The King James Bible is good enough. Doesn't matter if it was translated by trinitarians, atheist scholars, or a monkey. The WORD OF GOD is forever settled.
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Which King James? The 1611 original? Or the 1619 fix? What about the 3rd and 4th editions from the late 1600s (which is what is used today)? What's wrong with the NKJV? What about the fact that the Bishop's Bible and Textus Receptus have been shown to be chock full of errors and mistranslations from previous Greek/Latin texts and don't use sources closer to the time of the authors?
Sheol = hell? Hades = hell? I believe the Jews and Greeks can tell you otherwise.
Oxen = unicorns now, that's God's word? Interesting.
The KJV translators never suggested their work was perfect or better than the Hebrew and Greek texts or better than anyone else's translation, nor did it have to be. They said the king's speech in Parliament was still the king's speech, even if badly translated into French or Italian. They pointed out that the Septuagint, a 1st century BC translation of the Hebrew OT to Greek, is notoriously defective, yet it was the Bible used by Paul and the evangelists who wrote the Gospels.
Doesn't matter if it was translated by trinitarians, atheist scholars, or a monkey.
I think the trinis could have done better, and I know the scholars would have. So, um, let's see...who does that leave now...?
Deviating slightly from the topic, does anyone know which English Bible is the best translation and/or least deliberately altered version?
I want to brush up on my Biblical knowledge for the purposes of fundie whacking (I know most used the KJV but I want to compare and all that).
>>> Doesn't matter if it was translated by trinitarians, atheist scholars, or a monkey.
Oooh! I went and bought the orangoutan edition right away.
Ook 1:1: Oook ook ooook ook ook...
(...and continues in this lucid way for the following 1000 pages...)
This is so profound! So deep! So---
(*gets sneakily hit on the head by a certain orangoutan for mistaking this for the "monkey" translation*)
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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