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The Preeminence of Christ in Bible translations

Bible Translations Guide At Catholic Answers we are often asked which Bible version a person should choose. This is an important question about which Catholics need to be informed. Some have been given very little help about how to pick a Bible translation, but keeping in mind a few tips will make the decision much easier. There are two general philosophies translators use when they do their work: formal or complete equivalence and dynamic equivalence. Formal equivalence translations try to give as literal a translation of the original text as possible. Translators using this philosophy try to stick close to...

(Bibles) The Message ... all » - The emerging 'new' Christianty---with its substitution of riches for righteous, a crown for a cross, and an imitation for a new creation---is shown to be a direct result of the wording in the new versions. Documented are the thousands of words, verses, and doctrines by which new versions will prepare the aspostate churches of these last days to accept the religion of the Antichrist--even his mark, image, and Lucifer worship. The Men - Each page opens a door exposing new version editors--in agreement with Luciferians, occultists, and New Age philosophy--in mental institutions, seance...

King James and His Translators by Rick Norris The Great Hypocrite or Great Dissembler: Was "godly" King James a Liar, a Compromiser, or Both? While king in Scotland, Benjamin Brook noted that James had declared in the general assembly at Edinburg, with his hands lifted to heaven, "that he praised God that he was born to be the king of the purest kirk [church] in the world." "As for our neighbor kirk [church] of England," said he, their service is an evil-said mass in English." James also said "that the Book of Common Prayer was the English mass book, and...

Wanted: A Bible For The Twenty-First Century And The New Millennium By DR. LAURENCE M. VANCE P.O. BOX 11781 - PENSACOLA, FLORIDA 32524 At the dawn of the twentieth century, an attempt to provide the world with a Bible translation in modern English was well underway. The Twentieth Century New Testament (no Old Testament was ever produced) was produced in England and released in three parts between 1898 and 1901. A revised one volume edition was issued in 1904. The excuse for this version was that “English-speaking people of today have not, until quite recently, had the opportunity of reading...