Your constant obsession with the law and the minutiae of technical commentaries is what Jesus criticized in the Pharisees. I believe that it is about the attitude of the heart. Salvation does not come from wearing a hat.
Yes, those are important errors/omissions, imho. I agree.
Nevertheless, Angel-Gal,
it is clear to me
. . . and I think to all who wish to look Jesus squarely in His Fiercely Loving eyes . . .
That there is more than SUFFICIENT LIVING WORD IN ALL THE EARNEST TRANSLATIONS
for individuals in any congregation to read, pray over, seek God over, invite Holy Spirit's counsel over
and thereby
be led into a RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST OUR LORD, THE FATHER AND SPIRIT . . .
AND . . . on into a maturing OVERCOMING WALK WITH GOD IN HIS SPIRIT.
There is NO EXCUSE for not doing so with any of the earnest translations.
There is NO EXCUSE for NOT PUTTING GOD FIRST ABOVE DENOMINATION, TRADITIONS OF MEN, TRADITIONS OF SCRIPTURE, ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURE, GOVERNING COUNCILS AND MAGICSTERICALS; MOTHER, FATHER, SPOUSE, CHILDREN, DOGS, CATS AND GOLDFISH.
I think some of the issues of the different translations and translation traditions and the edifices that have been built up around them and supposedly justified by them--some of those issues, imho, are important--such as the one about the names of God. I think they are important regarding truth, walking in truth and walking led of God's Spirit in growing intmacy with Him.
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But in the pontificating and haggling over such often minutae . . . it seems that I see Christ looking around for another cat of 9 tails whip. Not only what a waste of time and energy . . . what an insult and travesty.
"Oh, but WE'RE NOT money changers gouging the serfs!"
Really.
But the serfs for whom Christ died get ground up and cast aside in all the machinery invested in traditions of men.
And, really, that's what the different Scriptural translations boil down to. Water fights over who's Scriptural tradition/translation is . . . longer, more gold encrusted, had Peter's shadow pass over it more times . . . more celebrated, applauded, sanctioned, 'proven' by the larger, older, more hide-bound and self-righteous magicsterical . . . than THOSE other.PSEUDOChristians over THERE!
Whoop-tee-do. . . . BARF.
And Christ says . . . Matthew 12:30
He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.v
Are we WITH Christ, or not?
Our petty little, puny little clubs will not amount to one Twit’s worth. Even our little mostly [and MOSTLY is the most all of us can expect]—even our mostly ‘Biblical’ clubs-in-the-flesh will not measure up to anything of substance, in the final analysis.
Only what’s done for Christ will last. And what’s done for Christ is measured first, foremost and last in terms of individual choices before God—NAKED BEFORE GOD.
Appeals to:
--But God, the magicsterical said . . .
--But God, !!!!OUR!!! TRANSLATION said . . .
. . .
--But God, !!!!OUR!!! TRADITIONS said . . .
--But God !!!!OUR!!! CUSTOMS said . . .
. . .
--But God !!!!OUR!!! CONGREGATION didn’t do it THAT way; didn’t think of it THAT way. . .
--But God !!!!OUR!!! ecclesiastical fuss budgets would have never approved of THAT!
Ahhhhh so, you chose to follow them instead of me—regardless of what Holy Spirit gently counseled you day in and day out for years. Impressive. And how many Red Seas did the magicsterical lead you through? And how many manna meals in the desert did your traditions provide for you?
Vanity, vanity. All is vanity. The Pharisees were smugly, ARROGANTLY confident they were doing it absolutely correctly and that my only begotten Son could not possibly have been right. Doesn’t that strike you as a familiar attitude? If not, please replace your broken mirror.
It would be bad enough if the fossilized edifices were your idols. That’s horrifically hideous and a stench in my nostrils. But you’re more arrogant than that. Your idol is your own construction on reality. Your idol is your own ego to have been so naturally and inherently brilliant as to chosen THE PERFECT holier than thou little club to belong to/be born into. Impressive.
I’ve got news for you. There is none righteous, no, not one. What makes you think a collection of unrighteous folks is going to be MORE righteous than all the individual snotty nosed brats running around in self-whitened robes and spring-loaded titanium neon halos?
Do you REALLY THINK that I allowed clusters of self-congratulatory rabble rousers to do THEIR own political thing with MY WORD and THEN for me to rubber stamp it?
What kind of idiot God do you take me for???
Do you REALLY THINK I’ve had absolutely NO HAND in vast spread of MY WORD through the Protesties? What kind of impotent clueless God do you take me for?
Your ways are—HINT—NOT my ways. I show mercy on whom I show mercy. I bless whomever I choose to bless. I do NOT need to get the magicsterical’s rubber stamp.
I have news for you 3rd grade squabblers over who’s marbles are who’s and who’s marbles are the finer gold. EVERY EARNEST, HONEST TRANSLATION (INCLUDING BTW, A NUMBER OF SO CALLED PARAPHRASES) has had my Holy Spirit’s involvement. EVERY NEW VERSION OF MY WORD IN THE COMMON TONGUE has elaborated, unfolded, illustrated, illuminated another facet, another nuance of my Person and my Glory and my plan—a bit better than those that went before. I happen to like that else I’d have prevented it. It is MY WORD, after all. I’M THE ONE WHO ISSUED IT AND WHO IS CAREFUL TO PERFORM IT.
Do you think MY WORD is just some sort of wind-up toy that I wound up and turned loose never more to bother about it??? . . . leaving it for all the arrogant wolves to shred and tear and plaster themselves with AGAINST other BELIEVERS??? Talk about clueless!
It is MY Word. It is NOT the magicstericals’ Word. It is not the pastor/priest’s Word. It is not Mary’s Word. It is not the deacons’ Word. It is not even the Apostles’ Word. It is MY WORD. And I am Faithful to protect it and to perform it.
Strain at gnats and swallow camels if you insist. But that’s not the route to Heavenly Blessing or even approval.
I DECLARED—THOSE WHO SEEK ME SHALL FIND ME. THAT’S TRUE WITHOUT A SINGLE SCRAP OF WRITTEN SCRIPTURE IN ANY TRANSLATION. IT’S CERTAINLY TRUE WITH. I can raise up rocks to sing my praises as well as raise up rocks as children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or John the Beloved. It is a small thing to use any and all the translations for my glory, for my Kingdom.
Oh, I know, this or that error in this or that translation is suddenly the fulcrum on which all the universe and creation suddenly hangs in the balance? I’m not that puny. My Word is not even that puny. Do you think it’s an accident that you do not have the original autographs?
The original autographs would have just supported yet another crop of the purest of the pure Pharisees endlessly parsing what every little word and phrase meant to the elaboration of thousands of ‘illuminated’ interpretations that the truly truest truly true and righteous would be most diligent to follow—if they knew what was good for them and wanted to keep their heads.
As it is . . . THOSE WITH SOME DISCERNING HUMILITY AND UNDERSTANDING will realize that HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ONE AND THE ONE AND ONLY TO LEAD INTO ALL TRUTH.
ALL Others are usurpers, interlopers, Johnny come lately’s.
Seek ME and you shall find ME. I never told you to seek the magicsterical. I never told you to seek the spiritual leader with the purest bloodline back to Adam. I never told you to seek the comfort and security of !!!!TRADITION!!!! I never told you to seek the comfort and security of customs. I never told you to seek the comfort and security of rules and regulations; of parsing and analysis.
I told you to SEEK ME. AS IN GOD ALONE IS WORTHY! GOD ALONE IS ABLE! GOD ALONE HAS PROVIDED YOUR SALVATION. GOD ALONE IS THE PERFECTOR OF YOUR FAITH.
Oh, I know, millions will go blithely on with their RC and Protesty magicstericals as their God. They will keep telling Holy Spirit to hush up while they pour over yet more endless tedium over this or that nuance in this or that translation.
And the GOD PARADE will pass them by. Pity, that. A crying shame, horrendous pity.
SEEK ME. And you shall find ME—and Eternal Life.
Seek ANYthing else and you shall have wood, hay, stubble—chaff. And how long do you think your collection of chaff will last in the fiery furnace?
Eventually, the Jewish exiles were allowed to return to Jerusalem where they renovated the Temple. Then, in A.D. 70, warring peoples almost completely destroyed the sacred structure, which has never been rebuilt. Without this central place of worship, the Jews began looking to the Bible as their focal point of faith, but to assure the purity of that faith, only Hebrew scriptures were allowed into the Jewish canon. By then, however, the earliest Christians spoke and read Greek, so they continued to use the Septuagint or Greek version of the Bible for many centuries. After the Reformation though, some Christians decided to accept translations into Latin then English only from the Hebrew texts that the Jewish Bible contained, so the seven additional books in the Greek translation became known as the Apocrypha, meaning "hidden." Since the books themselves were no secret, the word seemed ironic or, perhaps, prophetic because, in 1947, an Arab boy searching for a lost goat found, instead, the Dead Sea scrolls, hidden in a hillside cave.