Bible Study Beware new translation — Pure Word New Testament

[JLB]

Beware “The Pure Word” New Testament!

There are way too many English Bible translations and way too many people claiming – as in this case – to have the very best guide to its interpretation. These are the stars that I sail…

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What they claim to do and what they have actually done are two different things. They claim to have (at long last!) gone back to the original Greek to produce the perfect and pure paraphrase of the King James Version, one which they imply will cause the misunderstandings in the Christian church to evaporate! [see their video on their page] So Arminians and Calvinists, Baptists and Pentecostals will finally be able to see the light and shake hands all around!

Let the buyer beware of claims that a new key has finally, after 2000 years, unlocked the true hidden meaning of the Bible. That is why my stomach clenched when the first thing I saw was “The Pure Word is an unprecedented New Testament resource, over 20-years in the making, that reveals the original Koine-Greek depths-of-meaning from the time of Christ…[allowing the reader to] experience deeper scriptural meaning that has never before been achievable in English.” Oh, and their claim that all, 100%, of Bible translations are “riddled with inaccuracies that never referenced the original Greek scriptures” and “incredibly rarely did they ever go back and look at even of the few original Greek words. Never mind this project which took over 20 years and a major scholarly group looking at every single word in the Greek.”

This last statement is either incredible hubris or simply a complete lack of awareness of what English Bible translators have been doing in the original languages for the past 500 years! People who go around making such claims about their Bibles or Bible guides are on the fast track to Cultsville.



[UPDATE: a reader sent me some more information, which I was able to cross-reference with google. Says he: “In the video, Brent Miller endorses Mother Shipton, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, ancient Mayan and Incan prophets, human evolution, Darwinism, implies there are advanced civilizations buried in arctic ice or on the ocean floor that may be as old as one million years. He even mentions Bible prophecy a few times — mostly toward the end of the video. He has numerous New Age thinkers in the video, and there is a lot of pseudo-scientific jargon.” Gary: in fact, you can hear his 2007 presentation on the Coast-to-Coast-AM show with two princes of paranoid theories, Jerome Corsi and interviewer George Noury. In between UFO and Bigfoot alerts.]






JLB

 

[for_his_glory]

And that's why I choose to read and study from the KJV since I was a child and received my first Bible.

 

[LABrown]

I went through the three years of the milk understanding and the eleven years of the meat understanding purging my mind. And the only two versions of the bible that the Holy Spirit ever quoted to me from was the KJV and the NKJV.

 

[jasonc]

I can ask there prayer warrior for Hebrew in my church ,fluent in it as she is Jewish .

Koine Greek several elders know it .pastor is one ,also able read Hebrew .

I'm not much of a kjv purist and I can read middle English (Elizabethian English ) the kjv you read are the Cambridge edition,and or the older oxford edition .both over a century after 1611,1768,and the mid 1800s for the Cambridge.

Only 13 1611 were ever printed and all had the apochrphya .

Try reading old grave yard head stones with that era English or early American books.