what Bible do you read

[pointer]

So what are we gonna do...abandon our beliefs because of a few small errors ?

Do the job properly and learn some Greek.

not everyone is a linguist

I told you all: you don't need to be. Can you count words on a line?

What will be your excuse on Judgment Day? You have an education and a computer, and the time to read and write posts. Do you not have a few dollars and a few moments to spare on the real Word of God?

I sometimes wonder if people here are actually scared to read it. They seem to find the 'King James', that many find so difficult to read, preferable to translations in the language we actually use ourselves. I guess they could be the inheritors of the tradition that held that the Bible was best printed in Latin, if it had to be printed at all.

[billie]

What will be your excuse on Judgment Day?

Are you actually suggesting we'll be punished because we didn't read the Bible in Greek?

[pointer]

What will be your excuse on Judgment Day?

Are you actually suggesting we'll be punished because we didn't read the Bible in Greek?

Are you scared of it? Or impoverished?

[Marnie]

My goodness....all you theologians are missing the point here.

I know I am just short woman, but, as I know Greek and Hebrew and am fluent in both languages, I can tell you that with few exceptions, the translations we have today are good representations of what the original authors (both human and Divine) intended. There are NO perfect translations as they are done by imperfect men. The best thing to do is have several translations (I would avoid like the plague the wretched Living Bible, Good News for Modern Man and the like) in favor of the NIV, NRSV, NASB and for those ascetics among us, the KJV.

You do NOT need to know the original languages. That's why you have pastors and teachers.

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.--Eph. 4:11-13

[EricH]

My goodness....all you theologians are missing the point here.

I know I am just short woman, but, as I know Greek and Hebrew and am fluent in both languages, I can tell you that with few exceptions, the translations we have today are good representations of what the original authors (both human and Divine) intended. There are NO perfect translations as they are done by imperfect men. The best thing to do is have several translations (I would avoid like the plague the wretched Living Bible, Good News for Modern Man and the like) in favor of the NIV, NRSV, NASB and for those ascetics among us, the KJV.

You do NOT need to know the original languages. That's why you have pastors and teachers.

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.--Eph. 4:11-13

Marnie is absolutely correct. All of the versions she mentions are great. If you are Bible shopping, try a couple and pick the one that you think will make it easiest for you to be faithful in reading and studying the word

[billie]

Thank you, Marnie.

[PeterJohn]

My principle Bible in terms of English Translations is the KJV, I have read and owned other trsns. such as The NEB, NIV, Level 66 NKJV The Bible in Basic English (actually more difficult to understand than the KJV?)

While the KJV is my prinxiple text I use the other translations for comparison/clarity

Incidentally becuase a surviving text is older does that automatically assure us that it is necessarilly more accurate than a later surviving "original" text ....All these Hebrew and Greek texts are copies ...admitted but let us be open-minded enough to the suggestion that even tho tesxts such as the Textus Receptus may be chronoloically later as copies, the lost Source Text may infact be earlier (This can be established thru the somewhat subjectiv literary analysis of the text).

Consider that in secular History 400 years remains betweens Alexander the Great and his Biographre Appisn and Rufius; that the intervening material has been lost with the exception of The Romances of Alexander ...how much then of Alexander's record is to be trusted as historically accurate and uncorrupted using some of the arguments which I have heard above which are not without logic;

I am a B.A. History Major (UNE Armidale nsw) graduated 1999 not a Theology Major and while not at all happy with the secular humanist philosophy of the secular arts and sciences I find as an observer less inclined to trust the teachers/teaching in schoos of theologu which give primacy to secular science over the Word of God (Which is neither KJV or NEB or TEV or RSV or Revised NIV)

Hmmmmm are the gender inclusivist or gender free versions of the NIV even more reliable texts than the original NIV?

[cjrose]

What will be your excuse on Judgment Day?

Are you actually suggesting we'll be punished because we didn't read the Bible in Greek?

Are you scared of it? Or impoverished?

scared of it? Impoverished? are you judging?

[billie]

What will be your excuse on Judgment Day?

Are you actually suggesting we'll be punished because we didn't read the Bible in Greek?

Are you scared of it? Or impoverished?

scared of it? Impoverished? are you judging?

That's so funny! Next time I pick up my NIV, I'll make sure to watch for lightening bolts!

[pointer]

What will be your excuse on Judgment Day?

Are you actually suggesting we'll be punished because we didn't read the Bible in Greek?

Are you scared of it? Or impoverished?

scared of it? Impoverished? are you judging?

There's nothing culpable about being impoverished, is there? It would be a very worthy cause to provide assistance to those who are unable to afford an interlinear Greek and a lexicon. All churches should do it as a basic service.