Okay. First off, HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW IF GOD PERSONALLY AUTHORIZED IT? Did He call up the publishers and say "Hey, good news, I just approved your thus-and-such a version!"
The only TRULY 100% GUARANTEED TO BE 100% ACCURATE AND CAPTURES ALL THAT THE WRITERS INTENDED TO CAPTURE VERSION IS THE ORIGINAL GREEK AND HEBREW. It's the same with ALL OTHER LANGUAGES. It doesn't matter if it's a Chinese translation, a Japanese translation, whatever. The best translation on this, our earth, will ALWAYS be the original Greek and Hebrew.
Act 2:7-8 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these
which speak Galilaeans? (8) And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
By the power of the Holy Spirit, all the people heard Peter and others speaking in their own native
language. God WANTS people to have His word and He has gotten His word out. However, many
have gotten the idea that translation = inspiration. A "good idea" doesn't mean God is behind it.
I'm not arguing against God giving a modern translation, but stating, *IF* there is one, there will
be ONLY one. The OT prophets had to be 100% correct, 100% of the time. Otherwise, they were
a false prophet and God said to stone them dead. Today, Christians fail to grasp how so very serious
God is about His word and people tampering with it. If I'm not sure about it, I'm not reading from it.
I keep trying to wake Christians up to spiritual thinking, but they keep their hold on a carnal mindset.
They base a bible choice on "accurate translation." That is all within man's ability to accomplish.
If the Bible is "inspired by God", you'll get the accuracy with it. Christians will get 2, 3 or more translations
in hopes to discover what the original author was saying. The person who wrote the words down, was
inspired by God. God is the author. The Christian doesn't need 2 or more Bible translations. All
the Christian needs is one Bible inspired by God. He'll give wisdom and understanding of His word,
if the christian looks to Him. But, today, its *I* can read and figure it out. They look up the orginal
greek and hebrew words and develop an idea and compare various bible version,..etc...that is all
carnal, all self dependant. And now, every doctrine contained in the Bible have various interpretations.
Clearly, something is wrong. Too many Christians are trying to do it themselves and arriving at
differing conclusions. The Holy Spirit clearly demonstarted to me how foolish it is to try and understand
God's word, by one's own ability. For me, I don't want to study another man's opinion or another
group's opinion of what "THEY" think God said. I want to know what God REALLY said. The orginal
greek and Hebrew, well, that was God inspired. The correct understanding of God's comes through
the spiritual and NOT through the physical eyes. Christainity 101 says: Mat 16:17 And Jesus answered
and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona:
for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,
but my Father which is in heaven.
Your eyes, your brain, your intellect, (your flesh and blood) isn't going to reveal God's truth to the
person. This is first grade, first year being Christian knowledge, Christianity 101, simple truth.
Yet, for some reason, people just aren't grasping this simple truth. They are still trying to use
"flesh and blood" to gain God's wisdom and spiritual truths. I, for one, was guilty of this for a long
time. Its time to wake up body of Christ. The Spirit woke me up and showed me something
very simple that I couldn't see for over 25 years. In fact, I haven't seen or read where anyone else
has seen the simple, that the Spirit showed me. We are to worship God in SPIRIT and truth.
We are to be lead by the SPIRIT. God's word is spiritual also. Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of
salvation, and the
sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
If anyone tries to gain wisdom, of God's word, through the physical, the carnal, they wont
have a sword of spirit, but of plastic.
Why do you "highly recommend" them?
