Why are there so many Bibles?

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I am having a hard time understanding why there are so many bibles in a book store. I have learned from reading church history that the original Bible was put together in the Council of Hippo 393 AD and the Council of Carthage 397 AD and were submitted to Rome for the Pope to Approve.

So what happened? Was it when the protestants split from the Church they started adding or subtracting words or did they just start interpreting scripture their own wa?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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I am having a hard time understanding why there are so many bibles in a book store. I have learned from reading church history that the original Bible was put together in the Council of Hippo 393 AD and the Council of Carthage 397 AD and were submitted to Rome for the Pope to Approve.

So what happened? Was it when the protestants split from the Church they started adding or subtracting words or did they just start interpreting scripture their own wa?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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YEP…all of the 66 book Bibles are the result of the reformers removing books in about 1529. .
 
Well, there has to be at least one bible for each personality type in the enneagram.😃

Seriously, a translation is not the original, and it will have various decisions underlying the translation. If a person is not using the original languages, then having 2 translations side by side can often be helpful to see the nuance. You also have that whole literal/dynamic issue. Furthermore, I honestly think kids may need a children’s bible when young, which accounts for yet another bible on the bookshelves.

Lots of the multiple bibles in bookstores are fully accounted for by different help apparatus. Some have paragraph headings, some have doctrinal notes, some have spiritual messages running down the side of each page, some have each verse being its own paragraph, etc. Some people just plain can’t stand to read bibles with lots of paraphernalia cluttering them up. Others love it.
 
One reason is out copyright laws. If an author or publishing house wants to quote the bible they must either get permission from the translater or do their own translation. If they do their own, they can publish it, use it, and charge others to quote from it.

That is why there is no universally accepted basic translation.
 
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