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11-03-2009, 02:09 PM
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Eastern vs. Western Bibles
This link was posted on another message board I frequent (geared towards traditional Christians) in a debate on the "inerrancy" and "infallibility" of the Bible. Not wanting this thread to turn into a debate on that subject, I just thought I would share this article that goes into some of the differences between the Eastern and Western translations of the Bible, because I found it so interesting!
FaithWriters.com-Christian Apologetics - Surprising Differences in Bible translations across the world
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11-03-2009, 03:54 PM
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Thank you, this is very good info to reffer to when discussing with people whom beleive the bible to be completely inherant as to what God controlled and directed its current canon to be as we know it; This info makes it very clear that Man , Not God, "has" changed his words. 
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11-03-2009, 04:13 PM
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Very good read. Thanks for posting.
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11-03-2009, 08:43 PM
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I hope this from the article isn't about us.
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Many cults have risen up because people don't understand King James English.
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Oh, it is.
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Many of the well-established Christian cults were created because of misunderstandings. They misread, mistranslated and misunderstood the Greek or the King James Version of the Bible.
The Book of Mormon, for instance, was supposedly translated by 18th century Americans but its word choices and styles are Shakespearean, as if copied from King James. It even uses the word 'oxen' which was a KJV word meaning a castrated cow, but castrated cows were unheard of in the Americas.
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Obviously this author does not understand the history of Lehi and his knowledge of old world ways.
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Whoops, I missed that part. (I admit to scanning the last third or so of the article.) My apologies.
ETA: I mainly thought it was interesting from a "...as far as it is translated correctly" viewpoint. There's certainly evidence that depending on where you live the translation can be interpreted as meaning various different things based on culture and what's familiar to the people doing the translating.
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11-03-2009, 08:52 PM
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Oh, the article is fascinating, and it is totally in line with LDS understanding of the Bible and translations. The author just doesn't understand that God chose KJV type language for familiarity and compatibility with a prophet who would likely question such alterations.
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Oh, the article is fascinating, and it is totally in line with LDS understanding of the Bible and translations. The author just doesn't understand that God chose KJV type language for familiarity and compatibility with a prophet who would likely question such alterations.
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What is obvious is that JS used the KJV for significant portions of the BoM, inserting variant readings here and there. What is not obvious and certainly not in evidence is that God Himself chose the KJV language.
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interesting read. Somehow I still don't think a clear/correct version of the Bible would result in something less than 38,000 different Christian denoms though  .
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What is obvious is that JS used the KJV for significant portions of the BoM, inserting variant readings here and there. What is not obvious and certainly not in evidence is that God Himself chose the KJV language.
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God could have used any language He wanted, but He chose to use the language that Smith was most familiar with. If Smith spoke Spanish, we would have a very different translation. If Smith used the Ebonics translation of the Bible, the Book of Mormon would be in that form.
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God could have used any language He wanted, but He chose to use the language that Smith was most familiar with. If Smith spoke Spanish, we would have a very different translation. If Smith used the Ebonics translation of the Bible, the Book of Mormon would be in that form.
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I don't know how many others have heard a voice... I was told "you'll make it"
I was shocked at the informal nature of the communication. "you'll" LOL! no thee's or thy's... I guess that means I'm an informal sort of person .
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