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Old 04-29-2009, 07:27 PM   #1
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Question The Bible Book (An in depth questioning from history to present)

Before the devil is in the detail, the bible is out the detail. And out the detail in so many ways. Below are the questions I have concerning what is out the detail concerning the bible, at least to my observation. Do answer any of which...

1. Why does it be that no one has a run in to a worker of any particular brandname bible book translation company?

2. In findings: Why is it no behind the scenes scoop, no documentary, and not even an insider insight into the realm of any brandname bible book translation company? No insight into how much the average owner of a bible translation producting company makes a year?

3. Why/How come, back in my school days, was it no career speaker from any brandname bible book translation company?

4. Why is it that I have yet to see, whether or not, any can be a shareholder of a stock in any brandname bible book translation company?

Last time I checked, none of them are a major hiring company--or I would have been heard the news other than Micky D's is hiring, though it is said that the bible books are the major, all-time selling books period. And no word in any ceo or any owner of any brandname bible book company making a bank account status in money over, say, Bill Gates. You wonder where the secret society been hiding? Afterall, those books have great influence in how the citizens of the globe run. Makes one wonder if any of the current government has a secret stake in bible book profits or bible-related unvailings of influence.

5. Are the brandname bible book translation companies exempt from paying a tax like churches? If not, then where is the quote on how much the government recieved in taxes from the actual bible belt?

6. Is it something well hidden in the headquarters of the brandname bible book translation companies as to why not any 'behind the scene inside' scoops?

Other things to wonder on as food for thought:

Are brandname bible book translation companies more tighter than Area 51, by a thought-shifting influence, even since the bible, influentually, teaches somewhat the "Art of Altering Minds"? Is Area 51 just a decoy rather then?

Notice how the 51, in Area 51, is 5+1 which equals 6. Then notice how the last chapter of "the Book of Revelation" is of an even/dual numbering (22) which ends with a last even/dual passage numbering (2 from the 21), when counting the even/dual-base numbering in the heading (beginning) and in an footing (ending). (Certainly not in counting the odd/single-base numbering.)
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Actualy it came out in a piece on Chinese manufcaturing that China prints a large share of the bibles sold in the USA, those godless atheists.

The major translations have generaly been done by academics.

What's your beef and with who?
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Actualy it came out in a piece on Chinese manufcaturing that China prints a large share of the bibles sold in the USA, those godless atheists.

The major translations have generaly been done by academics.

What's your beef and with who?
Well aint that something.

China which has the dragon symbol thing going on in parades. "Dragon" also has mentioning in the book of Revelation.
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A translation of "the Bible" is done by a scholar or a committee of scholars who know the original languages used in the Bible. (You can see a list some of the various translations into modern English here.)

If you don't hang out with students of ancient languages, you are unlikely to have met any of these people.

It is a completely open process, however, not like area 51. Any one can study the languages and do their own translation, for whatever literary or theological motives - the JW do it, the Catholics, the evangelicals, atheists, probably others too.

Anyone who works for a Bible translation company pays taxes on their income, and the company pays whatever taxes are appropriate, depending on how they are organized.

Erm, does this answer your question?
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