Why Isn't There A Consensus on Phil 2:6?

Let John 1:1 settle it. Then John 1:14.

Or: let the high priest settle it: Luke 22:66-71.

The Deity of Jesus is the litmus test of any religion. He is either Immanuel or He is the greatest of imposters. Modern translations seem to "water down" this all important doctrine.

Mt. 16: 13-15 still separates the true from the pseudo. Not many religious really believe that Jesus is God in the flesh.

We live in a pseudo world. It is no wonder, Satan himself is become an angel of light.

Take on the whole counsel of God and the "ed's and ing's" will fall into place. God is not the author of confusion. Translators seem to have troubles keeping their religious pardigms separated from objectivity. i.e. Why is the Gk word baptizo still transliterated: baptism? Immersion would be the appropriate translation. This would never do in pedo-baptist sprinkling circles.

Jude 3,4

Selah,

Bro. James

 

Bro. James: //Take on the whole counsel of God
and the "ed's and ing's" will fall into
place. God is not the author of confusion.//

I love it! ' ... ed's ... will fall into place ... '

2 Thessalonians 2:3 (KJV1769 Edition):

Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition;

I, Ed, keep teaching that the "falling away"
here in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 is the
same event that is called the "caught up"
in 1 Thessalonians 4:17.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 (KJV1769 Edition):

Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

I am totally NOT CONFUSED that
at the pretribulation rapture I will be
falling away from this old world right
into the arms of Jesus AND
at the pretribulation rapture I will
be caught up from this old world
right into the arms of Jesus.

1 Cor 14:33 (HCSB = Christian Standard Bible
/Holman, 2003/ ):

since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.
As in all the churches of the saints,

Note the term 'disorder' contrasted with peace.
This is speaking of something that happens
among people in a church setting.
This is NOT speaking of an unsettled mind
within one person's head -- as some are
want to misunderstand the KJV's old meaning
of 'confusion'. If folks would read their inspired
Bible's translator footnotes???

1 Cor 14:33 (KJV1679 Edition)
For God is not the author of confusion, F57
but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

FOOTNOTES:
F57: confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness

This translator footnote means there are other good readings
possible from the Greek into English:

1 Cor 14:33 (KJV1679 Edition, first alternative)
For God is not the author of tumult,
but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

1 Cor 14:33 (KJV1679 Edition, second alternative)
For God is not the author of unquietness, F57
but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

As for Philippians 4:6:

Phil 4:6 (Tyndale):
Which beynge in the shape of god
and thought it not robbery to be equall with god.

Phil 4:6 (TNIV = Today's New International Version, 2006)
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something
to be used to his own advantage;

Two inspired scriptures are better than
one inspired scripture!

 

Examine this yourself Bro. James.
It seems that older translations had this trouble too.

which when he was in the form of God, deemed not raven, that himself were even to God;
Wycliffe New Testament (1395)

Which beynge in the shape of god and thought it not robbery to be equall with god.
Tyndale New Testament (1526)

which beyinge in the shappe of God, thought it not robbery to be equall with God,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)

Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Douay-Rheims Bible (translated from the Latin)

That’s putting the cart before the horse.

Sure we can agree that the deity of Christ is important, even central to the good news.

But should we translate/shape God’s word to conform to a key doctrine?

We should translate Scriptures as it was written (or as close as we can make it) and then form our theology from that.

God's word doesn't need our help.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 24:35 ESV

Rob

 

That is the from the eighteenth-century Challoner "KJVified" revision of the Douay-Rheims. See this post.
Here is the original 1582 reading:
"who when he was in the forme of God, thought it no robberie, him self to be equal to God,"


Could someone please explain further what theological positions the different English verb forms suggest.