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Oct 22

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Idx: Bible Versions and Translations

Posted by David Cox on October 6, 2022
Posted in index • Versions-Translations 

Idx: Bible Versions and Translations

Translation – The Bible was originally given to man in Hebrew (the Old Testament) with a very few parts in Aramaic, and Greek (the New Testament). Any Bible manuscript (book) that is not in these languages is a translation. Within one single language, there many be various differentversions in that language, some emphasizing one particular principle of translation over another (one very literal even at the expense of not being so understandable or conversational, another very easily understood and conversational but not very literal and true to the original texts).

KJV Translators – Preface to 1611 version  (a) 196K (14 pages)

I personally use and recommend the KJV Bible. But I am not a crazy about it, placing it as an authority above and beyond any criticism at all. It is a version, a translation, and no translation is entirely accurate to the original language it is translated from. Those who maintain that the Greek and Hebrew need to be corrected from the KJV are exalting a version above copies of Scriptures that are much more closer to the originals than ANY English version.

Having said that to clarify my position a bit, I would like to recommend Maxey’s site that evaluates various different versions of the English Bible [KJV,NIV, RSV, Living Bible, New World Translation (JWs), NASB, ASV]. I feel it is a little more realistic (i.e. read not knocking anything that is not KJV), and deals with valid considerations in each Bible evaluated.

Dozens of versions (in various languages)
http://bible-researcher.com/versions.html

NIV – New International Version

Cammenga – KJV vs. NIV – Which Bible?
Anderson, Allen – History and Comparison of English Bible Translations Currently in Print (2006)





Idx: Bible Versions and Translations

Oct 22

2

Idx: Bible Study Methods

Posted by David Cox on October 2, 2022
Posted in Bible Study Methods • index 

Idx: Bible Study Methods

Study Methods – These are the methods, plans, systems, and practices that students of Scripture use to study the Bible.

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Sep 22

28

Idx: Canonicity

Posted by David Cox on September 28, 2022
Posted in Bible Canon • index  | Tagged With: ,

Idx: Canonicity

Highly Recommended Link: Bible Research – The Canon of Scripture. Has information on the disputed books.

Canon (Canonicity) – deals with the reason why certain books are included in the Bible. The importance of this is in defending what books we include in “our Bible”, and defending why certain other books are excluded. The canon of Scripture is as important as Inspiration of Scripture, because without a definite reasonable and sound argument as to why we believe these books and only these books are the whole of Scripture, we fall to the weakness of excluding books which we disagree with their teaching, or including non-inspired works which favor our religious views.

Inherent in this issue is the pressing question of why certain things are excluded. Today the Pentecostal movement has made their preaching and proclamations of new doctrine equal with Scripture, and other groups such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses do the same with their writings, and Seventh Day Adventists do the same with the works of Ellen White, and the list can go on infinitely.

Canon settles the question of what is authoritative and from God, defining the limits of what we accept as “God’s Word.” Idx: Canonicity

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Sep 22

28

Idx: Higher Criticism

Posted by David Cox on September 28, 2022
Posted in High Criticism • index  | Tagged With: ,

Higher Criticism is a tendency within liberals and others that interpret the Word of God towards human rational explanations instead of accepting the miraculous obvious presentation of Scripture. This tendency also extends to attacking the proposed biblical authors of Scripture, typically moving prophecies to dates after their prophecy making them history presented as prophecy, and other such maneuvers to remove the miraculous or offensive (to their way of thinking) in the Bible so that their version of Christianity is less offensive. Idx: Higher Criticism

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