[Faith-talk] Bible Translations

[Joshua Lester]

I love my NKJV.
Has anyone read the New Living Translation?
For study purposes, I really love the Amplified.
Blessings, Joshua

On 11/28/11, Jeanette <nettiecosp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> i really like my nkjv, i got it free from my nls state library, someone
> donated three copies of the Bible to the library, i had the niv from luthern
> braille press, i also have a little digital bible i got from blind mice mart
> that is the nasv
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:12 PM
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>> Jeanette,
>> Me too. I used the niv because it was the only one I could find in
>> braille.
>> I think I like the Good News Bible too. If I get another bible either in
>> audio or electronic text, I want to read the NKJ. I think I'd follow it
>> better than KJ since that has the thous and thee's and  thine, etc in it.
>>
>> Ashley
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeanette
>> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:45 PM
>> To: Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion
>> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Bible Translations
>>
>> i learned many scriptures and did many a bible study with the NIV it was
>> the
>> only version i could get in braille for many years, i now have a nkjv and
>> enjoy it but have also used the nasv and the rsv for study, many folks,
>> good
>> Christian folks as far as i know like all kinds of versions, i thinkit
>> again
>> is a personal preference and we should not judge others for the version
>> they
>> use, i find the idea that one version is the only one to use part of the
>> legalism that some folks love and push, thanks for the information in this
>> email
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>> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 5:39 PM
>> Subject: [Faith-talk] Bible Translations
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>>
>>> Well the topic of good and bad Bible versions has come up, and I
>>> believe it merits a new thread. As some of you might have guessed by
>>> my Baptist roots, I hold to the Authorized King James version and
>>> continue to use it exclusively. However, I used to believe that it was
>>> the ONLY Word of God for the English-speaking population because that
>>> was what my church teaches. Not only that, but to my knowledge the KJV
>>> wasn't copyrighted by a nonprofit corporation with a vested economic
>>> interest in its usage like the more modern versions. That was until I
>>> did the research. Turns out, The KJV is public domain worldwide except
>>> in Great Britain. The laws in force at that time pre-date any modern
>>> copyright legislation, but the right to disseminate the KJV is
>>> bestowed upon whomever the Sovereign wishes to grant it to, and today
>>> that right is held by Cambridge University Press. Not only that, but
>>> the KJV was written by Anglicans with an ulterior political agenda,
>>> and nothing could go into the KJV that the king, as the
>>> self-proclaimed spiritual authority in England, did not first approve.
>>> However, I still hold to the KJV because it sparked a myriad of
>>> old-time revivals and turned many a gambling drunkard into a
>>> Christian. Although the newer versions may be easier to understand,
>>> some of the corporations producing these newer Bibles tend to water
>>> the message down and compromise the Word of God to be more politically
>>> correct. A good new version that claims not to compromise the truth is
>>> the New American Standard Bible, but old habits are hard to break, and
>>> I for one will keep my KJV.
>>>
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