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Why were unicorns taken out of the bible?
Isn't the FEELING God Himself gives you when reading the bible more important than science and facts and translation by "learned" men?
If you take the KJV as literal truth, then it doesn't matter that LATER translators after 1600 based on "earned literary biblical scholars" ret-conned mentions of "unicorn" to "ox." That's just wrong! The KJV is literal truth!
Isn't it?
If it is, then Fluttershy might be real too, and that just fills me with all sorts of warm fuzzies.
4 Answers
- EnguerarrardLv 76 years ago
Many translations of the Bible have been made. The scholars who worked on the KJV were fluent in Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin. But the earliest Hebrew text is the Masoretic text which dates from about 1,000 c.e. The Vulgate version of the Bible was compiled about 400, but it is full of errors.
The scholars of the KJV were often uncertain about prepositional phrases and other passages that aren't easy to translate. They marked these in red ink. Another major problem was that they were ignorant of Hebrew idioms. We take idioms for granted and they make perfect sense for us, but they are the final hurdle in learning a foreign language. The scholars couldn't comprehend Hebrew idioms and so they lifted them wholesale, which is one reason why the Bible is so confusing. They also changed the meaning of words like 'poisoner' in the passage 'Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live.' In keeping with the current witch hysteria they translated this word as 'Witch', which caused a catastrophe in European history.
If you're going to live by the Bible, at least use more sophisticated translations.
- ?Lv 76 years ago
It is hard to believe adults actually point to 'unicorn' being found in some translations as a serious objection to the Bible. It certainly is a sure sign you are not dealing with the brightest of the bunch, and strongly suggestive that there is no good reason to waste time with a response.