Thursday | April 24, 2008

Little Bit Of Irony To Start Your Day....

I know I should stop but I just can't seem to tear myself away. I watch in stunned amazement and swear I won't go back but then....Keeping The Home has some doozies up this week. Including instructions on how to get a Great Bible.

Does your KJV Bible have the uncorrupted KJV text?

 Even if your KJV does prove to be a corrupted edition, it's still WAY better than other Bible versions out there, so keep reading it. The corrupted KJV Bibles are still pretty good. A quick (and very abbreviated) test to check your KJV text is as follows:

1. Is the 's' in the word "Spirit" capitalized in Genesis 1:2 and Matthew 4:1?

2. Does it correctly say "Saviour" in Luke 2:11, or the incorrect "Savior?" Anyone can be a Savior, but there is only one SAVIOUR, and that is Christ Jesus.

There are many more things you could check, but if your Bible fails the above two, then you already know you have a corrupted edition. However, I've noticed that many KJV texts are fine, except for in Matthew 4:1. For example - that is how the Dake is. I just take my trusty pen, and capitalized the 's' in the word "Spirit" in Matthew 4:1, if that is the only corruption found.

All I can say is WHEW!! The Douay-Rheims is a GREAT BIBLE. It passes the Luke 2 test even though it flunked the capitalized 'Spirit' in Genesis and Matthew but I have it on good authority that all I have to do is whip out my pencil and capitalize them myself.

Yes I know she was talking about starting with the KJV to begin with but still....
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1 - Wow! It's so good we have people like Candy out there. I never knew that the Greek made that "ior" and the "iour" distinction! And capitalization in Hebrew is almost as important as punctuation... and vowels.
Let's all throw out any translation that relies on ancient manuscripts and just stick to 1611, because a righteous man like King James would never allow any corruptions in "his" edition.
The Puritans and Separatists that came to America were just plain old stupid to refuse to use the KJV! And the Catholics that insisted on keeping to Douy-Reims???

Jackie B (Comment this)

Written by: Anonymous at 2008/04/24 - 11:13:51
2 - You know, it's stuff like this that almost makes me wish, in a 'don't taunt the wretched!' kind of way,
that we could just leave Candy alone.



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Written by: Sal at 2008/04/24 - 11:32:21
3 - This ...

"2. Does it correctly say "Saviour" in Luke 2:11, or the incorrect "Savior?" Anyone can be a Savior, but there is only one SAVIOUR, and that is Christ Jesus."

... almost made me spray STRONG coffee through my nose. Lucky for you, I managed to choke it down just before it escaped, so you neither owe me a new keyboard nor compensation for pain and suffering.

Candy's not too up on English vs. American usage, is she? Or are the British just super holy? And Canadians, too, I guess, since they use "ou" where "o" would suffice, as well ... (Comment this)

Written by: K.H. at 2008/04/25 - 08:48:41
4 - Actually, I should say, "lucky for Candy ...." because she's the original author of that fine piece of comedy.

Oh, it wasn't meant to be funny? My bad .... (Comment this)

Written by: K.H. at 2008/04/25 - 08:50:38
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5 - LOL! Well I suppose I would bear some liability for passing it along without sufficient consumer labeling. BTW....drink tea. It burns less when shot out of your nostrils. (Comment this)

Written by: Red Neck Woman at 2008/04/25 - 11:01:13
6 - Didn't the original KJV contain the deuterocanonical books? sue from nd (Comment this)

Written by: Anonymous at 2008/04/26 - 09:02:28
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7 - Yes Sue they were. I also find it interesting that Luther removed the deuterocanonical books because they were not available in Hebrew but with the finding of the dead sea scrolls ALL of the deuterocanonical books except the Greek portions of Esther were found in Hebrew. The probable reason that Esther was not found intact was that the scrolls were kept by an Essene community which would have likely found the content of Esther scandalous to begin with whether or not it was in Hebrew! (Comment this)

Written by: Red Neck Woman at 2008/04/26 - 15:21:33
8 - Thanks RNW! I wonder if Candy considers these books as canon?? Maybe she's closer to being Catholic than she thinks!! sue from nd (Comment this)

Written by: Anonymous at 2008/04/27 - 06:19:45
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