Ditto to Domingo's post. I just finished reading this topic (
all 4 pages).
SOme time ago Brother Curt sent me some info on the different Bible translations. I checked them all out and put together a sermon called Search
"Which" Scriptures. Here are some of the things I discovered.
Matthew 18:11. KJV says this :
"For the Son of Man is come to save that which was lost."
What does the RSV and NIV say?
(BBE) (OMITTED TEXT)
(CEV) (SEE 18:10)
(GNB) OMITTED TEXT
(GW) (OMITTED TEXT)
(Weymouth NT) OMITTED TEXT
YES -the text is MISSING!
Surely this is an important doctrine, isn't it?
After discovering that missing text, I wondered how many others were missing or changed also!
Here is what I discovered!
Acts 8:37
(BBE) (OMITTED TEXT)
(CEV) (SEE 8:36)
(Darby) (OMITTED TEXT)
(GNB) OMITTED TEXT
(GW) (OMITTED TEXT)
(World English Bible) (OMITTED TEXT)
(WNT) OMITTED TEXT
(KJV) And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Is this an important teaching acknowledging that Jesus is the Son of God? I believe so!
For me it is difficult to understand why the various versions agree to omit the testimony of one of the Apostles!
1 John 5:7
RSV And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
(BBE) And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.
(CEV) In fact, there are three who tell about it.
(GNB) There are three witnesses:
(KJV) For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Another doctrine which identifies Jesus as God,
" the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end".
HOWEVER, when we read Rev 1:11 in the "NEWER versions", this teaching is missing TOO!
Thus a well-known attribute of Jesus is taken away.
When we compare the various verses, we discover that KEY DOCTRINES are MISSING-doctrines like " The Seventh-Day Sabbath" , "The Sanctuary", "Christ's Second Coming" , "SOP", "The Mission and Divinity of Jesus" , "Judgment" and " Salvation"!- All the pillars of faith which our pioneers adhered to and the early Reformers -ALL have been changed by these "new versions" to accommodate the Global Community.
MY conclusion is this as recorded in Amos 8:10-11
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:"
We are there. The "other"versions are inaccurate and not to be relied on for teaching doctrine.
I majored in Theology at La Sierra University (Riverside, Cal) , and the prime textbook Bible was RSV. Quite frankly, I was shocked when I disovered that important verses were missing which pertain to our Historic Adventist doctrines.
It wasn't until years later that I discovered the huge difference between them.
Laurie