Posted by Steve Benjamin (by Proxy) on September 2, 2009, 3:10 pm
Wednesday August 26, 2009
For you it is Wednesday a week later than my writing this post, at
least in all likelihood.
At any rate, I am re-digesting Genesis 42 through 45 as we move
forward. I really
Recommend your reading those chapters prior to this post, certainly
along with or immediately following. That is the point after all. I
would place them hear, and I have the software to do such,
but you really, need your own printed copy of the work if you don’t
have it. I find many dollar stores,
Family Dollar, Dollar General, even Dollar Tree you can get at least a
paperback copy for a buck to 5 dollars. If you want one you can make
really good notes in, one with really wide margins for
that, you can find one for 40 to 60 bucks at a Bible book store. I
have a really nice Thompson Chain Reference Bible, and it has plenty
of room for notes, but has plenty of Thompsons already in the margin.
Whatever version you get, make sure it is a King James 1611, and I
wont defend that version over others now, save to say, doing so will
at the least put us all on the same page. Trust me, it makes a
difference.
I have two copies of the Great Controversy by Ellen White. One Clive
gave me years ago, a modern up to date version. The other I found in
an small town second hand book store. They have both the same exact
size pages, both paperback, both have the same type set and font size.
The latter copy is a much older and out of print publication. It is
nearly 300 pages more in volume than the former. How then, in their
efforts to make it “easier to read” can you honestly think they didn’t
lose something in translation.
The older copy is truer to Ellen Whites original language and is more
romantic in it’s presentation, some ideas are changed or omitted all
together, that newer work is not the work Ellen White wrote, not at
all, though they sell it as such, they should at least place the words
“CONDENSED VERSION” in the title so that reader may have a shiver of a
clue that they are not reading the original authors presentation.
I once went to a SDA church one Sabbath, and had a conversation with
the Deacon, A Deacon of that church. When presented with the idea
that the SDA has strayed from Ellen White’s original message and
really in hierarchy never accepted her in her lifetime anyway, when I
noted as proof that the work available in their bookstores wasn’t
really the work she produced, he tried to explain it off to it having
been edited, when I noted that entire ideas were lost in the edit, and
that the latter work was some 300 pages shorter than the former, he
couldn’t believe it and suggested the type size must have been smaller
in the older work or the pages smaller, he wasn’t even aware of such
drastic changes to a work which he hailed as life changing in his own
life, and when I told him he was wrong, the pages and type
were the exact same size, and still they edited out 300 pages of
content, he couldn’t believe it, I told I could prove it to him, that
I had both copies in the parking lot outside in my vehicle. I rose to
go get them, offered to not only prove the drastic removal of content
by the shear difference in the size of the volumes, but likewise to
point to examples I had found in which very ideas were lost or altered
in the translations to the new edited version. These books are
selling like hotcakes, Ellen White is the highest grossing selling
female name in History, and this guy, who hailed her a prophet, who
seen here writnings as life changing, had a chance to a more authentic
version of the truth than he possessed, and he told me “NO.” He
wouldn’t even see the works, on the one hand if he had, he would have
to admitted he was wrong, the SDA may well have been wrong, the truth
I presented him with threatened to shake his very foundations, he was
now a deacon in the SDA church, he chose status and comfort above
truth.
If you can see my very point about such a work as Ellen White’s Great
Controversy, how much mores o then should you be able to see likewise
to a work you yourself very likely hail to be the VERY WORD OF GOD?
Get yourself a King James 1611 version, so we can at least be on the
same page. Dost thou Savvy Amigo? We’ll get through it. Later in
today’s study, we’ll see a humorous situation noted, ideal for just
the very topic of addressing those who don’t think translation
matters, and while humorous and you may feel free to quote me, but be
sure you can take others through the very passage when you do,
offering such illustration can not only point to a bit of humor to
garner interest in the scriptures, but it can also serve as a prime
illustration to point the danger of paraphrase and revisions, in that
such has the potential to actually change the meanings of ideas’
altogether from that which they originally conveyed in the KJV 1611,
read the study, you’
Breakfast today was pineapple chunks and dried cranberries. Up early
today. Breakfast was right on schedule and on that note, I should
note the importance of scheduling, breakfast, bible study, anything.
Say you are in need of a diet, and you go out an buy a bunch of Jenny
Craig meals. Well, now you need, a schedule. “Oh, I will just eat
when I feel like it…I get hungry, I will pop a Jenny Craig in the
oven…and eat…” Yeah, well, seems to me, the fact you need a diet
should point that doing what you want to when you want to is what got
you in this position in the first place. What happens if your stomach
says it is absolutely starving and you eat 5 jenny Craig meals in the
same setting? You’d have been better off to go out and get a Double
Deluxe Texas sized Whopper King Burger and Super-Super Sized Fries
with a gallon of Soda, at least you would had no illusions from
kidding yourself that you were sticking to a diet.
Scheduling your activities should not be a strict totoliterian
regimen, but it should be an observed general rule, and you will find
yourself especially when adapting to new activities or increasing
activities, more able to endure for the long run and make goals.
Okay, enough of all that, let’s get to the study…Genesis Chapter 42 Through 45…
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