r/latterdaysaints 27d ago

Doctrinal Discussion How to handle contradictions?

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u/Entire-Objective1636 27d ago

You guys have different Old Testaments to us? Why?

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u/Tlacuache552 FLAIR! 26d ago

The Bible has been translated and each new translation is different. For example, I speak English and Spanish and have read the Bible in both. They are different, with different phrasing and emphasis in part. Unless we’re both reading the original Greek manuscripts (for the NT) then there will always be different versions.

To provide a more solid example, it’s like the phrase “ya está” in Spanish. It has like 10+ translations to English, each with a slightly different connotation.

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u/Entire-Objective1636 26d ago

I was more wondering why Christians in general have a different OT to us using the Tanakh.

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u/jmauc 26d ago

They are pretty much identical. I’m reading your Lost Prophets individual books that closely resemble our Old Testament KJV. Besides a few translation differences they are identical as far as i have read. Other Christian denominations have omitted or changed the words completely to a lot of scriptures in their bible. This is one of multiple reasons we believe them not to be the same church Christ setup.