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Serious Ommissions In The NIV


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A great study showing how dangerous the NIV Bible really is.

 

Please READ this before commenting. ^_^

 

Reproduced with permission.

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Matthew 18:26 & Matthew 20:20: The NKJV removes "worshipped him" (robbing worship from Jesus) (NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV)

Mark 13:6 & Luke 21:8: removes "Christ" (NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV)

John 1:3: change "All things were made BY him;" to "All things were made THROUGH Him" (NIV, NRSV, RSV)

John 4:24: change "God is a spirit" to the impersonal, New Age pantheistic,"God is spirit" (NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV) 

John 14:2: (NKJV 1979 edition) change "mansions" to "dwelling places" (NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV)


1 Cor. 9:27: change "castaway" to "disqualified" (NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV) 

2 Cor. 2:10: change "person of Christ" to "presence of Christ" (NASV, NRSV, RSV)

2 Cor. 2:17: With all the "corruptions" in the NKJV, you'd expect 2 Cor. 2:17 to change. IT DOES! They change, "For we not as many which CORRUPT the word of God" to "For we are not, as so many, PEDDLING the word of God" (ditto NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV) 

2 Cor. 5:17: change "new creature" to "new creation" (NIV, NRSV, RSV)

2 Cor. 10:5: change "imaginations" to "arguments". Considering New Age "imaging" and "visualization" is now entering the church, this verse in the "old" KJV just won't do. (NIV, RSV)

2 Cor. 11:6: change "rude in speech" to "untrained in speech" (NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV)

John 14:16: change "comforter" to "helper"(refers to Holy Spirit) (NASV)

Acts 4:27, 30: change "holy child" to "holy servant" (refers to Jesus) (NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV) 

Acts 12:4: change "Easter" to "Passover" (NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV)

Acts 17:22: changes "superstitious" to "religious" (NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV)

Acts 24:14: change "heresy" to "sect" (NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV)

Romans 1:18: change "hold the truth" to "suppress the truth" (NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV)

Romans 1:25: change "changed the truth" to "exchanged the truth" (NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV) 

Romans 5:8: change "commendeth" to "demonstrates" (NIV, NASV)

Romans 16:18: change "good words and fair speeches" to "smooth words and flattering speech" (NIV, NASV, NRSV) 

1 Cor. 1:21: change "foolishness of preaching" to "foolishness of the message preached" (ditto NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV) There's nothing foolish about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Unless you're not saved! 1 Cor. 1:18 says: "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish FOOLISHNESS. . ." I wonder where that leaves the translators of the NKJV, NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV?

1 Cor. 1:22: change "require" to "request" (NASV)

1 Cor. 6:9: removes "effeminate" (NIV, NRSV, RSV)


Gal. 2:20: omit "nevertheless I live" (NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV)

Phil. 2:6: (NKJV 1979e.) change "thought it not robbery to be equal with God" to "did not consider equality with God something to be grasped". (robs Jesus Christ of deity) (NIV, NASV, RSV)

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Bible versions, do not typically leave anything out. They work with different texts and text families, and are faithful to the texts they are working with. Of course, you know this and did not mean to imply that the NIV took a KJV, and removed verses from it's pages, as they were not attempting to translate or paraphrase the KJV.

Many modern versions, use Greek texts from what are often called Alexandrian Text types. Some scholars, feel that a different family of texts, the Byzantine text type, are to be preferred. 

Too often, these preferences are used to cause unnecessary infighting between believers,  and they too often fail to concentrate on fact that the Bible provides doctrine, and those doctrines are found in both text types. Some believers have an almost cultic type obsession with their preferred versions, but fortunately, most Christians just want the word of God in a way they can understand it, rather than fighting about who is right and who is wrong.

When people accuse a Bible version of "leaving something out", most of the time they do not offer evidence that anything was left out, as opposed to the possibility, that their favorite version, may have included in it, verses that did not exist in the original Bible texts.

Sometimes, the argument is made, that God does not leave His people, without the word, and so He preserves it. If that is true, then he also preserved it before a version like the KJV, for example, was translated. 

For myself, I prefer the thinking of the translators of the KJV when they acknowledged that there were already good translations existing, and that in the future, there would be more as better manuscripts might be discovered. The translators of the KJV did a good job, and took their job seriously. It seems though, from reading their own words, that if they lived today, they would not themselves, be KJV only people. They wanted the best manuscripts, the best scholarship, and they wanted the Bible to be in a language, that ordinary people could read in their own language. Good for them.

That being said, I am taking the initiative, to lock this thread from further replies, believing that there are already plenty of threads on these forums, that talk about different Bible versions, and their strengths and weaknesses.

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4 hours ago, KiwiChristian said:


Acts 12:4: change "Easter" to "Passover" (NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV)
 

 

You know, there was no such thing as "Easter" when the Bible was written, so how could it be the right word?

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The NIV is flawed. The changes are very subtle, so the unsuspecting will not notice them, and while by and large they make no difference to salvation these subtle changes will become a problem during the prophecied End Times, and they will create confusion as they are designed to do so.

The NIV is a reasonably good 'go to' Bible for quick reference but it has been corrupted.

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i would not trust ANY Bible with a lesbian on the translation committee.

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If you really want to know the truth of scripture, trusting your own understanding, you will need to sturdy Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek enough to have a full understanding and then study the codices themselves.  For me, I will trust the Holy Spirit to teach me through His words and His body.

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