Why do so called interpreters who 'translate' the Word of God actually pervert it?

SuperCow said:

I was in a jam, as I was in a rush to get to my band’s jam session, because they were trying to jam through their next hit on our album. On my way I got stuck in a traffic jam, so I ate a jam sandwich in the car, looked to my left and noticed there was something wrong with the door jam.

Now translate that paragraph word for word into Hebrew.

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Umm...a door jam is spelt “jamb”.

You make the point very well, though.

Nux said:

Thanks for the reply but when I speak about this matters it always turns out the same 'Do you have a degree in Hebrew/Greek?'. Obviously I don't. But you actually don't need it to perform a simple check and to see what word original uses and how it corresponds to a translation. This is what Strong's was created for.

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Strong's suffers from word study fallacies.

It is better to consult an lexicon like the Theological Dictionary of the NT by Kittel-Friedrich
https://www.amazon.com/Theological-Dictionary-New-Testament-Set/dp/0802823246

Daniel Marsh said:

Strong's suffers from word study fallacies.

It is better to consult an lexicon like the Theological Dictionary of the NT by Kittel-Friedrich
https://www.amazon.com/Theological-Dictionary-New-Testament-Set/dp/0802823246

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Break out the 10 volume set of big Kittel

LeGato said:

The NIV is one of the worst of them. I use KJV, weird for a Lutheran, i know.

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What is wrong with the NIV? I don't like the word "vault" in Genesis 1, but otherwise that chapter is much better in the NIV than several other Bibles. (I did a parallel reading of five versions on Bible Hub.)

ChristianForCats said:

What is wrong with the NIV? I don't like the word "vault" in Genesis 1, but otherwise that chapter is much better in the NIV than several other Bibles. (I did a parallel reading of five versions on Bible Hub.)

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The major criticism I'm familiar with for the NIV is that it has an evangelical Protestant bias in the word choices.

For example, Acts 1:20 which discusses the vacancy of the Apostles left by Judas, Peter says in Young's Literal Translation "or it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let another take."

The Greek for "oversight" says: Τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν αὐτοῦ "Thn episkophn autou" i.e. episcopal and oversight is the direct meaning of "episkopos"

Other translations lean towards an office of bishop or something along those lines.
KJV: and his bishoprick let another take.
RSV: ‘His office let another take.’

However, the NIV translates it as
“‘May another take his place of leadership."

This definitely changes the emphasis of an office to just a role.

There are other similar issues that I have with the NIV American Evangelical Protestant bias.