In translating from one
present day language to another present day language and preserving
the meaning of the original message is not easy. Often terms need to
be changed to suit a particular cultural difference. Concepts that
exist in one language often do not exist in another. Although
differences can be elaborated upon in a side note, a translation that
is done verbatim may not make any sense in the language that it is
being translated into.
The Old Testament is
written in what considered to be dead languages. Languages that are no
longer in use. As good as a scholar might be, they may have to rely on
their own imagination to figure out what is being said when phrases
and colloquial terms are being used. At the time of the writing of the
Bible, especially the Old Testament there were likely many common colloquialisms
that in time have become meaningless or at best hard to put into
context at present. Needless to say, something will always get lost in
the translation.
Given that time,
through languages lost and politics, can erode the meaning intended in
any writing why then do people have such a hard time accepting that
the Bible, even though it is the word of God, is just as susceptible
to being corrupted by time and human interests as any other important
body of literature. It is not the Word of God that is being corrupted
here - it is the Word of God in the hands of human beings that is
corrupting it.
This being the case
the efforts of scholars and theologians belaboring over the
words of the Bible will likely only further corrupt it. The greater
Christian institutions are evidence of this self-serving corruption.
This does not
invalidate the Bible. But to believe that the Holy Father did not
anticipate the corruption of His Word at the hands of human beings and
that He would not have sent
more prophets to reiterate what would have been inevitably lost through
time is a little hard to believe. The Prophets of the Old
Testament were awakened for that very purpose. The nearly 2000 years
of time after Christ is even more critical than the Old Testament,
therefore there must have been Prophets between the time of Christ's
death and the present; even if they have not been recognized as such
by the "official churches" and Pharisees of their day and our day.
The presumption
that the writings in the bible or other holy script can only be
interpreted by scholars, theologians or priests is false. Holy
scripture is written for
those who seek God out of love. Without love and purity of heart, the key to unlocking the mysteries
within scripture is not present and the mysteries remain hidden and
remain mysteries.
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