Amen to this. Does any one besides the self important pseudo intellectuals translating modern versions of the Scriptures really think they know more about Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew than guys who spoke it fluently and had conversations and discussions with it such as St. Jerome and the Hebrew Scholars he talked with?
“Oh I get it they got it wrong and now we know from translation XIX or whatever this is what they meant.”
REALLY MAN! How arrogant and/or naive are you?
When I was in Baghdad, I had access to every intelligence report you could get your hands on, and on occasion I would be on a team designated to roll up HVI’s on TST missions. I come back and hear the so called experts on TV (not those actually in the military but reporters who claim to be ‘experts’) and they are so clueless as to be funny.
Sad part is, people listen to them and think they are informed. I see a definite parallel here. The only reason some of these guys take the most obscure renderings of scripture (typically ones shuffled aside not meant to be used but preserved because they were not used…) is to cast doubt on the understanding of the one true church, and to call into question its authority so either to try to implement some new heresy, or outright deny the Son of Man(a-theism or agnosticism).
And speaking of awkward, the NAB is dumbed down, supposedly for easier useage, but Id take the NASB over that thing any day of the week. That thing changes things it need not and then adds stuff that is overly descriptive where it shouldn’t be and its just horrible. It has no flow and is more clumsy than a newborn giraffe. How in the hell did that thing become the official translation of the Church in the US? Some one had an agenda, and it WAS NOT for the good of the Church.
