Changes

==Bible of faith tradition, family, community, denomination and church==

==Bible of faith tradition, family, community, denomination and church==

Most Christians will have been exposed to the traditional form of the Bible approved by their own faith tradition. For example, many Protestant Christians treasure the King James Bible KJV, but many Evangelical denominations also use more recent translations such as the New International Version  NIV or the English Standard Version ESV. The United Methodist Church today prefers the New Revised Standard Version NRSV. English-speaking Orthodox Christians have the Greek Bible as handed down from the time of the apostles available to them in the traditional English translation by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, but they also have since then more recent translations in English approved by the Synods of Bishops of their countries—in the U.S. the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America ACOBNCA. Catholic Christians who are more conservative use the Douay-Rheims Bible in the Confraternity edition, but they also have the New American Bible, Revised Edition, approved by the USCCB, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Almost all Christians trust the English version of the Holy Bible handed down to them through their families. They are each held to be a good choice for members of their own faith tradition, or community, or denomination, or Church. However, some of these are held to be faulty or defective translations by expert linguists and experienced Bible scholars.

Most Christians will have been exposed to the traditional form of the Bible approved by their own faith tradition. For example, many Protestant Christians treasure the King James Bible KJV, but many Evangelical denominations also use more recent translations such as the New International Version  NIV or the English Standard Version ESV. The United Methodist Church today prefers the New Revised Standard Version NRSV. English-speaking Orthodox Christians have the Greek Bible as handed down from the time of the apostles available to them in the traditional English translation by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, but they also have since then more recent translations in English approved by the Synods of Bishops of their countries—in the U.S. the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America ACOBNCA. Catholic Christians who are more conservative use the Douay-Rheims Bible in the Confraternity edition, but they also have the New American Bible, Revised Edition, approved by the USCCB, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Almost all Christians trust the English version of the Holy Bible handed down to them through their families. They are each held to be a good choice for members of their own faith tradition, or community, or denomination, or Church. However, some of these are held by expert linguists and experienced Bible scholars to be faulty or defective translations.

Some traditionalist writers constantly assert that any comparison of their own traditional English version, which shows how their English version, based on medieval manuscripts such as the ''[[Textus Receptus]]'' and several 12th century Byzantine manuscripts, differs from the reading of the original languages as found in the much earlier and earliest extant ancient manuscripts—and therefore presents a defective, even deviant, rendering of the Bible—only more clearly demonstrates to them that it is the modern Biblical textual historians and scholars instead who have falsified and corrupted the original text of the Bible by their translations of the earliest ancient manuscripts. In other words, they unhesitatingly claim that their own later traditional English version, which they have always believed is true, is far more faithfully and accurately the true word of God than any of the earlier and earliest extant manuscripts of the Bible discovered to date.

</ref> Some traditionalist writers constantly assert that any comparison of their own traditional English version, which shows how the reading in their English version differs from the reading of the earliest Bible texts in the original languages, only more clearly demonstrates to them that it is the modern Biblical textual historians and scholars instead who have falsified and corrupted the ''original'' text of the Bible by their translations of the earliest ancient manuscripts. In other words, they unhesitatingly maintain, without evidence, that their own later traditional English version, which they have always believed is true, is far more faithfully and accurately the true word of God than any of the earlier and earliest extant manuscripts of the Bible discovered to date.

===The Canon===

===The Canon===

====Authority to determine the canon====

====Authority to determine the canon====

No version of the Bible contains in any of its books or texts of scripture an ''explicit'' listing of an authoritative Biblical canon as revealed by the Word of God. The religious tradition of each particular sect or denomination, Samaritan, Orthodox, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, has determined for their members the particular Biblical canon they have accepted as authoritative and definitive, the particular Bible they normally use. Some denominations have additionally specified the particular ''translation'' or ''version'' of the Bible which they have defined as authentic, as against other versions and translations which they deem to be defective, or false, or even ''demonically'' corrupt.<ref name=discern>Discerning good and bad translations. See the following five sources

No version of the Bible contains in any of its books or texts of scripture an ''explicit'' listing of an authoritative Biblical canon as revealed by the Word of God. The religious tradition of each particular sect or denomination, Samaritan, Orthodox, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, has determined for their members the particular Biblical canon they have accepted as authoritative and definitive, the particular Bible they normally use. The number of Christian denominations alone, worldwide, varies in estimate from 20,000 to 43,000, but not all of them differ in doctrine.<ref>[http://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/ Global Christianity – A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population]<br/>[http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/a120.htm How Many Protestant Denominations Are There? The 20,000 30,000 numbers and David Barrett's statistics]<br/>[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/fastfacts/fast_facts.html Hartford Institute for Religion Research. Fast Facts about American Religion]<br/>[http://www.gotquestions.org/Protestant-denominations.html Question: "Which of the 30,000 Protestant denominations is the true church of God?"]<br/>[https://theway21stcentury.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/how-many-christian-denominations-worldwide/ THE WAY? HOW MANY CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS WORLDWIDE? 23 NOVEMBER, 2012 | UNKLEE]</ref>

*[http://www.trustingodamerica.com/NIV.htm The New International Version (NIV) and English Standard Version (ESV) - Full of False Doctrine]</ref> The [[King James Only]] movement is an example. Traditionalist Catholics who use only the Douay-Rheims Bible translation of the ''Clementine Vulgate'' as the only truly accurate and reliable translation of the Bible are another. The number of Christian denominations alone, worldwide, varies in estimate from 20,000 to 43,000, but not all of them differ in doctrine.<ref>[http://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/ Global Christianity – A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population]<br/>[http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/a120.htm How Many Protestant Denominations Are There? The 20,000 30,000 numbers and David Barrett's statistics]<br/>[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/fastfacts/fast_facts.html Hartford Institute for Religion Research. Fast Facts about American Religion]<br/>[http://www.gotquestions.org/Protestant-denominations.html Question: "Which of the 30,000 Protestant denominations is the true church of God?"]<br/>[https://theway21stcentury.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/how-many-christian-denominations-worldwide/ THE WAY? HOW MANY CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS WORLDWIDE? 23 NOVEMBER, 2012 | UNKLEE]</ref>

====Choosing a particular canon====

====Choosing a particular canon====