Bible translations

[gibby]

Of course, you always have the option of changing the version from the dropdown box at biblegateway at the top for those of you that would prefer a different translation.

[Pariah]

Thanks gibby!!!

[JIP]

In agreement with Gibby. All will benefit.

[Kris]

Nice,Gibby :>

[JIP]

CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT.Not only was King James the first monarch to unite Scotland, England and Ireland into Great Britain (as he liked to call it), but he commissioned what many consider to be the greatest piece of religious and literary work in the world--the Authorized King James Bible, aka the Authorized Bible. King James gave his subjects the greatest gift he could--the Holy Bible.In January of 1604, the King called the Hampton Court Conference in order to hear of things "pretended to be amiss" in the church. At this conference, Dr. John Reynolds, a Puritan, requested of the King a new translation of the Bible because those that were allowed during the reigns of Henry the VIII and Edward the VI were corrupt.

The King loved the idea and by July of 1604 the King had appointed 54 men to the translation committee. These men were not only the best linguists and scholars in the kingdom-but in the world. Much of their work on the King James Bible formed the basis for our linguistic studies of today. The translators were organized into six groups and met respectively at Westminster, Cambridge, and Oxford. This group of great scholars had qualifications such as have not been rivaled before or after them. They spent most of their lifetimes in the pursuit of God and knowledge.

One translator, Dr. Lancelot Andrews, mastered at least 15 languages and by the time he was 6 years old, he had read the entire Bible in Hebrew. Others on the translation committee were just as qualified. Some wrote foreign language dictionaries and lexicons, they commonly debated in Greek, they translated and edited great works and wrote their own. These are but a few of their fantastic accomplishments. They not only knew the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek biblical languages but also the related languages that shed light on them such as Arabic, Persian, Coptic, Syriac, Latin, Chaldee, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch.

These men were not only world class scholars, they were Christians who lived holy lives as Deans and Presidents of major universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Some prayed 5 hours a day. Their translation work did not go without opposition. According to the translator's notes in the preface of the King James Bible, the Catholic religion was dead set against translating the Bible into the common tongue. Popery proved to be the translator's chief enemy. The translators wrote of the Catholic religion: "So much are they afraid of the light of the scripture, that they will not trust the people with it...Sure we are that not he that hath the good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touchstone, but he that hath the counterfeit.

"Despite the opposition of the Catholic religion, the work continued and the end product was nothing short of miraculous. Many consider the commissioning of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible the crowning achievement of King James the VI and & I.Upon its publication, the King James or Authorized Bible eclipsed all previous and subsequent versions. It is the best-selling book of all time.

[Pariah]

Thanks, JIP, for the words of knowledge!

Thanks be to Jesus for having you bring that to us! Amen.

[JIP]

Amen & Praise Him for His Truth.

...and welcome Pariah.

[JIP]

Hi Pariah,
I have posted more details in our sister site earlier to this thread.'The Christain Lounge' under the topic, "Different bible versions- Which is the correct version?" If you want you can check it out there. Just some facts & figures to support the claim..

[Pariah]

Hi JIP!

Thanks for the link. I shall try to get in there again.

I failed the first time. Maybe I filled out the e-mail part wrong. I don't know. I shall try again, God be willing.

[JIP]

Pariah,
Here I have copy the posts and attached as a Word.doc.
I had to split the file into A&B because the file was too large.
JIP