prophet said:
Smellin Coffee said:
ExFundy said:
Isaiah 50:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever.
Psalm 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
If you don't believe kjv is inspired word for word, then which bible is inspired?
If you believe only the originals are inspired, you are calling God a liar!!!!
The lords church has continued for over 2000 years. The Jewish people have survived. But I guess God can't preserve His Inspired Words.
Context. Neither verse was mentioning any particular version. Besides, English wasn't around at that point in time so to use these Scriptures as proof texts, one would have to really stretch the intended context.
(I'm hoping the post was meant as sarcasm.)
Several hundred years of its effects on the English-speaking world has proven the KJV to be God's Word, as much as Jesus' 3 1/2 year ministry proved that He is God's Word, so your version comment is just an attempt at distraction.
You may add other, to what you think is "inspired", but no reasonably intelligent person would discount the KJV for any reason other than self-serving bias.
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"Several hundred years of its effects on the English-speaking world has proven the KJV to be God's Word, as much as Jesus' 3 1/2 year ministry proved that He is God's Word, so your version comment is just an attempt at distraction."
I'm going to vote for the LXX as the most important translation of all time. I have the KJV translators backing me on this.
Here is what Miles Smith the translator's spokesman wrote about the LXX.
"But, when the fulness of time drew near, that the Sun of righteousness, the Son of God should come into the world, whom God ordained to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood, not of the Jew only, but also of the Greek, yea, of all them that were scattered abroad; then lo, it pleased the Lord to stir up the spirit of a Greek Prince (Greek for descent and language) even of Ptolemy Philadelphus King of Egypt, to procure the translating of the Book of God out of Hebrew into Greek. This is the translation of the Seventy Interpreters, commonly so called, which prepared the way for our Saviour among the Gentiles by written preaching, as Saint John Baptist did among the Jews by vocal."
"It is certain, that that Translation was not so sound and so perfect, but it needed in many places correction; and who had been so sufficient for this work as the Apostles or Apostolic men? Yet it seemed good to the holy Ghost and to them, to take that which they found, (the same being for the greatest part true and sufficient) rather than making a new, in that new world and green age of the Church, to expose themselves to many exceptions and cavillations, as though they made a Translations to serve their own turn, and therefore bearing a witness to themselves, their witness not to be regarded."
"The translation of the Seventy dissenteth from the Original in many places, neither doeth it come near it, for perspicuity, gravity, majesty; yet which of the Apostles did comdemn it? Condemn it? Nay, they used it...which they would not have done, nor by their example of using it, so grace and comment it to the Church, if it had been unworthy the appellation and name of the word of God."
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"You may add other, to what you think is "inspired", but no reasonably intelligent person would discount the KJV for any reason other than self-serving bias."
As to those that are inspired I believe any translation that is made by competent translators from accurate copies of the original languages are indeed inspired. They have the intrinsic character of the original God-Breathed words written in Hebrew and Greek.
Some call this derivative inspiration, they are no less the Word of God than the original language copies. All copies have mistakes and errors as anything that is touched by sinful man will be marred, sinful man cannot produce anything that is without errors.
I do not believe that any translator is inspired as the original writers were inspired.
Double inspiration is just a myth.
Miles said about other translations, "Now to the latter we answer; that we do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, (for we have seen none of theirs of the whole Bible as yet) containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God."
This is what Miles had to say about the Rheims NT.
So the following are the very Word of God. KJV, RSV, NASB, NKJV, ASV, LXX, Latin Vulgate, NIV, ESV, HCSB, Tyndale, Great, Matthew, Geneva, Rheims, bishops and many many others too numerous to name.
The Vulgate beats the KJV and the LXX beats the Vulgate.
The LXX beats the Vulgate and the KJV combined.
Neither KJV or the Vulgate is quoted as OT scripture in the NT as the LXX is quoted.
The LXX version of the Hebrew is the greatest and most used translation of all time. It has been used by God's people for over 2,000 years, it is still in everyday use by the Greek Orthodox. The LXX has no peers.