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Oct 22

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Idx: Divine Authority in Scriptures

Posted by David Cox on October 12, 2022
Posted in Authority • index 

Idx: Divine Authority in Scriptures

Divine Authority

The issue of divine authority is strongly attacked by liberals and others. The issue revolves around the simple point, if God did not really give us the Bible, then it has no authority. A secondary issue comes into play, if the Bible is not really inspired, then errors exist in it, and it has no confidence nor authority for us. The motive of people attacking the Bible in this way is to remove the divine authority from Scripture. Since these people are not “big enough” to go against God “nose to nose” sort of speak, they destroy the authority inherent in Scripture, and that causes them to escape its wrath for disobeying it. The entire issue of Divine Authority in Scripture is not really, whether God inspired the Bible or not, but evil people who do not want to accept what God has said in it. Read more

Oct 22

7

28-Hosea

Posted by David Cox on October 7, 2022
Posted in 28-Hosea 

28-Hosea In this index we present commentaries and studies on Hosea.




28-Hosea

More Modules from Hosea Category

    Oct 22

    6

    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

    5

    Idx: Bible Encyclopedias

    Posted by David Cox on October 5, 2022
    Posted in General Help • index  | Tagged With:

    Idx: Bible Encyclopedias These are Bible encyclopedias which are usually longer definitions of words.

    Bible Encyclopedias

    Religious Encyclopedias: Mythica, Jewish, Catholic.
    Secular Encyclopedias:     Wikipedia, Britannica.com, Columbia, Encarta, WorldBook, Encyclopedia.com, Plant Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of the Orient,
    Information Encyclopedias: Infoplease, Factmonster, 

    Idx: Bible Encyclopedias



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