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Yes I do. But revising one of the old standbys is not the same as all of these paraphrases that hardly pay any attention to context. Nevertheless, you have to be careful. I always look at a Greek / Hebrew interlinear to see if the version follows the words and does not try to editorialize beyond...

Recall that languages change - meanings become archaic, new meanings to words are added albeit not applicable to the passages at hand in a 16th century original translation, spellings change. So often words in the translated language might have a word here and there for which an intended use in...

The NASB which was Updated in 1995 hence NAU

So how does one arrive at the truth of what God's Word says. My answer remains: study it yourself in the proper manner being faithful to the normative rules of language, context and logic. I've written down a study on these rules to remind me of my duty to the Word of Go: I am not a preacher by...

It's never too late to repent and stand corrected so long as I am alive.

I kept googling the subject. The NAU is the NASB Updated in 1995 or simply the NASB 1995

All mankind is physically born as unbelievers with a dead human spirit without that indwelling Spirit within. Whereupon one may receive the knowledge that Jesus Christ died for ones sins as in Jn 3:16 like the many atheists and the many non-believers did when I spoke with them over the years...

You were physically born an unbeliever with a dead human spirit without that indwelling Spirit within you. Whereupon you received the knowledge that Jesus Christ died for your sins as in Jn 3:16 - knowledge from the Bible - BEFORE YOUR RECEIVED THE SPIRIT. Whereupon you exercised a moment of...

If it were the case that no one can understand the Bible if he does not have the Holy Spirit in the sense of being saved and receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, then no one will ever understand the Bible because all of are physically born as unbelievers. Furthermore, if this were the...

i use 8 versions - because none is perfect and the Bible is meant for all accountable individuals to study which ever version(s) they choose but always in accordance with the normative rules of language, context and logic, i.e., the normal rules of reading we all learned in school. - that...