Hitorein
Oh no, its wasn't!
It was written in Hebrew untill around the 1600's one of the European kings gather as many well know schoolars as he could and got them to tranlate it into old english, then we did into english.
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The bible is a collection of 66 separate books written over a time frame of about 1,600 years by 40 different authors.
The Old testament (Hebrew Torah) comprises of 39 books written between 1500 BCE and 400BCE
The New testament contains 27 books written from 40 CE to 90 CE (although these dates are debated adding and removing years depending on who is doing the dating)
The OT is generally the same as the Torah only that the order is different, some things have been removed, some things added and the Torah is left in it's original Hebrew, the Torah is also only part of a larger collection of religious script known as the Tabernak which Christianity has basically cut out.
The OT is written mostly in Hebrew with some old Arabic.
The NT is written mostly in Aramaic and Koinic greek.
In 500 CE the Bible was translated into many languages, however at the same time the Council of Nicea took place which then united the Christians Churches to one the Roman Catholic Church also uniting the languages to one language, The Latin Vulgate. by 600 CE there was only one Bible in only one language. Restricting readership of the Bible to priests approved of by the RCC and all religious interpretations and gospel spreading to them.
Those who translated the scripture into any other language would be punished by death. All other copied of scripture not approved by them were to be destroyed (fortunately thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi scrools many missing scriptures and other translations of the same scriptures in their pre 500CE state have been found. Giving us fresh translations of once muddled work)
However after 600CE priests were able to rule the religious (and thus governmental and privet) lives of people without question, A priest in a town or village literally held a man or woman's afterlife in his hands because not only was he the only legal religion,he was also the only one who understood it.
Therefore any priest could teach any doctrine without scriptural foundation (Mary being a whore anyone? That one is still believed even though it's been retracted.)
This forced ignorance went on from 500 CE to around 1500CE.
John Wyclif believed people should be able to read the Bible in their own language, later scholars such as Thomas Linacre and John Colet when looking at the Latin bible saw it had become so corrupt it hardly resembled the original texts at all.
In 1611 the King James Bible was created on commission by King James 1 of England
It was translated by 40-50 scholars who had nothing to do directly with the church.
BUT the group was directed by a Committee of Roman Catholic Church Bishops and had to grant their approval before print, therefor they made the command that any translations the scholars made not go against any pre dictated commandments of the church.
(So even if the Bible said "Homosexuality is Okay here's a story about a big happy gay couple" the RCC wouldn't have let them put it in.)
And if they had anything they were unsure of, to follow what the RCC had previously said about that verse instead of looking for their own translation.
The KJB is found to be by most scholars to be the most unreliable and erroneous if not outright incorrect Bible Version to date.
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Also, its not what you think.
One thing, God is God and He's the only one who truely knows what He wants and mean.
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True which is why one should pray and study and work very hard to understand the true meaning of the divine instead of the sugar coated version that comes easy to everyone because they're too lazy to take up proper scholarship to look for God.
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Also, I know He wants us to be happy, but our mean of exsistance is to be there with Him and worship Him. We weren't made to be intimate with our own gender.
Proof? The female and male g-spots would like to disagree
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We're made to intimate with the opposite. Its ment to be reproductive, to replenish the earth.
Proof?
Blessing =/= command,
We've overdone that.
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I don't think you should have kids without some since of marriage either. Otherwise it hurt the kids.
Proof? I know alot of places say Two parent households are always more stable but there hasn't been any proof that the two parents need to be different genders or that parent two has to be an acctual parent. Simply having two (or more) adult figures in the house is better simply because it gives someone time to teach the kids and someone time to earn the income.
