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Many modern bible versions were made by individuals, foundations, bible societies, para church organizations etc. but how many of these or which ones were directly commissioned and overseen by the authority of an actual "church"?

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No modern versions except maybe the version called The New English Bible (circa 1970).

The 1560 Geneva Bible was done by and under the ministry of the English Church at Geneva, and that's the only Bible I know done by a 'church'..

Even the older English Bibles were not done by and under the authority of a church.

Most were authorized by a King or done by a man of God on his own. The Catholic Bible of course was done under the authority of their institution.

 

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The Presbryterian Church in America is more of a denomination than a church. The average Presbryterian church is not a local church in the the biblical sense at all. All of the churches in the New Testament were local congregrations with only the pastor as the (visible), authority.

 

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The Presbryterian Church in America is more of a denomination than a church. The average Presbryterian church is not a local church in the the biblical sense at all. All of the churches in the New Testament were local congregrations with only the pastor as the (visible), authority.

 

During the beginning the church at Jerusalem, with its leadership, did serve as an overseer and final authority over at least many of the churches formed elsewhere. We see this in Antioch as well as when contentions arose among new churches where some tried to force certain Jewish laws upon the congregations. This matter was taken to the leaders of the church in Jerusalem for final authority on the matter.

Later this system ceased to exist as Jerusalem was destroyed, the apostles killed, Christians further scattered and new churches being formed farther abroad. By that time the NT was complete, or near complete, Paul and others had established sound pastors in charge of local churches and they were in charge of the local church.

Local church authority was the pattern from that point forward, outside the RCC which isn't a true church anyway. It wasn't until after the Reformation that we had the formation of many denominations and some of them establishing a centralized hierarchy over all churches in their denomination. These, I would contend, are not in accord with the biblical model.

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