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MineralMan

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7. Well, there are far more denominations than translations of the Bible.

Sun Dec 30, 2018, 01:39 PM

Dec 2018

you're right, though, that there have long been disputes about the Bible, which has led to a multiplicity of translations, each with a slightly different way of writing about things.

It's an interesting thing to look at, but takes a great deal of time to understand, so not many people investigate it closely.

Translation is both an art and a science. Those two things are more or less incompatible with each other, so the results of Bible translations vary widely.

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