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Yep I agree totally.
שָּׁמַ֖יִם šā·mǎʹ·yim heaven, sky
noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute
So the old KJV is right out.
שָּׁמַ֖יִם šā·mǎʹ·yim heaven, sky
noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute
So the old KJV is right out.
When Ukraine beats back the Russians, I'd be happy to talk! 2 of my grandparents, 4 great grandparents were born in Ukraine. I have many family members fighting in Ukraine, some have been killed.
Putin is a disturbed dictator who admires Stalin. Stalin killed up to 10 million Ukrainian in 1932-33, the Holomodor and again in 1937-38, which is when 1 of my great grandfathers was killed! Genocide is Putin's agenda. I have loads on the Russification of Ukraine, going back to the 16th century. Russia has always been the aggressors, and they are going to lose this time!
Putin is a disturbed dictator who admires Stalin. Stalin killed up to 10 million Ukrainian in 1932-33, the Holomodor and again in 1937-38, which is when 1 of my great grandfathers was killed! Genocide is Putin's agenda. I have loads on the Russification of Ukraine, going back to the 16th century. Russia has always been the aggressors, and they are going to lose this time!
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The Presbyterians ruled James in Scotland with a rod of iron, he had a true loathing for them. The Stuarts leaned towards the Catholics but dared not do so publicly. Mary Queen of Scots was Catholic.
It was Charles 1 attempt to unify the Scottish church with the English church, with it's bishops, that began the civil war.
It was Charles 1 attempt to unify the Scottish church with the English church, with it's bishops, that began the civil war.
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I get most of my history info from Wikipedia and it seems there was a LOT of intrigue going on at that time of English/Scottish history. I like Lucy Worsley's history shows and if she put her spotlight on this history it could be very illuminating. Just as any time in history it takes 100's of years to get to what is really going on if ever.
From the Preface to the 2018 edition of the NKJV:
The Greek text used for the New Testament is the one that was followed by the King James translators: the traditional text of the Greek-speaking churches called the Received Text or Textus Receptus, first published in 1516. Footnotes indicate significant variants as found in two other editions of the Greek New Testament:
The Greek text used for the New Testament is the one that was followed by the King James translators: the traditional text of the Greek-speaking churches called the Received Text or Textus Receptus, first published in 1516. Footnotes indicate significant variants as found in two other editions of the Greek New Testament:
(1) NU-Text: These variations generally represent the Alexandrian or Egyptian text type as found in the critical text published in the twenty-sixth edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament (N) and in the United Bible Societies' third edition (U).
(2) M-Text: These variations represent readings found in the text of the first edition of the Hodges & Farstad Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text, which represents the consensus found in the majority of surviving New Testament manuscripts.
The NKJV is the only mainstream version I know of that lists readings from the majority text. There are other versions available that are based on the majority text but they haven't gained much traction.-
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A bout 2001-2005 I came to know a family who claimed to be Jewish (particularly maternally) from somewhere in the East of Russia originally and the paternal lineage I never knew and didn't ask, but on the male side of the family they claimed Stalin was a great man. Seems to me a set up for family quarrels to say the least? Bad situation about your relatives. I only vaguely know anything about my grandparents on both sides only that they came from Poland and Lithuania and an uncle by marriage that came from Lithuania via Germany around WW2. All my relatives are passed on mother's side and on father's side never really knew them but did meet a cousin around 1989 and she married a Muslim man, (Jimmy he called himself) from Tunisia and was asking whether she should go live there with him. Jimmy was in my car one day and almost crying because he couldn't get any work here except for being a cabbie and claimed that his family in Tunisia was fairly wealthy but Tunisian laws prohibited sending ?money? out of the country. Dilemma?
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A word of caution. The NKJV has compromised with the ideas of the modern text critics. So it is not to be trusted.
1. The so-called "Majority Text" is NOT the Received Text (TR). And since the majority of manuscripts remain uncollated, that is a misleading term. Thus it is a "provisional text" and not necessarily superior to the TR.
2. The introduction of variant readings into the margins casts doubt upon the text itself.
3. There are a great many departures from the Received Text so it is simply a mishmash.
4. There are also many serious faults in translation. So there was no point in coming up with another faulty translation.
And the list goes on and on. But it is also significant that the NKJV used a New Age symbol on its cover. It is an occult symbol connected with the Aquarian Conspiracy (which is ultimately a Satanic conspiracy). If that is not enough to shun this translation, then there is nothing more to be said.
1. The so-called "Majority Text" is NOT the Received Text (TR). And since the majority of manuscripts remain uncollated, that is a misleading term. Thus it is a "provisional text" and not necessarily superior to the TR.
2. The introduction of variant readings into the margins casts doubt upon the text itself.
3. There are a great many departures from the Received Text so it is simply a mishmash.
4. There are also many serious faults in translation. So there was no point in coming up with another faulty translation.
And the list goes on and on. But it is also significant that the NKJV used a New Age symbol on its cover. It is an occult symbol connected with the Aquarian Conspiracy (which is ultimately a Satanic conspiracy). If that is not enough to shun this translation, then there is nothing more to be said.
The NKJV Preface says: "The textual notes in the New King James version attempt to make no evaluation of variant readings but seek instead to present the facts objectively."
I don't have a problems with notes. However, most modern versions say things like "the earliest and most reliable manuscripts say" x, y or z. In other words they aren't objective and in many cases are outright dishonest.
I don't have a problems with notes. However, most modern versions say things like "the earliest and most reliable manuscripts say" x, y or z. In other words they aren't objective and in many cases are outright dishonest.
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Well maybe they wont say so in so many words.
Jesus says Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Dispensationalist say
Matthew 4:17
at hand
"At hand" is never a positive affirmation that the person or thing said to be "at hand" will immediately appear, but only that no known or predicted event must intervene. When Christ appeared to the Jewish people, the next thing in the order of revelation as it then stood, should have been the setting up of the Davidic kingdom. In the knowledge of God, not yet disclosed, lay the rejection of the kingdom (and King), the long period of the mystery-form of the kingdom, the world-wide preaching of the cross, and the out-calling of the Church. But this was as yet locked up in the secret counsels of God. Mat_13:11; Mat_13:17; Eph_3:3-10.
Jesus gives us a lesson in this parable......Mat 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
Mat 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Mat 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
The dispensational lesson is .
Another parable
That interpretation of the parable of the Leaven (Mat_13:33) which makes (with variation as to details) the leaven to be the Gospel, introduced into the world ("three measures of meal") by the church, and working subtly until the world is converted ("till the whole was leavened") is open to fatal objection:......
Summary:
(1) Leaven, as a symbolic or typical substance, is always mentioned in the O.T. in an evil sense
Yet the Scriptures say
Lev 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Lev 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
Jesus says Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Dispensationalist say
Matthew 4:17
at hand
"At hand" is never a positive affirmation that the person or thing said to be "at hand" will immediately appear, but only that no known or predicted event must intervene. When Christ appeared to the Jewish people, the next thing in the order of revelation as it then stood, should have been the setting up of the Davidic kingdom. In the knowledge of God, not yet disclosed, lay the rejection of the kingdom (and King), the long period of the mystery-form of the kingdom, the world-wide preaching of the cross, and the out-calling of the Church. But this was as yet locked up in the secret counsels of God. Mat_13:11; Mat_13:17; Eph_3:3-10.
Jesus gives us a lesson in this parable......Mat 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
Mat 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Mat 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
The dispensational lesson is .
Another parable
That interpretation of the parable of the Leaven (Mat_13:33) which makes (with variation as to details) the leaven to be the Gospel, introduced into the world ("three measures of meal") by the church, and working subtly until the world is converted ("till the whole was leavened") is open to fatal objection:......
Summary:
(1) Leaven, as a symbolic or typical substance, is always mentioned in the O.T. in an evil sense
Yet the Scriptures say
Lev 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Lev 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
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