Help! Good Christian Bible Wanted!

[Khalid]

I have a correction to make to the above post.

“Mighty wind” is the second most incorrect rendering I’ve ever seen of the phrase. The worst is “God’s active force”. Each one is half-right: the NAB gets the “wind” part, which is a B or C grade choice out of BDAG in the context (remember, I’m reading from the Rahlf’s LXX, but everything I’ve read tells me the point holds for the Hebrew, and even more so for the Latin from the Clementine and Nova Vulgatae that I have here); the NWT gets the “God” part right.

However, even though the NWT gets one word completely right (God), and the NAB gets neither word completely right, the NWT is far more misleading theologically: it doesn’t remove a Trinitarian reference, but warps it. Neither rendering is acceptable.

It says something that one has to get a cult-translated and -published version of the Bible to find a rendering worse than the NAB. Think of how a Jack Chick Protestant would feel upon opening the cover of an NAB/RE, and reading the first two verses of Genesis: he would feel justified, saying, “Aha! They do mistranslate the scripture!” and believe it was purposeful. The NAB does the greatest harm to the first two verses of Genesis of any Bible that is widely distributed, and nearly as great harm to even the worst mistranslations.
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It’s not ecumenical, it’s not Catholic, it’s not linguistically accurate, it’s just wrong.**

 

[Jerry-Jet]

My Litmus test on bibles is 2 Corinthians 2:10. If the verse reads “In the presence of Christ” instead of “In the person of Christ” I say don’t buy it!

This verse separates what a real Catholic bible should be. Oddly enough the KJV reads “In the person of Christ”–even the Reformation heretics knew that “In the person of Christ” was correct!

That will limit ones choices to either Confraternity New Testament Bibles–Knox New Testament Bibles or Douay Rheims New Testament Bibles.

Confraternity New Testaments are an improvement over Douay Rheims New Testaments–even though sometimes Douay Rheims New Testaments are better.

Knox New Testaments are nice but sometimes Knox just makes things up.

Now if the least inaccurate New Testament is the Confraternity New Testament–what Confraternity New Testament bibles have the best Old Testament and the best Psalms with them?

Well you don’t want the NAB monstrosity–you want “A virgin will conceive” and “in the beginning God”.

Which leaves you with the decision of the best Psalms. I say the Bea Psalter or "New Latin Psalms authorized by Pope Pius XII in English would be better than all the modern junk currently available,

Which leaves you with not a perfect bible but the least inaccurate bible out there being The Confraternity New Teastament with the Douay Rheims Challoner Old Testament–and an English translation of the New Latin Psalms authorized by Pope Pius XII and translated by the Pontifical Bilical Commission in 1945.

This combination bible was published between 1949 and 1952 for the most part. It was only in 1953 and later that the Old Testament started to be revised into the NAB mosnstrosity!

They are the closest thing I know to a REAL Catholic Bible!

Pair that bible with a Catholic Commentary on Scripture by Orchard in the 50s and you will be all set to go!