Thread: Bible Translations: Your favorite and why?
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Bible Translations: Your favorite and why?
Posted : 1 Dec, 2008 08:15 AM
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CDFF Congregation! :peace:
I'm curious and want some feedback / discussion on the different bible translations. It seem s every year or two some new bible translation comes out. I'm talking english language bibles. I'm talking bibles that are other than the original King James Version that was written in 1611 and will be four hundred years old in 2 years.
Happy Birthday...KJV :party: :rocknroll:
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I'll start this discussion. I'm a KJV girl. I got re-dedicated, saved as an adult in March 1990. I was always KJV but I started investigating other translations. What made me a KJV girl for life is the story in John 8:1-11. This is where the woman was caught in adultery and the Pharasees brought her to Jesus to see if he would have her stoned.
In verse 8 Jesus says "he who is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her". Now.....the juicy part which ONLY the King James Version has is in verse 9.
" And they which heard it, being CONVICTED BY THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest even to the last. " :bow:
The New American St. bible took out "conviction/conscience"
The International bible took out "conviction/conscience"
The Good News bible took out "conviction/conscience"
The juciy meat was taken off the bone!! :eat:
These Pharasees were convicted of their own conscience cause they knew they had SET up this lady to get caught!! The guy she was having sex with was probably right there in the crowd!!
It was a set up to discredit Jesus that backfired! :nahnah:
JESUS IS IN THE HOUSE!!!! WHOAAA....!! !:applause:
If I had to chose just one version, it would be the NIV. But the Bible I purchased last year contains the 4 versions of my choice. Those being the New King James, Amplified, New American Standard, and the New International Version.
I like having the different ones to compare, side by side. Also, having the differences of 'thought for thought' vs. 'word for word' translations.
Bad thing is, the size makes it a bit cumbersome...so I often just carry my older and smaller NIV with me... :)
I love the beauty and cadence of the KJV, it is beautifully written and reads like poetry. There really is no version that compares for just sheer enjoyment. However, a more modern version that still has the meat, is the New King James Version. For preaching, or even studying, I find it to be the best. But for comfort, give me the authorized KJV.
I will likely always use the King James Bible. I say this not out of appreciation for the beauty of the language, or its great history, but out of a conviction that God has preserved His Word. I choose the KJV because I believe the text from which it is translated is the best available text, the only text that does not deny that God has preserved His Word.
In the 1800's two men named Wescott and Hort put forth the view that God had not preserved His Word, but that over time men had corrupted it. They chose three manuscripts with known and errors and used them to overrule several thousand manuscripts. The text that they created is known as the critical text. Over the years it has been revised many times, always out of the belief that God did not preserve His Word. Every modern version including the NKJV is translated from this critical text. If the source is corrupted, the end product will be corrupted.
I also choose the KJV because no other version has been translated by such a group of men. A panel of approximately 70 of the greatest Hebrew and Greek scholars of the time worked together and agreed on every word in the KJV. No other version can claim this.
If the English language changed to such a point that the KJV was no longer easily understood, and someone put out a version translated from the Traditional Text from which the KJV is based, I would consider it, but as of today no such version exsists.
Actually the NKJV is translated from the same Greek texts as the KJV but this time they corrected many of the grammatical errors that is in the KJV.
No English version is inspired only the Texts from which they came from are.
It is also important to realize that those "scholars" who translated the KJV were Calvinists (Reformed Theology) and when you study Greek you can see their theological bias caused them to error in many verses favoring their theology when in actually had they been 100% honest with the grammar and tenses the actual Greek refuted some of their beliefs.
