SmallTown said:
Funny then that Christians even bother arguing over which version of the bible is the "correct" one.
There is a spirit of error that we are to avoid. I really don't care what version of the Bible people read (except the Jeffersonian bible which is, in my opinion, heresy). King James, The Living Bible, New International Version (NIV), New King James, Amplified, Parallel, American Standard, New American Standard. I personally prefer the New American Standard which is a word for word translation from the original languages as opposed to the NIV which is a phrase by phrase translation although the current version I am reading is the New King James (NKJ). I find the King James, not the NKJ, a bit hard to read since I don't really speak what is now old English. I wish I was fluent in Hebrew and Greek so I could read the Bible in the original languages. If Catholics want to read the Apocryphal books, that's OK. I personally think, as apparently did early Christians, that they were not divinely inspired. What I do think is important is that Christians, shoot, everybody read the Bible.
I have heard or seen written far too often that the Bible says something and that something is nowhere to be found in scripture. I certainly don't want anyone to take my word as God's word or follow me; I am no one. I didn't die as a sacrifice for anyone. I do post scripture and when the facts are in dispute, I will post scripture directly from the Bible with references so people can look it up in their own preferred version or the history with references that can be research by others.
I agree...
) And he was a seminarian.
