could all of the posters/debaters please just answer which version they choose. I'm curious after reading all of the discrediting of various translations... Personally early in my walk i choose the niv as it was easy for me to read. Later i noticed scriptural differences that were important enough for me to put it down. found i wasnt reading my kjv like i should have been as it isnt as easily understood and so i purchased a nkjv & quite like it & read it alot. so... each person please just list the version of your choice cause i'm curious based on your debating styles what you prefer. or perhaps we should have NO Bible cause they've all been translated and are in err.... hmmmm.
Greetings,
Most modern bibles including the NIV are based on and taken from the same manuscripts as the KJV, they are merely derivatives of the KJV, so the debate between the differences between the KJV and NIV is minor issue as they both come from the same source manuscripts.
I would say that it really is only possible to get the correct reading from the Bible if you translate from the original Koine Greek and Hebrew, tracing the transliterations through Latin, it is a long process, sometimes it might take me hours to get a close reading on just one key word and st the same time I will look at several translations comparing what other translators have stated and then try to get an understanding directly through the spirit, then go through the entire process again, and consider and linguistic alternatives or historical evidence as a background or overlay. The main Bible versions I use are, and I reccommend as a beginning;
- The Companion Bible - King James Version. E.W Bullinger Notes. (KJV to be read with Strong's Concordance)
- The Greek Septuagint (The oldest OT and the most accurate)
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James Moffatt Translation (Brilliant modern english translation from 1926)
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Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (literal word by word translation with full emphasis given to original languages)
- Young's Literal Translation (to be read with 'Young's Analytical Concordance')
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Ferrar Fenton Holy Bible (Important, Spirit filled individual translation)
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Geneva Bible (essential classic)
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New American Standard Bible
- New International Version
- Emphatic Diaglott