Subject: Understanding The Bible |
Bible Note: You wrote: "Why do we need new versions?" Same reason we need any versions at all. Language changes. Why don't you read the Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek? Why do Spanish speakers not read the KJV? Because it is hard/impossible for them to understand. Now why "modern" translations? Because the English language is significantly different than it was in 1611, and many of the words in the KJV are archaic and other words have different connotations. As with the translation of any document from one language to another, no translation can be said to be "perfect." And when you factor in the antiquity of the languages in which God inspired its authors to write, Bible translation becomes a discipline, not an exact science. "It has never failed me. It has fed my soul. I do have trouble understanding it at times, but the trouble is with me and not the translation." But the trouble is not necessarily with your moral condition but with the fact that you live in the 21st century and not the early 17th. --Joe! |
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