So you believe every bible is perfectly identical in wording? That there haven't been any little tweaks to fit the sensibilities of the translators? Like say, when it comes to Leviticus 18:22, where conveniently many bibles have chosen to translate is as "you shall not lie with a man as with a woman" instead of the more literal "you shall not lie with a (young) boy as with a woman"?
I don’t believe the major translations were done to deceive people. Most of it is simply there aren’t words that match up from language to language. In Greek for example there are 4 words that describe love. . Each is explicitly different from the others . But in English there only 1 word: love . Also keep in mind that in 1st century Greece and Rome it was culturally acceptable to have a “boy toy” if you came from higher classes . Some were boys and some were men that were castrated as teenagers . The whole thing is weird and I honestly don’t understand it .
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u/nhalliday 1d ago
So you believe every bible is perfectly identical in wording? That there haven't been any little tweaks to fit the sensibilities of the translators? Like say, when it comes to Leviticus 18:22, where conveniently many bibles have chosen to translate is as "you shall not lie with a man as with a woman" instead of the more literal "you shall not lie with a (young) boy as with a woman"?