Versions of the Bible... Which one...?

[Joshua_Generation]

Do we really need another one of these threads?

 

[Makahiya2028]

We do not know that. We only know that none have yet been discovered.

yea, but, the point is, you don't have the original manuscripts

and neither did any of your teachers or anyone you teach !

 

[oldhermit]

Your are just like Guss in the move Lonesome Dove. "You just never do get the point do you Woodrow?"

 

[iamsoandso]

I kinda caught on to this phenomenon back here http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/52562-i-need-help-math-problem-8-print.html ,,,at the time there were a great many who were well antiquated with these things so I thought "I've hit a gold mine of help!",,,and then it quickly narrowed it's self down to a handful who actually could,,,

Why I say this is in the thread I stated that I was using a "pilgrims addition teachers bible KJV" I also used a kJV (also www sources) and with both these the wording in the fragment matched correctly "ACCEPT FOR" the exact words/letters(iota,eta). Irenaeus states that the Gnostic Valentinus changed when he wrote his "so called commentaries" on Revelation(see preface to A.H.).

So considering the degree of accuracy the K.J.V. stayed within comparing it's interpretation of the same scriptures to poxy.115 There were no differences I saw other than the ones changed by Valentinus in his "so called" commentary. I should include that to anyone reading this that the "616 or 666?" debate should be easily answered it is "six hundred-sixty-six",and the 616 manuscripts were intentionally changed by Valentinus.

Now I suppose I say this about the quality of the KJVersion because I have examined it in aspect to these fragments. If you took the same fragments and go to the verses in Rev.13-14(it is the last few verses of 13,and 14:1-3),and look at the Greek words corresponding to "stood on",8th,9th word in 14:1,then "forty",18th word in 14:1,ect.ect. then in doing so you will see that it is actually matching up extremely close to the KJV translation.,,, lol,but who would believe it does unless they took a fragment,any fragment and compared them?

 

[MarcR]

I would recommend either the English Standard Version (ESV) or the Holman Christian Standard Bible.

If you choose the ESV insist on an an eddition that includes the many 'disputed verses'.

If Mk 16:9-20 are present; all the disputed verses will also be included. The 'disputed verses' will be indicated by marginal note instead of dropped.