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Does Bible version really matter?
star it|6 comments|October 28, 2007|286 reads
 
Do you want a Bible that has been shortened by men, or the complete one that is inspired by God?


http://www.chick.com/ask/articles/words-001.asp?wpc=words-001.asp

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October 28, 2007
The Final Determination


How do we know that the King James Version (KJV) is the Word of God? Here are some quick, "down and dirty" reasons why the KJV is the Word of God?*3* You can tell by…



The incredible faith and character of the men who translated it. They spent hours in prayer daily and had no doubt that they were handling the true Word of God!


How much the devil hates it! The fruit it has borne! Has any other Bible produced the kind of sin-killing, soul-saving, devil-chasing, snot-slinging, tavern-closing revivals that the KJV has? How many millions have saved by it? Wesley used it, Spurgeon used it, Bunyan used it, Jonathan Edwards used it, Finney used it, Moody used it, Billy Sunday used it, the "early" Billy Graham used it-and the list goes on! How it exalts the name, deity and the blood of Jesus Christ more than any other version by a country mile! The fact that it is universally despised by liberal, Pablum-drooling theologians who deny the inerrancy of scripture. (You can tell a Book by its enemies, NOT by its cover.) The fact that, in our many experiences, when you simply open it, demons begin to tremble. The fact that when you read it out-loud, you kick some serious slats right out of Satan's kingdom!

http://www.chick.com/information/bibleversions/teeth.asp

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October 28, 2007
Try Answering These From Your NIV


http://www.chick.com/information/bibleversions/articles/nivquiz.asp
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October 28, 2007

Question:

While it is true Luke's account of the Lord's Prayer is lacking some of the phrases found in the King James Version, this fact does not discount the validity of the entire translation. In fact Matthew 6:9-13 contains a more complete version of Jesus' prayer.
 

While I do not argue that Luke's version in the NIV may resemble Marcion's version of the Lord's prayer, I am concerned with the fact that you seem to discredit other translations of the Bible solely on the fact that certain clauses are not found in specific scripture passages.


I think that it is important to remember that the Bible should be understood as a complete work, the Word of God, and that no one passage should be extracted and used as the sole base for doctrine.


Answer:

There is a key here. Please notice the words used: "lacking" and "not found."

God said "My words shall not pass away" (Mark 13:31) and "thou shalt preserve them (God's words) from this generation for ever" (Psalm 12:7).


Since God promised to preserve his words, it should arouse our curiosity when we find that words, phrases, even whole verses are missing from the Bible (see If the Foundations Be Destroyed).

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October 28, 2007
What do you mean exactly, 'everything does not apply to everyone?'.  In what way? 
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October 28, 2007
Here are some important questions:

How do "scholars" decide when to remove a verse from the Bible?
The Bible revisers are carving up the Bible based on a mere 45 or so manuscripts, which disagree with over 5,000 copies of the Scriptures. If a modern scholar finds one single manuscript that does not have a word or verse found in the King James Bible, he often removes it on that basis alone, (unless he likes the verse, of course). Others of his favorite texts may actually have the word or verse. So if he wants to get rid of it, he simply picks the text that removes it. If this sounds arbitrary, it is. Critics simply pick and choose their favorite reading. That's what you end up doing when you ignore the broad evidence of history.

Then how do we know when to stop?
The biggest temptation is to continue removing verses until we feel that what's left is the truth. On what basis? By our own feelings. Over 95% of all the manuscripts support the King James. New Bibles are alike in that they intentionally leave out most of the same words, phrases and verses.
Finally, as you keep removing words from verses about vital doctrines (the godhead, trinity, salvation, Jesus Christ as God, hell, fasting, prayer, adultery, sodomy, etc.) you will have a problem. God repeats himself to emphasize vital doctrines. Modern Bibles take away many places where God says the same thing again. Thus modern Bibles make it look like those doctrines weren't so important to God.
Hope
 Hope
November 02, 2007
You are very smart :o)  I agree with all that.  So very true.