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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
What bias is there IN THE ORIGINAL WORDS in the ORIGINAL LANGUAGE?
Why do you need a translation for what is purportedly THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK EVER WRITTEN?
Someone as devoted as you should be reading and understanding from the ORIGINAL, not from some TRANSLATION which will DEFINITELY HARBOR BIAS.
What about this can't you grasp?
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Even the copies of extant manuscripts need to be translated and interpreted by someone. The Jewish rabbis don't have any of the extant copies of those manuscripts. All the "Jewish" bibles are still works of human minds and subject to bias. For example, there is the Samaritan version of the Torah and the Jewish version, etc. And since the vast majority of modern, religious Jews don't understand ancient Hebrew, those "learned Jewish rabbis" would need to create translations into the language of the Jews' native country. And Jews live all over the world.
And how would multiple translations "definitely harbor bias"? Are you saying there was a huge conspiracy among different teams of scholars that spanned centuries!? If after your routine medical checkup, your doctor advises you that he detects that you have a very rare disease from which you will die, would you not seek a second opinion from a learned specialist? And if he confirmed the first doctor's opinion and you sought the opinion of another professional and he told you the same thing, would you then logically conclude that all those doctors had a bias? Perhaps they all had it in for you and wanted to create as much mental anguish in your life as possible?
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for you to actually validate your bat-turd, crazy theory by pointing out all the "misinterpretations" of all those OT "Trinity" passages that you claim are in [all] the English translations, I suppose? After all...your theory is only as good as the concrete examples you can provide to support your theory. Time for you to produce concrete proof, Mr. No Answers Don't keep us all waiting in suspense. That would be many times worse than suffering from bible-induced sexual repression.
