Hello,
Reading and comparing many translations does not help me to find the truth, it only confirms the deliberately embedded errors of the translators. I prefer to go back and consider the actual source texts from which the translations were "taken" from and consider how I would paraphrase the source text's message to see if that then aligns up with the respective translations. What I have discovered is that many prefer the translations of a "committee" rather than the consideration of a person working alone, whose paraphrased translation highlights the probable errors of respective translations of the respective "committees" working in collusion with each other in coming to a majority "political" understanding to win influence over that same committee of translators.
Let me give you an example, the main character in the parables of the Minas and the Talents of the Greek text, particularly the parable of the Minas, speaks of a nobleman, of some rank, who has a face like a man, who goes away for a time into an empty space like a cavern to receive a kingdom.
Notice the difference between the Son of Man in Daniel 7:13-14, and this nobleman in the parable of the Minas where the nobleman goes away to receive a kingdom, and the Son of man who comes before God and is given dominion over all of the peoples of the earth by God such that they should worship him, whereas in the Parable of the Minas the nobleman demands that all of the people will worship him on the fear of death if they will not.
The difference is marked, and how we perceive the man character in the Parables of the Minas and the Talents determines our understanding of these two parables.
In the Parable of the Minas, the his citizens decided that they no longer wanted this "Nobleman" to reign over them because they had come to hate him for who he was, i.e. Satan.
So many people put Jesus as the main character in this parable, however I have hear of a few story tellers of these Parables who have suggested that if Jesus was a character in these parables, that he would be the "wicked" servant who calls out Satan as having no "rights" to the harvest of souls during the Later Days, which Satan agrees is true.
What has become the outcome of these two parables is that they have been used as justification by "christians" to oppress the people around them such that they have no time to contemplate their navel or their salvation as the "Good" servant "christians" rob the masses around them to help bring in a "kingdom" which they believe they are required to do.
Jesus in John 6, tells the crowds around him, when the people asked Him what they must do to bring in the kingdom of God, was simply to "believe in Him Whom He has sent," but for to many people that seems to simple and they believe that much more is required of them.
The embedded errors in both the Old and New Testaments are enough to send many to the Lake of Fire because the errors lead them to the wrong conclusions about God, even though at this present time for English speaking people the translations are the only means we have of discovering who God and Jesus is.
What is important is coming to an understanding of what God requires of us, and that is simply to believe in Him whom He has sent and to put that belief into action through the things that we do that reflects the heart of God for all the people of the world. That is the message of the Parable of the Judgement between the Sheep and the Goats.
Shalom
