Subject: is the NIV a good bible to read? |
Bible Note: koinekid: You write: "My favorite Old Testament professor at Liberty reads the NIV, studies from the NASB, and teaches from the KJV." I LIKE this idea and the way you stated it. For years, I have done general reading in one translation, studying in another and teaching from yet another. Am I reading three different Bibles? No, I am reading three different translations of one and the same Bible. (Currently, I like to read from the ASV 1901 or the HCSB NT, study from the NASB and the NKJV, and teach my high school Sunday School class out of various translations, including the NIV, TEV, and others. I use many study Bibles and translations to study and research answers to post on the Forum. I find the two most useful translations to be the NASB and the Amplified. But, I have a strong preference for the translations that follow the King James tradition, e.g. ASV 1901, NASB and NKJV, etc.) And we are in 100 percent agreement re the NASB. It is, just as I have been saying for the last 30 years, "the most literally accurate Bible translation in the English language." |