Re: BIBLE
Christians call the whole Bible “the Gospel” sometimes. The first four books in the New Testament are each called a Gospel. I suppose this could lead to confusion.
The Bible is a collection of books and combines the religious books of the Jews (Old Testament) and Christians (New Testament). Testament means Covenant. Old Testament/Covenant was the agreement/contract God made with the Hebrews as a nation. New Testament/Covenant refers to the contract/agreement of Jesus as representative of God with humankind.
An additional group of about 16 Old Testament books were included in the Greek Jewish Bible (Septuagint) and Latin Christian Bible (Vulgate) and this is the present difference between the Roman and Orthodox Catholic Church Bibles and the rest of Christianity. These books were not included in the Hebrew Jewish Bible (e.g. Masoretic Text). These books are referred to as Old Testament Apocrypha. Various good reasons exist why these books are not included in the known Bibles of today, the major one being their not being included in the Hebrew Old Testament.
The NIV is the most correct version with the ASV running second. The NIV is considered the best Bible translation/version in English today because it used the oldest texts available, refer to all other major texts in footnotes, was translated by such a large number of scholars from different denominations, and follow the text truthfully.
Version only refers to the difference of translation and language. There exist a number of texts from which these versions are translated from. In general, except where the translators/compilers wished to change the meaning of scripture as the Jehova’s did in their New World Translation, there is few differences as to the theme and meaning from the Bible.