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To: HiTech RedNeck
Your wasting your time. Look upon me as a hard core Donald Trump supporter, and you as someone trying to explain to me why Hillary Clinton would make a better President.

No matter how hard you try, and no matter how many straw men you present, you will never convince me, that all modern translations are God's word.

54 posted on 10/18/2016 9:24:12 PM PDT by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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To: WhatNot
...you will never convince me, that all modern translations are God's word.

Oh?

Did he make this claim?

73 posted on 10/19/2016 3:57:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhatNot; HiTech RedNeck
No matter how hard you try, and no matter how many straw men you present, you will never convince me, that all modern translations are God's word.

Okay, let's talk about this. If Mark Twain's book, Tom Sawyer, which was originally written in English, got translated into, say, German or Italian or Arabic, would the resulting book STILL be Tom Sawyer? Wouldn't it continue to be the same book just in another language? The King James Version was a translation of Bible manuscripts in the original Greek and Hebrew languages. When it was first generated, the English language was still being formed - Early English, the language used by Shakespeare, is dated from around 1500. The KJV was first published in 1610 and quite a few words as well as vowels are used much differently today. The modern KJV we can access today is different than the one from 1611.

My point is that the Bible - the word of God - remains the same even when translated into other languages, though certainly some translations are better than others. The Holy Spirit is the author and it is He who leads us into all truth. He is able to do that through Holy Scripture no matter what language one speaks. Many people prefer the KJV because of the beauty of the language form, others prefer a version that is closer to the modern English language in use in every day life. It's really not anymore complicated than that.

138 posted on 10/19/2016 10:24:07 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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