How can we believe and trust censored Bibles?
In the Bible, it says clearly that no one should make a dare to edit or correct the Bible by any words. But many chapters and contents are extremely censored from the original Bible. How is this acceptable, and how do we know the truth and full story about the entire life?
(Finally, some of the replies and trolls I received made me more confused. But thanks a lot for the reference replies.)
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The Bible doesn't say that you shouldn't edit or correct the Bible because the authors of the Bible didn't have the rest of the Bible.
Moses gives some explicit commands to the Israelites to not modify the commands he gives in Deuteronomy, but that doesn't really apply to the other books.
Likewise, some guy named "John" warns against anyone adding or removing from the account of his acid trip in Revelations, but that doesn't really apply to other books.
The "Bible" was constructed over a long process and while what many think of as the "Bible" was finalized by 400AD there are still disagreements today (See Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and many other smaller sects).
The original authors wrote disparate works for distinct purposes at distinct points in time. They were not writing with the goal of manufacturing a multi-thousand year story bound as a single volume.
We don't. We use archeology, biology, anthropology, and other scientific disciplines to determine a likely path of the story of humanity as a whole. Some disciplines use the books of the Bible and other contemporary accounts to guide areas of future study, but if you want a single source for the history of the earth, humanity, or even the Israelites the Bible isn't going to offer an honest perspective.
Revelation 22:18-19, which says:
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
This is what mean by nobody should edit/correct the bible.
Which applies only to the Revelation of John.
"This book's, doesn't refer to the Bible. There was no Bible when this sentence was written. It refers to the text where you found this passage.