. Whereas later study showed it to be an extinct species of oxen. And so you see a difference between older and newer texts in cases like that.

Or you have differences in scribal errors and additions or subtractions. That in some ways hasn’t been as big of an issue in the Catholic Church because the Vulgate did not contain many of the Byzantine errors that are shown in say the KJV, but what did happen was that errors and additions and subtractions did occcur in the Latin family of manuscripts as well so there have been efforts several times to correct and standardize the Latin again.

In any case most of the time if you thing two translations are saying something differnt they aren’t and it’s a relatively simple matter to correct the misunderstanding with study.

I see you are going to post the examples that caused a problem for you, I will help if I can at that time.

JJ