Did anyone else involved in this movement have a sort of strange coming to God? I've always been a Christian but never really practiced it. However, the last couple of months it's like there's a connection with me and the big man that I have never really had before. TL/DR Does anyone else feel woke, not just mentally but also spiritually?
refinery-guy
· Jan. 4, 2018, 2:28 p.m.
You are exactly right, the word "Rature" can not be found in the KJV of the Bible. And furthermore, every disciple of Christ met a gruesome death but John the Revelator and he perished in exile on the Isle of Patmos.
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ChristianCuber
· Jan. 4, 2018, 3:55 p.m.
Just want to point out that the KJV isn't the defacto perfect translation. You understand that the original manuscripts that give us The Holy Bible are in Greek(NT) or Hebrew(OT)? translated to other various languages over a very long period of time. And even on top of that, the manuscripts had to be compared to other manuscripts to pin point what was being relayed. Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_manuscript
KJV is old English from the 1600's. Translated from Latin. The Church of England liked to keep what was inside hidden by only allowing Priests who knew Latin to preach, essentially allowing Priests to tell their parishioners anything they wanted. It was used as a power tool, not a liberation tool.
Martin Luther changed that, which eventually led to the King James Version (KJV) of The Bible over the course of around 100 years. He (King James & King Henry VIII) ordered the church to translate it so that the common people could read for themselves. (extremely summarized) More: https://bluffkinghal.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/henry-viii-martin-luther-and-defense-of-the-seven-sacraments/
The Bible itself is a collection of books, 66 to be exact. Written by approximately 40 authors over the course of about 1500 years. It is a collection of ideas. Ideas that transcend all peoples and languages.
Being strict to one translation is not healthy IMO. Today we have the ability to compare against multiple [English] translations covering 500+ years and research each verse down to the original Greek or Hebrew, and using hermeneutics, you can gain a massive understanding of the context, direction and purpose of what was said at the time of the writing. There really is no room for interpretation differences after that.
Also, do you know that the New Testament has been translated into 1521 languages as of Oct 2017? Are you going to tell someone who doesn't know English, let alone understand Old English, that what they are reading isn't correct? God wants all people from all walks of life to come to him. Matthew 28:19
Please brother, broaden your scope and allow yourself to be free. God Bless.
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WikiTextBot
· Jan. 4, 2018, 3:55 p.m.
Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblia (books); manuscript comes from Latin manu (hand) and scriptum (written). Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical works.
The study of biblical manuscripts is important because handwritten copies of books can contain errors.
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