Wrong! Goebells was propoganda chief. and where do you fet this info ? Please present the evidence that the Greek translator was also a nazi.
Yes, it was "Goebells [sic]" who was "propoganda [sic] chief." I stand corrected on that. The gist remains: Kittel's conviction and imprisonment for his key part in the extermination of two thirds of Europe's Jewish population is a harsh fact, hidden to those pridefully seeking 'hidden' meaning in the Greek.
And yet you are trusting men every time you open and read an English translation.
I trust no men. I trust God meant it when he said he has
preserved his inspired word forever.
It was men who went from the original languages to the enormous languafges of the bible today.
The survival of ‘the’ original, for example, Greek New Testament is a dream which dissolves with the discovery that not all manuscripts and critical editions are alike. Those applying this term to a Greek text on the bookstore shelf or internet site are unacquainted with the volatile state of the text.
And, of course, you're unable to tell us
which “original Greek." Is it Aleph1, Aleph2, Aleph3, B1, B2, B3, C, L, W, Textus Receptus, Westcott and Hort, Scrivener’s, Alfred, Griesbach, Elzevir, Erasmus, Tischendorf, Lachman, Souter, von Soden, Hodge-Farstad, Nestle’s-Aland (If so which edition between 1 and 26? which printing of the 26th?), USB-Aland, Black, Metzger, Wikgren (Which edition between 1 and 47?), or the Greek-English Diglot for the Use of Translators?
It's never been about any "translation" per se. But if wannabe scholars could shift their burden from
God's "inspired," "pure" and "preserved" word to
man's intellect, then they could proceed to build their ivory towers.
The idea of correcting the Bible, using a Greek dictionary or a Greek reference work, denies the doctrine of the pure preservation of scriptures. Second Timothy 3:16 says, “
All scripture is given by inspiration of God.” Psalm 12:6-7 says, “
The words of the LORD are pure words...Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever” (emphasis mine). God promised to preserve his word in a pure form. He promised to preserve those words for us, and so the Holy Bible (KJV) is still pure and it is still inspired, according to Psalm 12:6-7 (KJV).
We know the original paper is long gone. In Jeremiah 51:63, God commanded Jeremiah to throw his "originals" in the river. Therefore, it is evident that God is not concerned with preserving "the originals." The promise of pure and perfect preservation extends to every word, not to the paper upon which they were written.
Genesis 1:1 says, “
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” That is a very, very powerful God. But if God says, “
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:35) — what great care and power he must extend to those words.
Correcting the “word of God” with the words of men (Greek dictionaries) brings dishonor to our heavenly Father and his authority. Small wonder God’s children do not “
tremble at his word” (Isa. 66:5). His bride continually corrects him in their presence with “a better reading would be...” or “the word
should have been translated....” The Berean call was to “
search the scriptures daily,” not to correct them. When the Bible refers to “
scriptures,” as it does here in Acts 17:11, the reference is to copies, not "original" manuscripts. Consider 2 Timothy 3:15, “
…from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures.” Neither Timothy, nor the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8), who also read “
the scriptures,” had the eight hundred year old "original" copy of the book of Isaiah.
If “
the word” is in a Greek text only, then only the Greek-speaking churches could “
Preach the word” (2 Tim. 4:2) and only those fluent in Greek could be “
born again by the word.” Acts 2:6 says, “
[E]very man heard them speak in his own language.” I do not think that God is in the business of deceiving house-wives who do not have access to a library of Greek reference books. (First Corinthians 6:4 reminds us to “
set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.”) We can have confidence that “
every word” in the King James Bible is the pure word of God.
Men such as Wycliffe and Coverdale, whom God entrusted to participate in the preservation of the scriptures, had a much higher view of our English Bibles than do today’s carnal ‘professors.’ Doubting Thomases, who must see the print on the "originals", in their hands, call it ‘heresy’ to believe that God is powerful enough and cares enough about us to make certain that simple Christians can hold in their hands the inspired words of God. Both Coverdale and Wycliffe believed that the English Bible was just as inspired of the Holy Ghost as the "originals."
Wycliffe said,
“The clergy cry aloud that it is heresy to speak of the Holy Scriptures in English, and so they would condemn the Holy Ghost, who gave tongues to the Apostles of Christ to speak the word of God in all languages under heaven” (John Wycliffe,
Speculum Secularium Dominorum, Opera Minora, London: Wycliffe Society, John Loserth, editor, 1913, p. 74, as cited in Bill Bradley, Purified Seven Times, Claysburg, PA: Revival Fires Publishing, 1998, p. 11).
Coverdale told critics,
“No, the Holy Ghost is as much the author of it in Hebrew, Greek, French, Dutch, and English, as in Latin” (W. Kenneth Connolly, The Indestructible Book, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1996, p. 148).
The Bible states that it is alive! It is the very voice of God, speaking to each person. First Peter writes of “the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever” (1 Peter 1:23). The Bible is not the words of the Moses, Matthew, Paul, Peter, or the KJV translators; Paul said, “[W]hen ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God…” (1 Thes. 2:13). The Bible refers to itself as the word (and words)
of God.
And, as always, the uninformed hackneyed attempts to discredit follow like tails on a kite.
Even a
child understands the holy scriptures -- no middlemen wanna-be ‘scholars’ required! (2 Tim 3:14)
You know little to nothing of me and my prayer habits. If you did you would not sound so much like an agent fo the enemy.
We have your postings here to determine your "habits" for ourselves.
I want translators well versed in...
You shall have them.
