/lit/ - Literature

>>23512371
>If you're finding it difficult to read, though, then go with the New Revised Standard Version as it is the one most academics use.
I don't know why they would use it, it has terrible errors in it just like the NIV.

In Acts 20:28, for example, the NRSV put the phrase "the blood of His own Son" instead of "his own blood." This even though there is no mention of the word "son" in this verse. They just don't like the idea of God paying for the church with his own blood, because of the direct implications that Jesus is God. It's their bias creeping into the translation of the book of Acts.

Here's the KJV render of the verse:
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."

>>22571877
>God isn't small enough to need a devil
That's the way God chose according to the Biblical account. See the mention by Jesus of the devil in the context of this passage.

"After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you.
15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven."
-Luke 10:1-20

>>22531556
You could just realize that they are a cult anon, and start listening and learning the word of God yourself. If you're unsaved, you have a need for a Savior and to hear and accept our Lord's Gospel, which is the Gospel of truth.

"But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
(Romans 10:8-9)

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
(John 3:16)

>>21372030
>Those verses are Jesus talking to people who didn't believe what he said to them in person, he isn't discussing the New Testament canon
The New Testament canon is the word of God, anon. Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is God manifest in the flesh, so when He refers to His word, He's referring to everything that is in the Lord's word. Simple as unironically.

>>20911828
See >>20907052

>Codex Vaticanus is older and more accurate IMO.
This doesn't have the Pastoral Epistles or Revelation, and is missing huge chunks of other books as well.

I believe we have the originals because of what Christ said in many places in the Bible, both the Old Testament and the New Testament. For instance in Luke 16 it says, "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." (Luke 16:17). And in Matthew 4, "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (Matt. 4:4)

Since every word of God is important, and since we know faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17), and that every jot and tittle will be preserved (Matt. 5:18) and the Scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35), what that tells me is that God will never fail to preserve His word that He inspired. Now for people who don't believe in the inspiration of the word of God, they might disagree with that, but then why are they arguing which Bible that believers should use? It seems a little backwards, don't you think? Or perhaps malicious?