This is NOT even a counter to anything I argued, but keep up the CAPITALIZATIONS to prove your point.
CAPITALIZATION of your words while completely lacking any support for those words amounts to SHOUTING and SOAP BOX preaching. You are convinced of the GREAT IMPORTANCE to a particular translation, but can you point to a particular translation that is not sufficient to learn of God and the path to heaven? Do you think one would go to hell for reading the "wrong" Bible? This debate is full of even more folly than which church is the correct church. Please defend what you propose, that minor differences "MATTER A GREAT DEAL".
I used the text you quoted in the OP. What was your point of quoting many different translations of John 3:16 if it is not an example of your OP point of detrimental altering the meaning of God's word in various translations?
I tried to use a truism that there are multiple ways of saying the same thing. You completely ignore this. You should not be so legalistic in translations because even the NT misquotes the OT, used different words. Also the whole point of the synoptic gospels is to present the same message using different words. You miss Jesus' command to preach to all nations, which is an endorsement to translate his word. Understand that there is not always a one to one translation of words between languages so there is by a necessity an "altering" of God's word.
THANKS FOR POINTING OUT THE CAPS THING, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT, WILL MAKE SURE AND LET EVERYONE KNOW.
anyways here are a few examples I found online.
For example,
Revelation 2:4-5 is translated in that version as:
But you walked away from your first lovewhy? What's going on with you, anyway? Do you have any idea how far you've fallen? A Lucifer fall! "Turn back! Recover your dear early love. No time to waste, for I'm well on my way to removing your light from the golden circle.
ESV has:
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 5Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place
NKJV:
Nevertheless I have
this against you, that you have left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place
And as far as small things mattering a GREAT deal.
ames 3:4 - King James Bible
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Matthew 17:20 - King James Bible
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
1 Samuel 17- 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.