Posted on 04/18/2011 5:23:54 PM PDT by Colofornian
“My understanding is that the newer translations are more accurate UNTIL you hit the verses that people of a certain political bent found “offensive” and “discriminatory.” At those points they simply rewrote the passages to suit the feminist/homosexual/church-of-everything-goes agenda.”
Some translations (the NIV, take 10) did that. The ESV & NASB are both good, with the NASB being more literal. Or you can be radical and go with the Tyndale translation from 80 years prior to the KJV. The KJV was, after all, affected by the politics of the day. That is why King James insisted on translating elder as bishop: “No Bishop, No King!”
“KJV isn’t the word of God it is the word of a blasphemous heretic defrocked priest turned outlaw whom deliberately mistranslated and omitted some of the word of God and, as a result, has caused many to perish.”
Not very up on history, are you...
Good info here
If the RC Church could do without their official sanction for 1100+ years, they weren't necessary.
That's a bit of an oversimplification.
I have to ask you not to keep posting that phony quote attributed to Martin Luther. There is no source for it, other than on Catholic apologetics sites.
Moderator — can you encourage Salvation to stop posting this made-up quotation? It reflects poorly on FR to promote such inaccuracies. Perhaps Salvation can defend RC with something besides fiction.
Do you have the original source of the quote?
Amen it is the only Bible I have ever had,
Thanks, AG — excellent research and excellent article.
Salvation — please don’t promulgate that quotation as though it’s accurate. To do so would be to dishonor Truth, and discredit FR. Thanks.
Luther: The Infallible Church Declared the Content of Scripture?
From these paragraphs, it should be obvious what Luther is driving at. It is the job of the True Church- those who believe and trust only in Christ's righteousness by faith, to call the visible church to repentance. The visible church will claim to be God speaking. The visible church may claim to be that authority which determined the Canon. But if the visible church is in rebellion against God, it is the task of the true Christian to point her back to her master.Thanks for sharing this with us, A-G!
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