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Originally Posted by rhadin
Harry, in order for the bible to be infallible, it would have had to be originally written by god in all languages. Otherwise there would be the possibility of human error in translation/understanding. 
Not noted is whether bible = new or old testament or both or whether or not it includes the koran and the book of mormon.  |
Actually the Koran and Book of Mormon were both written long after the Bible. They are separate books entirely. One says that Jesus was just a prophet and the other says he went to the new world after leaving his followers. So one denies his divinity and the other adds on things that are contradictory to what the Bible says. Not that I want to get into a debate on that in this forum. The Bible was written in the languages of Hebrew & Aramaic (Old Testament) and Koine Greek (New Testament). The oldest translations were into Latin which made sense at the time since most people spoke it in the old world at that time. It wasn't translated into English until the 1500's. Before that it was in Latin and of course German. Gutenberg printed his Bible around 1450-1455 and Martin Luther had translated it into German even before then. And the most well known (I think) is the King James Version of 1610. There were English translations before KJV but it was the first to receive official sanction by an English monarch. Before that time if you translated it into English you were in danger of a death sentence.