Subject: Most accurate Bible? |
Bible Note: Justme, there are some versions that call themselves Bibles that I avoid like the plague. Among them, the New World Translation, the Living Bible, and the entire genre of translations that have adulterated the biblical texts in an attempt to be politically correct by making them gender neutral or gender inclusive in the English. The King James is excellent but presents challenges to many modern readers because of its out-dated language. The NASB is a reliable translation and well thought of by a large number of conservative scholars. I personally favor the NKJV, which in my view is more literary than some of the other modern versions, and, having grown up with the KJV, I consider the NKJV a sort of half-way house between the old and the new. In other words, it satisfies my longing for the old, familiar King James while at the same time saving me the trouble of remembering that 'suffer' means 'permit' and 'prevent' means 'to go before.'.... I've said before on the pages of this forum that it is my thinking that one should consult more than one version of Scripture but that he should at the same time pick and choose among the versions available one that he considers his main translation and let that be the one with which he becomes most acquainted and from which he commits verses of Scripture to memory. --Hank |