There is only one Holy Bible
In response to the posting “Churchgoer Tweet: The Meaning of Christmas”
http://www.hvtd.com/index.php/site/articles/churchgoer_tweet_the_meaning_of_christmas/ asking the question “I always thought there was only one bible. Did the same guy write all three?”
There is only one Holy Bible. It was written over a period of 1400 to 1800 years by more than 40 different authors. (http://www.allabouttruth.org/when-was-the-bible-written-faq.htm) The authors include God, Moses, David, Solomon, Mark, Mathew, Luke, John, Paul, James and Peter. They include a King, former Pharisee, doctor, tax collector, and fishermen. The most recent books are the epistles of John in 98 AD. The last book in the printed Bible, Revelation, was written in about 96 AD.
The Bible was written in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek.
The New Testament has been translated into 1,168 languages and the entire Bible translated into 438 languages. There remain 2,393 languages without any of the Bible translated. Source : http://www.wycliffe.org/About/Statistics.aspx
The first English translation was in 1385 by John Wycliffe. There have been more than three thousand translations of the Bible into English since 1525 when William Tyndale printed his first complete New Testament. ( The Bible and its Influence, copyright 2006 by The Bible Literacy Project)
For more information about the translations and history of the Bible see http://www.wycliffe.org/ .
You can visit and tour Wycliffe’s WordSpring Discovery Center in Orlando, Florida and see first-hand how the translations are done. You can also visit The Holy Land Experience theme park and museum in Orlando. http://www.holylandexperience.com/ They house one of the largest private assemblages of rare Bibles, scrolls, artifacts, and biblical manuscripts in the world, called “The Van Kampen Collection” (http://www.solagroup.org/vkc.html)
The First and only true bible is the King James Version of the Holy Bible. The NIV is not so, stuff has been added and removed!
So make your choice carefully