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perhaps I am confused on the details, but I still think the KJV is quite accurate -- if you understand the old timey words they use.
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Sorry, I do not claim a favorite English translation.
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Gee, I go out of the country for a week and this thread turns into a KJV issue thread.
It's so nice to go and minister in another country where they don't have these kind of silly issues.
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i will just say i am not fond of the NLT. i find the NIV to be so easy to read that i really don't see the need to simplify things even more. just my opinion, of course. :)
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think that as long as we are aware of what its was designed to do...
To be a bible version for those just saved,
or english second language, its does the job!
I do like to use it to read devotionally, its just that seems quite often the 'freerer' renderings kind of stick out....
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think that as long as we are aware of what its was designed to do...
To be a bible version for those just saved,
or english second language, its does the job!
I do like to use it to read devotionally, its just that seems quite often the 'freerer' renderings kind of stick out....
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indeed. i do see where it would be helpful to use the NLT for many of the difficult passages (e.g. in the Old Testament books).
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Personally I think the NLTse did itself a bit of a disservice by continuing with the NLT name.
I am not a fan of the first edition NLT and even less of a fan of the old Living Bible.
Now while I still refer to my NASB usually for in depth study, the NLTse has become a translation I reach for simple reading.
I strongly suspect if they released the NLTse as some other name we wouldn't have as many people discount it as another paraphrased translation.
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Every time I read the NLT, I wonder what I am getting.....so I read the same chapters over again in the NASB or something else literal. I don't trust the NLT
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devotional reading, go for NLT, serious, go nasb!
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agreed. i think it's really interesting how so many people attack the NIV for not being "literal" enough, when it's so much more literal than the NLT!
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Just from reading them, would say NLT/NIV/HCSB would go from least to more literal!
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i agree with your assessment. all three of those translations have "grown on me" over time.
and i really respect the efforts of the translation teams on all three aforementioned versions.
i have opened my mind to the fact that a translation that is less "literal" can, in some ways, actually be more accurate.
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i agree with your assessment. all three of those translations have "grown on me" over time.
and i really respect the efforts of the translation teams on all three aforementioned versions.
i have opened my mind to the fact that a translation that is less "literal" can, in some ways, actually be more accurate.
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Would say that a more literal version would be closer to what was said, but less formal one sometimes allows us to get better what was meant!