How many versions of the christian bible?

Answer 1

There are literally thousands but all are translations of the original Hebrew and Greek, so there is consistency within those thouands.

For a start The Bible has been trannslated into over 2000 different languages, and so there are that many versions at least. And within those languages there are also versions.

In the English language version of the Bible there are many translations from the King James version to the more modern contemporary English Bibles.

Some translations are excellent and faithful to the original texts - such as The King James Version, the New International Version and the New Revised Standard Version. Some are excellent paraphrases of the Bible like the Message. Some are the Bible as a novel - as in the Book of God. Some translations are notoriously bad, like the new World Translation which no serious scholar accepts as a good translation as it skews and mistranslates the original Hebrew or Greek scripture to fit in with particular doctrinal beliefs.

Add all these up and there are literally thousands of versions of the Bible, but each has been translated from the original Hebrew (for the Old Testament) or Greek (for the NewTtestament) to ensure that the Word of God, (except for a few bad translations) remains God-inspired and faithful, reliable and accurate.