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It was certainly effective in that purpose for me and my future salvation.
If you need to change the words to suit your theology it may indicate the words of God are not what you seek to bolster that theology.
As you are unwilling to answer my question, I will wait for your answer before answering your question
The KJV doesn't hide the word "perfect" where it is appropriate.Probably because the KJV, like any at least half-decent translation of the Bible, is still going to present for you the truth of the Gospel: of God the Word made flesh, suffering, dying, rising from the dead, for you and for your salvation.
Not because the KJV is magic.
-CryptoLutheran
The KJV doesn't hide the word "perfect" where it is appropriate.
Other versions do.
That, to me, is a clue to their interpretation's source.
How do you personally feel about perfect Christians?
Let me introduce myself.I've never met any.
Here on earth, perfect sinless Christians don't exist.
Let me introduce myself.
I walk in the light, God...and there is no sin in here.If you think that you are without sin, you deceive yourself.
Not you, but the versions of the bible that you subscribe to do.
The KJV doesn't hide the word "perfect" where it is appropriate.
Other versions do.
That, to me, is a clue to their interpretation's source.
Aren't you using your own preferred translation to denigrate my choice?The KJV isn't the standard against which other translations are to be compared, so this is also a go-nowhere statement.
-CryptoLutheran
By using the word "perfect", they acknowledge the power of the inspiration of God to make a man perfect.What makes the KJV's use of "perfect" more appropriate than other translations which don't?
-CryptoLutheran
Aren't you using your own preferred translation to denigrate my choice?
What makes your choice so special?
How has your choice increased your manifestations of the grace of God on earth?
By using the word "perfect", they acknowledge the power of the inspiration of God to make a man perfect.
By changing the word "perfect" to something else, they diminish the God inspired words to make a man merely "complete".
I guess I can understand your continued search, as you seem to be wafting in the wind.I'm not. I don't rely on any one translation. While I am in the habit of generally using the ESV, I also make use of the NRSV and occasionally the NET. However, if I want clarity I don't rely on a translation, I look at the source texts themselves, along with making use of lexicons, commentaries, and in general scholarship and historic Christian teaching and exegesis to try and get the best picture of what the text is saying.
Having received the gift of the Spirit of God, I have no qualms about adhering to the KJV bible.If I simply relied, entirely, on a translation--especially any one translation--I would inevitably misunderstand a lot of things, because I would be limiting myself to an English translation and my own private interpretations of what those English words mean. And as I do not believe in my own infallibility, but on the contrary, that I am a deeply fallible human being, it is in my best interests if I want to take the Bible seriously to examine, study, and lean on two thousand years of Christians far more intelligent and well-studied than myself.
I'm sorry you have so little faith in the words inspired by God to make one "perfect".Bible translations don't do that...(How has your choice increased your manifestations of the grace of God on earth?)... So the question is kind of meaningless.
Why not use that trust to petition God to show you a way to eliminate the bad versions of the bible instead of searching through several versions for guidance you don't believe in?I put my hope and trust in Jesus Christ, and rely on His grace to hold me and keep me with Him, by the power of the Holy Spirit who lives in me and this I know by the pure promise of God, and as pure gift from God. And in this faith live my life here in the world among my neighbors, as I am fed and nourished by God's gifts of Word and Sacrament, and seek to live as a Christian toward the world.-CryptoLutheran.
I guess I can understand your continued search, as you seem to be wafting in the wind.
Having received the gift of the Spirit of God, I have no qualms about adhering to the KJV bible.
It's the versions published after it that chafe me spiritually.
I'm sorry you have so little faith in the words inspired by God to make one "perfect".
Why not use that trust to petition God to show you a way to eliminate the bad versions of the bible instead of searching through several versions for guidance you don't believe in?
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