Messiah Iesu the son of God commanded in John Chap. ij. :
.."make not my father's house, an house of merchandise."
If you are shopping for a new Bible, your choices are mind-boggling. At
first I said like Paul wrote:
"What thing is this? Notwithstanding by all manner ways, whether it be
by occasion or of truth, yet Christ is preached: and therefore I joy.
Yee and will joy." (Philippians j.)
Even so, thorow much research and thanks to the guidance of the spirit
of God who leads to truth, that is, His son Christ Iesu our health;
firstly asking God by prayer and fasting, for wisdom in Iesus name; it
must be said in desire of the pure Word, that one will come to the
realization that over the years there have been many divers revisions
of the Scriptures, some of which under the guise of wordily scholarship
and "the modernizing the languages" have watered down the message and
introduced errors proceeding from deviant manuscripts, from doctrines
of men, and from over simplification of the English or given language.
May the spirit of God deliver us from any strong delusion, and keep us
in the alleviating reality of the truth, specially at this Laodicean
hour.
'So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing cometh by the word of
God.'(Romans x.)
Instead of revising "forward" towards modernism and employing modern
scholarship, textual criticism, and the like; it has been my intention
to go "back" and restore the pure message from the proven root. Yea, a
root that was tried in the fire like gold and grew to immense
proportions in likeness of a great tree yielding it's fruit in due
season. For it's history of good fruit speaks for itself. Therefore, I
believe that only when we allow the witness of the spirit of truth in
our hearts to have the last word regarding translation, can we then
come to the truth or reality of the matter.
'Study to shew thyself laudable unto God, a workman that needeth not to
be ashamed, dividing the word of truth justly.' Second Timothy ij.
Diligence and great reverence to God must be taken when studying the
Scriptures; like those noble of Berea in Acts xvij. 'which received the
word with all diligence of mind, and searched the scriptures daily
whether those things were even so.' And it must 'BEREAD' in mind that
even if we were to all learn the original tongue to perfection and
could obtain a flawless manuscript of the original text, there would
still be a humanly insurmountable language barrier between us and the
truth that can only be bridged by the spirit of God.
'For with thee is the fountain of life: and in thy light shall we see
light.' (Psalm xxxvj.)