~ by James Fire
What’s your favorite version of the Bible?
What are the sources used to create that manuscript? How accurate is the translation that you use, compared to others?
Of course as Christians, we know it’s important that we have as accurate a translation of God’s Word as possible; anything less is intolerable. We also realize that scripture itself prohibits adding to, or taking away from God’s Word (REV 22:18-19).
You may well be as alarmed as I was when I first learned the sources and the actual rendering of, modern translations of the Bible. You may further be alarmed by the fact that those who formulated the root source for all modern translations were scholars who denied much of what we as Christians hold dear as God’s Truth represented in biblical doctrines!
Let’s back up however and examine what the Gnostics believed regarding the Truth as revealed by God’s Word. You will find an uncomfortable parallel between these ancient philosophers and the modern scholars involved in the creation of that root source for all modern translations:
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What’s your favorite version of the Bible?
What are the sources used to create that manuscript? How accurate is the translation that you use, compared to others?
Of course as Christians, we know it’s important that we have as accurate a translation of God’s Word as possible; anything less is intolerable. We also realize that scripture itself prohibits adding to, or taking away from God’s Word (REV 22:18-19).
You may well be as alarmed as I was when I first learned the sources and the actual rendering of, modern translations of the Bible. You may further be alarmed by the fact that those who formulated the root source for all modern translations were scholars who denied much of what we as Christians hold dear as God’s Truth represented in biblical doctrines!
Let’s back up however and examine what the Gnostics believed regarding the Truth as revealed by God’s Word. You will find an uncomfortable parallel between these ancient philosophers and the modern scholars involved in the creation of that root source for all modern translations:
