From: Mike Burrell (mburrell_at_stny.rr.com)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 09:26:14 PDT
> Ah, but it already HAS been interpreted, the last step by the people,
> the committees of people with a set of political agendas, who translated
> the KJV (and later), the scribes who made, wittingly or unwittingly,
> minor elises or emphasis that the versions that the those people used.
> And its well documented that the translators of the KJV, apart from the
> politics they were faced with, did not make use of the earliest texts
> available to them. Even so, we have better sources today.
>
Sounds like you've done a lot of research on all the translations. Too bad
you don't focus your study on the Bible instead.
Don't you think God is capable of preserving His own word? Are you mightier
than God to proclaim on your own that there is no exact translation
available today?
Matthew 5 states: 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven:
but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven.
Sounds like God intends to keep his word around for quite some time.
By the way, who in the Bible questions God's word the most? Well, Satan's
first words in the Bible happened to have been. "...hath God said,...?"
Genesis 3.
And you also probably remember it was in Mark 4 that Christ was tempted by
Satan who tried to use God's word: 9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and
set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son
of God, cast thyself down from hence:
10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep
thee:
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