The following report is from the Los Angeles Times:
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. (Matthew 24:35)
This sentiment is expressed in at least five other places in the Bible, and yet perhaps the most erudite institution of biblical scholars has just released 20,000 changes in the Bible.
An update to the New Revised Standard Version was released digitally this month and is to be in print next May. As you can imagine, such a task is not undertaken lightly. The update represents more than four years of intense work of the National Council of Churches and a large group of scholars in the Society of Biblical Literature.
The result is careful and creative revisions. Like all new biblical translations and updates over the past millennium, including the King James Version, this brings new meanings to biblical texts. Each iteration of the Bible addresses some need in the culture at that moment. I hope the updated edition (known as NRSVue) fuels a wider public discussion about what the Bible is becoming in our era. For instance, the reasons for revisions vary greatly, prompting the overall textual meanings to spin out in many directions and broadening dialogue.
For the past 70 years, the Revised Standard Version and 1989’s NRSV have been the go-to English Bible for students and scholars. This month’s NRSV update is especially well suited to opening a broader public conversation because it is not revised with a single-minded agenda by one denomination or faith, but with multiple nuanced goals by a joint working group including Jewish, Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic scholars. For the public then, these revisions are not so much fine-tuning of doctrine as expansion of the Bible’s range.
A handful of examples give a taste of that potential.
- Mark 14:69 (and similar verses)
NRSV: And the servant-girl, on seeing him, began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”
NRSVue: And the female servant, on seeing him, began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”
This revision brings — with good reason — feminist consciousness to take away a demeaning translation that calls a woman a girl. So the “female servant” quickly becomes someone with more agency and character. Literally the revision makes her a bigger person, and the readers of the Bible today themselves have more room to be engaged.
- Leviticus 4:8 (and more than 125 other verses with the same issue)
NRSV: He shall remove all the fat from the bull of sin offering.
NRSVue: He shall remove all the fat from the bull of purification offering.
The scholars explain that this improves upon an earlier distortion of Hebrew hatta’t. The notion of “sin” has been removed, because they believe “purification offering” more closely reflects the ancient Hebrew word. This revision opens up new biblical conversation and subject matter without taking “sin” out of the larger biblical picture. With this revision, the 21st century Bible now joins the many world cultures in which “purifying” is a regular practice but is less entangled in “sin” considerations.
- Matthew 4:24
NRSV: So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and he cured them.
NRSVue: So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with various diseases and pains, people possessed by demons or having epilepsy or afflicted with paralysis, and he cured them.
The scholars explain: “When context permits, NRSVue avoids translations that identify people in terms of a disability.” This brings a modern sensibility to bear, because we now believe that an illness or symptom is something a person has, not who they are. This rewording is helpful for scholarly, church and public readers. The reference to demon possession … well, modern audiences can make of that what they will, no matter how we phrase it.
Each change illuminates not only how the old and new language speak to us, but also how we filter and frame the texts we consume. As this edition attempts to both modernize and improve historical accuracy, we need to notice some of the stunning cross-purposes in play within and about the Bible in any particular era.
To consider these 20,000-plus revisions, and to observe how our own understanding changes, is to see why many scholars refer to “living” biblical texts. The real character of such material develops and is alive in new ways for each different time and situation.
Over the past 10 years I have been part of a project considering a fecund moment almost 2,000 years ago in the formation of texts that eventually became Christian canon. Our findings, presented in “After Jesus Before Christianity,” portray a living and often shifting “word.” One sees that ancient meaning-making, even among the early authors and audiences in the original languages, was strikingly similar to today’s expanding territory for Bible engagement through swirling conversations, translations, revisions and interpretations.
Those texts from the first few centuries of multiple Jesus groups were full of creativity, rich with nuance from a time of great diversity. The word “christian” certainly did not mean a member of a religion in the early centuries. The word hardly existed at all in the first century and varied widely in meanings among the second and third century users of the term. These authors’ concept of gender was full of fluidity, which manifested in word choice and practice.
Modern audiences might squirm over these agendas and ambiguities, but they are intrinsic to texts that come to be called scripture. Biblical scholar Vincent Wimbush has coined a term for the process, “scripturalizing,” which acknowledges the aliveness of texts and how they become present through modifications in words and meanings. He now uses scripturalizing particularly in the ways the Bible belongs to African Americans throughout the last 400 years. Integrating earlier scholarship in cultural studies while challenging white domination of biblical study, Wimbush writes: “This means seeing scripture as reflective of the basic ‘play-element’ in culture, as rites, performances, and their varied veiling and unveiling operations and effects.”
Don’t look to the latest biblical revision to settle theological questions, but to raise important new ones, urging us to look deeper and wider into the texts as well as into ourselves. The updated edition of the New Revised Standard Version is its own act of unveiling.
Hal Taussig is the editor of “A New New Testament” and co-author of “After Jesus Before Christianity.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:17
Every. Single. Time. these new versions are released, the media and scholars must kick the King James Bible. Look for it if you don’t believe me. These people are always itching to take shots at God’s preserved words in English for us today. They also say that the KJB is archaic, antiquated, obsolete, and no one takes it seriously. Then why keep comparing yourselves to it then?
[6] Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. [7] Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, [8] And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.1 Peter 2:6-8
These so-called “revisions” had to do with typos, font changes, and some other spellings that were adjusted as the English language itself was still being established (English used to have letters we do not use anymore, for example).
Furthermore, these never-ending translations and versions cause the world to blaspheme. And who can really blame them, when they see hundreds of different versions of “THE” Bible, and each one of those has dozens of different marketing pitches to appease to very specific demographics?
I was thinking about this other day (not this new translation, but the new version pandemic we have), and what we have is “Cookbook Christianity:” you pick out a cookbook of your choosing depending on your tastes, occasion, and skills; pick out your favorite recipes, add and subtract ingredients when you want to make it more palatable for yourself; or you can grab a different cookbook and use those recipes instead; and then when someone asks where you got that recipe from, you say ‘THE Cookbook!: they all say something similar.’
The Bible version issue has never been my ministry and focus: others have done plenty of work on the issue. I recommend King James Video Ministries for this, he has ton of work on the issue.
Total Hypocrisy On The Legacy Standard Bible
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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“The notion of “sin” has been removed, because they believe “purification offering” more closely reflects the ancient Hebrew word”
“…the 21st century Bible now joins the many world cultures in which “purifying” is a regular practice but is less entangled in “sin” considerations”
I wonder what they did with verses like Luke 18:13:
Luke 18:13 (KJV) And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
…did they change it to say “God be merciful to me an unpurified person” or something??? Also, I guarantee you that contradictions like the one in 2 Samuel 21:19 (where Elhanan kills Goliath instead of Goliath’s brother) are STILL present…
Lol, these people are ridiculous. I’ll stick to my old, “out-of-date” and “obsolete” 1611 King James Bible.
2 Samuel 22:31-32 (KJV) As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
Proverbs 8:8-9 (KJV) All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Yeah, and sacrificing people & bloodletting, as the Mayans & Incans& Aztecs did, or cannabalism ….horrific things out of Asia and Africa that you can’t even speak of they’re so horrific & foul, have all been considered ‘purification’ rituals. Even the Celts, the Druids, the Norse. Many of the native American tribes of North America, the Pacific & Indian Ocean islanders.
Rome claimed her Inquisition was for ‘purification’. For the victims’ own good, ‘compelling them to come in’ and such wickedness.
Some of the revisionists own offspring believe the lies of their elders….and the truth is lost to them.
They’re putting the noose around their own necks, & the Lord is letting them. 2 Thessalonians 2 in my book.
https://youtu.be/RiTfe-ckD_g
Getting more creepy
And yet… everyone in the comment section of that video is cheering over that abomination. Just look at this comment from there:
“No specific race or gender. Leaves those to the imagination. Fluid movement. Beautiful design. Not creepy. Good muscle and skin movement. Well done.”
What is wrong with people…….
When I was a lost teen, I used to play a video game called Overwatch. In one of the film shorts (you can find this on youtube), there was a scene implying that society had gotten to a point where robot and mankind marriages were “normal”.
Prepredictive programming and subliminal messaging sure is something
Never played that game, but I had classmates play it when I was in high school as well. I used to be an avid Sims player, and some expansion packs allowed fornication with robots. Messed up stuff. The subtle prepping of the masses for a coming reality, that is right around the corner.
And now, God’s judgement is going to strike even harder on this country. With every Bible PERVersion released, God SLAMS this nation and others accepting them even harder! The “translators” be it jesuits, professors with their D.D. (Dumbbell Degree) Th.D (Doctor of Thick-Headedness) or some pastor or associate of some sort of whatever, they’re going to get Alzheimer’s disease I believe. They boast and are PROUD because of their rinky dink degrees and what have ya, and then as God’s judgement, he makes fools out of them and makes them ill and frail!
Dr. So-and-So who was a prominent highly educated professor at such-and-such seminary of Bible college for 34 years, now he’s splashing himself with toilet water and says “I’m taking a shower.” He walks outside into the street in his underpants! He can’t tell might from day! He says to his kids and grandkids “can somebody help me get this kid dressed up? There’s a kid running around my bedroom without any clothes on”-and that “kid” happens to be their pet cat.
My grandma was lukewarm and religious and had Alzheimer’s and thought she saw three guys in a car in her bedroom! Jacob or anyone, could Alzheimer’s count for strong delusion according to II Thessalonians 2:11?
God can use any judgment he wants, including Alzheimer’s….which looks to be a consequential judgment of poor modern diet & pollution. It’s caused by amyloid placque when the nerves just jumble up in tangles more & more. I’ve also known old saints who ‘got stuck in gear’ …one old guy used to ‘escape’ the nursing home all the time, & knock on visitors windows parking in the lot, including his wife he didn’t recognize anymore, asking them if they knew Jesus, quoting scripture & offering them tracts. I realize there are all sorts of takes on that, but I really loved this song dealing with just such a situation. This family raised disabled children to adulthood who were probably vaccine or otherwise damaged due to no fault of their own. https://youtu.be/KYNbeVsgRug
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Patrick Henry used to represent the baptists the Anglicans & Puritans were persecuting in court, shaming them for fining & jailing men & women for preaching & believing the word of God. They hated him for it.
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When his beloved wife developed early onset dementia, probably because of a sensitity to the lead they used in pewter & window -glass installation, paint in those days, the Anglicans & Puritans said it was devil possession. He knew she’d been saved, & the baptists gave him scriptural help & showed him to err on the side of mercy in such a case. The Lord will sort it out & nothing hidden will not be known.
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Remember the man blind from birth & the disciples asked Jesus who sinned that he’d ended up like that? Like Job’s friends. Jesus told them that it was due to no one’s particular sins, but that the glory of God might be manifested. John 9 KJB. Well, guess where the glory of God in this world dwells today? In these temples of clay until he who now letteth be taken out of the way. We can’t always make those calls.
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When they tried to ramrod the first Constitution through in a semi-secretive, elites-only meeting in Philadelphia, he turned down his invitation, wrote his still extent ‘I smell a rat in Philadelphia’ letter to James Monroe, and alerted the baptists & common men soldiers who were getting shafted. Monroe hadn’t thought a Bill of Rights section to the Constitution was needed though Henry & the baptist elder John Leland & others had petitioned him for it.
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The word spread & they weren’t going to be able to get their Republic without the balancing Democratic portion protecting the common people from elitist & nicolaitan abuses…..because the colonies, states, wouldn’t ratify. Monroe told them that if they could get General Washington’s endorsement, he’d include them. Probably thinking they’d never get it.
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However, Washington had heard the gospel preached & seen it evidenced under the preaching of men & fellow soldiers like John Gano, had been biblically baptized in the frigid river at Valley Forge, & was walking a fine line distancing himself from the Masons and ritual nicolaitans lusting after State privilege & monies, wearing their ‘frocks’ & working their ritual, promoting the li-turd-gee….love that…lol! Now I GET IT, and it’s part of their revisionism & disappearing & ecumenical CRAFT that we don’t ALL know these things.
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Anyways, caution how we apply & witness the word to people, remembering God is more than capable of judging his own servants, as well as the lost, being careful not to go beyond what is actually written & proven. It will all be revealed in time.
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1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
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What about the chinese version?
“When the people disappeared, Jesus stoned the sinner to death and said: I too am a sinner, but if the law could only be enforced by men without guilt, then the law would be dead.”
In the communist paraphrase, the law rules without mercy. This narrative suits President Xi Jinping and the society he wants to build. Therefore, we must assume that grace has been torn out and replaced by a doctrine of unconditional obedience to the law.
While waiting for this false bible, real bibles are burned and confiscated. This is so that the authorities in the middle of the biblical famine can measure and search with their own “word”.
https://www.dagen.se/annons/2021/12/21/aktenskapsbryterskan-stenas-i-ny-kinesisk-bibeloversattning/
It is the responsibility of every man & woman to find which version in their vulgar tongue is the preserved word of God. The official Chinese Party State-approved version, nor their Three Self Patriotic Movement ‘State-approved church’ are legitimate. You can rest assured that there is one, though, & that the Judge of all the earth will do right. I believe there are still far more than 10 Bible believers in China, scattered and persecuted though they are.
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English is a global trade language just as Aramaic and Greek, then Latin were in their turns. The Lord gave the world the Authorized English Version at just the right time in history.
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China was not an unreached country before the communists & corporatists took the head. They had the word of God. See Genesis 18, and pray for the people of China with the same assurance. I know they used a policy of openness right after China gained membership & UN free trading status while Google built their surveillance system. Then came the hammer, with non-nationals deported, flock members with any education disappearing, subjected to re-education & worse, the flocks scattered & left to the care of peasant pastors & such Bibles as they had & could hide. I personally know of at least one such that was King James equivalent, now scattered, back underground….but it is dangerous to speak much of them in specifics.
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What the propagandists show are the big cults and charismatic things which ultimately join with Rome & that Three Self thing, the rest caricatured as enemies of the people, ‘potential terrorists’ & such things & attacked directly, or if possible & identified, ‘taken care of’ as part of the collateral damage in something else. Like they did in the Middle East, northern Africa etc. We have the equivalent happening here. It’s just been more hidden & quiet until just recently & with covid cover.
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The same can be said of many countries & King James equivalents. India for instance & the Bengali. The Van Dyke Arabic. The apostasy grew with the acceptance of the ‘United’ Bible societies & translation committees which were simple for that old Harlot & her spirit to infiltrate and ‘transform’. All ‘official’ and ‘approved’ false Bible ‘translation’ work today is based on the corrupt UBS text & using wicked, critical philosophy & translational techniques.
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I’m sure brother Denlinger could fill us in with even more on those things. Read your Bible & pray, believing God has kept his promises, preserved his word & will do right. And, if you look at what he has already taught at kingjamesvideoministries, you will likely find your answers are evidenced & manifested in history, too.
The phony open policy Mao brought into China during the Cold War was called “let a thousand flowers bloom”. Sounds like they had another one recently if Google was a part of it. People never learn from history. No surprise there. I thought I read somewhere that Mao was a skull and bonesman, so one can deduce he was controlled by Jesuits, as I think China still is today.
Psa 125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity:
UE…updated edition. Yeah, ‘up’ as in new tower of Babel which the builders who’ve rejected the chief cornerstone are building, and ‘dating’ as the Baals of Peor, Jezebel, Isis, Ishtar, Asherah…whatever they want to call it these days, Queen of Heaven consort to the Bull, & what comes out of a bull is what they’ve stuck in its pages.
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UP as in Bill Johnson witch’s ‘arise and build’ with popes and devils. ‘Creativity’. ‘Conversation’. An ‘often shifting word’….only when in the hands of shifty men, trying & evidencing what is true, what is false, shifting, changing, corrupting. Manifesting the faith of men…..the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Vomit. Vomit. and more Vomit. Their conversations with devils are vain & deadly….the deceiving & being deceived. The only ‘comments’ allowed to be seen on these articles are those that ‘cheer’ that perver$ion…..just like comments on yousloob. The rest get cycled through committee & AI for ideas & further planning & ‘refining’ their lies, how to ‘rebut’ or counter the ‘better arguments’, & barring that….if they persist or draw a ‘dangerous’ following: to smear or destroy, crucify, the messenger.
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As if THAT’S ever worked or gonna work in the end. They might want to READ the Book before they start chopping, dicing & smearing what comes out of wicked men & devils all over it.
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Comment with scripture there on yousloob, & then go back later & try commenting or revising it. It’s THERE, but it ISN’T THERE….just like their through-the-looking-glass backwards land, their Q-verse, META abomination which they’ve evolved in their imaginations & built with the help of devils & Craft.
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Anything honest gets the James White-out treatment. Disappeared. Never happened. And that’s been going on for a long time, in their ‘comment sections’ and ‘open dialogue seeking truth’ that ain’t open & which HATES truth because it’s ‘too divisssssssssive’ and hurt$ the bottom line.
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In their fake, transformed and transforming ‘churches’, too. New Point. Crosspoint. Intersection Church. Craft. Craft. and Craft. Read about the tabernacle of their Molech and Chiun, their stars, the god they make unto themselves. Disgusting. Makes me so angry I could spit, & so sick I want to vomit. 2 Peter 2&3. Jude. Yet, they honestly know not what they do. So ‘smart’. Cunning like Herod. Like a fox.
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They are NOT erudite. They are liars, pretenders & wannabes. The real scholars of the King James Bible committee and men like John Asquith, of purecambridgetext.com…. and even honest scholars messed up with Calvin’s Augustinian garbage can prove from history & the Book itself why the King James Bible is supreme & superior in every way, utterly unique, upon a different textual foundation & of a different spirit….like Will Kinney of brandplucked.webs.com are scholars of integrity. Ruckman, Denlinger etc, Riplinger have a far greater grasp. They like to pick little bones crept in of men & women seeking to honor & defend the only preserved word of God, & to throw away the whole work for some such little error ….when everything they themselves do is utterly false, putrid & without integrity: straining at gnats, swallowing camels. Blind guides, ravenous wolves.
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‘Fecund’….give me a break. That’s a ‘goddess’ Romans 1 lesbo edition if I ever saw one: fertile, ready to produce fruit. We know which fruit comes of that vine. And the fulfillment of 1 Thessalonians 5 on the wrong side is all that fruit they’ve worked so hard to defile, to tweak, to ‘evolve’, to ‘transform’…will produce for them. Warn those who will hear.
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Those who despise the King James Bible will receive the delusion & cannot fight the good fight of the faith. They’re blind & without light. Their armor is shoddy, their ‘manna’ is poisoned, and their sword is booby-trapped & will explode in their hands.
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This is just more of the work of liars, spiritual prostitutes & craft manipulators PRETENDING to be erudite & scholarly serving the spirit they are of. They couldn’t exegete their way out of wet paperbags, and they couldn’t order off a Hebrew or Greek or Aramaic text menu if their lives depended upon it, let alone bring back the ancient languages with all the nuances, or the perfection of that brief window of time & those amazing God-prepared men of the King James Bible committee.
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They just pays their money & picks their ‘girl’…and it’s old Jezebel; going on to parrot for her what they’re told like good little boys & swallows, rolling over & wetting themselves every time the jesuits make some new divining announcement of ‘what was REALLY in the no-longer-existent originals (no longer existent thanks to THEM, their defiling, corrupting, destructive ways: & God allowing it so that men would prove all things & walk by faith)….or pats them on the head for being ‘good little scholars’, sharing their ‘favors’ with them. Like Dole’s deal.
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Most of them can’t even read the ENGLISH in context & understand it, or repeat it back without corrupting it.
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Every single one of those perversions messes up the proof for proving the spirits in 1 John 4, too. About as ‘pure’ and ‘real’ as the ho, ho, ho’s of The View. Revelation 17&18 writ large. Rome was at the base of the English Revision, and she’s behind this one, too. Not just ‘America’ being set up for the fall, as surely as the Vatican banker Jews, or vassal ‘kings’ were every time Rome felt threatened or greedy.
Here is a link to my video showing how the new versions were made to destroy the English language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcdY_JSqdsk&t=1s