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How do you all feel about the subject? I like the sentiment that the movement has, but I just don't feel it can hold up to academic scrutiny when compared with the modern versions...
What are your thoughts on the subject?
Hi leevo,
I would never claim to be some great authority on the various translations of the Scriptures. There are many. However, I do feel able and compelled to give an answer to your question because I have long prayed for wisdom and studied the Scriptures. God created this realm in which we live. All from absolutely nothing God created everything. He created for the express purpose that He was going to create a living creature that He would love and nurture and protect and provide for and that creature would in turn love Him in return. Being aware that the very reason that every 4-5 seconds their lungs filled with air and they therefore breathed and had life was because - God. Being aware that when their bodies hungered for food it was there because - God. Being aware that the very reason that they existed was because a loving and caring God created them. That creature is man.
God created man, of all the living creatures that He created in this realm, God created man to understand and comprehend who He is. God created man with the purpose and desire to have a relationship with man. Yes, He loves man above all that He created, but desires that man also love Him in return. He wants a relationship of love and respect between all parties. He wants us to understand why we exist so that we will desire to fulfill this purpose for which God created this realm. In the end, as the Revelation accounts, God is going to have what He has purposed to create. He is going to live with us and be our God and those who have understood and accepted God's position of Creator and Authority and willing and desirous of the relationship of love that God seeks, will live with Him.
To accomplish this purpose, God caused His Holy Spirit to drive certain men to write down all that God wants us to know so that we can, if we so choose, know and accept the truth. These Scriptures were written down by godly men and have been protected by that same Spirit throughout the ages. They were written in a language foreign to most of us and so have been translated into the common language of the nations. However, throughout all of these ages; all of this long passing of time upon the earth, the purpose of the Scriptures remains the same. To give man the ability to know and understand God and all that He has done.
Throughout the writing and translation of these many and varied versions of the Scriptures there have been some differences in how a particular translator worded his translation. There have been some few seeming discrepancies as to whether a certain word or passage was really in the original writing, which sadly we no longer have. However, in all of this, God's Scriptures still stand as a beacon calling us to know and understand God and our purpose in His creation. Any reasonable thinking man or woman can pick up a copy of any of the 'good' translations and, after reading it, know God's purpose and desire for us.
There is not a single translation which fails in telling clearly that God created this realm in which we live. There is not a single translation that fails to impress us with the knowledge of the truth that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God; that which He created us to be. There is not a single translation that doesn't clearly explain to us that God has provided a way of salvation despite our sin, and that way is through Jesus. There is not a single translation which doesn't confirm in agreement with all the others how all this is going to be resolved one day.
So, I'm a fan of every good translation of the Scriptures. I'm not one to care what translation someone reads, but rather I'm more like Phillip in asking of someone reading any good translation, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
God bless you.
In Christ, Ted
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