Question for KJVOs"like me" can we translate from.....

sorry to disappoint bro. Jim, whilst i am chinese and do speak chinese (mandarin) and its dialect (cantonese), and i understand but not speak other chinese dialects (like hokkien), I must admit that i'm most comfortable in English. However, given my present company, I shall have to suffice (poorly) as resident multilinguist. (Yes, there's Bluefalcon too! yay!)

Pastor Bob... sorry, but Altavista is good for a laugh. No body who's doing real translation work can rely on a computer to do it for them! Language is just too complex.

the King James men respected the Word of God so much that they italicised the words they added for readabilty and comprehension in the English language because you simply can't translate word for word in that string of words from one language to another (as altavista does). (syntax, you know?)It's just not comprehensible.

So i don't think that english spanish english section holds water at all.

 

Now, i am very upset by insensitive comments like this. How many years have YOU spent trying to reach the Thai people? How many years have YOU spent translating the bible into their language so that for the first time in their lives, they can hold the precious Words of God in their hands???
About as much as me but I don't make light of the work some servants of God have slaved over for the love Thai souls.

Ransom, the world is much bigger than America, you know?

 

C4K, can we talk about your assertion that there are several KJVs out there in another thread? Can it suffice that for the purpose of this thread, the KJV is just the KJV? it's just not helpful for this present conversation, i feel.

 

Su Wei asked:

How many years have YOU spent trying to reach the Thai people?

Are souls the new Baptist indulgence? Did the goofs who "translated" the "Rey Jaime" get a free pass from having to translate responsibly because they spent years "trying to reach the Spanish people"?

From now on, I'm going to demand to see a résumé from every KJV-onlyist who presumes to tell me something about translation or text criticism. The prerequisite is at least one complete Bible translated into a second language. Otherwise, keepa you mouth shut!

Ransom, the world is much bigger than America, you know?

Uh, yes. If you had paid attention, you would have seen that I am posting from Canada.

 

wow. Ransom. You are certainly found wanting in the courtesy department. you've made the dubious honour of being the rudest canadian i've met. Forgive my oversight to have assumed you were american.

I was referring to your broad sweep of the Thai Bible. Not the Spanish one.

 

The truth is that there are several varying editions of the KJV. It is impossible to say "Use the KJV to translate" when no one will explain which one to use. It is VITAL to this debate.

 

Looking forward to you telling me which edition of the KJV is perfectly perfect. Until then we have no standard for translation so the question is meaningless.

 

Once again let's go to Acts 2. Do you suppose all the folks that were hearing the works of God in their native tongue were hearing something less than the "Hebrew". Your guys total lack of faith in God's ability to preserve his words is outmatched only by your willfull ignorance to who created those laguages in the first place. How can Paul or Jesus for that matter, quote the Old Testament in Greek(when it was originaly spoken in Hebrew)and still be a perfect word for word inspired translation????????????????? "AS saith the scriptures..." It's simple!!!!

Mt 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Mr 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
Lu 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.

And the true bible believers said, AMEN!!!

 

A totally false accusation and attack. When you run out of arguments, attack.

I totally believe God preserves His Word for us today, but He is not so powerless that He stopped doing it in 1611 (or 1762, or 1769, etc).

Perhaps, G3G, you can tell us exactly which edition of the KJV is perfectly perfect since guitarist knows, but won't tell us?

 

If the 1769 is the one you can get at the five and dime it shall suffice. But you, on the other hand will NEVER point me to an absolute authority other than your opinion. Where is YOUR perfect bible??? You, as usual dodged the Acts 2 question. 1769 will do me fine, I don't stumble on typos!! By your own testimony, Jesus and Paul cuoldn't possibly be 100% inspired when quoting the Old Testament, because, according to the any version mind set, no translation can be 100% perfect. I WILL NOT CORRECT MY SAVIOUR!!!


Ro 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
(KJV)

Ps 40:4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Ps 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
(KJV)

 

I didn't know He spoke 17th century English.

I will give you credit for pinning down an edition though. Now if you could substantiate that with scripture the whole debate could be solved.

 

Acts 2, MAN!!! Go back 5 posts, it WAS addressed and you ignored it!!!

Furthermore Elizabethan English wasn't commonly spoken when the KJV was translated. Read Shakespear if you don't believe it. Why beat on that dead horse over and over again?!?!?

 

Acts 2 tells me that the KJV1769 is the perfect version? What translation are you using, my brother. I don't see anything about an English translation in that passage.

Could you please point it out to me?

 

The topic of this post is translation!!!

Acts2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 ¶ And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Who do you think you are foolin'???? That has EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE ORIGINAL POST!!!!

 

Amen!
as i said earlier, the chinese bible is the word of God as much as the english bible is to english speakers.
God loves all the people of the world, not just the speakers of the hebrew language or greek.

 

The OP was about translating from English for other langauges. What has the fact that each hearer heard the sermon in his own language got to do with the KJV as a standard for translation?

Of course God wants every person to have the Word in his own language. Where do Americans get the utter arrogance to suggest that it should be done from English?

How would Americans feel if the onyl Bible we had was a translation from Luther's German Bible.