I am beyond tired of “some” people who are from and/or who live in McCreary County, KY (which includes some preachers in that county) who not only do not encourage and support me in my very in-depth biblical studies but instead treat me bad when they are around me (including practically shunning me) and/or say ignorant, foolish things about me, correct biblically solid things I have said, and/or my in-depth biblical studies) because I have knowledge of biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek and have used that knowledge (i.e., those tools) to study the Bible very in-depth and have preached and taught things that I clearly see that the “Bible” (which was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek) says to be the truth, even if that information goes against what the 1769 King James Version, the 1611 King James Version, and the other two King James Versions say. All of those people either have “no knowledge” of biblical Hebrew, biblical Greek, and ancient biblical manuscripts or, have “very little” knowledge of biblical Hebrew, biblical Greek, and biblical manuscripts (the case has usually been that those individuals have no such knowledge themselves at all). Meanwhile, (and I do not at all say the following arrogantly and to boast on myself but only to support the fact that I do know what I am talking about when I have said many things that biblical Hebrew manuscripts and/or biblical Greek manuscripts say) I probably have more knowledge of biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek than any person that there has ever been from McCreary County, KY. Thus far, I have taken four biblical Hebrew classes and two biblical Greek classes at a Christian graduate school of theology and ministry that has high academic standards and actually has the highest possible academic accreditations that a Christian graduate school of theology and ministry (i.e., a seminary) can have, and I am presently taking another biblical Hebrew translation class at that school. I didn’t take those classes at a Bible institute that has low academic standards and does not offer any biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek classes but rather seeks to indoctrinate its students with ridiculous “King James Only Doctrine.” And I made all A’s in those four biblical Hebrew classes and those two biblical Greek classes by the way. In those classes, I utilized some of the very best scholarly (i.e., academic) biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek resources that exist to gain knowledge of those languages and to use that knowledge (and those biblical resources) to personally translate a lot of biblical Hebrew Scriptures and quite a bit of biblical Greek Scriptures. It is amazing to me that people who have either “no” knowledge or, “very little” knowledge of biblical Hebrew and/or biblical Greek would argue with someone who has a substantial amount of knowledge of biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek about what the “Bible” says in a given section of the Bible when the person with a substantial amount of knowledge of biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek actually “quotes” the biblical Hebrew and/or biblical Greek text and uses their knowledge of biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek to translate the biblical text into a given language (which in my case has always been into English), clearly explaining what the biblical text says. And there are many people who have knowledge of biblical Hebrew and/or biblical Greek and many super solid biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek resources (including the clearest and most accurate biblical manuscripts that are known to exist) in the world that back up everything that I have ever said when I have quoted biblical text in either biblical Hebrew or, biblical Greek and correctly translated the biblical text into English. I have always only pointed out errors that I am aware of in some English Bibles (including in the 1769 King James Version and in the 1611 King James Version [which are two different English Bibles, not the same one]) in order to serve/worship God―thus to glorify Him and build up His kingdom―by preaching and teaching various things the “Bible” says. If anyone points out what the biblical text says in biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and/or Greek manuscripts, then that alone is not a matter of one telling anyone what his or her belief, opinion, or biblical interpretation is. That is simply one telling others what one or more biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and/or Greek manuscript says. Translation is an entirely different thing altogether from what a belief, opinion, or interpretation of a text is. An atheist or agnostic person who has knowledge of biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and/or Greek could correctly translate biblical Scriptures and correctly teach what those biblical Scriptures say but not believe or be proclaim that what those biblical Scriptures say is the truth. I have never criticized anyone for not having knowledge of biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek; not everyone has been instructed by God to study biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek. The fact is I have been instructed by God to study biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek in order to gain knowledge of those languages (i.e., to be blessed with knowledge of those languages) in order to use knowledge of those two languages to serve/worship God with. (I often refer to one “serving” God as being the same thing as one “worshiping” God because there is a Hebrew word used many places in the Bible that means both “to serve” and “to worship.” That word is used multiple times in the Bible to refer to a person serving/worshiping God; that word can be correctly translated into English using either the English word “serve” or, “worship,” but if that Hebrew word is only translated using only one of those words, then the full meaning of what the biblical Hebrew says is not carried over into the English Bible because that Hebrew word [which is "avodah"] testifies when one is serving God then one is worshiping God. God does not make a distinction between “service” and “worship” to Him, which is testified in the Bible with the use of the Hebrew word avodah since it carries both the meaning “to serve” and “to worship” all at the same time.) There are errors in certain verses of many English Bibles (including all of the four King James Versions) because what they say does not match up with a huge amount of the absolute best, most reliably accurate Scriptural textual witness that is consists of many biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek ancient manuscripts (such as many of The Qumran Scrolls [a.k.a., The Dead Sea Scrolls], which includes many of the oldest biblical scrolls that are known of today). Also, there are many cases in which there are not errors (such as mistranslations) in English Bibles though the full depth of what the biblical Hebrew or biblical Greek text says is not fully conveyed in the English Bible (such as the “avodah” example that I pointed out). Sometimes there is meaning in a play on words that is going on in the Bible which cannot be seen in an English Bible even if the biblical text is correctly translated into English. And there are even examples of there being meaning in the Bible in the letters that make up Hebrew words that are found in the Bible (which sometimes is great significant meaning as in the case of the “Name” of God [יְהוָה (Yod-Heh-Waw-Heh)] to which all of the other names of God are connected [not including idioms that refer to God]). So if the full meaning of the biblical text is not fully conveyed in a Bible (such as the four King James Versions, the New American Standard Bible, the 1973 New International Version, the Complete Jewish Bible, or any other English Bible) and definitely if there are translation errors in any Bible, then that Bible is not perfect! It is not infallible! If someone has knowledge of biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek, then not only can a lot errors in various Bibles be corrected and depth of truths testified of in the Bible come to be known to them, but that person can pass that biblical information on to others, which can help others. Someone recently came against me and some very good biblical commentary that I had written and shared with people on Facebook, and that was not at all the first time that someone who is from and/or lives in McCreary County, KY has come against me when I have pointed out something that the “Bible” says that does not match up with what one or more of the four King James Versions (beginning with the 1611 King James Version and ending with the 1769 King James Version, which is the King James Version that has come to be so readily available and widely sold or given away in modern times) say. The person whom I was referring to who recently came against me and some biblical textual “facts” (I’m not talking about any interpretation that I went into; I’m only talking about the biblical textual “facts” that I pointed out about what the biblical Hebrew text says in Beresheet ( i.e., Genesis) 2:20 that, that individual came against and argued with me about) that I pointed out which reveal some errors in the 1769 King James Version (and probably in the other four King James Versions, but I haven’t checked them against the biblical Hebrew text) later “somewhat” apologized for some things that she had said to me after I had posted that biblically accurate commentary on Facebook (in which I utilized some of my knowledge of biblical Hebrew). After her “somewhat” apology, she later sent me three private messages on Facebook in which she withdrew that “somewhat” apology of hers and said a lot of foolish, ignorant, and/or mean things to me, including a statement she made in which she said that it is foolish of me to study biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek. After she sent me those three private messages, I blocked her on Facebook because I don’t want to hear anymore foolish, ignorant, and/or mean things from her ever again. It absolutely blows my mind that there is any Christian person who actually thinks that it is foolish for someone to study biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek. Wow! That is so ridiculously foolish that it not only blows my mind but is just very sad to me that any person is that foolish, especially a Christian person. May God shine on her and all other King James only people and reveal a great deal of biblical knowledge and wisdom to them (including the starting point of the absolute fact that none of the King James Versions are absolutely perfect), and may God protect others from hearing any destructive, confusion causing, foolishness from them.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:48:26 +0000
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