To: HiTech RedNeck
That's what happens when you read NIV promotional materials. The KJV is really an edition of the Tyndale translation. The Byzantine family of manuscripts is ancient, but older is not necessarily better. No one really knows the origins of Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. Perhaps you think they are very old. Maybe they are. But are they reliable? Modernists make fun of the Majority Text because there are so many examples. And why did the Church preserve those examples? Perhaps because they represented the best readings.
I do not worship the KJV. I have used many translations. I have read the Bible in Hebrew and Greek. I have studied the manuscript issues. I just want people to know that there is an excellent case for preferring the KJV family of translations.
67 posted on
09/11/2001 9:37:28 PM PDT by
Chemnitz
To: Chemnitz
That's what happens when you read NIV promotional materials. Amazing conclusion, considering I have never read anything that the producers of the NIV wrote promoting their translation.
Or, maybe you mean, that's what happens when Christians think for themselves (while seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit).
To: Chemnitz
P.S. Let's at least agree on the obvious. Pray for the USA.
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