07-11-2006, 11:13 PM
Bismillah:
Quote:It is a fact that there are lesser translations and better translations. The New King James, for example, is commonly held to be more close to original Greek and Hebrew.
Fact is that the Bible is/has been translated into hundreds of dialects. There are translations so that all peoples can read it.
I am sure that you would tell me that reading the Quran in original Arabic is more acurate than my English version.
Am sorry I have to disagree with you, the KJV or the NKJV are not the most accurate Bibles according to Christians themselves. below are my proofs:
The KJV was revised by <b>32 scholars of the highest eminence backed by 50 cooperating denomination of Christianity</b>, look what they say about the King James Version, after they come up with <b>NEW</b> version called the <b>RSV or the REVISED STANDARD VERSION</b>, they have very pretty things to say about it, in their page <b>iii paragraph 6 of the PREFACE of the RSV</b> we read:
Quote:“The King James Version has with <b>good reason been termed “the noblest monument of English prose”</b> its revisers in 1881 expressed admiration for <b>“its simplicity, its dignity, its power, its happy turns of expression.. the music of its cadences, and the felicities of its rhythm</b>, it entered, as no other book has, into the making of the personal character and publish institutions of the English-speaking people, we owe to it an incalculable debt”
Can you imagine a more beautiful words that the above? They are paying a magnificent tribute to the KJV. But at the same breath those scholars says:
Quote:<b>YET THE KING JAMES VERSION HAS GRAVE DEFECTS, AND THESE DEFECTS ARE SO MANY AND SO SERIOUS AS TO CALL FOR REVISION”</b>
This is straight from the <b>Christians scholars of “The highest eminence”</b> who plainly says that the KJV <b>is not reliable.</b>
now if you read <b>“THE TIMES MAGAZINE”</b> you will see that they have said about the RSV that it is
Quote: <b>” the most accurate and close rendering of the original”</b>
Now look at <b>“what the most accurate Bible (RSV) said about the son”</b>
Matthew 24:36 you will read:
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, <b>nor the Son</b>, but the Father only.
The son does not know of that day, but the Father ONLY KNOWS, means Jesus is <b>NOT GOD </b> IN ANYWAY.
Salam
Wael.