I already explained that. Go back a few posts.
I’m afraid you didn’t, Tb
. You explained why you think Jesus used the word ‘hate’. This says nothing about the context in which He used the word ‘hate’. Are you sure you know what Biblical context
is? In the ancient world, the word
hate did not necessarily carry the negative tone that it does today. So, the context is the word usage of people 2000 years ago.
The KJV is still understandable and valid. I prefer it just as I like the Gleanings style of prose. If I don’t understand the KJV I can look at a more modern translation such as the NIV, and if I don’t understand what Baha’u’llah meant by what He wrote there are other sources I can look at.
It is not valid because it is not a good translation, and is less understandable than, for example. the ESV. Which is readable and literally accurate. The language of any book is deficient if it is not as clearly understood and natural-sounding to the modern reader as the original meaning of the text was to the original readers. I work with college students and have first-hand experience of this fact. The modern reader should be able to see, as directly as possible, the structure and meaning of the original.
They are not superfluous to me because they are far more sophisticated than anything Jesus ever wrote and they contain some new information. That is what happens whenever God sends a new Messenger, that Messenger reveals new information that can be added to what was revealed before, written in a way that is suited to the intellectual capacities of humans living in the age in which it was revealed.
LOL! Wisdom and Love beat ‘sophistication’ any day…
But what
is this ‘new information’-- do you have some examples?
Google search: What is the most accurate translation of the Bible in the world? The King James Version is the world's most widely known Bible translation, using early seventeenth-century English. Its powerful, majestic style has made it a literary classic, with many of its phrases and expressions embedded in our language.
Widely known does not mean widely read or widely understood.
They are not superfluous to me because they are far more sophisticated than anything Jesus ever wrote and they contain some new information. That is what happens whenever God sends a new Messenger, that Messenger reveals new information that can be added to what was revealed before, written in a way that is suited to the intellectual capacities of humans living in the age in which it was revealed.
So why is the message written in 17th century English?
That argument will not work either, because other people can understand it and if they don’t understand it they ask me what it means.
I see.
You are the interpreter. Right..
Continuing to do that is all for naught, because the Dispensation of Jesus was abrogated by the Dispensation of Baha’u’llah.
There is only One God, Tb. He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Did you know that the word ‘abrogate’ can mean ‘to avoid responsibility’. That is very telling.
The following was written by one of the two interpreters that Baha’u’llah appointed, in plain English.
“A Revelation, hailed as the promise and crowning glory of past ages and centuries, as the consummation of all the Dispensations within the Adamic Cycle, inaugurating an era of at least a thousand years’ duration, and a cycle destined to last no less than five thousand centuries, signalizing the end of the Prophetic Era and the beginning of the Era of Fulfillment, unsurpassed alike in the duration of its Author’s ministry and the fecundity and splendor of His mission—such a Revelation was, as already noted, born amidst the darkness of a subterranean dungeon in Tihrán—an abominable pit that had once served as a reservoir of water for one of the public baths of the city.” God Passes By, p. 100
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/GPB/gpb-7.html
You call this ‘plain English’, Tb? I’m sorry, but this is tortured prose, dense and badly constructed. I am very surprised you can’t see this.
Who ensured that the
interpreters’ writing would not be misconstrued?
To each his or her own. It is much easier to find something in the few pages of the Hidden Words than to go hunting in the Bible hoping I will find what I am looking for, someday.
LOL! You don’t have to ‘go hunting’ for answers, Tb. The treasure is the whole message, Genesis to Revelation, not in little bits and pieces of information. When one looks at a beautiful landscape painting one doesn’t focus on just one tree.