Why don't we have a perfect bible today?
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First, a cult is in thinking you can't trust God's Word.
Second, James Strong and his many friends who worked on the Strong's Concordance did not create a divinely inspired work. They were just men. They also provide a wide variety of definitions so you can play along with a "Choose your own Adventure" type Bible, too. There is no real nailed down Word of authority. God does not change. He had written the Word of God (i.e. Ten Commandments) on tablets of stone with His very own finger. Why do we think God has changed? He hasn't. God still perfectly has provided His Word for us today. For the Bible we have today says that it is perfect and that the words of the Lord are PURE words. Do you believe your Bible when it says those words?
Second, James Strong and his many friends who worked on the Strong's Concordance did not create a divinely inspired work. They were just men. They also provide a wide variety of definitions so you can play along with a "Choose your own Adventure" type Bible, too. There is no real nailed down Word of authority. God does not change. He had written the Word of God (i.e. Ten Commandments) on tablets of stone with His very own finger. Why do we think God has changed? He hasn't. God still perfectly has provided His Word for us today. For the Bible we have today says that it is perfect and that the words of the Lord are PURE words. Do you believe your Bible when it says those words?
Five men who worked on the Modern Translations have lost their voice. Also, when this point was brought up to a Bible scholar on the John Ankerberg Show, he actually lost his voice, too.
Bible Corrector Loses Voice on Ankerberg Show
2 Corinthians 2:17
"For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ."
Bible Corrector Loses Voice on Ankerberg Show
2 Corinthians 2:17
"For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ."
The King Jimmy is not a preservation of God's Word, for God gave it in Greek, Hebrew, & Aramaic -- English was not invented.
God's Word is preserved as He gave it.
So why then have thousands of men who translated God's word in modern times -- why have they not lost their voices?
The passage you quote is about Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, who was blameless, walking in all the commandments of the Lord! An angel had spoken God's Word to Zach, who disbelieved the miraculous promise. And I guarantee you that the angel was not speaking Elizabethan English.
< Habakkuk 2:2:
"And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision,
and make it plain"
God's Word is preserved as He gave it.
So why then have thousands of men who translated God's word in modern times -- why have they not lost their voices?
The passage you quote is about Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, who was blameless, walking in all the commandments of the Lord! An angel had spoken God's Word to Zach, who disbelieved the miraculous promise. And I guarantee you that the angel was not speaking Elizabethan English.
< Habakkuk 2:2:
"And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision,
and make it plain"
If God has preserved His Scripture, then it is preserved. And thus it is preserved in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
No particular manuscript is perfect, but the Scripture is preserved. No reading, no word, no letter of the original is out-of-existence.
Of course the King Jimmy is not a preservation of God's Word; it is a translation made from manuscripts and not the best manuscripts, though good ones.
When God gave his word, there was no Elizabethan English, no English of any kind. And if the name "Jimmy" was not in existence when the Bible was out-spired, how could the Jimmy be preserved?
Cease jimmying the Word.
No particular manuscript is perfect, but the Scripture is preserved. No reading, no word, no letter of the original is out-of-existence.
Of course the King Jimmy is not a preservation of God's Word; it is a translation made from manuscripts and not the best manuscripts, though good ones.
When God gave his word, there was no Elizabethan English, no English of any kind. And if the name "Jimmy" was not in existence when the Bible was out-spired, how could the Jimmy be preserved?
Cease jimmying the Word.
The real question we each need to answer is how to find actual truth from the Lord in words of scripture available to us.
All these posts about judging people who try to translate the words of the Lord to us in a language our mortal minds can best comprehend God's message to us is not answering the basic question at all. I find that listening to how God instructs us to live our life works for most everything, and God has a lot to say about judging, and still finding God's truth in all of our life.
I think Gordon Fee did a wonderful job giving helpful hints on how to do that in his book "How to Read the Bible for All It is Worth".
I also think it would be helpful for all of us to understand the original language used by the first men God breathed His Holy word to. That would have the least translations in it. Most people today say that is Greek, etc., they say by the time Christ lived with us the original Hebrew was gone. My search of the latest archeological findings says there is error in that finding. I also find that it applies that men began to think differently about 500 years before Christ. There are references to this in scripture, and there were Hellenized Jews and classical Jews. I think we need to learn about this to see what God wants us to see in His word, that it applies.
All this arguing about translations being perfect or not is not helping man hear directly from God's mouth at all.
All these posts about judging people who try to translate the words of the Lord to us in a language our mortal minds can best comprehend God's message to us is not answering the basic question at all. I find that listening to how God instructs us to live our life works for most everything, and God has a lot to say about judging, and still finding God's truth in all of our life.
I think Gordon Fee did a wonderful job giving helpful hints on how to do that in his book "How to Read the Bible for All It is Worth".
I also think it would be helpful for all of us to understand the original language used by the first men God breathed His Holy word to. That would have the least translations in it. Most people today say that is Greek, etc., they say by the time Christ lived with us the original Hebrew was gone. My search of the latest archeological findings says there is error in that finding. I also find that it applies that men began to think differently about 500 years before Christ. There are references to this in scripture, and there were Hellenized Jews and classical Jews. I think we need to learn about this to see what God wants us to see in His word, that it applies.
All this arguing about translations being perfect or not is not helping man hear directly from God's mouth at all.
As for the 6th Bible scholar who lost his voice: You can watch the video of the incident for yourself by requesting a video at the information provided at the top of the article of this link...
Bible Corrector Loses Voice on Ankerberg Show
Bible Corrector Loses Voice on Ankerberg Show
As I said, I am not against Modern Translations. I use them all the time and find them very helpful for this reason. I believe God allowed flawed Modern Translations to exist so as to test to see what is the pure Word of God. Thru this process, Modern Translations do offer a more plain Modern reading that is simple and easy to understand (More so in the Old Testament). I will admit that. But Jesus did not always speak in a way where everyone understood Him, though. He also spoke in parables, too.
I do no not need to walk by sight. I have faith. There are a million reasons that could explain it. They could be fakes or deliberate corruptions. I see the observable evidence that the KJV is the preserved Word of God for our day. It internally verifies itself and is superior to other translations (If one were to do a simple side by side comparison). For the blood atonement, salvation, the deity of Christ, the mention of specific sins are watered down. Certain passages are changed that would create two different sets of faiths or beliefs (One being KJV and the other who is a Modern Translationist). Also, the devil's name is not placed wrongfully in the KJV, either. Bible numbers confirm the inspiration of the KJV as they do the original Greek text.
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