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This may be precisely how there are multiple versions of the Jesus story. When believers see passages they don't like or can't understand they just simply interpolate them or re-write them to satisfy their own belief.

Sheshbazzar

Still going on, 'Version' after 'Version' of the Bible are produced, tinkering with, and 'reinterpreting' the meaning of first this verse and then that verse, in a vain but theologically driven attempt to eliminate those obvious and apparent contradictions that have always been part and parcel of all known texts.
This continual textual tinkering, as often as not, simply results in a new set of contradictions that require yet other texts to be reinterpreted and revised.

Just about every lunatic fringe sect make producing their own 'corrected 'version' of the Bible, one of the first and most important items on their agenda.
I am personally acquainted with one small Fundamentalist sect that alone has introduced at least six new and improved 'Versions' or 'revisions' of their Bible in just the last thirty years, as they continually manipulate the text to make it increasingly more reflective of their own peculiar theological views and 'bents'.
And what makes it the more ridiculous, is that of their 'teams' of 'translators', there is not one individual among them that can actually read unassisted, even a single paragraph of either Hebrew or Greek!
But that small problem is accounted as being no consequence or deterrent to their labors, because....
THEY (unlike all those other misled 'Bible Believers') are the only ones being 'led by the Holy Spirit' into all truth!
Yeah, right.
I called bullshit on that line, and got the hell out of there.


Can anyone tell me approximately how many different English Language 'versions' of 'The Holy Bible' now exist?