COMMON SENSE/CURIOUS QUESTION

My main Bible is NASV. I really like it when the preacer reads from ANOTHER version so I can compare the readings as we go along. I picked up on the pleasure of digging out the real meaning of the Bible this way when I was just a kid!

 

I bring my KJV Nelson Study Bible. Our Interim Pastor teaches from the KJV, but even if he didn't, I wouldn't have any problem following along.

 

I bring the 'new' translation of the Dutch Bible society made in 1951.
It is sort of the 'official' Bibleversion we use in my church.
We are planning to change that soon (our current translation serves better as a study Bible than as a churchbible), adopting one of 3 other Bibleversions. A soon to be released new update of the Dutch States Bible of 1637, the new Bible translation made by all 3 Dutch Bible societies together (Catholic, Protestant & Jewish), or the recent edition of the (RC) Willibrord that has no Roman Catholic introductions to each book and that has the Apocrypha placed in a seperate section in the middle of the book.

 

I carry the Nelson KJV Study Bible, since our SS materials and our Pastor uses the KJV. I might also start carrting the HCSB since our Discipleship training materials use the HCSB.

 

Our interim pastor has used numerous different versions during the months he's been preaching at our church. Isn't the most important thing really that we READ our Bible?

I have a few verses that I'll use as a signature line from the NIV because of the beauty... Take a look at this verse.

1 Peter 1:18 For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom He paid was not mere gold or silver. 19 He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. 20 God chose Him for this purpose long before the world began, but now in these final days, He was sent to the earth for all to see. And He did this for you.

Now isn't that the most beautiful, wonderful and inspiring verse?

Diane

 

AMEN!

AVL1984

 

1 important addition I should make to my earlier comment is that the primary reason that my church is changing it's default Bible Version is that with the NBV coming out our current default version will be going out of print permanently.

 

I agree Diane, but don't think it loses any beauty in the old KJV:

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

 

Also lovely!

 

Wow! I would need a rolling backpack to bring all those with me!

I change the Bibles I bring to church. I've brought the NIV, the NASB, the New Century Version, the NET Bible, the NLT, and now am bringing a NKJV, with a small travel NASB along for comparison. The pastor uses the NASB and the pew Bibles are NASB.

People at my church use a variety of versions -- KJV, NKJV, NIV, NLT, Amplified, etc. No one gets confused by this. Sometimes in SS, the teacher will ask various people to read the text from different versions so we can hear them all, especially a text we are discussing in depth or with an unusual word or phrase. It's fun, cool, and interesting.

 

A pastor said, "Turn in your Bible to..."

A man looked it up and can't find it. A man next to him said, "My NIV - I can't find it there"

A first man told a second man, "Mine is NASB" and asked him, "what Bible version does our pastor use?"

He replied, "I am not sure - I do not know"

A woman sat behind them whispered, "KJV"

They heard that. One of men asked her, "why different?"

She said, "Hmmm, good question"

However she asked back to them, "Are you confused?"

They nodded saying, "We puzzle what our pastor said it, but our different Bibles did not say. where did he get this verse?

She said, "What?? Do you mean your Bible version omits this verse?"

They nodded saying, "yeah, we guess so"

The key is that God is not the author of confusion.

 

Things that Never Happened but Which KJV-Onlyists Like to Pretend are Pandemic #12,683.

 

Not to mention:

7,348th misapplication of 1 Corinthians 14:33

77,203rd failure to correctly cite scripture address

 

Is this what you really think happens?

Guess what? In my church we realize that the KJV and NASB and NIV came from different manuscripts. We realize that some manuscripts do not have the verses the manuscripts for the KJV do. Some of us even have Bibles that give detailed notes on this. God gave us brains and we use them. We read, educate ourselves, and are not confused on this.

 

The use of our God-given
brains is not allowed in KJVOish churches.

 

Marcia,

What's wrong with a "rolling backpack"?

;o)

Wayne

 

I overheard in my church.

Realize? 2 sides: true information and mis-information; they realize some problems in different ways. What is the truth?

Maybe you did not notice that. What matter to you. I noticed something wrong and caught it.

 

You notice he didn't list a reference?

Thats because theres no such thing. Either the "missing" words are assimilated into another adjacent verse, or they are footnoted, but either way, at least in the NIV and NASB editions that I use, the text is there.

 

I use the Niv at church because it's the most widely used version. When someone is reading from a version diffrent than mine, I sit and listen and refect on what i'm hearing.

At home I use both the KJV 1611 and the NIV