[little jeremiah]

Over my head. I need another lifetime to study up. I have the KJ and the NIV and I am not so fond of the NIV. A friend recommended the Douay which I'd like to get. Which is your preferred version?

[I got the rope]

I actually own quite a few. I prefer the old Reina-Valera in Spanish and the King James in English. I'm sorta bilingual.

I started studying this a long time ago because of some debates that were started here on FR. I truly believe that all the problems that Christianity is having today is due to lots of these new paraphrasing Bibles. Some are not even close to being translations. The NIV's old testament text is not even translated from Hebrew. It's actually translated from the Greek Septuagint. The NIV's new testament text is translated from the Sinaiticus text and the Alexandrinicus and Vaticanus text. None of them even come close to be similar

The received text is the text that was handed down from the Church at Antioch. I believe it for many reasons...the most important being that it started the reformation and it was the foundation on which Western Civilization thrived.

I have this thing I do to people when I see that they are reading something other than the King James. I say,"Did you know that your Bible says the Jesus is the Devil." They say, "What! Show me?" So then I turn to Isaiah 14:12 and Revelation 22:16