Bibles (which type you use)

Sir_Horny SG

last time use Good News Bible but now use NIV

the Bear SG

Ironically... a church is burning Bibles...

perhaps, this is the height of the bigotry of some churches...

Greenville Church Burns the Bible

August 3, 2003

GREENVILLE -- A church in Greenville thinks the Harry Potter books are part of an evil cult, so church leaders decided to have an old-fashioned book burning, but children's books were not the only things that went into the fire.

"They have changed it the key points in the Bible," said Bishop Tom Turner Sr. of Jesus Non-Denominational Church in Greenville.

"The majority of it's probably the same, but it takes just a little bit to mislead people."

So the Book of Mormon, versions of the Bible, even the Catholic Rosary, all went up in flames.

Church leaders say any Bible besides the King James version that they use, are distractions.

However, religion experts say this is something very uncommon to West Michigan.

Dr. Bastiaan VanElderen has been studying religion at Calvin College since the 1940s and has never seen anything like this here.

"No, not at all," said VanElderen. "I've heard a lot of harangs about differing viewpoints, but nothing of this caliber."

Still, pastors sight a passage from the book of Acts that mentions burning pagan literature.

"So mightily grew the word of God and revailed," said Tom Turner Jr.. "When did it prevail? When they burned them and made a public testimony that they are for God."

Book burnings aren't a new part of our country's history, but Dr. VanElderen says the last time he remembers burning Bibles was in the South in the 1950s.

aHGer^83 SG

mine bible?
i got quite a number at home..... Rolling Eyes

shutthehellup SG

i use NIV all the while..
i heard them said that NIV is Satanic..but didnt know how they dealt with it..

sillyme SG

oh ya.. forgot to mention that i use NIV..

but the version doesn't matter to me.. anyway when you read u still need the Spirit's guidance right? Smile

the burning of bibles is a bit overboard..

yakyak SG

I'm using one online, have most of the versions.

http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bg?language=english&version=NIV

for your reference. Cool

kalangkabo SG

what i was told was :
(the gist of it, could not remember word for word)

At Jesus' time, the books of the old testament (or the Laws and the Prophets) was already well established and recognised (canonised). The orignal old testament was written in hebrew. However as the majority of the Jews then could not understand old hebrew, scholars translated the hebrew text into greek, so that it can be understood by the Jews. The translated greek version was call the septeugint (not sure spelling) as it was legended that 70+ scholars was involved in the translation.
The original hebrew old testament does not contain the apocrypha, however the septeugint included these additional books. When the protestants broke away from the roman catholic church, the protestant Bible's old testament was "derived"/translated from the hebrew version, whereas the Catholic church uses the greek septeugint. Hence the disparity in content.

but as mentioned,
"And the other Books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners: but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine"
http://www.kirkdale113.freeserve.co.uk/39.htm

i.e. it's ok to read them

could somebody double-checked what i wrote?

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