Hello everybody! So glad to be here and have the freedom to express my mind!
i intend not to offend anybody at all but to just share my viewpoint on versions of the bible and share how i have come to my stance on it now. I am still learning and open and eager to hear what Ya'll have to say so please feel free to voice your opinion too!
I guess i will just share a little story that happened recently. So, one day at school, my extremely intellectual teacher (with a good heart but disbelief in God) says hey audrey, i was cleaning my old bookshelf the other day and found a book and thought of you... and how much that book would offend you. So i asked why it would have offended me and he said it was basically a guy who talks about all the translations of the bible and how it lost its credibility and meaning than its original intent. I kinda just had to giggle and say that it doesnt offend me at all and that i agree that the translations from hebrew to greek has definitely watered down the meaning because of the language differences but i still believe that the word of God will speak. i find it silly to think that God will cease to speak to us over mere translations. However i do respectully agree that we must discern and test all things. I am not exactly sure where in the word it warns that the sacred texts will be altered but that is not my point. my point of view on all these translations is that i believe the word is living and will speak for itself if it is truly the word of God. And that we know it is the word of God if it does not contradict Gods character and the discernment from the Holy Spirit.
Two years ago i was 15 and trying to learn more in my faith. i had then gotten the mind set the only credible bible to read from was the King James Version. My decision on this spurred off of a youtube video and friend with the same mindset (this friend also holds the mindset that all churches lead christians astray and therefore does not go to church for felllowship or the message/ i do not pose this view on church though and attend and grow at church but anyways..) i somehow gotten lost in the legalisticality of it all. But i just started reading my NIV version because it was easier to understand. God still spoke to me and gave me revelation when i wasnt reading from the KJV but i began to look up the hebrew meanings and reading the word with more historical background and cultural stances to better understand them. even reading with a westernized biased led to some profound revelation. the important thing was that i was seeking Gods face and hearing his voice through the Holy Spirit.
What is the right version? To me, the right version is the version that speaks the truth to your heart. with discernment of course, but i guess what i am saying is it does not matter what version what matters is are you being fed the word of God? are you hearing from Him? are you growing closer to Him? we get so caught up in the miniscule details that what we lose the sight of the thing that maters most which is our relationship and growing with God.
I hear they are making a pigeon version of the gospel where they refer to people in the slang of the language.. i may still be indifferent about this because supposedly they refer to God as the Brothah Man upstairs?? and to most that may be disrespectful to call God that, but i see that if somebody who speaks pigeon can find God because of this version and give his life to serve God, then praise be to God! God uses all evil for good right.
I know many friends who read the KJV and even the NIV and stop reading the word because its just too hard for them to understand and to some its like wow how do you not understand that? but thats wrong to judge and so if they need another version to speak to them then i do not see why it is so bad..
I do wish we could all grasp the truest deepest meaning of all the parables and words but to me in this world what speaks God into your life and produces fruit is what matters.
So keep reading and keep discerning/testing and Seeking Gods Face! HIs voice is not to just be heard but obeyed.
respectfully, Feed yourselves the Living Word! Do not starve
i intend not to offend anybody at all but to just share my viewpoint on versions of the bible and share how i have come to my stance on it now. I am still learning and open and eager to hear what Ya'll have to say so please feel free to voice your opinion too!
I guess i will just share a little story that happened recently. So, one day at school, my extremely intellectual teacher (with a good heart but disbelief in God) says hey audrey, i was cleaning my old bookshelf the other day and found a book and thought of you... and how much that book would offend you. So i asked why it would have offended me and he said it was basically a guy who talks about all the translations of the bible and how it lost its credibility and meaning than its original intent. I kinda just had to giggle and say that it doesnt offend me at all and that i agree that the translations from hebrew to greek has definitely watered down the meaning because of the language differences but i still believe that the word of God will speak. i find it silly to think that God will cease to speak to us over mere translations. However i do respectully agree that we must discern and test all things. I am not exactly sure where in the word it warns that the sacred texts will be altered but that is not my point. my point of view on all these translations is that i believe the word is living and will speak for itself if it is truly the word of God. And that we know it is the word of God if it does not contradict Gods character and the discernment from the Holy Spirit.
Two years ago i was 15 and trying to learn more in my faith. i had then gotten the mind set the only credible bible to read from was the King James Version. My decision on this spurred off of a youtube video and friend with the same mindset (this friend also holds the mindset that all churches lead christians astray and therefore does not go to church for felllowship or the message/ i do not pose this view on church though and attend and grow at church but anyways..) i somehow gotten lost in the legalisticality of it all. But i just started reading my NIV version because it was easier to understand. God still spoke to me and gave me revelation when i wasnt reading from the KJV but i began to look up the hebrew meanings and reading the word with more historical background and cultural stances to better understand them. even reading with a westernized biased led to some profound revelation. the important thing was that i was seeking Gods face and hearing his voice through the Holy Spirit.
What is the right version? To me, the right version is the version that speaks the truth to your heart. with discernment of course, but i guess what i am saying is it does not matter what version what matters is are you being fed the word of God? are you hearing from Him? are you growing closer to Him? we get so caught up in the miniscule details that what we lose the sight of the thing that maters most which is our relationship and growing with God.
I hear they are making a pigeon version of the gospel where they refer to people in the slang of the language.. i may still be indifferent about this because supposedly they refer to God as the Brothah Man upstairs?? and to most that may be disrespectful to call God that, but i see that if somebody who speaks pigeon can find God because of this version and give his life to serve God, then praise be to God! God uses all evil for good right.
I know many friends who read the KJV and even the NIV and stop reading the word because its just too hard for them to understand and to some its like wow how do you not understand that? but thats wrong to judge and so if they need another version to speak to them then i do not see why it is so bad..
I do wish we could all grasp the truest deepest meaning of all the parables and words but to me in this world what speaks God into your life and produces fruit is what matters.
So keep reading and keep discerning/testing and Seeking Gods Face! HIs voice is not to just be heard but obeyed.
respectfully, Feed yourselves the Living Word! Do not starve