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1 | What is the best version of the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | kalos | 603 | ||
. . . The best Bible version is the one YOU use -- the one you can understand AND trust. . . . If you asked 20 different people what's the best version, you would get 20 different answers. . . . First you have to answer the question, best for what? What will you be using this Bible for -- general reading, devotional reading, personal study, evangelism, teaching youth, etc.? . . . I personally use 16 different versions of the Bible. What are my top recommendations? . . . They are, in alphabetical order: . . . The Amplified Bible . . . New American Standard Bible . . . New International Version . . . New King James Version. . . . Which is my personal favorite over all, for reading, study, teaching, memorization, devotional reading, etc.? It's the New American Standard Version of the Bible. The New American Standard has been widely acclaimed as "the most literally accurate translation" from the original languages. Today the NASB remains the most literally accurate Bible in the English language. I use many translations every week, but after 30 years of reading, studying, teaching and praying in the NASB, it is my personal favorite over all the others. . . . The advocates of the King James Only movement are violently opposed to any and all modern translations. Their view is the KJV is the only perfect (without error) English Bible in existence. I merely define their views, as I understand them. I refuse to be drawn into a dispute over the King James Only controversy. I personally love and respect the King James and have done all my memory work in it. But is it the most literally accurate Bible in the English language? No. While it contains a remarkable degree of general accuracy, it cannot and does not make the claim for itself of being the only perfect English translation. NO TRANSLATION IS PERFECT, INERRANT AND INFALLIBLE. Inerrancy can be said to apply only to the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts. No honest Bible scholar would claim otherwise. . . . Brothers and sisters, let us live at peace with one another. Back to my original answer: The best Bible version is the one you use -- the one you can understand AND trust. |
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2 | What is the best version of the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | wang | 41313 | ||
Dear Brothers: Do the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts still exist in the world somewhere? And I wonder to what kind of book (bile) Israelites use for their worship? Do they also believe the same God as we do? Sincerely Wang |
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3 | What is the best version of the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Searcher56 | 42126 | ||
Wang ... The original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts do not exist, tho there are some old copies, like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Searcher | ||||||
4 | What is the best version of the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Aixen7z4 | 42138 | ||
The best version of the Bible is ... all of them (1 Cor 3:21). Bible translators try to balance accuracy with readability and this balance is difficult to achieve. Young's Literal Translation tries to live up to it's name but is so awkward it has not been updated. The NASB has a reputation for accuracy. The New Living Translation is the choice for readability and is fairly accurate. The Amplified Bible tries to leave no stone unturned, and gives shades of meaning. Thank God for Web sites which make many versions available. This writer says, use them all. It is perhaps by combining them that you will arrive at the best sense of the word. You may arrive at a favorite, but you should keep the others around for reference. | ||||||
5 | What is the best version of the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | kalos | 42156 | ||
You make a very good point here. In support of your posting, I would like to add the following: The translators of the King James Version said, " ... variety of translations is profitable for the finding out of the sense of the Scriptures" and "We affirm and avow that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession ... contains the Word of God, nay is the Word of God." (Holy Bible, Contemporary English Version, New York: American Bible Society, 1995) Note: "the very meanest translation of the Bible in English ... is the Word of God." ("Meanest" here is used in the following sense of the word "mean" -- lacking distinction or eminence : HUMBLE) |
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