Why is Creatonism so core to some Religions?

[Julian]

*sigh* There is no correct translation. ALL translations are, by definition, erroneous. If you REALLY want to understand the Bible, you need to read it in the original Hebrew. I mean, seriously. English, Latin, and Greek aren't even in the same LANGUAGE FAMILY as Hebrew.

It's much worse than that... There's the willful mistranslations because they wanted to up the ante a bit. There's the downright edits from copy to copy because they didn't like what it said/implied so the stories 'evolved' as the old copies died. There's the fact that half the stories were sourced from different cultures with different languages still (Sanskrit's a good example), and on top of that, all of this had been passed down from mouth to mouth for centuries (generations for the NT) before someone actually wrote them down. The only reason it still happens to be based on planet Earth is there's a strong cultural bias of self interest to ensure it remained so. It's 5,000 years of ball sweat and essence of bollocks, distilled into insanity.

[chitoryu12]

Even if you found texts in Hebrew, there's nothing guaranteeing that they're "correct" in any sense of the term. Historians aren't quite sure of the exact date of the creation of the Bible, and there's inevitably a ridiculous number of different interpretations by the first people to create the Old Testament and New Testament, each of them making their own interpretations of religious history and law.

[Witchyjoshy]

Wasn't the original language Aramaic, anyways?  or am I thinking about the New Testament?

[Jack Mann]

You're thinking of the New Testament.  The Old Testament was written in Hebrew.

[Mechtaur]

*sigh* There is no correct translation. ALL translations are, by definition, erroneous. If you REALLY want to understand the Bible, you need to read it in the original Hebrew. I mean, seriously. English, Latin, and Greek aren't even in the same LANGUAGE FAMILY as Hebrew.

Should have clarified I meant the "True Christian" creationists with that sentence.

And silly Meshakhad, we all now that the KJV is the only true holy version based down from God himself.