Why Are There So Many Bible Translations (and Which One Should You Actually Use)?

Why Are There So Many Bible Translations (and Which One Should You Actually Use)?

For a generation raised on Bible apps instead of pew Bibles, the sheer number of translations can feel more like a design flaw than a blessing. Some sound stiff and archaic. Others feel like a casual text from your spiritual bestie. And just when you start to get used to one, someone else insists their version is the “most accurate.” So what gives? Why are there so many translations of one book? And how are you supposed to know which one to trus…

There was growing discontent among the farmers in southern Germany. High taxes, the monopolization of resources in forests and fields, and an unjust legal system had caused it to smolder. And it had smoldered for a long time. But now there was hope; hadn't Luther, the outspoken professor in Wittenberg, said that "a Christian is the freest master of all things and subject to no one"? Hadn't he meant that the Bible "belongs to the entire congregat…