[Iscool]

It's just too bad about all them thar Spaniards, and Frenchies, and Germans, and Chinese and Swedes and South Sea Islanders... that do NOT have the Only Real, Good, Accurate, Authentic and Authorized Translations to read and learn from!

Sure they do...The KJV has been translated into all those languages...

[Elsie]

They use a translation of a translation?

[Elsie]

They use a translation of a translation?

 

 

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I had a fella trying to convince me of the purity of the KJV over the NIV once.

He pointed out that the NIV couldn't even get the seventh word right!!

 

Genesis 1:1   (KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:1  (NIV) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

 

"Oh?", I replied?  "At least the NIV just used ONE word to translation the Hebrew word for HEAVENS; whereas the KJV used two different ones."

 

Genesis 2:1  (KJV) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:1   (NIV) Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

 

http://www.htmlbible.com/sacrednamebiblecom/kjvstrongs/B01C001.htm  Chapter one

http://www.htmlbible.com/sacrednamebiblecom/kjvstrongs/B01C002.htm  Chapter two.

 

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shamayim shaw-mah'-yim

dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):--air, X astrologer, heaven(-s). Strong's Concordance shamayim: heaven, sky Original Word: שָׁמַ֫יִם Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: shamayim Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-mah'-yim)

"HMMMmmm...", he said.

 

Then I pointed out how the Hebrew text; from which the English translation was derived; had the SAME word in 1:1 AND 2:1 and asked him, "Why did the KJV translate it DIFFERENTLY?"