Pilotbutteradio wrote:


The archaic language in the translation was not the point. The reference was
to the manuscripts and the meaning of the Greek words. Not the changed
meaning of words used to translate the manuscripts.

I think if you really study it out you'll find that the Textus Receptus
/ Received Text is not all it is made out to be. Didn't someone say if
one could control history they could control the future. Part of
"history" was controlled in that manuscript.


I have an NASB here that I use as a secondary source.

That is the one I read the most. However, I also use the KJV, and
others. I'm not against the KJV, just against the idea that it is the
ONLY version that is God's Word. I also use the Amplified for its
different shades of meanings; i.e. synonyms. I read the Septuagint
because that is probably the most accurate of all the older versions and
is the one that Christ and the disciples quoted from when they quoted
the old testament - though some would have us believe it didn't come
along until 200 or 300 years after Christ. The Farrar Fenton Bible has
some very interesting aspects to it - including calling the land of
Shinar (I think this is what the KJV calls it) the Bush country, and
capitalizes Bush. He also seems to know that the "Jews" in the current
nation of "Israel" do not constitute the whole of the 12 (? 13 with
Joseph's two sons) tribes of Israel.


Well I am certainly a capitalist. But I do have trouble with all of the
Christian stores around today, and you do have a point about selling other
related books. It would be hard for me to know where to draw the line there.
The commercialization of the Christian faith is sickening to me. More
because I know so many of the people involved to be pretending, and not
changed.

Hollywood, and the movies, is full of "actors" who were first called
hypocrites. . . . Interesting!



You must be subscribed to some Christian oriented newsgroups. Can you
recommend some?

Nope. I participated some with the group that pulled out from Stair's
group. They appeared to be more interested in pulling Stair down than
lifting Christ up. If one even proposed that he preached a lot of
truth, along with all the other stuff, they were considered a "traitor"
to the group and assumed to be a spy for Stair. :-(

I did a search of the newsgroups that I have access to and came up with
65 groups that have the word "Christian" in it. I don't know of any of
them that I can recommend. They're probably mostly all taken over by
the enemies of the truth and Truth! ;-)