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"To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. In...

You do NOT arrive at truth by introducing man-made contradictions into God's word! "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." (1John 3:9, KJV) "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth...

To state a fundamental and basic rule of interpretation: "Simplicity and Naturalness - Presumably the meaning of almost any passage was simple to the writer; otherwise, he would have attempted to simplify it by explanation or further development. The correct interpretation will therefore be a...

The Greek malakos and arsenokoites as found in 1 Cor. 6:9 in the following translations: KJV/1611 "nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind" RV/1885 "nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men" ASV/1901 "nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men" Using the 1828...

I've been spending too much time working on replies and posts so I am dropping out. It will be more profitable for me to begin using the NRSVue along with the Fifth Edition of The New Oxford Annotated Bible and spend some time on that. I find that so often in the so-called "liberal" study...

Concerning conservative, liberal or scholarly input to a translation, a book by the RSV translators gets directly to the point speaking on the OT, but the principle applies to the NT as well: "A recent speaker has told of a project to issue 'a theologically conservative translation of the...

Most web sites that claim to give a clear review of Bible translations tend to be fundamentalist/evangelical rather than balanced reviews. The best overview of translations I've found comes from the UK: https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/explore-the-bible/which-is-the-best-bible-translation/ An...

You can prove anything under the sun when you make up your own ignorant, bigoted dictionary and thesaurus! Standard English reads: sodomite noun One who practices sodomy; a sodomist. noun derogatory A male homosexual. from wikitionary sodomite often offensive : someone who...

What was the writer of Hebrews quoting, since it was not the Hebrew? The writer to the Hebrews in Heb 1:6 quotes from Deut. 32:43 and writes the words: "And let all the angels of God worship him." "And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the...

Are you denying that the LXX exists, or that Jesus and the Apostles quoted it in our NT?

I've been reading about the NRSV Udated Edition to see what was done to the very good NRSV. The review link is: https://baptistnews.com/article/after-30-years-the-nrsv-gets-an-update-heres-what-that-means/ The article writes the following paragraph: "While the project’s organizers cite many...

Not being scholars in the Hebrew and Greek, most of us have to use the language helps. They are quite effective when coming up against the self-proclaimed scholars on the Internet, who no one knows their actual qualifications. Who is the true scholar? It is those who have written the lexicons...

Where did you get that there is any Aramaic in the book of Isaiah? I find that nowhere in reference books I have. As to using a translation that is not in the same language as the original, remember Jesus and the Apostles mainly used and quoted from the LXX, the Septuagint, a Greek translation...

Very true! "You study the scriptures diligently, supposing that in having them you have eternal life; their testimony points to me, yet you refuse to come to me to receive that life." (John 5:39-40, REB)

Some people have a quick wit and humor that sometimes they regret later. My BIG problem is my sharp and impatient tongue and I've struggled for years with that very verse I quoted. I've never been called "refined" before. LOL

The word "brass" is found in the NRSV only once and in the REB four times. The NRSV and REB use "bronze" in most places, but in Deut. 8:9 where it refers to the metal dug out of the earth, the NRSV and REB use "copper". On why the KJV translators used "brass" when they knew something about...

You assume incorrectly, very much so. I use the KJV primarily because almost all my language help tools are keyed to the KJV and the Strong's numbering system. I use the RV a lot for study, modern versions I prefer the RSV/NRSV and the NEB/REB and quote them often, but I have about 20...

A critic of the KJV points to Deut. 8:9 as an error for its translation of "brass" since it is an alloy that is not dug out of the ground, and it is a difficult point to answer. I'm using the KJV here, but any translation can be criticized in like manner in various verses. Brass, from the...

Your first sentence brought the following verse to mind: "Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving." (Eph 5:4, NRSV) or from another version "No coarse, stupid, or flippant talk: these things are out of place; you should rather be...

In my first reply on this thread I expressed a bit of dark hyperbole about how the leftists and Communists types can abort all their unborn for that means fewer of their type in the future. At my age I rarely do frequent revising of my articles of belief, but this topic caused me to do a...