My personal experience in my little sub-tribe of fundamentalism was that people were actually encouraged to compare and contrast different translations and to compare those to the original manuscripts, which is fairly simple to do even if you can't read Kione Greek (NT) or ancient Hebrew (OT) because there are concordances, literal translations with commentaries and notes on the tenses and possible alternate meanings, and similar tools. I will give them that much, they were serious about understanding what the damned thing actually said. If they had been equally serious about owning up to the inconsistencies and logical conundrums of what it actually said, I'd have actually respected the theologians. As it is ... they are just spouting cherry-picked, self-ratifying nonsense.

My point being that if I were still a believer today and someone had told me the Bible mentioned jade, the first thing I would do is look up what the ancient term would have been, what the word would be in the original language, and find that original word via an online search, and such a simple question could be settled in about 5 minutes.

That said ... you're right, though, the vast majority would tend to make ignorant comments and defend their ego investment in their answer preferred answer, pretty much without regard to it being a supportable position. And in any case, every sect has its own hermaneutic system and so each one comes up with their own custom assertions about the really interesting truth claims. Sometimes I think when people argue over stupid stuff like whether a particular term is mentioned in the Bible, it's to avoid substantive debates about free will, sin and forgiveness, eternal security, sexuality, etc. Because they ARE locked down on those sorts of questions.

That is the challenge we face with "believers." They hear only what they want to hear, and they will dismiss everything else, even it is a scripture that contradicts them. They'll find a way around it.

It can never be wrong because they choose how it is looked at for info.

The old proverb about not wrestling in the mud with a pig keeps coming to mind. You can’t win and the pig enjoys it.

Why are people even allowed to bring up the bible or religion in a work meeting?

I'd also be sending that particular co-worker an email explaining how she was wrong. I'd send it from my personal email account, just to keep work out of it.
I'd also be signing my name to it.

There’s a newer translation of the OT. one would have to go back to the original Hebrew to be certain. Jews don’t consider the NT as the Bible.
Don’t waste your energy on know-it-all’s. Let it go.

Well at least I hope you feel better now ?seems to me they're all translations of a remake of a remake of a remake that was translated from a remake that all happened in a dream ?

That us the way they think. The bibly WAS written in English, the King James version is the absolute word of god. It is the worst translation known, vut it sounds pretty.

Stop wasting your precious life thinking about this!