Bible Highlighter
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The problem is that not all scholars agree on what the Greek says. So are you saying you know more than scholars and what makes your interpretation on the Greek better than their own? The KJB Translators were experts in Greek. They spoke, wrote, and read it fluently. I am pretty sure you don’t and or you are going off some recent dictionary that comes from Textual Criticism (like the Strong’s etcetera).
As for me using the original lanuages: While you may be different, the difference between most original language “know it alls” and me on this topic is that I don’t try to explain away the English or act like I am an expert in the original languages. For me: The English is just as authoritative in the KJB. Also, the translators on the KJB spoke, wrote, and read Greek fluently. Again, I don’t think your an expert. I believe your lens is the traditional beliefs of the evangelical church and their interpretation and then you just are following what they say.
And why not? James tells his readers about pure religion and how to put that into practice.
James 1:27
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
I don’t think you understand that the King James Bible has many archaic words whereby we cannot enforce our Modern undertanding upon it always. Try picking up D.A. Waite’s small little book called,
“4,114 Definitions from the Defined King James Bible.”
I don’t believe in soul sleep, either.
I believe in a literal hell (if you were to read my posts in this thread).
I just believe the Lake of Fire (Gehenna) will destroy or annihiate the wicked, the devil, and his minions.
Even death will be destroyed. Paul says in Corinthians that the last enemy to be destroyed is death. This suggests that there are other enemies of God before “death” that will be destroyed, too. Think. Something that is destroyed is no more.
Okay. As for words like ”forever” and “eternal.” Are you suggesting that the word “eternal” in the words “eternal judgment” in Hebrews 6:2 will be forever or eternal in the sense that God will be judging the wicked for all eterinity or time that will not end? Surely not. So you cannot always read the word “forever” or “eternal” in the way that you suggest.
The KJB was THE BIBLE used for hundreds of years long before the Modern bibles ever showed up. Yes, I also look at Modern bibles, too. I also occasionally look at the original lanugages, but it is rare. The Bible should be believed in English. For God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. The biblical Hebrew and Greek are dead languages that nobody speaks anymore. Most of the world does not speak these languages. But the English is the world language of today.
