The original ‘unknown’ god of China An Ancient pictogram script points to the Bible
Posted on 05/21/2006 2:04:31 PM PDT by Full Court
FC are you aware of Jesus Christ New Commanment?
A copyright protects the work from others illegally selling it even if you are giving it away for free. Anyone who would produce a literary work without claiming a copyright is simply asking for others to steal it from you, copyright it themselves and then sue you for publishing it.
They were paid for the work that they did, but their goal was not to make money, but to make a work that glorified God.
Technically we are all paid to do work which glorifies God, whether it be flipping hamburgers or preparing sermons. I suspect that many of the translators of modern translations had the same motives as those who translated the 1611 KJV. No better, no worse. Their motives were to faithfully translate the words from Hebrew or Greek to English. Are we to impugn their motives simply because they were called to study Hebrew and Greek in the 20th Century instead of the 17th?
Tyndale was hunted down like a criminal and killed for translating the correct text. His goal was not monetary profit, but love of the truth.
If motivation is the principle test of a translation's worth, then why are we not using Tyndale's version instead of the KJV? Motivation is irrelevant. Accuracy of transmission is the principle goal. And I am not willing to impugn the motivations of people who have been called to study Hebrew and Greek in the 21st Century. I'm sure that many of these people would willingly lay their lives down for Christ as Tyndale did. You don't know until you are put to the test.
Yes, but the motivation should be the same in translating the Bible as it is in teaching the Bible, 'willingly, not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind' (1Pet.5:2)
I suppose we could condemn wholesale the idea of a professional ministry. Especially if for some reason the minister made more money than a hamburger flipper who pays his tithes to support the minister.
He has repented and recanted one of "positions" so why would you think he couldn't be wrong about another?
We have friend who have been missionaries in China for near 11 years. The people that they have led to the Lord don't have a problem with the KJV.
Is music neutral?
I don't know. I never played the game.
Amazing I never thought I would be watching a debated over which Bible is translated correctly or if any?
By this crowd anyways!:)
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FM
I would venture to guess that your friends learned Chinese and translate the Scripture. Unless they're only ministering to the Chinese who speak English.
Don't get me wrong. I love the KJV. I grew up with. It's just simply not the only valid translation.
Doesn't look like the King's English to me...
LOL! There are no coincidences. 8~)
I like Henry VIII because he believed taxes should go to the English state for the benefit of England and her citizens, rather than to the Bishop of Rome.
What's not to like?
I'm behind in this discussion, but that hasn't stopped me before from tossing out extraneous, often random opinions.
Re: the new Bible versions. I do not agree with Gail Riplinger about many things, her Arminianism and dispensationalism being two biggies.
However, she is generally on target regarding the reasons for the past century's Bible versions. To understand what's been going on we need to look at the times in which the newer versions were being developed and where -- England at the turn of the century was rife with spiritualism and theosophical leanings. Westcott and Hort were two very nefarious characters. If more Christians studied them and the waters in which they swam, more Christians would be hip to the reasons for the downgrade of Scripture and thus, our society.
While some of the sites may seem somewhat reactionary, the truth is out there. Google "Westcott and Hort" and "the Ghost Society."
Here's an excellent site which contains a lot of good information. I don't endorse all of it, but as intelligent FReepers, we should be able to glean and sift. Eventually, patterns emerge.
And from this site there is this chapter...
Keep in mind that people who want a scholarly career must toe the company line to the accepted explanation of most everything for them to advance in that career. Otherwise, they are weeded out of the system.
And the lies perpetuate themselves into fact.
I like Henry VIII because he believed taxes should go to the English state for the benefit of England and her citizens, rather than to the Bishop of Rome.
LOL! There are no coincidences. 8~)
I like Henry VIII because he believed taxes should go to the English state for the benefit of England and her citizens, rather than to the Bishop of Rome. to the Illegals!
So current eh!
Gee Restornu, I'm sorry. The problem is that we protestants just don't have a magic hat and a magic stone like you guys did. Can we borrow them?
"I'm behind in this discussion, but that hasn't stopped me before from tossing out extraneous, often random opinions"
Yeh, and.....
Now, now Marlowe, not another peep out of you.
Literally ROFL!
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