Is The Catholic/Christian Bible Inacurate?
I am a Catholic and believer in Jesus and the Bible. Throughout my lifetime, I must admit, that moments of doubt have entered my mind. I recently read the following statement on a Jewish website: “Bible translators took great care to make their versions beautiful in language, imitating as best they could the form of the original Hebrew. One of the very first translators, Jerome, openly stated, So great is the force of established usage that even acknowledged corruptions please the greater part, for they prefer to have their copies pretty, rather than correct. Even if Bible translators made an effort to produce a translation that accurately reflects its true meaning, they would still encounter innumerable obstacles. For example, the original text of the Bible is written without vowels; only consonants are used. Each word can be read and made to mean almost anything, depending on the vowels one introduces. The first verse in chapter two of Genesis reads: Thus the heavens and the earth we
