The author deals on a case-by-case basis with fifty Old Testament and one hundred New Testament passages in the New International Version of the Bible, explaining questioned translations and defining the committee's word choices.
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Kenneth L. Barker (PhD, Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning) is an author, lecturer, biblical scholar, and the general editor of the NIV Study Bible.
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KJV-Only'ers:Read this Book--Stop Believing Untrue Slander,
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I chose the NIV Bible in 1995, after having read nothing but KJV my entire life. A few years later, upon hearing things that bothered me concerning the NIV, I chose to educate myself on the NIV translation instead of buying into the slander put out by radical KJV only'ers. I'm so glad I did. And I recently purchased a 2nd copy of this little book for a family member who left the NIV to go back to the KJV because of things now being said about the NIV, which are not true. Do not take my word for it, look into the actual facts.The texts available for the translators in the time of King James are not as old as the ones we have today. The texts available today show that some words and phrases were actually inserted into the King James Version--not taken out of the newer translations. Take this example. Imagine that 100 people make a copy of a single page with 100 lines by hand. Number each of the 100 copies 1 through 100. --Person #17 made a mistake on line 3. But the other 99 copies all match, showing that the difference on line 3 of copy #17 is an error. --Person #45 made a mistake on line 12. But the other 99 copies all match, showing that the difference on line 12 of copy #45 is an error. --Person #67 made a marginal note next to line 20. But the other 99 copies all match, showing that the insertion on line 20 of copy #67 is not original text. Translators can tell by reviewing all available texts that have been carefully dated, what insertions were made at a certain time, because that same insertion is missing in older copies, showing the newer ones are errors. Many of the insertions in the 4 gospels were also made as a result of Tatian's Diatessoron. The Diatessoron was a misguided attempt to merge all 4 gospels into 1 large gospel, perhaps as innocent as saving paper, or maybe as a way to eliminate questions of the differences in the 4 gospels, and also in an attempt to make them all say the same thing, as if God's inspiration was not good enough. God inspired the differences in the 4 gospels for a reason. There is also a new translation today that is attempting to do the same thing, merge all of the gospels into one, this is not an inspired writing, but man's version of God's. I would also avoid any paraphrased version, since it is not actually a translation from Hebrew/Greek into English, but is a rewording of an existing English translation into new phraseology. Definitiely not inspired. There is nothing wrong with using the KJV as long as you understand why it is different and understand that it is NOT SUPERIOR to the newer ones. Learn the history of the Bible, there were many many versions prior to the King James, the King James was by no means the first, and was actually translated by using manuscripts that are not as ancient as those we have available for translation today. If anyone wants to call any Bible inferior, they should call the KJV inferior, since the newer translations are actually from older manuscripts that clearly show the later ones had scribal insertions and mistakes.
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Dr. Barker does a great job of justifying the NIV and some of its controversial renderings. He is kind to caustic reviewers and certainly shows me that he is a competent scholar. His explanations lead me to think better of the NIV, though at times his doctrinal biases slip through.
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HERE IS THE Accuracy of the (("NIV")) made plain and clear when compared to the superiority of the KJV,
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HERE IS THE Accuracy of the (("NIV")) made plain and clear when compared to the superiority of the KJV; 2 Samuel 21:19 in the New International Version (NIV) says that Elhanan, not David, killed the giant, Goliath. This is not accuracy AT ALL!!! Don't believe me, see for your self:"In another battle with the Philistines at Gob, Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim[a] the Bethlehemite killed Goliath[b] the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod." -- 2 Samuel 21:19 NIV (1984) VS "And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the (((brother of))) ===> Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam." -- 2 Samuel 21:19 KJV Virginia Mollenkott was on the translation committee for the NIV. She is a Lesbian who is is a Christian author who has advocated LGBT rights and Christian feminism. She has contributed a major study on the feminine imagery for God in the Bible, and supports the use of gender inclusive language for God. And She was on the NIV translation committee. "The Bible is the 'words of men' a 'literany production.'"- Ronald Youngblood, NIV Committee. "I felt bound to abandon the God-dictated-ever-word-from-cover-to-cover attitude."- J.B Phillips, Editor of the Phillips Bible. "Ever member of the panel was conscious that some of its decisions were in no sense certain" - NEB Committee. When they say stuff like God inspired only the "concepts" in Scripture, that bothers me! God clearly directed every word and will not tolerate man's meddling with it. He calls them "His Words." If your Bible is a King James Bible, it preserves God's words because it was translated using "verbal equivalence" (translates word for word from Hebrew & Greek into English) and "formal equivalence" (translates the forms of the words from Hebrew & Greek into english. Translates a noun for a noun, verbs to verbs, adjectives to adjectives, adverbs to adverbs, and pronouns for pronouns.) All other Bibles were translated using "dynamic equivalence," in which the translator is free to change words as long as he conveys the "idea." What does that mean? The "dynamic equivalence" means adding, subtracting and changing what God said. I don't want what the scholars think God said or the concepts of what God said, I want WHAT GOD actually SAID!!! Pope John Paul II's June, 1990 speech in San Francisco booms this reprise, "Everything must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order." Frighteningly, the NIV changes the words in Hebrews 9:10 from "until the time of reformation"-KJV to: "until the time of the new order."-NIV The NIV has 64,098 less words then the KJV. It has removed over 64,000 words! Crazy, whats even more crazy is people still read it and consider it the word of God! Blows my mind, such "doublethink"...Wake up people! The NIV comes from the same corrupt manuscripts as the catholic (b)ibles. And now they have the TNIV which = Todays Negatively Inspired Version! Remember the "TNIV" is a gender neutral bible i.e. a neutered bible! NIV = Negatively Inspired Version or the No Information Version! TNIV = Todays Negatively Inspired Version! NASB = Not Authorized and Satan Backed! God said, "Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour."-Jeremiah 23:30. and God goes on to say, "...for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God."-Jeremiah 23:36. Here is what Charles H. Spurgeon said about Bible correctors when he preached about bible correctors in a sermon entitled, "The Greatest Fight in the World." He said, "We have given up the Pope, for he has blundered often and terribly; but we shall not set up instead of him a horde of little popelings fresh from college. Are these correctors of Scripture infallible? Are we now to believe that infallibility is with learned men? Now, Farmer Smith, when you have read your Bible, and have enjoyed its precious promises, you will have, to-morrow morning, to go down the street to ask the scholarly man at the parsonage whether this portion of the Scripture belongs to the inspired part of the Word, or whether it is of dubious authority. We shall gradually be so bedoubted and becriticized, that only a few of the most profound will know what is Bible, and what is not, and they will dictate to all the rest of us. I have no more faith in their mercy than in their accuracy: they will rob us of all that we hold most dear, and glory in the cruel deed. This same reign of terror we shall not endure, for we still believe that God revealeth himself rather to babes than to the wise and prudent, and we are fully assured that our own old English version of the Scriptures is sufficient for plain men for all purposes of life, salvation, and godliness. We do not despise learning, but we will never say of culture or criticism, "These be thy gods, O Israel!" Machen had it right and so did Spurgeon. Textual criticism by the "experts" is a horde of little popelings who by their assumed infallibility have the gall to tell us what is God's Word and what is not. Such is the tyranny of the experts. Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort are the TWO Bible textual critics that put together the Nestle-Aland Text which is the text-type used for all modern versions of the bible. The Nestle-Aland Text comes from "Codex Sinaiticus" and"Codex Vaticanus" , which is the Alexandrian text-type (also called Neutralor Egyptian), associated with Alexandria, is one of several text-typesused in New Testament textual criticismused for all new modern bible PERversions. Here's what Westcott and Hort said about... "The Scriptures, the Deity of Christ, Hell, Creation, and Romanism." And you people set there and attack the KJV-ONLY people!!: The Scriptures: "I reject the word infallibility of Holy Scriptures overwhelmingly." (Westcott, The Life and Letters of Brook Foss Westcott, Vol. I, p.207). "Our Bible as well as our Faith is a mere compromise." (Westcott, On the Canon of the New Testament, p. vii). "Evangelicals seem to me perverted. There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, especially the authority of the Bible." (Hort, The Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, Vol. I, p.400) "Dr. Wilbur Pickering writes that, Hort did not hold to a high view of inspiration." (The Identity of the New Testament Text, p.212) Perhaps this is why both the RV (which Westcott and Hort helped to translate) and the American edition of it, the ASV, translated 2nd Timothy 3:16 as, "Every scripture inspired of God" instead of "All scripture is given by inspiration of God" (KJV). The Deity of Christ: "He never speaks of Himself directly as God, but the aim of His revelation was to lead men to see God in Him." (Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 297). "(John) does not expressly affirm the identification of the Word with Jesus Christ." (Westcott, Ibid., p. 16). "(Rev. 3:15) might no doubt bear the Arian meaning, the first thing created." (Hort, Revelation, p.36). Perhaps this is why their Greek text makes Jesus a created god (John 1:18) and their American translation had a footnote concerning John 9:38, "And he said, Lord I believe and he worshipped him," which said, "The Greek word denotes an act of reverence, whether paid to a creature, as here, or to the Creator" (thus calling Christ a creature). Hell: "(Hell is) not the place of punishment of the guilty, (it is) the common abode of departed spirits." (Westcott, Historic Faith, pp.77-78). "We have no sure knowledge of future punishment, and the word eternal has a far higher meaning." (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p.149). Perhaps this is why their Greek text does not have Mark 9:44, and their English translation replaces "everlasting fire" [Matthew 18:8] with "eternal fire" and change the meaning of eternal as cited by Hort in the above quote. Creation: "No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis, for example, give a literal history. I could never understand how anyone reading them with open eyes could think they did." (Westcott, cited from Which Bible?, p. 191). "But the book which has most engaged me is Darwin. Whatever may be thought of it, it is a book that one is proud to be contemporary with. My feeling is strong that the theory is unanswerable." (Hort, cited from Which Bible?, p. 189) Romanism: "I wish I could see to what forgotten truth Mariolatry (the worship of the Virgin Mary) bears witness." (Westcott, Ibid. ) "The pure Romanish view seems to be nearer, and more likely to lead to the truth than the Evangelical." (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 77) It is one thing to have doctrinal differences on baby-sprinkling and perhaps a few other interpretations. It is another to be a Darwin-believing theologian who rejects the authority of scriptures, Biblical salvation, the reality of hell, and makes Christ a created being to be worshipped with Mary his mother. Yet, these were the views of both Westcott and Hort. No less significant is the fact that both men were members of spiritist societies (the Hermes Club and the Ghostly Guild). Westcott and Hort talked to Spirits of the dead. I call it Satanism! Sinaiticus and Vaticanus: When someone "corrects" the King James Bible with "more authoritative manuscripts" or "older manuscripts," or "the best authorities," they're usually making some reference to Sinaiticus or... Read more ›
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