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From: liz@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: NCC Inclusive Lectionary
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 00:24:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 00:24:05 1983
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Point of fact (*sigh*).

Most of the Christians I know do not believe that the King James
Version of the Bible is the one and only acceptable version.  Most
of them know:

	1.  The original language of the Bible was *not* the King's
	    English.
	2.  While the KJV contains beautiful language, it's not
	    exactly modern English, and there have been enough
	    changes to the English so that it no longer an accurate
	    translation into English for the average speaker of
	    English and that it is misleading...
	3.  There are more accurate translations and more accurate
	    sources available now than when the KJV was translated.

The most popular translations (as far as Christians I know of) are
the New American Standard, the New International Version and the
Revised Standard Version.  The NAS is as close to the original as
they could possibly make it -- even to the point of retaining some
of the original word order.  Unfortunately, it is not as readable
as it could be.  I prefer NIV because it is quite close to the
original and uses good English -- much easier to read.  I don't
know much about RSV.

As far as the discussions on arguments about alternate translations
go, well...  Let's put it this way.  The scholars that translated
the NIV were from many different protestant denominations and from
many English speaking countries.  All of them managed to agree.
I know this leaves out the Roman Catholics and groups like the
Mormans, but it still does cover quite a lot...

				-Liz
-- 
Liz Allen, Univ of Maryland, College Park MD
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