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J_Edwards said:
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JoeK said,

But I believe the translations we have today are inspired.
Uhmm, since ALL the translations DO NOT agree with one another then how can they ALL be inspired? How can they ALL be “the” TRUTH, if they say DIFFERENT things at SAME points? Are you ascertaining that you serve a dysfunctional god now who can not make up his mind which translation to go with on any given day, or do you serve a HOLY God that only has one TRUTH?

Joe, Perhaps I should have said most? If not, what translation should we use? Are you a KJV only? I agree that some are terrible. But there are many that are good.

One of the biggest lies in modern day Christianity, is that the Bible is only inspired in the original papers written on. But since the originals do not exist,and noone has seen them we are left with additional doctrinal standards, ie confessions, of which man has made himself the final authority.

IF you admit that the Bible is only inspired in the original Hebrew/Greek, then this makes God a respector of persons, since people that have been dead for thousands of years were the only ones privy to this info.

WHen the Bible is only inspired in the original tongue, then we common lay people, have to go to those who know, or better yet, claim to know the original tongue, and they become the final authority.

SO to answer your inane question, I worship a God who providentially has kept His Holy Word alive and understandable to to plowman as well as the scholar. And all "faithful" translations are inspired.

There never was a sinner half as big as Christ is as a Savior.