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View Poll Results: Which is the best Bible Version? | |
KJV
|     | 383 | 26.25% | |
NKJV
|    | 205 | 14.05% | |
21c KJV
|    | 7 | 0.48% | |
NIV
|    | 433 | 29.68% | |
NASB
|    | 171 | 11.72% | |
NLT
|    | 91 | 6.24% | |
RSV
| | 65 | 4.46% | |
Good News
| | 25 | 1.71% | |
Jerusalem
| | 40 | 2.74% | |
Amplified
| | 39 | 2.67% |
19th April 2005, 12:50 PM
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19th April 2005, 01:00 PM
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I voted for NIV because it is the version I have spent the most time in, and was able to understand best!
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19th April 2005, 06:56 PM
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Reps: 12 (power: 0) | | | I would have voted for the ESV (English Standard Version) but they didn't have that option. Before that I read the NKJV so that is what I picked for the pole. |
19th April 2005, 11:43 PM
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Reps: 74,801 (power: 87) | | | I've used NKJV all my life. I'm not sure I have any that aren't. |
23rd April 2005, 11:59 PM
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yeh i like NIV as well but i also really like them for their NIV study bibles .. they're really easy to understand and the more you understand the more you can evangelise! so yeh .  |
24th April 2005, 04:53 AM
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Reps: 23,376 (power: 35) | | | I don't think there is a "best" translation - they all have good points and they all have bad points. I prefer the NASB simply because it was the first translation I had and I'm used to it!!! I do not like NIV because I think it has more bad points that good in the translation
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24th April 2005, 07:59 AM
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Reps: 835,586,898 (power: 835,597) | | at the moment I'm using the new living translation cause it's easy to read and understand 
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24th April 2005, 10:50 AM
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Reps: 31,533 (power: 0) | | | The NIV was translated using false texts. Why would ANYONE read a perverted version of the Bible that is based on texts with faulty doctrine? Why do people choose to read a book filled with errors, a book that simple is NOT God's Word but it is the word of man. Why? Please research this for yourselves. This is not just for the NIV but also the New American Standard and other version, also.
So many versions add and subtract from God's Word. Do you know - that is sin. |
24th April 2005, 11:15 AM
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Reps: 31,533 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by ChikovGrace I would have to say the NIV because when it was translated they went back to the original languages and it was translated word for word and thought for thought. Let me explain, when most of the translations were being made the original text was looked at for either its word for word meaning (how it would be translated best into english) or in the thought for thought method (meaning the entire statement was looked at instead of just the words themself.) In the NIV translation they did both in looking at the word for word meaning and the thought for thought. Taking both and translating them into one Bible.
This is simply not true, not all of it. Yes, they went back to original languages BUT the NIV is based on texts that were changed to suit lifestyles that were not the lifestyle according to God's Word in the texts that were ACCEPTED by the early church. The people who changed the texts, what they did was say things like, "This part here, it doesn't apply since Jesus was not that type of man. This part here, we don't like that, let's erase it." Meanwhile, the true texts remained unchanged. Those texts remained the Word of God and those were used to make the KJV. There are over 5,210 manuscripts that have been copied through the generations that MATCH the manuscripts used to make the KJV. The number of manuscripts that match the texts used to make the NIV, etc: only 45. Over 5,000 compared to not even 50. Why so few? Because the smaller number were ignored by the church because they were false and did not match the true documents.
But the falsified/changed texts were used for these newer versions of the Bible. The men who changed the texts that were used for the NIV and NASB, they did NOT believe Christ was on earth for the reasons He was. The changed texts have 2,800+ words MISSING. So, when translated, the texts do not translate to what is in the KJV. This means in the NASB there are 4,000+ changes to God's Word and in the NIV there are 6,600+ changes in God's Word compared to the KJV. Within these changes there are over 350 doctrinal errors in the New Testament.
The KJV version is superior in every way. Other newer versions are the changed Word of God. Changing the Word of God is sin.
Please research this for yourselves. There is a world of info out there. I'm not an expert but if you have any questions, just ask me and I can help point you in some good directions where you can go to discover the truth for yourself 
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24th April 2005, 01:49 PM
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Reps: 7,846 (power: 21) | | Originally Posted by ChrisWins BUT the NIV is based on texts that were changed to suit lifestyles that were not the lifestyle according to God's Word in the texts that were ACCEPTED by the early church.
The NIV isn't the absolute best version out there, but it IS very helpful. They've exposed things like the added version of 1 John 5:7 (the one that talks about the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit) but they include it anyway - and warn you about it in the footnotes - so you can get the fullest picture of what they're talking about.
They noted that Mark 16:9-20 is probably a later addition as well. The writing style is different from the rest of Mark, and the part that says Jesus rebuked the disciples for not immediately believing He was resurrected is not found in any of the other gospels. Furthermore, many of the reliable early manuscripts and ancient manuscripts do not have Mark 16:9-20.
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