Bible Question: What is the most accurate translation of the Bible in the English language that is not as hard to read as the KJV? |
Bible Answer: I am teaching a Bible Study on Bibliology. I have been doing research on this for several months now. I am not a Greek and Hebrew Scholar, not yet anyway. And I do not think even 4 years of Greek and Hebrew in a Bible College qualifies a person as superior to the calibur of the scholars of the KJV, but nevertheless after having read many books from men that were far more qualifed to judge on which English translation is closest to the original text (the copies of the original text that is) the consensus seems to be that the NASB is the most accurate if you are going to go by the "oldest manuscripts in extant that we know of" But the KJV is the most accurate if you are going to go by the MOST (majority) of texts in existance. Now being that I believe God has preserved His Word, for Jesus said His word would not pass away, then I have felt more comfortable in my faith and peace in my spirit that the MOST manuscripts were a better measurement. And we do not know if in the future an older manuscript than the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Siniaticus might be discovered in a cave somewhere, and what if these older copies agreed with manuscripts that the KJV scholars used, would we be so surprised? I would not. But I am not one to say that this is for sure the case. I may be mistaken and the NASB might be the better version. But for now I have more faith that the KJV is the most accurate and I also recieve more revelation from the Lord when I read that version than any other. But that is a matter of personal and subject experience and nothing I can use in a debate, other than to say "that's my story, and I'm stick'n to it." May God Bless you as you study His Holy Word. |