His descendents became the chosen of God. They were to be the example to the world. They have been separated through history. Jews are unique. All other people removed from their homeland disappeared from history. Jews retained their identity. Thus being unique and demonstrates the power of God protecting them. Germany killed 6 million Jews and was bombed into rubble!
The Bible of God is being published today and is one of the best selling books. If it doesn't contain the compete text translated into English then it isn't the Bible. There are Old Testament and New Testament versions but always the compete text. Recent translations are copyrighted. Go to a Bible book store and look at the flyleaf of the newer translations. Your ignorance is astounding. Where did you go to school?
Why yes, they have. Unless you want a fancy leather bound. Some with notes are copyrighted, but not the text. In many cases a whole bible can had for a buck to $5.00.
It depends on whether you buy a complete Bible or a New Testament. Then there is the apocryphal middle books in the Catholic Bible. So which one are you talking about-face?
I never buy a Bible these days. I use biblegateway.com on my smartphone. It's very handy and can switch translations quickly. Makes my smartphone my Bible.
I use e-Sword, but I still like the feel of the written incarnation of Jesus Christ in my hands.
They are legitimate history, especially of the Macabees . . . but that's about it. Too many errors in them to be consider inspired or preserved. It was for their historical value that the King James translators included them, and that they were basically working for the Church of England = Catholic-lite.
Baptist? Which group? There are a few groups plus the Independent Baptists that is a hogs on ice association of Baptist churches that agree to disagree about everything. Went to a couple of them. After graduating from tech school and Starting to work I dropped dropped out until I met my future wife. I then went with her to the local RCA denomination church. Been reformed in my beliefs ever since. Still remember fondly one of those Baptist churches. It was a Calvinist Baptist church. Didn't realize it then. Calvinism and Armenianism went right over my head when I was that young.
More than 1 denomination claims that as their history. Especially the Catholic Church. The early church at that time had no denominations. That came later as those with similar views left the catholic church to create seperate denominations triggered by the thesis Martin Luther nailed to the church door. A printer took it down and after copying it on his printing press put it back. Copies went everywhere and the Reformation was off and running.
