Bible verse by verse

[_Samantabhadra]

I mean there are websites that have all those different versions. And at least LittleNipper started with all the different versions. Now he's only using one and it isn't even clear which one.

[_Tobin]

I mean there are websites that have all those different versions. And at least LittleNipper started with all the different versions. Now he's only using one and it isn't even clear which one.

Maybe it is the only "true" version of the Bible. Let's ask.

LittleNipper - why are you only quoting one version of the Bible to us now?

[_Albion]

Well everyone knows the KJV is the only true Bible.

[_Drifting]

Well everyone knows the KJV is the only true Bible.

Even the Nephites used it...

[_Albion]

Well even if they didn't read it much they certainly had the language down pat. Who knew that "reformed Egyptian" would translate nicely into outdated English.

[_LittleNipper]

I mean there are websites that have all those different versions. And at least LittleNipper started with all the different versions. Now he's only using one and it isn't even clear which one.

Maybe it is the only "true" version of the Bible. Let's ask.

LittleNipper - why are you only quoting one version of the Bible to us now?

I like Youngs Literal translation because it tends to have a peculiar way of interpretation that makes me see things from a slightly different perspective. Most people are aware of the King James and the NIV. the Living Bible is really paraphrasing. I am doing that already so that people see my vantage point, but if something is unclear to me , I will look at several translations to feel the consensus. I may change translations from time to time.

[_gdemetz]

Not Papa Joe's New Warped Evangelical Version which has just come out?! You should read it! I will quote a little from the Boob of James:

"What does it profit you if you say you have faith and don't have works, can that there faith save you? Of course, it can! I really don't know why I asked that silly question in the first place!"

"Faith is all a feller needs, and if you see a feller hungry and destitude (sic), just tell him to be warmed and filled, and by all means make that there perfesson (sic) of faith, and he will be good to go!"

[_LittleNipper]

Not Papa Joe's New Warped Evangelical Version which has just come out?! You should read it! I will quote a little from the Boob of James:

"What does it profit you if you say you have faith and don't have works, can that there faith save you? Of course, it can! I really don't know why I asked that silly question in the first place!"

"Faith is all a feller needs, and if you see a feller hungry and destitude (sic), just tell him to be warmed and filled, and by all means make that there perfesson (sic) of faith, and he will be good to go!"

By grace is a believer saved through faith ---- it is the gift of God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Works by faith reap rewards both here and in the afterlife. However, only through faith in Christ given by God is the believer saved from eternal separation.

[_LittleNipper]

Genesis 9:1-17 God tells Noah's family to have lots of children. The animals (both land and sea creatures) will not harm Noah and his family, as all creatures have been placed by God in Noah's family's control. At that time, all the herbs (as before the Flood) and also every living animal was given to Noah for food. However, Noah is warned not drink any blood. In the day blood is consumed, blood will required by the hand of every animal and other men. This warning only extends to man. Animals may have blood. AND, anyone who murders a man is to be executed by man. Man was made as a reflection of God (murder is an assult towards that reflection and insulting towards God). And God made a covenant towards the earth, all creatures, Noah and all his descendants. God placed a token in the clouds God had placed in the sky. That token being the rainbow, which is to appear for all ages, as a reminder that a worldwide flood will never happen again.
PS> It is likely, that before the FLOOD, there were no clouds in the heavens or they were very small. It seems that before the FLOOD there was no rain. The Bible speaks only mists prior. Man is also not following God's will by not executing murderers.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

2 and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea -- into your hand they have been given.

3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

4 only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

5 `And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

6 whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

7 And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'

8 And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying,

9 `And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

10 and with every living creature which [is] with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the ark -- to every beast of the earth.

11 And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.'

12 And God saith, `This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that [is] with you, to generations age-during;

13 My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;

14 and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud,

15 and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;

16 and the bow hath been in the cloud, and I have seen it -- to remember the covenant age-during between God and every living creature among all flesh which [is] on the earth.'

17 And God saith unto Noah, `This [is] a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.'

[_gdemetz]

Nipper, you should read that again along with an English professor. James is saying that faith without works can not save one!!! Else why would he ask; "Can faith save him"? The answer is obviously no, or it would have been stupid for him to ask that!!!