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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:31:05 -0500
From:         "Scott A. Rust" <SARUST@GALLUA.BITNET>
Subject:      King James Version or....

        I've attempted to post this twice through our news server here on
campus but for some reason it doesn't seem to be getting through.
        Please send me an e-mail if this has been seen more than once.

        Sorry for any duplications, if at all.....

___________________________________________


        Having read the posts concerning which version of the Bible I read or
you read or she reads, I'd like to bring up a few points and reiterate one or
two that have already been made.

        I, too, have a few friends who believe that "If the King's English was
good enough for Christ, it's good enough for me!". This is silly, of course.
Has anyone actually seen a copy of the REAL KJV? It's mostly German and was
revised approximately 50 times from the time it was first released to the last
"edition" about 100 years later, which is the version we now know to be the
KJV. This, in and of itself, takes a lot of the credibility away from this
translation for me.

        What do I use? My primary _reading_ (to myself) Bible is the New
Revised English. I use the NIV for study purposes (and will _occasionally_ use
my Dake's Bible [KJV] for frivilous details) and my personal favorite that I
use in groups and for casual reading to myself is the Jerusalem Bible. This
Bible has the neatest wording of all the Bible's I've read.

        I've used the Good News Bible when I was younger (grade school age)
because it _is_ easier reading, but found as the years went on that it was a
little too easy and was more like reading a novel and not God's Word.

        I used to get into arguments with my friends about which Bible
translation is IT and who is NOT receiving God's Word because they are reading
"XXXXX Translation" and not "Their (or the REAL)" translation. I've realized
since that time that the Lord loves me whether I read this one or that one or
ANY one of them. I think it's similar to the argument of if I don't get all
dressed up to go to church on Sunday then I'm not right in God's eyes. Heck, I
pray to God naked and he still loves me. Same with the Bible. I doubt that He
is giving brownie points for reading a particular translation. I think they all
have merits and that in the end, it'll be a personal choice. If you're not
being fed spiritually by a certain church/pastor, you move on til you find a
place where you are fed. If the translation you're reading doesn't make God's
plan you clear, move along til you find the one that does.


                Take care,

                  Scott

_______

                Scott A. Rust | "A stupid person can do anything
         Gallaudet University |           except think."
  sarust@gallua.gallaudet.edu |                  - J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

                   "Why? Why because I laugh."
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