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I think Martin Luther did that during the reformation.

I recall my grandmother's Bible having things I was unfamiliar with

Imagine there's an all powerful being. That created you. That wants you to believe in him. That sends his message out through "prophets". That all say different things.

The entire history of religion is people writing down mythology, deciding what mythology to include, what to exclude, and what to change.

But go on, keep thinking there's some true "word of God" that the elites are keeping from you.

I think they're talking about Zondervan publishers.

They're owned by HarperCollins, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Entire books are missing

I always find these conversations interesting. Historically, the bible is a fairly static document, and this has been proven many times with actual historic documents such as the Book of Kells, Codex Alexandrinus, etc. Even the Dead Sea Scrolls turned out to authenticate the translations of the Old Testament. The idea that monks or the Vatican or Constantine or whoever changed the text just doesn't hold up to scientific scrutiny. Here is even a 1st century fragment that verifies nothing has changed link.

It is absolutely verified, however, that Martin Luther did change the bible. Removing words and entire books (the apocrypha) that he didn't like or didn't support his reformation.

The Catholic Church has been using St. Jerome's translation since the 4th century, aka the Clementine Vulgate and Greek Septuagint. He also had access to manuscripts that have long since been lost. The Latin Vulgate is the only translation considered free from translational error. If anyone changed anything it was Luther.

Check out the Mandella effect.

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I thought that this effort at a direct translation was really interesting:

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http://www.coyhwh.com/en/bible/hebraicRootsBible.pdf

From the Introduction:
“The original names of our Creator, YAHWEH, and His Son, our Savior Yahshua,
are also used throughout.

The name YAHWEH is n the original Paleo Hebrew manuscripts 6,823 times. Almost every translation on earth, including the King James, takes out the Creator’s personal name and replaces it with the name “Lord”, a generic title that means 'Baal or Master'. Also, our Savior’s true given Hebrew name, Yahshua, which means "Yah is salvation" is changed to a Greek hybrid of Jesus, which is a poor transliteration from the Greek IE-Zeus. The English transliteration of Yahshua would be the equivalent to Yahoshua. There was no letter “J” in any language until the 16th century. So the Greek name "Jesus" would not be the name of our Savior.

The third commandment strictly forbids taking the name (of) YAHWEH in vain. In vain literally means to 'change, falsify, or make common'. Taking the name YAHWEH or Yahshua and changing it to 'Lord or Jesus' is definitely going against the clear instruction of the third commandment. So we will use the original, true Hebrew names of the Father YAHWEH and the Son Yahshua throughout this Bible translation.
We will also use the original Hebrew word, Elohim, instead of the incorrectly translated "god". God is the personal name of the Babylonian deity of fortune.

Please see the note on Isa 65:11. We will keep all Hebrew titles for our Heavenly Father such as El Shaddai, Adonai, El Elyon, etc exactly as they appear in the original manuscripts. Also, the Catholic Church changed the original Hebrew book order, so we have arranged the book order back into its original place.

In the 1st covenant we have the Torah, the prophets and the writings, which make up the Tanach, and in the New Testament we have the 4 Good News messages and Acts, and then, the 7 epistles by the early congregational leaders, and then, the Apostle Paul's epistles ending with John's Revelation.

This was the original book order. The epistle of Jacob, which was changed to James by the King has been restored to the original name. The book order of Scripture is extremely important as if you were reading a book you would not read chapter 8 before chapter 5.”

When the origins of the Catholic Church began to emerge in the 4th
Century AD, it was under the guidance of the Emperor Constantine. Constantine
began a centuries long effort to eliminate any book in the original Bible that was
considered unacceptable to the new doctrine of the church. At that time, it is
believed there were approximately 600 books that compromised the work we
now know as the Bible. Through a series of decisions made by the early church
leadership, all but 79 of those books, known as the King James Version, were
purged from the work.

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