(September 7, 2013 at 6:43 pm)tokutter Wrote:(September 7, 2013 at 11:02 am)Godschild Wrote: To whom are you speaking?
I was talking to Drich..unless I'm screwed up here (wouldn't be the first)...but you can answer to if you want.
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I was curious, didn't know if you were speaking to an individual or most Christians. I use the New American Standard Version for serious study, I use the English Standard Version for quicker references and to compare the wording of translations, I have a New International Version with tons of notes in it from sermons and other studies, I'm currently reading a chronological study Bible that's a New Living Translation, to do a reading from being to end. It is a translation that is very modern, yet accurate and easier to understand for daily living. The NASV is the best translation and why I use it for studying, I will compare all against each other to make sure one is not out of line with the others. I have a King James Version but, since I do not do well with Old English and some words in Hebrew and Greek were uncertain at the time of it's translation I rarely use it. If someone can read the King James old English well I would rather hear it read than any other, it seems to flow very well. I have a couple others that rarely get used now.

God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.