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==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 by expert linguists and experienced Bible scholars to be faulty or defective translations.

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, but many Evangelical denominations also use more recent translations such as the New International Version or the English Standard Version. The United Methodist Church today prefers the New Revised Standard Version. The Southern Baptist Convention publishes its own version, the Holman Christian Standard Bible (but due to its Congregationalist structure, cannot and does not require any individual church to use it).  The Churches of Christ tend to prefer the New King James Version.

 

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 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

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