RE: Funniest Christian Websites
March 3, 2014 at 7:59 am
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2014 at 8:14 am by xpastor.)
(March 2, 2014 at 11:01 am)FreeTony Wrote: This is amazing: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Sheesh! Does anyone know what their gripe is with the NIV? It's the most fundy-friendly modern translation available. It often fudges the translations to avoid letting the contradictions show through. In fact, they show through much better in the King James Version.
The content is so crazy too, e.g. "If you are using the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, and continue to do so after reading this article, then you are truly blinded by Satan, or just don't care." then "If I had a billion dollars, I'd make an offer to churches all across America. I'd exchange brand new King James Bibles for their perverted NIVs."
Checking through a few of their links, I couldn't find anything about the NIV bible. I did find one sermon slagging all modern translations because they use the Westcott-Hort Greek text, in other words a text based on a careful comparison of the oldest manuscripts. The author thinks they should have stuck to the old Textus Receptus, the best that was available in the day of King James, based on a few not-very-good manuscripts copied over and over again in the medieval period. Among other things, the modern translations (including NIV) suggest that the snake-handling passage at the end of Mark does not belong in the bible.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
