Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

[farouk]

On 5/8/2023 at 4:25 PM, ChristB4us said:

Praying for you in the same, brother.  That is all we can do at a certain point.

@ChristB4us A lot of scholarly work went into translating the KJV. (The men involved were at times quite strongly influenced by Anglicanism, of course.)

[ChristB4us]

On 5/9/2023 at 9:46 AM, JimmyB said:

Unless you can substantiate this it is just your opinion.  Do you really think that Biblical scholars have been "tainted by corrupt educational system and not relying on the Lord for His wisdom"?  

Well, when Biblical scholars believe the behemoth in Job 40th chapter was an alligator, an elephant, or a hippo, as per the marginal or footnotes, what do you think?  Clearly to me, thanks to the Lord, I see the behemoth as a dinosaur as only that beast has a tail as long as a tree which is what a cedar is.

Only recently science discovered that the sex organs of the dinosaurs are internet and yet in that same verse about the behemoth having a tail like a cedar, its stones were wrapped in its sinews.

Job 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. 16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

Does either an alligator, a hippo, or an elephant have a tail as long as a cedar tree? No.

So how does our Biblical scholars missed this?  Because of the evolution theory as it is impossible for man to have even see a dinosaur, right?  Thus tainted education.

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Should uneducated people be doing the translating?

When only relying on the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit in them, yes.

 

[ChristB4us]

2 hours ago, farouk said:

@ChristB4us A lot of scholarly work went into translating the KJV. (The men involved were at times quite strongly influenced by Anglicanism, of course.)

Yes.  Other 50 translators divided into 8 groups and in each group, they have to check over each other's work and then send it to the other group to that their work checked there too.  It had to pass every one's approval.

Kind of like having way more than 2 or 3 witnesses to confirm the translation done by the parameters set.

The only hiccup was the Arch Bishop Richard Bancroft who supposedly went in and changed Passover in Acts 12:4 back to Easter even though all the other places that had Easter for Passover in the N.T. was left as Passover.

It was Tyndale that had first coined the term Passover for the Hebrew word "pasach" for the Old Testament but for some reason coined Easter for the N.T.

Luthor's German Bible had "ester" for Easter as representing Passover also.  Luther wet so far as to identify pasach' sacrifice by coining it as the "ester's lamb"

So the problem of translating "pasach" into English is that Acts 12:4 should have ended with "at the end of the seven days of the unleavened bread" when the arrest was made in the midst of it. 

The actual Passover day ( known as pasach ) is 15 days from the new moon which is to be followed by the 7 days of the unleavened bread which is also known as pasach.  Then to make matters worse for understanding pasach in English, pasach can also refer to the sacrificial lamb.

Although KJVers try to explain that Herod was a pagan king as they were celebrating the pagan Easter at the same time of this 7 days of unleavened bread, this reasoning is faulty.  It was Tyndale that had applied the term Easter in the N.T. to mean the same thing as his coined term Passover for "pasach" in the Old Testament.

So there is no goof or mistake in the KJV, but to clarify the 15th day of Passover from the 7 days of the unleavened bread which is also considered part of pasach, but not the day of pasach itself, and since the arrest was made in the midst of the 7 days of the unleavened bread, it would be clearer for the KJV to just say "at the end of the seven days of unleavened bread rather than Passover or Easter in Acts 12:4.

Unfortunate side note, Tyndale was executed for translating the scripture into English but I have a dreadful feeling it was because he had coined Easter in the N.T. to mean the same thing for Passover in the O.T. even though he, himself first coined Passover in English.