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Seeler said:
I've chosen to read the RSV on line.
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One point, You should really be reading the NKJV It is the most accurate translation of the Byzantium texts. Anything else is a copy of a copy.
By using more modern English words to avoid confusion, and by footnoting verses that have been shown to be dubious and likely later additions, the NKJV is more accurate in regards to a faithful translation.
 
Pavlos Maros said:
One point, You should really be reading the NKJV It is the most accurate translation of the Byzantium texts. Anything else is a copy of a copy.
By using more modern English words to avoid confusion, and by footnoting verses that have been shown to be dubious and likely later additions, the NKJV is more accurate in regards to a faithful translation.
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Interestingly, the versions of the Bible we were warned in seminary against using are the KJV and the NKJV. Due to their translation history, they are not considered at least in my seminary to be advisable for academic use.
 
Jae said:
Interestingly, the versions of the Bible we were warned in seminary against using are the KJV and the NKJV. Due to their translation history, they are not considered at least in my seminary to be advisable for academic use.
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Yeah, I'm almost wondering if he meant the NRSV. That's the one I've always heard cited by Biblical scholars and ministers I've read, and the study bible my former UU minister recommended for our bible study group was an annotated NRSV (yes, we do study the bible, just not as a sole source). I'm not familiar with the NKJV, though. If it isn't an updated KJV but is a whole new translation that just uses the name, perhaps it is better than it sounds.
 
Mendalla said:
Yeah, I'm almost wondering if he meant the NRSV. That's the one I've always heard cited by Biblical scholars and ministers I've read, and the study bible my former UU minister recommended for our bible study group was an annotated NRSV (yes, we do study the bible, just not as a sole source). I'm not familiar with the NKJV, though. If it isn't an updated KJV but is a whole new translation that just uses the name, perhaps it is better than it sounds.
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The ones recommended for us to use are the NRSV, the ESV, and the NIV. I personally mostly read the HCSB, since it's the version in my Mission of God Study Bible.
 
Jae said:
The ones recommended for us to use are the NRSV, the ESV, and the NIV. I personally mostly read the HCSB, since it's the version in my Mission of God Study Bible.
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Never read the Holman, though I've heard of it. I have read parts of the NIV and ESV. Back in my United Church days, the NRSV wasn't out yet and the NIV was fairly new, so we tended to use either the old RSV (I still have one that was a confirmation gift) and the Good News Bible, which is a paraphrase rather than an original translation IIRC (but it's been a long time, so I'll defer if someone know otherwise).
 
Jae said:
Interestingly, the versions of the Bible we were warned in seminary against using are the KJV and the NKJV. Due to their translation history, they are not considered at least in my seminary to be advisable for academic use.
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You may have missed it my last post I stated that the NKJV is the most accurate translation of the Byzantium texts. Anything else is a copy of a copy and as such are corrupt.. So yes I do mean the NKJV and yes it is a much clearer version than the KJV. The reason you are warned off it, Is yours is a too heavily doctored copy and leans to far from the original scriptures.
 
Mendalla said:
Never read the Holman, though I've heard of it. I have read parts of the NIV and ESV. Back in my United Church days, the NRSV wasn't out yet and the NIV was fairly new, so we tended to use either the old RSV (I still have one that was a confirmation gift) and the Good News Bible, which is a paraphrase rather than an original translation IIRC (but it's been a long time, so I'll defer if someone know otherwise).
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Hmm... I must predate you in the UCCanada. When I was there as a kid it was all RSV in my congregation.
 
Jae said:
Hmm... I must predate you in the UCCanada. When I was there as a kid it was all RSV in my congregation.
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I grew up there and you're only a year older than me IIRC. I think the Good News came along late seventies or so. The pulpit Bible was RSV so that's what got used the most in services. Good News was more in the Sunday School, family reading, maybe confirmation class.
 
Mendalla said:
I grew up there and you're only a year older than me IIRC. I think the Good News came along late seventies or so. The pulpit Bible was RSV so that's what got used the most in services. Good News was more in the Sunday School, family reading, maybe confirmation class.
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I grew up there too. I was actually baptized in a UCCanada church in Fredericton. The first exposure I can recall to the Good News was in a neighborhood effort for kids called the "Good News Bible Club." It was like a weekday version of Sunday School. It broke up shortly after the woman who ran it evangelized to one of the kids.
 
Jae said:
I grew up there too. I was actually baptized in a UCCanada church in Fredericton. The first exposure I can recall to the Good News was in a neighborhood effort for kids called the "Good News Bible Club." It was like a weekday version of Sunday School. It broke up shortly after the woman who ran it evangelized to one of the kids.
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I went to a thing like one summer at Mom's insistence. It was the nice old lady down the street. Pretty blatantly aimed at conversion/evangelization. Didn't work in case you haven't noticed.:whistle::D
 
Mendalla said:
I went to a thing like one summer at Mom's insistence. It was the nice old lady down the street. Pretty blatantly aimed at conversion/evangelization. Didn't work in case you haven't noticed.:whistle::D
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Yep, in this neighborhood too it was just a nice lady started it up. It was going well too - crafts, snacks, stories from the Bible (Noah's Ark and such). Then one day, after most of us went home, she came down all "turn or burn" style on one of the kids. :eek:. The club folded almost immediately thereafter. The parents yanked all us kids out.
 
Pavlos Maros said:
One point, You should really be reading the NKJV It is the most accurate translation of the Byzantium texts. Anything else is a copy of a copy.
By using more modern English words to avoid confusion, and by footnoting verses that have been shown to be dubious and likely later additions, the NKJV is more accurate in regards to a faithful translation.
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They are all copious ... like Eve angels ... dark and copiously mysterious ... to cause wrestling with alien context! God is like that ...

Then if you read some of the bible in the biblical languages ... you find interpretation has confused everything ... the way some imagined after 13 translations between Vaticanus and KJV as dictated too by 1700 century trumping ...

Can you imagine the spell checker can't even deal with Vaticanus as a dog somewhat institutionalized as Rome? They too had trouble accepting alien intelligence ... so it fell out as folly of psyche ... from "show us your blog" possibly a flighty thought!

VATICANUS: The Word & its Meaning from which is derived the word Vatican as in Vatican City the Imperial Seat of the Roman Caesars.

VATICAN is derived from two Latin words Vatic-anus.
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Possibly an extraction from Ba'aL 'ms ass ... a religious b'AUM ere ... KISS it if you feel that leaving sensation ... the Irish called it Blarney ... you can't escape the unknown ... being the great desire for mystery, myth and not knowing ... thus extensive naïveté!

It stews ...
 
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A Bible is good to help us learn. There are many different Bibles in print today.. But A Christian today should remember it is GOD Who Is The Teacher. You must have eyes to see", but even more , you must have ears" to hear. For we follow a Living GOD. The Indwelling God Who teaches from the inside the one they call GODS HOLY SPIRIT. You can read all the different Books" from cover to coven , with out it . You still will not understand.
 
airclean33 said:
A Bible is good to help us learn. There are many different Bibles in print today.. But A Christian today should remember it is GOD Who Is The Teacher. You must have eyes to see", but even more , you must have ears" to hear. For we follow a Living GOD. The Indwelling God Who teaches from the inside the one they call GODS HOLY SPIRIT. You can read all the different Books" from cover to coven , with out it . You still will not understand.
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So the Bible is optional then? A learning tool? Just a guide to help us hear what God is saying?
 
Mendalla said:
So the Bible is optional then? A learning tool? Just a guide to help us hear what God is saying?
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Hi Mendalla--
The Word Of GOD , I believe is there for your," help.
Do you know when the Jews are writing new Bibles . Then number ,the Letters on a page" . If the page they are working on don't have the same number , they through it away . Then start all over. They are and always have been very carful, with there testament", Yet when it came to The YeShua they did not know it was Him". Even though , The Book of Isaiah Perry well describes Him". Even said what His Name would be". You see on like Isaiah, they were not Listing to, GODS HOLY SPIRIT".
 
Did you know that when scribes were writing the Torah and if

they made a mistake, they had to start from the beginning. anybody know about this?
 
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