WTF I have decided to unfollow Jesus.

I think you might be explaining this better than I can OOD. The whole thing with needing a sentence with footnotes to say what a word can say.

Idk. We were told it was to be better understood in "modern" language. I guess that makes sense to some degree but then again we didn't seem to have a problem knowing what it said and apparently neither did most other kids for the previous 500 years.

I don't know why but it really pissed me off for a while. I had this thing that said "how dare you. I spent all this time learning all this stuff and now you're gonna come along right at the end and change it all and then tell me it's still the same"?.

I felt genuine righteous indignation at the time but age and wisdom tend to mellow. Later I realized that while though some approaches to this may not entirely fit in with my old man doctrine it appeals to more people and lets them better understand the message and have a closer relationship with Christ and that is a good thing.

Really, it's kind of goofy if you think about it. I was being all anal about the King James when if I really was the traditionalist I claim to be, KJ wouldn't be good enough and I'd have to go back to 16th century German. Yet I can get directions to a bar know what I'm ordering off a menu in that language I'm not nearly fluent enough to know what the Bible is saying.

So now I'm at an impasse. The traditionalist side of me says well, you need to get another translation closer and the practical side of me says this is already confusing maybe I should stick to what can understand.

And so, maybe it's not the details of the language that's such a big deal but rather the message of Christ and our understanding of Him , whatever lingo that turns out to be.

I appreciate you letting me babble on this.

Thank you for your indulgence.

Lol, babble.

Do you expect me to read all that in one sitting? What the hell do you think youre doing?
 
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"Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife."
Proverbs 21:9 NIV

This one made me LOL. That Solomon was one wise dude. Except for the 700 wives he had. Not sure how he thought that was a good idea. And he had to decide 699 times that another wife was a good idea. Unless he married them all at one time.
 
"Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife."
Proverbs 21:9 NIV

This one made me LOL. That Solomon was one wise dude. Except for the 700 wives he had. Not sure how he thought that was a good idea. And he had to decide 699 times that another wife was a good idea. Unless he married them all at one time.
Brilliant. He only had to talk to each wife once every two years.
Fucking brilliant.
 
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