The Lamsa Bible Controversy, page 2

reply to post by Skyfloating

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Its a farse. Read anything written by Gail Riplinger, Peter Ruckman, Sam Gibbs, William Grady or Henry Morris to see this bible is nothing more than a side show trick at a circus.

As an aside, I'd like to mention that the Assyrian Orthodox Church, which claims to be the true Eastern Church, has a long and glorious history:

nestorian.org...

The Lamsa Bible may have problems, what what translation does not? I tend to be a KJV loyalist, but love Ferrar Fenton's Old Testament and Andy Gaus' New Testament.

Originally posted by adjensen
reply to post by Skyfloating

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For me, I'll stick with the "original"

Sorry but you have NEVER read the ''original'' bible because every single bible ever printed has been copied from an older source that was copied from an even older source that before that was re-written by monks/priests that before that was translated from one language into another etc. Your ''original'' is the version I imagine that was given to you by a loved family member or a member of your church, the version that inspired you to follow either Yahweh or Jesus teachings, to hopefully live a life for others as opposed to oneself. I have read many of your previous posts and you come across as a kind,loving and giving individual, so please do not delude yourself that your version is the original or the best because it is one of over 50 different translations currently available. My advise would be for you to buy a copy of ANY bible that is different to your translation. Pick your 10 favorite stories and then read these stories from the different versions at the same time line by line.You will find that certain words are different due to the differing knowledge of the translator/copier and as the OP stated. This in turn leads people of a common faith into conflict with each other due to the differing interpretations being told by essentially the same story which in turn causes one religion to become two religions to become four etc. Todays society is constantly told how we are all different and this keeps everyone at each others throats. I see the same senario in most religions and it saddens me.

Originally posted by WENEEDAREVOLUTION

Originally posted by adjensen
reply to post by Skyfloating

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For me, I'll stick with the "original"

Sorry but you have NEVER read the ''original'' bible because every single bible ever printed has been copied from an older source that was copied from an even older source that before that was re-written by monks/priests that before that was translated from one language into another etc. Your ''original'' is the version I imagine that was given to you by a loved family member or a member of your church, the version that inspired you to follow either Yahweh or Jesus teachings, to hopefully live a life for others as opposed to oneself. I have read many of your previous posts and you come across as a kind,loving and giving individual, so please do not delude yourself that your version is the original or the best because it is one of over 50 different translations currently available.

My use of the quotation marks around "original" in that sentence are intentional -- I know full well that what I read today is not the original Koine Greek text.

And, actually, I don't think that anyone ever gave me a Bible. I commonly use an NIV translation that I bought myself a number of years ago, though I recently bought a Scofield Reference Bible that I've been slogging through, and there's a Catholic Bible and King James version around here someplace, as well.

I'm not a fundamentalist, so I'm not super concerned about this word, or that, so long as the overall sense of the text remains, and that's the problem that I have with the Lamsa Bible, because it is the holy book of a church which is not in communion with any other, so the text which differs likely does so in a way which changes the actual teaching to reflect the beliefs of the Assyrian Church of the East.

reply to post by Skyfloating

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The Word of God! A word is of course a vibration. All matter is really energy condensed to a slow vibration. The slower the vibration the more you are caught in matter (the material world) the faster the vibration the more spiritually advanced you will be. Therefore the word of God permeates all of matter (material existence). Hence the saying in the Bible attributed to Jesus "Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find Me there". God is everywhere at all times, yes! even within you. That's why it's good to meditate, to stop your materialistic mind and find him. He's always been there youv'e just never found the time too look.

Hinduism :
As the air is everywhere,
Flowing around a pot
And filling it,
So God is everywhere,
Filling all things
And flowing through them forever.

reply to post by BeenieWeenie

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I have seen the Lamsa version for sale, and I recall that it is billed as a translation. If it is truly a paraphrase, I will avoid it.

reply to post by Skyfloating

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i make sure that i use three different versions of the bible and one of then is that version by lamsa. its quite good. there are different interpretations to some stories not found in the NIV or like ESV NKJV and KJV. i always make it a point to have a dictionary,concordance handy at all times. To make sure everything is correct.

reply to post by Skyfloating

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Lamsa's personal views are interesting, if this site states his views accurately. I couldn't trust that Bible if these are his beliefs.

www.believersweb.org...

I assume all of you are aware of the findings of the Research over at the Chronicle Project

www.thechronicleproject.org...

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