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Right. Better to replace God's explicit word with your manmade doctrines. Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” 1 Samuel 15:3 NRSV

I should. The NLT is one of the best English translations out there. I love how many verses have foot notes, telling you what is the Scriptural reference. For instance, Today you have become my son.

I don't know. Where they adulterers?

Wrong. I first got into reading the Bible when my wife gave me this hardcover Devotional Bible NKJV. It broke up each day of the with the following 5 sections: OT Pslams Proverbs NT Modern application of one of the verses from above. The modern stories were great. After just a couple of...

Hmmm. I think your standard of reference is wrong. That is why you cannot understand the God of the Bible causing parents to lose their baby, etc. Because of your poorest of all possible translation choices, you never understood correctly what the word of God is.

Bias? You are too kind. I condemn it's use in the strongest terms possible, having concluded after careful study it is the worst of all possible options! The NKJV remains an out dated translation. I may be getting mixed up with another thread, but I recently explained that it is not merely the...

I'm sure. "Just outdated" is how you know there are better options. The KJV is both, wrong - the most wrong translation available today - and outdated. What, pray tell, is the elephant in the room?

I’ll take any translation over a translation with James in the title. The idea that after centuries of further study, newer translations cannot improve upon KJV/NKJV is preposterous on its face.

Why? Since when does the majority mean correct? The majority of Bible versions jettison the KJV Middle English. Does that make the KJV wrong? Or does your appeal to majority apply when it is convenient for you?

Here, your closed-mindedness really loses out on the weight of Scripture. Words have meany senses. Different translations often flush out these different senses. I don't know who you think you are to pontificate what the better case is for translation. Some translations recognize the sense of...

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/tips/tales-of-translation-thought-for-thought-translations.html I know literalists used the term 'paraphrase' as a pejorative. The non-literal translation process is properly called thought translation. I know this because I've read the introductions...

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/tips/tales-of-translation-thought-for-thought-translations.html I know literalists used the term 'paraphrase' as a pejorative. The non-literal translation process is properly called thought translation. I know this because I've read the introductions...

You keep moving the goalposts.

Being a literalist, you must realize being ‘mmersed in the spirit of a popular paraphrase’ does not mean the NLT is a paraphrase translation.

All translations interpret what sense of the original language is appropriate. The difference between ‘literal’ and ‘thought’ translations is literals do this per word. Thoughts do this to whole verses or paragraphs

Did you say something about personal attacks? I guess that only applies to others.

Wrong. No translation is a paraphrase. Non-literal translations are called thought translations. I generally prefer such thought translations PRECISELY for their readability. When petty literalists want to argue what the 3rd word of the 5th verse of the 17th chapter of book 11 - is in the...

It is NOT a flawed example at all. Unborn baby damned by God because of sin of parent. I don’t know why you are trying to impose your doctrine onto God’s word. You’ve moved the goalposts twice already. Don’t try to move it again. Going back to the original point in Deuteronomy, the woman...

Rationalization. I think you are smart enough to know the culture of the Bible writers used masculine orientation unless specified otherwise. Other translations use the more accurate and politically correct term ‘parents.’ Here is another example. David committed adultery with Bathsheba. God...

Not an attack on your position. An observation about your personality. No kidding? The shadow of that remains. Oh. I could not tell. I personally read 4 translations: CEV, NLT, CJB & NRSV. I also do Spirit led reading in ESV and VOICE translations. My 'go to' translation is probably NLT but...