“So many versions”
is the title of the new book not found in your so-called Christian bookstore! Ask your pastor why it’s not there!
We will be going through this book which brings to light so many versions of the Bible? How do these versions stack up to God’s perfect words, the 1769 King James Bible which they never mention in this book! The Blainey text! It is always the 1611 translation! Here is what the author’s Sakae Kubo and Walter Specht say in Chapter 1 titled early modern speech versions:
Pg. 26: In the sixteenth century William Tinsdale risked his life to translate the scriptures and died as a martyr in 1538.What was it that inspired him to undertake such a dangerous and daring work? Tindale said “ Which thing only moved me to translate the New Testament. Because I had perceived by experience how that it is impossible to establish the lay people in any truth, except the scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue, that they might see the processing of the text.”
Later on page 26 they fall for the devil’s lie! “ Unfortunately the very version prefaced by these noble words( KJV 1611) is no longer speaking their language of the common man. To the average man of today the language of the KJV seems strange and foreign. There is therefore danger that the Bible may seem to modern man to be something out of date and irrelevant.This has been recognised now for nearly a century. Hence, toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century a movement arose calling for translations of the Bible in modern English.”
Take note that this book puts Scholarship first ( they don’t believe the words on the page)
They refer to the originals ( there are no originals on the face of the planet!)
They attack the so-called archaic words!! The King James Bible!
As we press forward we will compare the versions that they have listed in this book and see how they stack up in their modern English against God’s perfect words, the 1769 King James Bible!
In the Roman Catholic Rheims-Douai new notes calling attention to significant textual variations in MSS are added in a few places.
Psalm 23
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
23 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein.2 For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.3 Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place?4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.6 This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.7 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.8 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.9 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.10 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory.
KING James Bible
Ps 23:1 ¶ A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.Ps 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.Ps 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Ps 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Ps 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.Ps 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Does the text matter to you?? It does to the funeral parlor!!Money! Money! Money!
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