As a Christian I am unsure of how I feel about a manga Bible. This was interesting to me as I was reading the manga and anime section of the Christian forums. I had completely never heard of this, but in Japan and Korea, manga is the big thing. Maybe it would spark an interest to some about the Lord.
My worry about this is the accuracy. It is Today’s New International Version, which makes me not want to read it. My denomination uses the New Kings James version of the Bible. Although I do have a magazine Bible that is the New Century Version, But the NKJV is the most accurate version of the Bible.
Different types of Bibles are sweeping the nation. People still want the book bounded original Bibles, but there is something new and exciting about reading a comic or a magazine that intrigues young people.
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Interesting. At Barnes & Noble, we sell many different types of bibles, but I must confess, I don't really know about all the differences.
I've never heard of a manga bible though. Sounds kind of strange.
Yes, it really is strange. I have never actually seen one. I ran across it on a forum I browse. I would love to look at one though.
steph,
there is no "most accurate version of the Bible"
Don't buy into the hype. The Bible was translated by white males, many of whom hated or distrusted or simply thought of other races and the opposite sex as inferior to themselves. It's pretty much all to be taken with a huge pillar of salt.
The best Bible to have is one with a concordance in it that offers the root Greek and Hebrew words used in the original texts (as far as we know.)
As for the manga Bible concept, I like it. I had a Children's Living Bible that I loved as a kid. It was completely one huge cartoon. It really made the Old Testament come to life.
Anything like that can't be all bad.
I agree with Johanna. Even if we could read Greek and Hebrew, the original manuscripts have never been found.
Embrace the KJV, if that is the most meaningful to you. Its language is poetry. But don't discount the others before you have read them ... which include the Catholic Bible (with additional books and text), the Jerusalem Bible (translated to English from the French translation), the Living Bible (a paraphrased version) and on and on.
A Bible scholar could spend a lifetime studying and comparing the many versions, and his/her knowledge would probably be richer for it.
Almost all of the churches I have been to use/used the NKJV. I have been taught that the NKJV is the most accuate Bible. I have been taught that the NIV has too many mistakes and that it is not a good Bible to use.
I am not against the Manga Bible. I think it is a very good thing. Maybe it will eventually be translated into different versions if it becomes popular. Alot of people in the thread I found it in are acually interested in buying one. I would look at one too. I think that it would bring the Bible to life because you are able to see what is happening.
Johanna raises an excellent point about the people who translated the bible. It's naturally slanted towards the views of whoever translated it.
As for the manga bible, well I guess if that's the kind of thing that you like then good for you. To each is own as they say.
What you have been taught isn't all that great. And I've been in plenty of churches where at least two or three kinds of Bibles were picked up regularly.
Personally, I think you should learn to compare between them, but I always preferred the stories myself. And my favorite "Christian" text isn't the Bible at all, but John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
Little Pilgrim's Progress took some creative license with Bunyan's original text to make it a more disgestible read (Middle English can really try the patience) but it's an absolutely inspired work from someone imprisoned for his beliefs and since some of the Apostles were no doubt included in the NT for just that reason, I've always thought of it as an alternative read.
I recommend it if you haven't read it. I also heard something about a movie being made out of it.
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