Posted on 10/14/2009 12:34:30 PM PDT by Between the Lines
CANTON, N.C. (October 13, 2009)—The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence.
Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible.
According to the church’s Web site, members will also burn “Satan's music such as country, rap, rock, pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel, contemporary Christian, jazz, soul (and) oldies.
“We will also be burning Satan's popular books written by heretics like Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll, John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham, Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Joyce Myers, Brian McLaren, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa, The Pope, Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning (and) William Young.
During the book burning, according to the Web site, barbecued chicken fried chicken and “all the sides” will be served.
I have a "beef" with the term "cover version" ... implying that the first crew to record a song somehow owns it (it was usually written by a professional songwriter not the band) and that anybody else who records it is necessarily derivative or inferior.
Baloney.
Sometimes the next guy gets it much better.
I actually brought that up to my friend. I asked him “what about the Geneva Bible?” Apparently, it was OK, but it was surpassed in 1611. Why, he couldn’t say. And, of course, while the KJV surpassed all previous English bibles, it can never be surpassed itself...being perfect and all. It also didn’t matter to him just how evil King James was, nor did it matter that the sole purpose of his bible was to compete with, and eventually do away with the Geneva Bible (which it did). It also didn’t matter to him about the fraudulent “Trinity” passage in 1 John (the doctrine of the Trinity does not stand or fall based on this passage. Getting rid of it does NO harm to the doctrine) It was still “perfect”. Since he believed that there has to be a “perfect word” in all languages...particularly English, always, I wondered why the Geneva Bible wasn’t perfect, since it came before the KJV. And if it was “the perfect Word”, how could it be surpassed? It was all very illogical, and he knew it, but didn’t care. Very sad.
I use the KJV for normal reading. I like Young’s Literal Translation because it is, well, much more literal. I don’t have a huge problem with the New American Standard translation. Not crazy about the texts used, but I don’t find them so abhorrent. By all accounts, the translation itself is quite good. What I would like is a literal translation (as literal as possible, anyway) based on the “Majority Text”. I think there is one, but I haven’t seen it yet.
“I love you. You love me. We’re a happy fa-mi-ly ...”
Not all Baptists who insist on KJV are influenced by the bad teachers and are some of the most wonderful people you will ever meet. The article by Kutilek does not condemn the KJV but those who are bad teachers. The guy from this Church is a disciple of Jack Hyles and is definitely off-base.
Well, someone in an earlier post said that Beowulf was in "Middle English."
Angels are persons ...
Doesn't get more Biblical than Randy Travis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_I-sTv6NV0
Glad I could share.
Nope. Never have. But thanks very much for the education.
There is at least one Calvinist that posts of religion threads that believes Billy Graham preached a false gospel. She doesn't believe in free will and Billy Grahams peaching of it was heretical.
Bodiless persons.........quite true. All angels are persons but not all persons are angels.
I apologize to our pyromaniac pastor!
That person was wrong. A normal person fluent in modern English can more or less figure out Middle English, but I would defy them to figure out Old English. Here's the same Bible passage in both:
Syððan wæs geworden þæt he ferde þurh þa ceastre and þæt castel: godes rice prediciende and bodiende. and hi twelfe mid. And sume wif þe wæron gehælede of awyrgdum gastum: and untrumnessum: seo magdalenisce maria ofþære seofan deoflu uteodon: and iohanna chuzan wif herodes gerefan: and susanna and manega oðre þe him of hyra spedum þenedon.And it is don, aftirward Jesus made iourne bi cites & castelis prechende & euangelisende þe rewme of god, & twelue wiþ hym & summe wymmen þat weren helid of wicke spiritis & sicnesses, marie þat is clepid maudeleyn, of whom seuene deuelis wenten out & Jone þe wif off chusi procuratour of eroude, & susanne & manye oþere þat mynystreden to hym of her facultes
Pingo
It is the BEAT that is evil. (or in my case, simply annoying)
:)
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/Beowulf.Readings/Prologue.html
here is the Canterbury Tales in Middle English... a little more understandable...
Modern English has strayed farther from that than modern French, Spanish, and Italian have strayed from Latin.
As America becomes further balkanized ethnically and linguistically, maybe Old English can be revived (like Hebrew) as the language of Anglo-Saxons. Then no one will be able to understand us either.
fyi--the KJV is not in old English... and the original translation of the scriptures is not in any English... but anyway, even though i no longer use the KJV translation, i still recite many of the scriptures in the KJV because that is what i used when i memorized them...
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