Grammar Geek wrote: Nona, for a woman who identifies herself as an athiest, you certainly know your stuff! Anything that's translated will be changed, regardless of intentions. In the original books in bible, there was more than one word

Nona The Brit wrote: I think that the difference between translating into another language and translating an explanation into another language is pretty slim, to be honest. I'd say the verses themselves are being translated. dear Nona, when

Nona The Brit wrote: Yes you can't avoid a few differences in translation but I suppose you have to say the same about any book - including the Koran. Does that mean you believe that dishonest people deliberately mis-translate the Koran as well?

Nona The Brit wrote: as GG said about the bible: "It's not a rule book on how the religious orders should be organized and what they should do. Most Christians would say that Jesus never imagined he was forming a new religion, so he

Nona The Brit wrote: Is the Koran added to and changed all the time? No, of course not you know why, well because Qura'n CAN'T be recited but in on elanguage, that is, Arabic... yes, there are English copies but these are not translations

Grammar Geek wrote: The Sweet Desert wrote: sometime verses in the Bible are frequently been added and others may be modified, all is done by priests and even Christians themselves know this for sure that's why I thought they may have

MrPedantic wrote: This is not something I'm very familiar with; but I think embryonic bishops may occur in the Bible, in the form of "epískopoi" in Acts and some of the Epistles. MrP Mr Pedantic, thanks for this piece of information

Nona The Brit wrote: nuns (female) = monks (male). You don't see monks mentioned in the bible either. They are just ways that people choose to live as Christians. There is nothing biblical about nuns, monks, priests, vicars, pastors, popes,

Nuns didn't exist (as they are now) until after the time of Jesus, so how could there be anything about them? Hello Grammar Geek, thanks a lot for giving my post some of your valuable time well, I'd say, why not! because sometime verses in

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