You claim that I have said the Holy Spirit is to help us understand the language? I did not say that. I said the Holy Spirit gives us understanding of God's word.[/qutoe]Your complaint was that we didn’t need easier to read translations. To say that we did was to deny the power and work of the Holy Spirit. That seemed pretty clear to me.
It is people today, who have become lazy who do not want to search and study Gods word, or lazy pastors, who do not want to explain the hard things in the word of God, that one recieves from the Holy Spirit in his word, and the modern versions have taken this away.
Having exclusively used MVs for almost 10 years, I can conclusively say that you are wrong. The Holy Spirit is working through modern versions. In fact, when I switched from the KJV to modern versions, I found greater ministry. I have seen more people growing in the word of the Lord and growing in Christ. That is an undeniable fact in my ministry.
t has nothing to do with the language, but the process that is being done with Bible versions today that try to fix things in God's word that he requires us to work out for ourselves in what he has given, and end up corrupting it by thier false interpretations of it (adding, taking away from God's word - and taking the place of the work of the Holy Spirit in sorting it out for you), and then claiming they had to do it because there was an error or contradiction that needed to be fixed and made simple. This is wrong and it is dangerous and not a translation.
You have the same problem with the KJV. They tried to “fix” things and have given their “false interpretations of it;” they have “added to it” in numerous places. The simple fact again, is that you have taken your position as true without actually proving it. The arguments made against modern versions were made against the KJV. They will be made, should the Lord tarry, about other versions. There is nothing new under the sun. The only thing that changes is the name of the version being talked about.
We all can understand the english language in the KJV,
This is simply not true. In my time as a youth pastor, I constantly had teens asking me what the KJV meant. They didn’t understand it. Today, as a pastor, I often have members who carry a KJV ask me what a passage means. People do not understand the language and the sentence structure. I grew up on it. I read far above my grade level and I didn’t understand it like I should have. Simply put, God’s word was written in the common man’s language. There is no reason for it to be different today.
It is the presumption on the part of the person, whether they are in rejection of the Lord, or hear people like you, say that it is hard to read, or agree with them that it is which validate thier false belief.
They don’t need me to tell them it is hard to read. They have figured that out long before they heard it from me. If you were rebellious against the Lord, you can’t blame that on the version or on people like me. You have no one to blame but yourself.
I do not see confusion nor contradiction to when the Bible refers to Ezekiel as the son of man, because number one, his name is given and known, and this is an addition to his real name already given.
The same is true with Satan. There is no confusion. This is a concocted story used to attack God’s word. It has been conclusively answered.
Secondly, I do not see the confusion because many of the prophets were given names representative of Christ Jesus our Lord.
This is not true.
You can continue to say that you have already posted these things two weeks ago, over and over again, but this does not change the fact that the translation in the NIV is not the correct translation, and is blasphemous and is also getting rid of the negative meaning of Lucifer, by deleting it altogether.
It wasn’t two weeks ago. This discussion has gone on for years. There is nothing new here. People have tried to attack God’s word like this for years and it has already been answered.
The reality is that the word of God doesn’t need to be in old fashioned language. It doesn’t need people like you to attack it and to call it blasphemous. What it needs is to be read and listened to. It needs to be followed and obeyed. I praise God that he is using the NASB and the NIV to change people’s lives here. I would encourage you to get involved in a faithful Bible preaching church that uses a modern version. Then you will see just how baseless these charges are.
