Toxic Bibles - New International Version (NIV) Part 2

[jschuiling]

Who claims that there are inerrant translations? You're clearly not reading the Bible or doing any real exegesis, you're just doing word counts.

[tentmaker777]

Who claims that there are inerrant translations? Just about every pastor I ever met, that's who. When you say "You're clearly not reading the Bible, etc" you clearly don't know what you are talking about. But then that's typical.

[jschuiling]

Perhaps a fraction of the already small number of KJV-Only Fundamentalists (Riplinger, etc) will assert such, but even the most staunchly conservative and orthodox scholars and ministers recognize that translations can very easily contain editorial errors and poor translations in places. If this were not the case then no one would ever refer to the original languages, which any minister worth his ordination does frequently, knowing that all translations are to be tested by the Hebrew and Greek.

[macpduff]

1611 had the Apocrypha? Would it be reasonable to believe that the American Pilgrims and Puritans carried bibles that contained books now only found in Catholic (maybe Orthodox?) bibles?

Who authorized the removal of these books from the King James?

[Matur1n]

Everyone should use multiple translations. The NIV is one of the best, but don't rely on any alone.