Rick Warren may be "Scriptural" but he uses 15 different translations in his book to get the meaning he wants.
Well, he's only two behind the KJV which has 17 translations. Which of the 17 do you use?
Wellll, I'm one who likes the Amplified and the . . . and the . . . and the . . . and the . . . and the . . . versions.
I think God's Word is so robust that the different flavors ad depth and breadth to His Truths therein--as does studying it in a different language.
And, as you may observe, my biases are decidedly against what comes across to me as a narrow, prissy, rigid, starchy, lifeless, intellectualized vs real, etc. etc. "Christian"/perspective. I have the bias that such a perspective most outraged Jesus, too. That's how I read The Gospels. And, given the huge amount of shrill noises of such on the rel forum . . . I can be more than a little trigger happy to try and shoot holes in anything that remotely reminds me of such.
You appear to have a set of biases and trigger finger on the opposite end of such issues. I don't have any trouble seeing you as a dear brother. But I think we both have fiercely strong convictions about these matters. And, we both likely feel that our convictions are fiercely Biblical and fiercely reality based.
Of course, my biases are 100% right and yours are 100% wrong. /sar