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1 | put 1Jn 5:7 BACK where it belongs! | 1 John 5:7 | justanotherchristian | 98691 | ||
THE GREAT DREAM was a "commitee" product. I did write the first draft, which was 1/3 shorter, but countless reviews and proofreadings brought out weaknesses and deficiencies in the text. When we got done plugging all the rat holes and polishing the language, we ended up with the 472 page book that is now in print and being read all over the world. The 1611KJV uses true Elizabethan English, which is very hard for the average person to understand. "Thing" is "thynge" in the 1611, and then, the type face of the 1611 leaned more towards the artistic at the cost in clarity. The 1611 also included the 15 books of The Apocrypha between the OT and the NT (another fact that sorely embarrasses the superstitious KJV only crowd). I have confronted and refuted many of these "KJV only" partisans with the fact that what they love to call the "Original 1611 KJV" is REALLY the 13th revision out from 1611. They actually use the 1769, and it drives them crazy to have to face this and answer to it. YES, I wrote to the Lockman Foundation, but I do not expect any kind of responsive answer - rather - just a dismissal I did rather like the NASB a lot - I wish I could quote it as authority, but I cannot lend credibility to a Bible that butchers the text and throws other verses right out. IF you're looking for an alternative transliteration which conforms closely to the Greek and Hebrew without replicating the inverse grammar forms of the Greek - I recommend the Darby translation. Of you want to see a simple and typical example of WHY I cannot replace my 1769KJV with the NKJV, just go to Psalm 17:13-14 and compare. There is a WORLD of difference there... and the KJV is right. I will use the NKJV with younger children, but with my 11 and 14 year old kids, I use the 1769KJV. I sometimes send the NKJV to the Kenyan Brethren (but only because it's the only version available in a certain study Bible that the Kenyans like) The most "honest" modern translation is the Amplified Bible (IMO), and an Amplified/KJV Parallel is a great reader - BUT (despite their claims), the Lockman people DID editorialize heavily in their translation of the OT Prophets. Spend a little time in the OT Prophets in the AMP Bible and you can see their (particular) brand of Dispensationalism leaking out. I believe that GOD Himself is presently voting for the 1769KJV as THE STANDARD ENGLISH BIBLE. Psalm 35:27 Just Another Christian, and, "US" 1 John 4:6 Main site front page www.apostasynow.com The Great Dream Book: http://www.apostasynow.com/tgd/index.html THANK YOU Lockman Foundation for providing this forum! Now please fix up that NASB so I can recomend it! |
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2 | put 1Jn 5:7 BACK where it belongs! | 1 John 5:7 | Reformer Joe | 98709 | ||
"Of you want to see a simple and typical example of WHY I cannot replace my 1769KJV with the NKJV, just go to Psalm 17:13-14 and compare. There is a WORLD of difference there... and the KJV is right." Okay, I'll bite: 1. How is there a WORLD of difference there? 2. Show us how the KJV is right. Give us a Hebrew lesson as well as a lesson in how to properly translate from one language to another. "THANK YOU Lockman Foundation for providing this forum! Now please fix up that NASB so I can recomend it!" As far as I know, none of the posters here are on the staff of Lockman. I don't know why you keep thinking that we can make the revisions you are proposing any more than you can. "I believe that GOD Himself is presently voting for the 1769KJV as THE STANDARD ENGLISH BIBLE." I can believe that I am Napoleon; it doesn't make me right... --Joe! |
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