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Discussion in 'Bible Versions & Translations' started by 37818, Nov 25, 2021.

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    Some important factors.
    Verbal.
    Plenary.
    Inerrant.
    Infallible.
    Immutable.
    Self Authenticating.
     
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    37818 Well-Known Member

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    Most of the modern, if not all, translations fail in a number of these areas in places. The few places in the KJV are well known.
     
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    More factors

    Matthew 24:35 “…my words will not pass away.”
    (Includes written and spoken words)

    Inspiration - God inspired the authors who wrote as they were moved by the Spirit

    There are no original documents of Scripture.

    Transcription (copying) of Scripture is not inspired

    Translations are not the original Word of God, translators are not inspired

    Rob
     
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    37818 Well-Known Member

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    Either the copies are on the whole representative of what the origins were as they were given or we have no meaningful written word of God, just wishful documents. (! Matthew 4:4, Matthew 5:18 !)
     
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    I would say that the overwhelming majority of Greek Manuscripts are very accurate copies of the Originals. Not perfect copies, but generally very accurate.
     
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    And it's unfortunate that so many Non-Evangelical denominations would disagree, isn't it?
     
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    Bible translations which generally hold to the verbal plenary tradition, KJV, ASV, NASB (... 1995, 2020, LSB) and the NKJV.
     
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    Would you include the ESV on this list?
     
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    Nearly all Bible versions adhere to the above.
     
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    The translations I listed are those which use italics to show words not from the text being translated as was done in the KJV. The ASV to the RSV broke from that KJV tradition of doing that. The ESV follows the RSV in not doing this. Most assist in translation words are not in italics anyway even in the KJV.
    KJV John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.". Two words in italics, "is" and the second "him."
     
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    And all translations as a translation might break from it. No translations are inerrant or immutable.
     
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    I have to admit: when I'm reading the ESV, I do miss those italics.
     
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    I bought my copy of the ESV because a Gideon's New Testament used it. What I didn't know before hand, the Gideon's had gotten permission to make select changes per the TR. Like Luke 4:4.
     
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    The Greek text family 35 is intended to be as close as possible to the identity of the New Testament text. It is a critical text which is not merely the Byzantine or Majority text.
    A work prepared by Wilbur N. ,Pickering

    New Greek Text of the N. T. - Prunch
     
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    If there are no original documents (and the autographs are long gone) and neither “transcription” nor “translation” is INSPIRED, then Matthew 24:35 is false … the words of God HAVE passed away because God failed to protect them. From your statements, even the Torah written by the hand of Moses was only an “uninspired transcription” of the inspired spoken words of God with the two tablets of stone and the wall in Daniel the only words “written by God”.

    I think God has a vested interest in preserving His word. I believe Matthew 24:35 is true. I believe that God has inspired more than you give Him credit for. The errors do not negate the hand of God, they necessitate the Holy Spirit to guide us into truth.

    You are free to follow an unknowable God whose words are lost to time … that is your right.
     
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    The use of italics in translation is pointless. It's an unfruitful and an illogical enterprise. If italics would be put in every passage it would be an optical nightmare. What about the fact that those translations that use italics do not put them where untranslated words or phrases are not put in the text?
    I'm a fan of footnotes instead of italics.
     
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    The the 1611 KJV used both.

    NASB20, ". . . brothers and sisters . . . ."
     
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    In the 1611 or later additions are you saying that there were blanks with italics set forth? Logos has shown that there are big differences between the 1611 and future additions with respect to the number of italics.

    I don't understand what you were saying about the 2020 NASB.
     
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