Why are there so many version of the Bible available? What's going on with the Beloved Word of God?

In this episode the Bible Bloke takes a quick digression from his series on Matthew to have a look at the quantity of choice when it comes to Bible translations.

I continue my series on the Gospel of Matthew with more of the historical background. This time we visit with the Romans...

We open our Bibles and start with the Gospel of Matthew. What's it about? Who is it by? What even is a Gospel anyway? 

Come with the Bible Bloke as he explores this first Gospel. 

Hey Everyone, I felt on my heart that it's time to mix things up a bit. I have been hammering away to Genesis, and yes, there is a lot more I want to say about it, and there will be further episodes that focus firmly on the massive, panoramic themes of this Biblical book of Beginnings, but there are heaps of other books in the Bible that I want to delve into and look at. 

Introducing, then, Quick Bites. I want to do shorter, but perhaps not less rambling snippets of Bible digging. Like the guy who goes off and buys the field to find the treasure. Grab the shovel, and see what comes of it. 

I hope that as I go along, you spend a bit of time with me following those wonderful scriptural rabbit holes I know we are going to follow. And that's half the fun. Let's see where the Holy Spirit leads. 

Join me as we start having a Quick Bites wander through the book of Matthew. 

Exactly how did we get the Bible? Who wrote it? And how do we know about what happened at the very beginning? 

Join the Bible Bloke as he explores these questions. 

Before the big bang was the idea of steady state. Theory speculates as to what theory is and isn't king. But what about God? If we aren't consistent in what we think about how everything came to be, we have a problem. Join the Bible Bloke as he discusses some of the issues. 

We continue our exploration of the creation week in Genesis. Before we do, let's have a quick look at the idea of time. What is it and how do we understand it? Can we understand it? In looking at what time is, we find that's it's more about who God is and what he created, than any scientific proof. 

Space is full of emptiness. There is a lot of nothing out there. So where is God? If God created everything, how come space is so darned empty? 

Or is it?