Featured What's the AUTHORITY for an English Bible?

the Hebrew scriptures themselves, as while the Apostles quoted from and used LLX in their books, that was not inspired , but their use of it was!

 

What is Dominion position?

 

Dr. Samuel Gipp is a preacher & evangelist, and also a rabid KJVO. I showed him wrong about the "Easter" goof in the KJV, & I doubt he would communicate with me now. After all, he has a Th.D among other degrees, while I have a HS diploma & work as a custodial engineer in a steel mill. (Full union benefits)

I call one of his better-known boox "The Wrong-Answer Book", as it was made in collaboration with Jack Chick, who was also a rabid (and often INCORRECT) KJVO.

 

I've always heard that the KJV is mostly Tyndale, who must have been highly intelligent to translate the entire Scripture by himself and mostly 100% correctly. The average person is so dependent upon the experts that the translation is reliable. I use several translation but I prefer the KJV for the beauty of the English language. I myself think that things such as language, music, and churches should be beautiful.

As for the authority to translate into English, by what authority did the Jews translate their Scripture into Greek?

 

I do not support any Spiritual authority for the KJV translation, only the Authorization was the King, like a Royal Warrant for a Land Rover or Armor

I do not know but imagine a council of Hebrew scholars, probably of Alexandria, who saw the need for the Hebrew to be Greek in the Greek dominated society. As a non Hebrew, non Greek speaker , I only see complications trying to understand Hebrew to English, without going through Greek, .. or Latin

The beautiful part of English, ability to show thoughts in so many ways, detracts if trying to be so accurate in original thoughts.
We to go from the original thought to the same thought in English.

 

So by what authority was the Septuagint written?

 

It was a OT in Greek that is all.

from Wikipedia

The traditional story, as recorded in the Letter of Aristeas, is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation of the Torah (Pentateuch, Five Books of Moses). Subsequently, the Greek translation was in circulation among the Alexandrian Jews who were fluent in Koine Greek but not in Hebrew,[6] the former being the lingua franca of Alexandria, Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean at the time.[7]


Seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria.[11]

 

The full blown Kjvo persons would see the Kjv as being able to "fix" any errors in the original languages texts themselves!

 

I believe Scripture itself establishes authority for it to be translated into any language, while, in the thread for authority for the KJVO myth, we have proven there isn't any such authority except that made by man.

 

The authority is that we have been given the great Commission, and not all people speak Hebrew/Greek!

 

Mainly, in Acts 2, where the HOLY SPIRIT enabled all present to hear Peter's speech in his/her own language.

Also, in 1 Cor. 14 where Paul makes it plain that to understand the Gospel, one must hear it in his/her own language.

Because everyone can't learn them. That fact is not lost on GOD, who makes all languages.

 

Why do you share the word of God online in English? There is no Biblical command to do so. Perhaps you should restrict all your evangelism to wandering, making tents and preaching in ancient Greek. If God wants anyone to understand, he will re-deploy the Acts 2 gift of Tongues.

 

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. 23 I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.
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Sometimes "by all means" includes compiling the canonical books into a Bible, and translating the Bible so people can read it.