Can we actually trust any version of the Bible since we no longer have any of the original manuscripts? 

That's the summary of the question we consider this week. It comes in from Abigail and was directed to Joseph. Abigail asks: 
"So, tonight I was slightly disturbed about something, and then my heart raced back to a post I saw earlier and I just had to go look for it. The post (on Twitter) says "There is no single original copy of any book of the Bible. If God value (sic) his words, why has he failed to preserve his words?" Apart from this troubling tweet, someone said the other week that 'Good News Bible' wasn't authored by a Christian. He said all sorts of things about the GNB and concluded that it is not a Bible. I also remember that The Passion Translation Bible in my YouVersion Bible app would say some verses are missing. A lot of times, I've noticed that what we have in one version we may not have in another. I'm a little bit bothered about which of the versions to even read. Please help." 
Joseph responded to these questions by giving an overview of how English Bible translations are done and also explained the various types of translation approaches and specific examples of the different categories. 
MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

1. Word for Word translation approach.
2. Thought for Thought translation approach.
3. Robert Bratcher (Good News Translation)
4. Eugene Peterson (The Message)
5. Brian Simmons (The Passion Translation)
6. E-Sword Bible Software

ALSO MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

✥ For the controversy on The Good News Bible, see this review: http://www.bible-researcher.com/tev.html
✥ Download E-Sword here: https://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html
✥ BibleGateway: http://biblegateway.com/
✥ Bible Hub: http://biblehub.com/
✥ YouVersion: http://bible.com/

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