So what are your responses to your questions?
1- which one do you use? I dont really use one in particular, right now I like google as my bible. what i mean is i type it on my google browser and i get the quote instantly. its faster than licking my finger and passing thin paper pages. However I almost always end up here http://bible.cc/ because it has lots of versions even some greek and hebrew, and nope they dont have the NWT I stopped trusting that one when I found out the WT inserted the name of Jehovah in the english translation when it doesnt appear on the greek manuscrits. So I decided that I was against copyist or translator who added their own interpretation... but that opened a can of worms
2.- How did you decided which one to use? i havent decided yet. I was interested to find a modern version that would try to go directly to the oldest or most accurate manuscripts and after reading the story of the LATIN VULGATE or Erasmus' editio princeps (which is the basis for the KJV) or the Textus Receptus (since a lot of translations are based on old translations) I havent found a copy that uses the "accepted" manuscripts. Since there have been new manuscripts found since the compilation of those TEXTS. I am quiet dissapointed (I know I know we dont have the autographs) but I was hoping that there was out there a version that attempted to translate directly from the manuscripts and not had a theological agenda.
3.- What research did you do on that particular version and/or canon? Oh brother, well I have been doing a lot of research on the history of the TEXTS, manuscripts, translations, translators. And I find it quite fascinating to discover that we could have had a way different bible altogether with other books and without some of the books. Its interesting to find out that our bible is really the result of the most influential christian group of the early church and that the other groups(marcionists, gnostics, ebionites,etc) also had their sacred books, and since the orthodox group won then we have an orthodox version.
4.- How much research you did on the bible in general after you left the Borg? This sucks. I have not been able to look for a job because in the past 8 months since I left the borg I have been obsessed with this religion crap (sorry for some of you) and I have been reading, buying books, trips to the library and the internet for more than 5 hours daily. (I think Its approaching the end). so I guess i have been doing some decent research. The interesting thing is that I originally started to look for the best version of the bible and I ended up after all this research not believing the bible was inspired by God nor mantained/protected by him or her whatever it could/might be.
5.-What do you know about the writers or who said who wrote what and when? I know that some of the people I thought wrote some of the books didnt really write them. I know that the people who in many instances decided who wrote some of the books took that decision based on their own theology and not in accurate knowledge. A lot of the dates that the book "ALL SCRIPTURE" taught me are completely wrong and not based on accurate information and I know that there are books that shouldnt even be there and others that didnt make it because someone didnt like them. I guess i shouldnt say shouldnt. The bible is what it is. I feel sad I didnt do this research before but oh what did I know.
6.- How many of you did zero research on the authenticity of the book and its history? haha when I was in the borg my favorite book was the book "ALL SCRIPTURE" so i guess that counts as almost zero back then.
