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Post published by AntiqueRevolverGuy
Perhaps a few of you who have served on missions can chime in,
but why do other Christian groups freak out when us (LDS) say that we believe the Bible is the word of God, 'as much as has been correctly translated' ? They say because we don't acknowledge the Bible as being absolute, we are denying God, no matter what we say.
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SoJoP
Maybe because someone taught them to, they are defensive about our church, and/or they've never really learned anything about it. Fortunately there are also lots of fine people who don't freak out. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, and Jehova's Witnesses all have variants that are sometimes considerably different, and not just in how they translate things, but also including or excluding particular verses and even whole books. Even the catholic church has added and removed books over the centuries. When people profess to believe in the bible, my father, who can be a bit of a turd, will often ask "oh, which one?"
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SoJoP
I took Greek in college and one semester we read the first chapter of John. Its very poetic and he uses words with very starkly different double meanings throughout it. My favorite is the phrase "and the darkness comprehendeth it not" which can also be translated as "the darkness cannot kill it," forshadowing the death and resurrection of Christ. It is literally impossible to translate both meanings simultaneously into English because we don't have words that have both those meanings. Sorry, you woke up my inner nerd!
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