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Originally Posted by Nigel  Hi Friends,
Is this actually a real translation, or is it simply a re-wording of the King James? (which seems to be implied by your list of "replacements" above) |
Dear Todd,
The starting premise is that the Received Text, comprising the Masoretic Hebrew Text and the Textus Receptus, is God's inerrant, infallible Word, historically and scientifically correct in all aspects, and the King James Bible is a faithful 17th century English translation of the Received Text.
This project is a word-for-word translation, that recognizes both the same source-text as the King James Bible translators worked from, and also the accuracy of the King James Bible itself. But where there is a conflict between the Received Text and the King James Bible, the aim is to translate the Received Text accurately and faithfully.
This project departs from the King James Bible where the Received Text would clearly translate differently in 2 situations -
1. the word used in translation in the King James Bible is not well understood
2. the word in the Received Text is not translated directly word-for-word in the King James Bible, but instead there is what appears to be paraphrasing by the King James Bible translators. Here, in the glossary, the original hebrew or greek word in the underlying Received Text is quoted by reference to our translation, showing together the word changed from the King James Bible.
This approach is used, for three reasons -
1. usually, it is difficult to work out where a modern translator is translating one minute word-for-word, and the next minute going off on a dynamic-equivalent paraphrasing bunny-trail
2. the King James Bible is the benchmark Bible for an accurate word-for-word translation of the Received Text
3. there needs to be recognition that many people regard the King James Bible as the only permissible English language translation of the Received Text. Those who have held stedfastly to the King James Bible have performed a mighty service to the body of Christ, even though they have come under tremendous attack, because the King James Bible, until now, has been the only Bible that does not in any way accommodate liberal textual criticism based upon the Alexandrian text. Even though there is a widely-published modern version that claims to be an update of the King James Bible, it incorporates all the liberal textual criticism attaching to the Alexandrian text, thereby undermining its own proposition - by incorporating all that textual criticism, it is making a statement to the effect that the Word of God is not reliable.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. So how can we have faith, unless we rely utterly, totally, without any shadow of doubt or compromise in our hearts, upon the literal inerrancy of God's Word?
In the above statement, we cannot say that an English
translation itself is infallible - but we can aim to make a translation as accurate as it can possibly be, with exclusive reference to the Received text.
In the 1980s I witnessed, at first hand, liberal theologians strip away the faith of evangelical men who came to read Theology, pursuing a call from the Lord to the ministry. That stripping-away was no dry academic exercise - evangelical believers were systematically mocked, persecuted and some of them experienced the mental torture of a nervous breakdown. This was deliberate - the mockery was upon the inerrancy of the Word of God. Its tactics mirrored the serpent in the garden - contradicting God's Word. By the grace of God I was saved some of those agonies.
But do not be deceived - the devil hates the Word of God, and he wants to destroy the faith of Bible-believing Christians.
It is time for Christians to rise up, to declare boldly what we believe concerning God's Word, and ensure that ordinary people, even unchurched people who have perhaps never heard the word of God, can read a faithful and accurate translation of God's inerrant word in current language as spoken by the majority of people across the globe.
This project is not an update of the King James Bible, and it does not seek to obtain authority by coming under its mantle. However, the King James Bible is worthy of honor as a word-for-word translation of the Received Text into 17th century English.
In Christ Jesus,