Lost in Translation

Before I go deeper into this point lets us go back to the very beginnings of the one true god. During the early 17^th Century when the throne passed from the Tudors to the Stuarts, James 1^st instigated the translation of the Bible into a single English version although it wasn’t original his idea. John Reynolds of Corpus Christi College put forth the idea. We know this version as the King James I Bible, now the problem with any translation and it is still true of today languages that there always is something lost in the translation. John Reynolds himself stated: “…because those which were allowed in the reigns of Henry the eighth, and Edward the sixth, were corrupt and not answerable to the truth of the Original." The problem being which original are we talking about, how many times has the Bible has it been translated?

Lets us assume for the moment that the King James I Bible is and the please excuse the pun, the God’s honest truth. At the beginning of Genesis:

"27": So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Now if we take this sentence to be the literal truth and follow it to its logical conclusion then God looks like man but what if we take it little be further and say that man is just a copy of God. This means of course that all the bad things that make up man also make up God, which in turn means God is flawed. Skipping forward slightly to the time of Moses we discover that God has forsaken most of his creations and chosen a race of people who still conform to his way of thinking. Therefore God is effectively prejudice against the bulk of his own creation and in so doing invented some racist values which still hold true today. The Old Testament paints God as a super-being that is bad tempered and gets extremely annoyed when his own creations start thinking for themselves. The New Testament paints the complete reverse that God loves us all even ones thinking for themselves and realising that God is no longer required if he ever was.  Which would of course prove that God is just as flawed as the rest of us.