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HankD

 

What are the differences in them?

 

The main Baptist thing about the HCSB is that it's in Lifeway literature. I honestly don't know that any significant use occurs within the SBC, and I'd be shocked to hear of much outside.

 

At my church, the Sunday school material uses the HCSB, but the pastor uses the KJV, and NKJVs are in the pews. I stopped going to the class that used SBC material. I can't reconcile a Christian using such a lousy and corrupt translation.

 

HCSB to be phased out by 2017 with the release of the Christian Standard Bible, a 'new translation' to be offered to non-SBC publishers:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/...lishers-partner-on-new-bible-translation.html

Southern Baptist bureaucrat Jeremy Howard explained:

 

Now the title of that translation is offensive.

 

The Gideons distribute a corrected ESV. From The Gideon magazine:

"The ESV that will be distributed by The Gideons International will be a unique edition produced with permission of Crossway Publishing, copyright owner of the ESV. The copyright page of the Gideons edition will state, in part, "At the request of The Gideons―and in appreciation for their worldwide, century-plus distribution of more than 1.7 billion Bibles―Crossway is pleased to license the ESV Bible text to the Gideons and to grant permission to The Gideons to include certain alternative readings based on the Textus Receptus, for exclusive free distribution of a Gideons edition."

 

The article says a new translation, but it looks like the revision of the same lousy HCSB, except they're going to try to broaden its appeal by dropping H from the name and emphasize the theological diversity of translators. Maybe they'll put a picture of Sammy Davis Jr. in it and pass it off as an image of Jesus.

It would be more than I'd dare hope for them to dump the HCSB in favor of a new translation.

 

Yes, I am adequately familiar the manuscript variation of the TR family, and I don't see your concern.

 

In my KJVO days a Bible was not a Bible unless it included 1 John 5:7.

HankD

 

I tend to think the extra words of the TR come from commentary being added to the text. But, I don't know. The presence or absence of 1 John 5:7 has no doctrinal impact, although a non-trinitarian would prefer the verse to not exist.

I think a real new Baptist version should come from the TR. But, really anything but the Critical Text. It's kind of self-defeating to produce a conservative Bible version based on a liberal text. In the Critical Text, they usually go with the Politically Correct variation under the assumption that anything different from the Politically Correct version exists because everyone who passed down Bible translations were white male Christian bigots who would have change the bible to better fit their bigotry.

This is not an issue of one body of manuscript vs. another. It's an issue of the manuscripts vs. the synthetic Critical Text (really, any modern Greek text produced by liberal academicians picking and choosing from pieces from all the manuscripts).

I'd predict 1 John 5:7 would be left out of the Critical Text, almost regardless of the manuscript evidence as long as any old manuscript didn't have it. The liberals would say "Ha! Some bigot added it to support the Trinity." They might be right in this case, but right for the wrong reason.

But, still a new Baptist version should be based on the TR. First, for the sake of Protestant/KJV tradition and because there is gap in the sea of Bible translations, a first-class modern translation based on the TR.

 

I think it will do until something better comes along.

HankD

 

The NKJV is a first-class translation based on the TR. It's my top recommendation to people asking what version is best. I'm happy with it and I expect it to be the best choice for decades to come. But, it's more of a very updated KJV than a new translation.

 

I select:
22:19 and if any one take away from the words of the book of this prophecy. God will take away his part from the tree of life, and from the holy city; which things are written in this book.

20 He that testifies these things says: Surely, I come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus.

21 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints.

Yes, I'm going with the tree of life.