I recently posted on the fact that it’s hard to find people nowadays who are hungry for Scriptural accuracy. Maybe I should clarify: some of the most vehement “Bible-believers” have got it all wrong. They search the Bible for verses that they can take out of context in order to condemn others or glorify their own position. I do not condone this.

If anyone ever claims that any one translation is right and all the others wrong (ie the KJV, NIV, Good News Bible, etc), you may summarily discount anything else they have to say. The Bible was not written in English, nor did God write it with fallacies that would only be cleansed of x-many translations. It was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, and the best way for us to truly understand the word would be to become anthropologists, historians, and fluent speakers of the ancient forms of those languages. As this is not going to happen, I recommend that those trying to make any theological statements from the Word of God look at a few translations, as well as one or more of the many wonderful commentaries written by anthropologists, historians, and students of those languages.

I am not claiming that everything they say will be untrue (indeed, many things they say will be true). I just recommend that you get it from another source who’s willing to get a better, broader look at the Word.