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Comment by Vitaly Van Deusen on November 10, 2013 at 6:07pm

@Gumbo123: You are entitled to your opinion, but I personally like the NIV because it helps new believers understand the meaning behind the Old English that KJV uses. Please don't insult other version by calling them "perversions". You have your own preference, I have mine. In the end, all that matters is if we are saved through Christ. We are all children of God and to put down a person for reading a different version of the Bible than you think is the best is just rude. The text used to spell "GENESIS" are the first chapters that could fit fully into the word from the book of Genesis. I put this photo up to show that I can do text in text, not as a religious thing. Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship with my Father in Heaven, whom without, I wouldn't be sitting at my computer typing this.

K-Mod Comment by Gumbo123 on November 10, 2013 at 6:01pm

@Nitzan --- the text used in this pic is not the literal translation from the ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. It is a modern day "perversion" that not only loses most of the power and majesty of the phrasing but also much of the true meaning of the scriptures. For myself I choose to read, study and take direction from no other than the King James Version (KJV) and would never recommend anything less to any believer. I also like cross-referencing to the Greek and/or Hebrew to dig deeper into the true context of scripture . . . HUGE difference between AGAPE and PHILEO kinds of love but unfortunately in English the language is sit always so distinct

Comment by Nitzan (Waffletoast) on November 10, 2013 at 7:45am

I've never noticed how weak genesis (and persumably the entire bible) is in english. I know the hebrew version of the bible, and it's all with very iconic and powerful writing style, and the english version sounds like someone could have easiely written it today. also, there aren't any secret meanings (at least not any that I can find) in the english version, one example of those would be that in hebrew "the surface of the deep" is one word, "tehom", which probably comes from Tiamet, the babylonian god of chaos and the sea, which implies the overpowering of god over the babylonian gods (which is technically blasphemy, but the are many exaples of blasphemy in the bible)

i can go on and on, and I realize this comment is pretty useless but I felt like babbling for a minute.