Favourite Bible Translations

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eternally-gratefull

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I’ve come across unbelievers that think it’s a joke that we have more than one bible. We cannot somehow get our facts straight.
I’ve come across unbelievers who think Gods people are a joke, a bunch of hypocrites. Who do nothing but bash people over insignificant things such as which english Bible is perfect,
 
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I apologize if you think I’m arrogant. That’s not me at all. Confident in the Lord‘s promise to preserve his words? Absolutely!
Nope

if you would open you mind you would see the flaw in your thinking, but your too proud
 

Dino246

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Christians cannot even agree which bible to use. Do you not see that’s a problem with the lost world?
Only if people like you keep making an issue of it. To the vast majority of unbelievers, it's completely irrelevant. The differences between major translations don't affect core doctrines at all, and any could be used in a witnessing context. What matters is telling them God's word, and that is available in many translations. The issue is even irrelevant to most Christians. They have other, more important concerns.
 
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eternally-gratefull

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My mind is open

thats why I can not buy your nonsense of a perfect word for word English bible

the flaw is the language used.
but believe what you want
 

John146

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Only if people like you keep making an issue of it. To the vast majority of unbelievers, it's completely irrelevant. The differences between major translations don't affect core doctrines at all, and any could be used in a witnessing context. What matters is telling them God's word, and that is available in many translations. The issue is even irrelevant to most Christians. They have other, more important concerns.
Well, most Christians are ignorant of the issue and don’t study their bible. The most important of all doctrines is affected...the validity and trustworthiness of Scripture. Can I trust everything that Gods has said? If I can’t trust parts of it, why should I trust any of it? And who is man to say which parts I should trust and which parts to change?
 

John146

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My mind is open

thats why I can not buy your nonsense of a perfect word for word English bible

the flaw is the language used.
but believe what you want
Why do you think it has to be word for word? Is that what God expects? God can have his words translated into any language he sees fit and that translation can be the perfect, pure words of God without error for that language. No?
 

Dino246

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Well, most Christians are ignorant of the issue and don’t study their bible.
Unless you personally know "most Christians", which you don't, how would you know? That's just a convenient claim with no evidence.

The most important of all doctrines is affected...the validity and trustworthiness of Scripture.
Ah... so you believe that the Person and work of Jesus Christ are secondary? Good to know; it explains your cultic mindset.

Can I trust everything that Gods has said? If I can’t trust parts of it, why should I trust any of it? And who is man to say which parts I should trust and which parts to change?
I can demonstrate the reliability of Scripture with any major translation. Apparently, you can't. That's not my problem.
 

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Christians cannot even agree which bible to use. Do you not see that’s a problem with the lost world?
No. Why should it be? Besides, you have not really worded your complaint properly. It is more like, Christians vary in their preference for which Bible to use. That we do not agree on which is best for us individually is secondary. Why should that concern non-believers? Their books are also re-published in updated versions, but they rarely see their hypocrisy. Double standards are standard for them. Also, if you spend any time at all talking to non-believers, you will find them all too ready to complain and criticize Christians for any little thing.
 
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Why do you think it has to be word for word? Is that what God expects? God can have his words translated into any language he sees fit and that translation can be the perfect, pure words of God without error for that language. No?
It does not have to be a word for word. But that is what the KJV is considered.

you scream God can perfectly translate in any language, but yet preach he only did it in one language, and that language being a dead language today.

again, the English language is the problem. The KJV being a word for word, is limited by the ability of the language to properly interpret that language from which it is interpreted from.

the English language can not do that, it is a poor language with many flaws and is limited in what it can do
 

John146

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Unless you personally know "most Christians", which you don't, how would you know? That's just a convenient claim with no evidence.
The overwhelming majority I speak with have no idea of the differences in the versions. The sit there in the pew while their preacher corrects the Bible and they never put two and two together. “Why is he correcting God’s word?”
 

Dino246

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The one thing that should unite us is the word of God.
Actually, that's not what Scripture says! Rather, it says, "Being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all" (Ephesians 4:3-6). Nothing there about "Scripture".
 
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God is not the author of confusion. The one thing that should unite us is the word of God.
Your right he is not

yet your causing confusion by saying God perfectly interpreted the word in an old dead language, yet is incapable of bringing it to today’s language.
 

John146

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I can demonstrate the reliability of Scripture with any major translation. Apparently, you can't. That's not my problem.
Great! Why don’t you just translate the entire Bible for us and give us a Bible we can trust every word. Thanks.
 

Dino246

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The overwhelming majority I speak with have no idea of the differences in the versions. The sit there in the pew while their preacher corrects the Bible and they never put two and two together. “Why is he correcting God’s word?”
Your "majority" is a very small minority.
 

John146

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It is more like, Christians vary in their preference for which Bible to use.
God should be the final authority on what he has said, not us. It’s not a preference issue, but a truth issue. The majority of Christians sitting in church has no clue of such issues.