Biblical instructions for translation?

depends on belief.for instance, under the strictist judaic sense, the talmud contains various laws on how a torah is to be copied in order to be seen as authentic. no letter may be changed, added, or deleted. and they do check it letter by letter. ...translations are right out.that reminds me. i was gonna see if i can find a hebrew class...

well, you know, like i said. it depends on belief. i'm not sure there is a correct translation/interpretation/copy/etc.

"his word" is a funny concept. god didn't give us a word, he gave us a law.i'm not even sure how to answer your post. i think completely the opposite of your entire premise. i think god loves all his children. and since we supposedly have free will, god intervening and forcing us to say certain things about him kind of violates that.

no, my statement was much more general. god excercising control over the authorship or editting or translation, or anything at all done to the bible compromises free will.personally, i believe the bible to be a sort of window to the truth, but not the truth in and of itself. human beings have had too great a dealing in it for me to think that it was the absolute word of god. instead, i see it as one interpretation of something far, far greater than can be recorded by a book.

that one's scary. it implies anyone who reads or believes any other bible is going to hell, as if there's a huge difference.actually, scratch that. they're ALL scary.