I gave you Scripture, which you ignored. What are you giving me?
Education.
Have you even read the whole Bible once?
Oh yeah. I do not know if I read every single verse, like in Isaiah, Jeremiah or Psalms, but its possible. I began to read three Czech translations of the Bible in my childhood - a literal, reformation one (Bible Kralická), a more modern, dynamic one (The Czech Ecumenical Bible) and then Nová Bible Kralická (which was Bible Kralická in modern Czech).
Around high school, I began to learn biblical Greek to read the New Testament in its original language. I studied what Greek version should I use - the traditional western Textus Receptus text (the one which is behind Bible Kralická or for example KJV) or the eastern traditional majority text (used in orthodox churches) or the minority text - Nestlé Aland - that is produced by Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft and is behind the majority of todays translations?
After some learning I decided for the traditional reformation text - The Textus Receptus. So I ordered one (Scrivener's version). I learned much of my Greek reading skills in this first Greek edition I owned. Then I found out that the Scrivener's version is just a back translation from the KJV and not really the text behind Bible Kralická and other traditional European reformation translations. So I downloaded Stephanus and Beza versions differences and tried to compare them.
However, some time around that I began to incline to believe that the majority text used in the eastern church is the one I should read, the "better majority text without Latin back-translations for example in Revelation) . So I used Robinson-Pierpont version for a while.
After some more study though (I was constantly learning about texts and manuscripts) realized that the arguments for traditional texts are not so strong I believed and kind of switched to the "minority, scholarly text" instead - Nestlé Aland 27/28. I use this text till today.
Regarding the Old Testament, I read the Masoretic text, as almost everybody, because its behind the western Bibles. However, when I saw many differences between the Old Tstament and the Old Testament quotes in the New Testament, I studied why it is. I realized that the New Testament is quoting the Hellenistic form of the Old Testament, not the Masoretic one. Therefore, I started to read Septuagint - first Brenton online and then I bought NETS. I also try to read some easier places in Septuagint in Greek (I bought Rahlfs printed edition).
Sadly, even Septuagint has several textual versions (the Old Greek, Theodotion) and we also have the dead sea scrolls which sometimes agree with the Septuagint, sometimes seem to be a proto-masoretic text and sometimes stand alone.
Regarding English translations, I read NIV and BSB, mostly because I got NIV in a printed version in church and because BSB is free to download as epub. However, for the sake of online conversations/discussions, I almost exclusively use biblehub.com, which provides also original texts, parallel translations, dictionary and more.
I also read the Septuagint wider canon of books, but mostly in Czech. I also read the writings that were considered by some first churches to be inspired, but did not make it to the medieval canon, like for example Didache, The book of Henoch or the Shepherd of Hermas.
What about you?
Looks like you believe in Science and secular History more than the Bible.
After my journey, I could ask "what Bible"? However, I do not believe something is "more" or "less", its all about studying and growing in knowledge. Truth can be found in many places and in many ways. And also mistakes.
Respond to the verses I gave you or we are wasting time.
I did not invite you to participate in the conversation. If you feel you are wasting time, you can leave.
I will respond to the first one, to demonstrate to you that you are shooting bible verses before looking at them carefully.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
- its a statement of Paul, declaring that all Scripture is God-breathed (not God-dictated) and useful for moral purposes (not for history or modern Western science)
If some fundamentalists try to abuse this verse and to claim that every word in their specific Bible is from God and useful for science or cosmology, they neither read the text properly nor do they understand what Paul meant.
