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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello everybody, welcome to today's episode of
Walk With Me.
I am your host, jj.
So good, so good, so good tohave each and every one of you
here.
Thank you all for the likes andshares.
Thank you all for the feedback.
I really do appreciate it, evenif listen, like I told you.
I tell you guys often, even ifit's bad feedback, I appreciate
(00:21):
it, or let's not say bad, maybeif it'sconstructive, but that's
okay, all feedback isappreciated.
I love your questions.
As a matter of fact, today wewill be dealing with part two of
a question that was sent to theemail address, which is
walkwithmebiblestudy at gmail.
Walkwithmebiblestudy at gmail.
(00:43):
And it was such an involvedquestion.
I knew that being able to typethat out was going to be a book
by itself.
So we're just going to gothrough with it and answer the
questions.
But before we do that, gottatake care of housekeeping.
Big shout out to bars andlyricists for the intro and the
(01:04):
outro.
Exquisite Creations, iron GateMinistries and also Wise Care
for Kinfolk yes, that's going tobe the name of the new sponsor,
and we will go ahead and takecare of that.
We will go jump right into itbecause they still have a lot of
(01:26):
ground to cover.
Um, I think, if I remembercorrectly, we left off on Miles
Coverdale.
Now what Miles Coverdale?
Uh?
And just to recap, uh, we weretalking about where did the
Bible come from?
Now I get it.
When we talk about where theBible comes from, now I get it.
When we talk about where theBible comes from, everybody
(01:47):
always says, oh, it was writtenby man, and that makes it
fallible and that makes it falseand it makes all these things,
but it still makes it true.
So we have to be very carefulthat we make sure that we
understand that it's true.
The Bible is true, not becauseof the paper that or the binder
that it's in, but the words onthe pages were inspired by God,
(02:10):
even if they were written by man.
So it's just one of thosethings that we kind of struggle
with as Christians, becausepeople who don't believe say,
hey, that book was written byman, which is kind of ironic
when you think about it, becauseyeah, the Bible was penned by
(02:30):
man, but so was the science book, and a typical science book,
especially when you're talkingabout evolution, has so many
contradictions in it it doesn'teven make sense Math books were
written by man, but peoplefollow them, people believe in
them, people subscribe to them.
So there's no reason why weshould have a new found sense of
(02:57):
doubt when it comes to theBible, even because it was
penned by man.
Those men were inspired of holymen.
So it's just not feasible anargument that we talk about the
validity of the Bible,especially when you can figure
(03:17):
out that that Bible has beenwritten over thousands of years
and translated over thousands ofyears and still can't find a
contradiction in it.
There are a couple words thatwere mistranslated, like the
word Easter in chapter 12 and 4.
That word should not be there.
That word should be passive,which is Passover.
(03:39):
We're not going to get off intothe woods the weeds.
We're not going to get off intothe woods the weeds.
But yes, there's nocontradiction in the Bible if
you take everything in context.
When you start taking thingsout of context, oh yeah, it's
going to have a contradiction.
Okay, so we're going to pick upwhere we left off the whole
(04:02):
Bible.
The first time the entire Biblewas printed actually was printed
in English.
The first time it was printedin English was in around 1535 by
this Miles Covertine, and theBible was still an undercover
thing.
It was undercover.
(04:24):
In other words, the RomanCatholic organization did not
want the Bible to be in thehands of common people.
They did not want, and thereare a lot of schools of thought
of this, but I have my own thatI will not repeat here because
(04:45):
that starts a whole new processand that's not the answer.
I don't want to get off intothe weeds of this, but we're
still dealing with it Right.
So after Miles covered, it,finally got the entire bible
printed in england.
(05:06):
There was king, king henry theeighth.
Now we have all heard aboutking henry the eighth.
That man was a wicked man.
He was not very godly at all.
So just because I'm about totell you this next thing, I
don't want you to think that JJSteele and King Henry VIII was
great, not even in the slightest.
(05:28):
But there was a another guy bythe name of Thomas Cromwell that
somehow convinced Henry VIII togrant a license to be able to
issue this Bible.
That was in English Now.
(05:48):
This was done by John Rogersand it was called the Matthews
Bible.
It was very, very, veryunpopular.
And the reason why it wasunpopular?
Because the comments, what washappening, was he would have the
Bible written in English, butthen in the margins and all over
(06:09):
the scriptures, he was puttingout things that was against the
Roman Catholic organization.
So that was very unpopular,because by then the Inquisition
had been in full swing, peoplehad converted to Catholicism.
And now here comes this bookwith the Bible which basically
tells by then the Inquisitionhad been in full swing, people
had converted to Catholicism,and now here comes this book
with the Bible which basicallytells you that you're not
(06:30):
believing in the right thing,right?
So in 1539, there was a retreadthat was brought by Coverdell
and the others, without themarginal comment.
King Henry VIII was like okay,we'll work with it.
And that became the firstauthorized version.
Now we're talking about KingHenry, not King James.
(06:52):
But this was called thequote-unquote Great Bible
because how big it was.
And King Henry decided that itshould be in every parish church
and chained to the pulpit sopeople could come and hear the
Word of God and you could seesomebody reading it.
(07:12):
You could even go up andactually take a look at the
pages and forget the fact thatyou had about a 6% chance of
being able to read.
You could actually see words,but you couldn't take it home
because it was chained to thepulpit.
However, the next thing thathappened because God is not
(07:33):
locked, god is going to do whathe wants to do In 1560, a
version called the Geneva Bibleappeared, and it was done by the
Protestants.
And this is talking about Geneva, switzerland.
This is where this all started,and this was translated from
the original Greek and Hebrew.
(07:55):
It was smaller in size ratherthan this big thing that was
like a.
It was like the Almost.
The old one was like the oldcompact desktop tower that's how
big it was.
But this one was smaller and itbecame popular because you
could start carrying it around.
You still can read it, but youcan carry it.
(08:17):
And this is the Bible that wasmade popular by Shakespeare.
Cromwell, john Bunyan and thepilgrims brought it to America.
Now it's important to this,important to understand this
version, this Geneva Bible,because this is where the first
division into verses appears.
(08:39):
So before we had the guy thatjust translated into chapters,
but it still became kind oftedious if you wanted to know a
particular thing about what wassaid.
So that's when they startedbreaking it down into verses.
Basically, every sentence got anumber within the chapter and
(09:03):
it used what was called theRoman type, what we have in our
word processing program likeWord, open Office and things
like that.
It had the Roman type so youcould make it more easily read
for people who could read.
And it was also the first Bibleand this is very important.
(09:27):
It was the first Bible to useitalic for the words translators
added.
So when you're reading yourBible you go along, you see a
word that's italicized.
It's because the translatorsadded that word.
And the reason why they addedthat word because without that
word the sentence would, wouldbe, would make a little bit less
(09:49):
sense because they're actuallytranslating it from the Hebrew
and the Greek into English andthe English language is kind of
backwards and upside downlanguage that I know of, that I
can have studied.
Adjectives usually go behindthe word.
So if we see a beautiful girl,we English put the word
(10:22):
beautiful in front of girlbecause that's the adjective,
but in most other languages itwould be girl beautiful, which
makes absolutely no sense to us,but to them it makes sense
abatuelas, negro, black beans.
You don't think so?
Negro being black, abatuelasbeing beans, and apparently
(10:44):
there's a whole bunch ofdifferent words for being
without.
I don't want to go down thatroad and get off into those
weeds.
But because of that and thewords being translated not
making a lot of sense, sometimesthey would add words to it that
didn't appear in the originalGreek or Hebrew text.
Now, in 1582, the Roman Catholicdecided they were going to get
(11:10):
into the translation business.
So they translated the NewTestament at Reims and then they
translated the Old Testament atDouai.
Now this includes the Apocrypha, which was translated from the
Latin Vulgate, but it had a lotof errors, a lot of mess-ups.
(11:31):
Now, what is the Apocrypha?
A lot of people use that termand I will admit that when I
first heard that I was like, ah,that's some garbage.
But the Apocrypha is 14 booksthat included the Roman Catholic
Bible and are not present inthe Protestant Bible because
(11:54):
scriptures are self-containedand absolutely complete, with
nothing lacking.
In the Protestant Bible.
There was nothing lacking, butthey added stuff to it anyway.
There's no reference to theApocrypha in the New Testament.
There are warnings againstadding to this Bible, like in
(12:15):
Moses, deuteronomy 4-2, solomon30-6,.
John had warned about adding toit.
So Moses, solomon and Johnadded warnings.
They put warnings in therebecause God was telling them
don't add anything to this Bible.
(12:37):
So when they put those warningsin there.
When you start bringing theApocrypha in there, it's like I
just didn't even want to learnabout it.
But apparently this isimportant to learn about Because
you got to know when peoplestart throwing random books at
you it's not in the Bible, likewe have Song of Solomon, but
then there's another Solomonbook floating around out there
(12:58):
that somebody wrote and thatbook is weird.
I'm telling you that book'sweird.
So I'm off in the weeds again.
So I'm off in the weeds again.
Now.
This Apocrypha is notacknowledged by any Orthodox Jew
or any Christian church.
I'm just telling you.
(13:18):
It's not acknowledged as beinginspired.
It has so many errors, itcontradicts so much of the Word
of God and you can't trace hisorigins.
And there's a lot of legendarystuff in there too.
Like somebody said, there's abook of Enoch out there that
(13:43):
doesn't make sense Historicalerrors that literally look like
somebody was sitting in theirbasement and wrote it out from
imagination.
So that's why it's not reallyrecognized as part of the Bible
canon, so to speak.
Now, now we finally get to oneversion we know and love.
It is King James Version.
(14:04):
We finally got here An episodeand a half, but we finally got
to King James Version.
We finally got here An episodeand a half and we finally got to
King James Version.
But this happened in 1611.
And this is the version thatmost of us who speak English as
a primary language.
This is the one we use.
47 people, 47 scholars,actually went back to the
(14:29):
earlier version, weeded out someof the errors and properly
translated other things andwords and brought them into this
new version.
Now they went back and gotancient Greek texts, hebrew
texts, and consulted with peoplewho spoke those languages
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fluently to try to get the besttranslation possible.
And that version of the Biblewas the Bible for about 370
years, 370 years, so you take1611, that's when the King James
(15:13):
Version appeared, 1611, and 375years get about 1980.
But we are going to not getthere just yet.
In 1881, there was a bunch ofother scholars, about a hundred
of them, from ten differentdenominations.
(15:36):
Now wait a minute.
What did I just say?
That was different from everyother translation of the Bible.
That's right.
In the other translations ofthe Bible nobody said anything
about denominations.
So somewhere between 1611 and1881 we ended up with a whole
(15:57):
bunch of denominations.
That means Somebody was addingsomething that they shouldn't
have and we talked about thatbefore and I'd be more than
happy to revisit it.
But so 100 scholars fromdifferent denominations in
England and America worked on anew Bible, new translation of
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the Bible.
It took them about 10 years andit's called the Revised Version
.
So you have the King JamesVersion.
King James Revised Version.
It's not the New King JamesVersion.
King James Revised Version it'snot the New King James Version.
That's a totally different.
That's a smaller, smallerversion.
(16:38):
By smaller I mean a newer, lessdifferent version of the King
James Version.
Okay, but this is called theRevised Version.
Now the American StandardVersion Came right after that,
in 1905.
Now you start to seeDevelopments happen very quickly
.
American Standard Version thistook about 15 years.
(17:00):
So this basically started Rightabout the time they had
finished the Revised Version.
So you see these again.
You see these versions poppingout Almost all the time they had
finished the revised version.
So you see again, you see theseversions popping out almost all
the time now, and it was.
They actually divided the Bibleinto paragraphs, even though we
already had chapters.
(17:21):
So, like you see some of yourBibles they have, they actually
put the verses in paragraph formand instead of having the first
, the first number at thebeginning of the left indent
you'll see the numbers like inthe middle, middle of the
paragraph, the middle of the.
(17:41):
Uh, what does they call that?
Middle of the justification?
So there's no, there's no.
How do I?
How do I explain this?
So they have the in the KingJames Version you have a verse
and Nicodemus came and Jesussaid Verily, verily, I stand to
thee that the man be born of thewater of the Spirit and I see
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the kingdom of God, period, andthe rest of that line is space.
The next verse when Nicodemusasks about if he's going to come
back and reenter his mother'swomb.
Again, that's a whole new line,whereas in the American
Standard Version, that nextverse, there is no space.
(18:26):
At the end of the kingdom ofGod, there is no space.
You just go right into the nextconcept, right into the next
verse.
Now, that took about 15 years,15 years to do.
Then we went and we came up.
Because that wasn't good enough, we came up with the Revised
(18:48):
Standard Version.
This was done around 1930, 1929,1930, and I believe that one
was copyrighted and that wastransferred to the Council
called the InternationalReligious Council.
I believe it's InternationalCouncil of Religious Education.
(19:10):
Yeah, that sounds about right.
And that body had 40 majorProtestant denominations.
Again, what did I say that wasdifferent from all the other
versions?
Denomination, which means youare taking something away from
the name to make your own church, and that's why it's wrong.
(19:32):
And we're going to go back andwe're going to revisit
denominations anyway, becauseit's not so.
That council appointed therewas a committee of scholars and
they were coming from seminariesand universities and what they
did was they revised thestandard version, which was done
in 1925.
(19:52):
Sorry, 1905.
Now that revised standardversion was published in 1946.
And there is a liberal theologyin that Bible.
Like we see the translation ofthe word virgin, a lot of
liberal translations in there.
(20:13):
So for that purpose Iparticularly use King James
Version, because when you startseeing denominations and stuff
having something to do withtranslation, something got in
there, something's going to getin there that is not in the
original text.
(20:33):
It's going to be somebody'sfeelings, which means that some
of the meanings of the word isgoing to be softened up.
I don't want to know thatthere's a softer meaning of the
word hell.
I'm not saying there is, butI'm just using this to draw a
point.
Know that there's a softermeaning of the word hell.
I'm not saying there is, butI'm just using this to draw a
point.
If it's hell, I want to knowit's hot and I want to know
(20:54):
eternity is long and I want toknow there's a way to avoid it.
Repent and be baptized, notanything else.
Right, right.
So there are um, uh versionsthat I would recommend, if
you're asking me, because thatwas also part of the question um
(21:17):
, king James Version Amplified.
Um me personally, I am reallystarting to like the New Living
Translation.
Um, and I probably you knowit's one of those things where I
kind to like the New LivingTranslation and I probably you
know it's one of those thingswhere I kind of like the
(21:38):
translation, until, all of asudden, I don't.
But if anything, I have neverhad a problem with King James
Version.
The Bible has to stand true tothe things, rather than some of
these other translations.
Some people use translations bythe name of Moffat or Weymouth,
but it's always good to havedifferent versions of these
Bibles, even if you don't usethem, because there's a
(22:03):
denomination out there.
I'm not going to name it byname.
They literally changed it inorder to fit their theology and
if you're not familiar with it,it will completely destroy you
if you are not versed on it.
And that particularorganization.
They changed down one and oneand all of a sudden you have
(22:26):
four or five or six, seven godsrunning around, and that's not
good, right.
So, again, keep your main go-tosword as King James Version,
only because I don't want theBible that I'm reading to have
any denominational slant to it,because Jesus never preached
(22:49):
anything about denominations.
He never did.
He never did.
So, that being said, we'regoing to wrap this up.
I hope I know I went throughthis very fast.
I know I did.
If you have questions, feel freeEmail me, walkwithmebiblestudy
at email.
Again, if it ends up being along question or a long answer,
(23:15):
oh yeah, absolutely, I'll justdo another episode on it.
I love doing this, I lovetalking about this.
We may go into and I think Iwill some of the um, some of the
contradictions, and and goahead and send me a yes.
That's all you got to do issend me a yes in the subject
(23:36):
line.
If you want me to go into thecontradiction, uh, and we will,
we'll go right into it.
But I thank you all for joiningand listening and being patient.
Um hope you learned somethingas much as I did by trying to
nail down this timeline of howwe got that wonderful word of
God.
If you have any questions again, email me, comment, email me,
(23:58):
walk with me Bible study orleave a comment on some of the
social medias.
I love each and every one ofyou.
Till next time.
Tell somebody you love them,tell somebody that God loves
them.
It may be the only positivething that they hear today.
All right, god bless you.
Bye-bye.
Hello everybody, welcome to today's episode of
Walk With Me.
I am your host, jj.
So good, so good, so good tohave each and every one of you
here.
Thank you all for the likes andshares.
Thank you all for the feedback.
I really do appreciate it, evenif listen, like I told you.
I tell you guys often, even ifit's bad feedback, I appreciate
(00:21):
it, or let's not say bad, maybeif it'sconstructive, but that's
okay, all feedback isappreciated.
I love your questions.
As a matter of fact, today wewill be dealing with part two of
a question that was sent to theemail address, which is
walkwithmebiblestudy at gmail.
Walkwithmebiblestudy at gmail.
(00:43):
And it was such an involvedquestion.
I knew that being able to typethat out was going to be a book
by itself.
So we're just going to gothrough with it and answer the
questions.
But before we do that, gottatake care of housekeeping.
Big shout out to bars andlyricists for the intro and the
(01:04):
outro.
Exquisite Creations, iron GateMinistries and also Wise Care
for Kinfolk yes, that's going tobe the name of the new sponsor,
and we will go ahead and takecare of that.
We will go jump right into itbecause they still have a lot of
(01:26):
ground to cover.
Um, I think, if I remembercorrectly, we left off on Miles
Coverdale.
Now what Miles Coverdale?
Uh?
And just to recap, uh, we weretalking about where did the
Bible come from?
Now I get it.
When we talk about where theBible comes from, now I get it.
When we talk about where theBible comes from, everybody
(01:47):
always says, oh, it was writtenby man, and that makes it
fallible and that makes it falseand it makes all these things,
but it still makes it true.
So we have to be very carefulthat we make sure that we
understand that it's true.
The Bible is true, not becauseof the paper that or the binder
that it's in, but the words onthe pages were inspired by God,
(02:10):
even if they were written by man.
So it's just one of thosethings that we kind of struggle
with as Christians, becausepeople who don't believe say,
hey, that book was written byman, which is kind of ironic
when you think about it, becauseyeah, the Bible was penned by
(02:30):
man, but so was the science book, and a typical science book,
especially when you're talkingabout evolution, has so many
contradictions in it it doesn'teven make sense Math books were
written by man, but peoplefollow them, people believe in
them, people subscribe to them.
So there's no reason why weshould have a new found sense of
(02:57):
doubt when it comes to theBible, even because it was
penned by man.
Those men were inspired of holymen.
So it's just not feasible anargument that we talk about the
validity of the Bible,especially when you can figure
(03:17):
out that that Bible has beenwritten over thousands of years
and translated over thousands ofyears and still can't find a
contradiction in it.
There are a couple words thatwere mistranslated, like the
word Easter in chapter 12 and 4.
That word should not be there.
That word should be passive,which is Passover.
(03:39):
We're not going to get off intothe woods the weeds.
We're not going to get off intothe woods the weeds.
But yes, there's nocontradiction in the Bible if
you take everything in context.
When you start taking thingsout of context, oh yeah, it's
going to have a contradiction.
Okay, so we're going to pick upwhere we left off the whole
(04:02):
Bible.
The first time the entire Biblewas printed actually was printed
in English.
The first time it was printedin English was in around 1535 by
this Miles Covertine, and theBible was still an undercover
thing.
It was undercover.
(04:24):
In other words, the RomanCatholic organization did not
want the Bible to be in thehands of common people.
They did not want, and thereare a lot of schools of thought
of this, but I have my own thatI will not repeat here because
(04:45):
that starts a whole new processand that's not the answer.
I don't want to get off intothe weeds of this, but we're
still dealing with it Right.
So after Miles covered, it,finally got the entire bible
printed in england.
(05:06):
There was king, king henry theeighth.
Now we have all heard aboutking henry the eighth.
That man was a wicked man.
He was not very godly at all.
So just because I'm about totell you this next thing, I
don't want you to think that JJSteele and King Henry VIII was
great, not even in the slightest.
(05:28):
But there was a another guy bythe name of Thomas Cromwell that
somehow convinced Henry VIII togrant a license to be able to
issue this Bible.
That was in English Now.
(05:48):
This was done by John Rogersand it was called the Matthews
Bible.
It was very, very, veryunpopular.
And the reason why it wasunpopular?
Because the comments, what washappening, was he would have the
Bible written in English, butthen in the margins and all over
(06:09):
the scriptures, he was puttingout things that was against the
Roman Catholic organization.
So that was very unpopular,because by then the Inquisition
had been in full swing, peoplehad converted to Catholicism.
And now here comes this bookwith the Bible which basically
tells by then the Inquisitionhad been in full swing, people
had converted to Catholicism,and now here comes this book
with the Bible which basicallytells you that you're not
(06:30):
believing in the right thing,right?
So in 1539, there was a retreadthat was brought by Coverdell
and the others, without themarginal comment.
King Henry VIII was like okay,we'll work with it.
And that became the firstauthorized version.
Now we're talking about KingHenry, not King James.
(06:52):
But this was called thequote-unquote Great Bible
because how big it was.
And King Henry decided that itshould be in every parish church
and chained to the pulpit sopeople could come and hear the
Word of God and you could seesomebody reading it.
(07:12):
You could even go up andactually take a look at the
pages and forget the fact thatyou had about a 6% chance of
being able to read.
You could actually see words,but you couldn't take it home
because it was chained to thepulpit.
However, the next thing thathappened because God is not
(07:33):
locked, god is going to do whathe wants to do In 1560, a
version called the Geneva Bibleappeared, and it was done by the
Protestants.
And this is talking about Geneva, switzerland.
This is where this all started,and this was translated from
the original Greek and Hebrew.
(07:55):
It was smaller in size ratherthan this big thing that was
like a.
It was like the Almost.
The old one was like the oldcompact desktop tower that's how
big it was.
But this one was smaller and itbecame popular because you
could start carrying it around.
You still can read it, but youcan carry it.
(08:17):
And this is the Bible that wasmade popular by Shakespeare.
Cromwell, john Bunyan and thepilgrims brought it to America.
Now it's important to this,important to understand this
version, this Geneva Bible,because this is where the first
division into verses appears.
(08:39):
So before we had the guy thatjust translated into chapters,
but it still became kind oftedious if you wanted to know a
particular thing about what wassaid.
So that's when they startedbreaking it down into verses.
Basically, every sentence got anumber within the chapter and
(09:03):
it used what was called theRoman type, what we have in our
word processing program likeWord, open Office and things
like that.
It had the Roman type so youcould make it more easily read
for people who could read.
And it was also the first Bibleand this is very important.
(09:27):
It was the first Bible to useitalic for the words translators
added.
So when you're reading yourBible you go along, you see a
word that's italicized.
It's because the translatorsadded that word.
And the reason why they addedthat word because without that
word the sentence would, wouldbe, would make a little bit less
(09:49):
sense because they're actuallytranslating it from the Hebrew
and the Greek into English andthe English language is kind of
backwards and upside downlanguage that I know of, that I
can have studied.
Adjectives usually go behindthe word.
So if we see a beautiful girl,we English put the word
(10:22):
beautiful in front of girlbecause that's the adjective,
but in most other languages itwould be girl beautiful, which
makes absolutely no sense to us,but to them it makes sense
abatuelas, negro, black beans.
You don't think so?
Negro being black, abatuelasbeing beans, and apparently
(10:44):
there's a whole bunch ofdifferent words for being
without.
I don't want to go down thatroad and get off into those
weeds.
But because of that and thewords being translated not
making a lot of sense, sometimesthey would add words to it that
didn't appear in the originalGreek or Hebrew text.
Now, in 1582, the Roman Catholicdecided they were going to get
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into the translation business.
So they translated the NewTestament at Reims and then they
translated the Old Testament atDouai.
Now this includes the Apocrypha, which was translated from the
Latin Vulgate, but it had a lotof errors, a lot of mess-ups.
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Now, what is the Apocrypha?
A lot of people use that termand I will admit that when I
first heard that I was like, ah,that's some garbage.
But the Apocrypha is 14 booksthat included the Roman Catholic
Bible and are not present inthe Protestant Bible because
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scriptures are self-containedand absolutely complete, with
nothing lacking.
In the Protestant Bible.
There was nothing lacking, butthey added stuff to it anyway.
There's no reference to theApocrypha in the New Testament.
There are warnings againstadding to this Bible, like in
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Moses, deuteronomy 4-2, solomon30-6,.
John had warned about adding toit.
So Moses, solomon and Johnadded warnings.
They put warnings in therebecause God was telling them
don't add anything to this Bible.
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So when they put those warningsin there.
When you start bringing theApocrypha in there, it's like I
just didn't even want to learnabout it.
But apparently this isimportant to learn about Because
you got to know when peoplestart throwing random books at
you it's not in the Bible, likewe have Song of Solomon, but
then there's another Solomonbook floating around out there
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that somebody wrote and thatbook is weird.
I'm telling you that book'sweird.
So I'm off in the weeds again.
So I'm off in the weeds again.
Now.
This Apocrypha is notacknowledged by any Orthodox Jew
or any Christian church.
I'm just telling you.
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It's not acknowledged as beinginspired.
It has so many errors, itcontradicts so much of the Word
of God and you can't trace hisorigins.
And there's a lot of legendarystuff in there too.
Like somebody said, there's abook of Enoch out there that
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doesn't make sense Historicalerrors that literally look like
somebody was sitting in theirbasement and wrote it out from
imagination.
So that's why it's not reallyrecognized as part of the Bible
canon, so to speak.
Now, now we finally get to oneversion we know and love.
It is King James Version.
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We finally got here An episodeand a half, but we finally got
to King James Version.
We finally got here An episodeand a half and we finally got to
King James Version.
But this happened in 1611.
And this is the version thatmost of us who speak English as
a primary language.
This is the one we use.
47 people, 47 scholars,actually went back to the
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earlier version, weeded out someof the errors and properly
translated other things andwords and brought them into this
new version.
Now they went back and gotancient Greek texts, hebrew
texts, and consulted with peoplewho spoke those languages
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fluently to try to get the besttranslation possible.
And that version of the Biblewas the Bible for about 370
years, 370 years, so you take1611, that's when the King James
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Version appeared, 1611, and 375years get about 1980.
But we are going to not getthere just yet.
In 1881, there was a bunch ofother scholars, about a hundred
of them, from ten differentdenominations.
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Now wait a minute.
What did I just say?
That was different from everyother translation of the Bible.
That's right.
In the other translations ofthe Bible nobody said anything
about denominations.
So somewhere between 1611 and1881 we ended up with a whole
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bunch of denominations.
That means Somebody was addingsomething that they shouldn't
have and we talked about thatbefore and I'd be more than
happy to revisit it.
But so 100 scholars fromdifferent denominations in
England and America worked on anew Bible, new translation of
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the Bible.
It took them about 10 years andit's called the Revised Version
.
So you have the King JamesVersion.
King James Revised Version.
It's not the New King JamesVersion.
King James Revised Version it'snot the New King James Version.
That's a totally different.
That's a smaller, smallerversion.
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By smaller I mean a newer, lessdifferent version of the King
James Version.
Okay, but this is called theRevised Version.
Now the American StandardVersion Came right after that,
in 1905.
Now you start to seeDevelopments happen very quickly
.
American Standard Version thistook about 15 years.
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So this basically started Rightabout the time they had
finished the Revised Version.
So you see these again.
You see these versions poppingout Almost all the time they had
finished the revised version.
So you see again, you see theseversions popping out almost all
the time now, and it was.
They actually divided the Bibleinto paragraphs, even though we
already had chapters.
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So, like you see some of yourBibles they have, they actually
put the verses in paragraph formand instead of having the first
, the first number at thebeginning of the left indent
you'll see the numbers like inthe middle, middle of the
paragraph, the middle of the.
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Uh, what does they call that?
Middle of the justification?
So there's no, there's no.
How do I?
How do I explain this?
So they have the in the KingJames Version you have a verse
and Nicodemus came and Jesussaid Verily, verily, I stand to
thee that the man be born of thewater of the Spirit and I see
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the kingdom of God, period, andthe rest of that line is space.
The next verse when Nicodemusasks about if he's going to come
back and reenter his mother'swomb.
Again, that's a whole new line,whereas in the American
Standard Version, that nextverse, there is no space.
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At the end of the kingdom ofGod, there is no space.
You just go right into the nextconcept, right into the next
verse.
Now, that took about 15 years,15 years to do.
Then we went and we came up.
Because that wasn't good enough, we came up with the Revised
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Standard Version.
This was done around 1930, 1929,1930, and I believe that one
was copyrighted and that wastransferred to the Council
called the InternationalReligious Council.
I believe it's InternationalCouncil of Religious Education.
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Yeah, that sounds about right.
And that body had 40 majorProtestant denominations.
Again, what did I say that wasdifferent from all the other
versions?
Denomination, which means youare taking something away from
the name to make your own church, and that's why it's wrong.
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And we're going to go back andwe're going to revisit
denominations anyway, becauseit's not so.
That council appointed therewas a committee of scholars and
they were coming from seminariesand universities and what they
did was they revised thestandard version, which was done
in 1925.
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Sorry, 1905.
Now that revised standardversion was published in 1946.
And there is a liberal theologyin that Bible.
Like we see the translation ofthe word virgin, a lot of
liberal translations in there.
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So for that purpose Iparticularly use King James
Version, because when you startseeing denominations and stuff
having something to do withtranslation, something got in
there, something's going to getin there that is not in the
original text.
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It's going to be somebody'sfeelings, which means that some
of the meanings of the word isgoing to be softened up.
I don't want to know thatthere's a softer meaning of the
word hell.
I'm not saying there is, butI'm just using this to draw a
point.
Know that there's a softermeaning of the word hell.
I'm not saying there is, butI'm just using this to draw a
point.
If it's hell, I want to knowit's hot and I want to know
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eternity is long and I want toknow there's a way to avoid it.
Repent and be baptized, notanything else.
Right, right.
So there are um, uh versionsthat I would recommend, if
you're asking me, because thatwas also part of the question um
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, king James Version Amplified.
Um me personally, I am reallystarting to like the New Living
Translation.
Um, and I probably you knowit's one of those things where I
kind to like the New LivingTranslation and I probably you
know it's one of those thingswhere I kind of like the
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translation, until, all of asudden, I don't.
But if anything, I have neverhad a problem with King James
Version.
The Bible has to stand true tothe things, rather than some of
these other translations.
Some people use translations bythe name of Moffat or Weymouth,
but it's always good to havedifferent versions of these
Bibles, even if you don't usethem, because there's a
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denomination out there.
I'm not going to name it byname.
They literally changed it inorder to fit their theology and
if you're not familiar with it,it will completely destroy you
if you are not versed on it.
And that particularorganization.
They changed down one and oneand all of a sudden you have
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four or five or six, seven godsrunning around, and that's not
good, right.
So, again, keep your main go-tosword as King James Version,
only because I don't want theBible that I'm reading to have
any denominational slant to it,because Jesus never preached
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anything about denominations.
He never did.
He never did.
So, that being said, we'regoing to wrap this up.
I hope I know I went throughthis very fast.
I know I did.
If you have questions, feel freeEmail me, walkwithmebiblestudy
at email.
Again, if it ends up being along question or a long answer,
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oh yeah, absolutely, I'll justdo another episode on it.
I love doing this, I lovetalking about this.
We may go into and I think Iwill some of the um, some of the
contradictions, and and goahead and send me a yes.
That's all you got to do issend me a yes in the subject
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line.
If you want me to go into thecontradiction, uh, and we will,
we'll go right into it.
But I thank you all for joiningand listening and being patient.
Um hope you learned somethingas much as I did by trying to
nail down this timeline of howwe got that wonderful word of
God.
If you have any questions again, email me, comment, email me,
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walk with me Bible study orleave a comment on some of the
social medias.
I love each and every one ofyou.
Till next time.
Tell somebody you love them,tell somebody that God loves
them.
It may be the only positivething that they hear today.
All right, god bless you.
Bye-bye.
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