Why do new versions of the Bible contain the word homosexual and what is the best version of the Bible?
which is not sectarian and it is accurate to the original text without missunderstand words like the word homosexual.. and some verses say don’t practice homosexual.. the kvj bible didn’t say that word and other versions says hell instead of hades and some people criticize the KVJ because contains the word the virgin instead the new young woman that is in the new versions.. it’s so confusing please tell me names dont tell me how to choose a version of the Bible.
Okay, seriously check out the link below for a full proper answer.
In short though, the Bible “book” is a compilation of 66 individual books written by numerous authors over thousands of years in three languages. It cannot be 100% accurately translated into English (or anything else). Its even difficult to understand for someone who speaks modern Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic. How odd does Shakespeare sound to English speakers, and that’s only a few hundred years old. The first forms of ‘English’ are effectively a different language from the English we speak today.
There are two main methods for translating the Bible: translating words, and translating thoughts. Every translation is a compromise to some degree between these two.
Translations that strive to translate words will often sound odd, have an odd sentence structure or flow, but will try to be true to words, even words that don’t have much meaning for us today. Ever wonder what a ‘cubit’ is, or whether a ‘talent’ is a lot of money or just a little?
Translations that strive to translate meaning will put the meaning of an ancient passage into words that are easily understood today. So a measurement used 2000-3000 years ago that is meaningless to most of us today. Compare:
(King James Version) John 2:6 — And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each TWO OR THREE MEASURES
(King James Version) John 2:6 — Now there wer set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing TWENTY OR THIRTY GALLONS apiece.
Okay, “hell”. In 1611 when the KJV first came out, the English word “hell” didn’t have the connotation of a place of everlasting fiery torment that it does now. Its meaning was closer to the original Greek word, Hades. “Hades” was used to substitute for the Hebrew word “Sheol” which means “unseen” and is well translated into “grave”. “Hades” in Greek religion was the name of the ruler of the underworld, or place of the dead. So “going to Hades” had the meaning of “dying”, as does “going to the grave”.
In 2008, however, “hell” has a completely different meaning in common usage that in did back then, so some translaters decided that it was better to transliterate the actual Greek word instead of substituting it with an English word that has a different meaning.
Don’t let the different translations bother you overly much. “Virgin” isn’t the best translation of the Hebrew word which meant “young woman”. A young woman had the connotation of being unmarried, which was ideally a virgin. In the New Testament, we discover that the young unmarried women was also a virgin.
Doing a little research on almost any of these oddities will reveal what logic the translators applied to come up with the word they did.
There is no perfect translation–and you know, it wouldn’t matter if there was. People who read the actual letters Paul wrote still didn’t understand him. Is it the spirit of God who teaches, for ANY translation.
Want a good translation? Pick almost anything that has been created by an interdenominational committee. Avoid one-man translations and paraphrases from other English versions. Some good options are:
King James Version
New King James Version
New International Version
New Revised Standard Version
But NO translation is perfect, and its always handy to have another transation closeby to compare.
God bless.
